HomeNews The Maw - 22nd-27th April 2024This week’s least outwardly offputting game releases, plus our weekly newsblog This week’s least outwardly offputting game releases, plus our weekly newsblog Image credit:Cornelis Meijer Image credit:Cornelis Meijer Ugh, I do not have the energy to feed the Maw this week. Sometimes the creature manifests as a proper monstrosity, with B-movie prosthetics and sound effects, and sometimes, it’s more of an… unfathomable annoyance, like a nose that won’t stop running, or a single player game that requires an internet connection....

HomeNewsUncover the Smoking Gun AI’s habit of just making stuff up apparently adds to the mystery Image credit:ReLU Games Image credit:ReLU Games To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The thing that sets Uncover the Smoking Gun apart then - read that however positively or negatively as you like - is its central use of AI to generate the conversations that players have with the suspects in each case....

HomeNewsValheim Valheim’s volcanic Ashlands update gets first proper trailer and breakdownNew hazards, new weapons and siege equipment, plus thoughts on washing machines New hazards, new weapons and siege equipment, plus thoughts on washing machines Image credit:Iron Gate AB Image credit:Iron Gate AB Valheim, the popular norse-inspiredsurvival game, is set to get even deadlier and at least several percent more volcanic with its upcoming Ashlands biome. The new biome is due to enter public testing as we speak....

HomeGuidesNo Rest for the Wicked (2024) Where to get a Shovel in No Rest For The WickedHere’s how to get a Shovel in the opening area of No Rest For The Wicked Here’s how to get a Shovel in the opening area of No Rest For The Wicked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Moon Studios. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Moon Studios. Looking for a Shovel in No Rest For The Wicked?There are a few ways you can get a Shovel inNo Rest For The Wickedwithin the opening area of Mariner’s Keep....

HomeGuidesNo Rest for the Wicked (2024) Where to get Runes in No Rest For The Wicked and how they workHere’s everything you need to know about Runes in No Rest For The Wicked Here’s everything you need to know about Runes in No Rest For The Wicked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Moon Studios. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Moon Studios. Looking for No Rest For The Wicked Runes?Runes inNo Rest For The Wickedare special skills or powers you can equip to weapons....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1038): How to solve the Monday April 22 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for April 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for April 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1039): How to solve the Tuesday April 23 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for April 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 23? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeReviewsEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes review: a relaxed JRPG adventure with a few old school quirks, but even more palsAnd the love Kickstarts again And the love Kickstarts again Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/505 Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/505 Games Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroesis the spiritual successor to a classicJRPGcalledSuikoden, and it came to be thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign. As someone with little knowledge of Suikoden, I went into Hundred Heroes thinking it was going to be a dense, old-fashioned, and slightly impenetrable time....

HomeNewsFree Stars: Children Of Infinity Free Stars: Children Of Infinity, name-swapped sequel to Star Control 2, has tripled its crowdfunding goalThe Ur-Quan Masters successor has been a long-time coming The Ur-Quan Masters successor has been a long-time coming Image credit:Pistol Shrimp Games Image credit:Pistol Shrimp Games The sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters has more than tripled its Kickstarter funding goal in four days.Free Stars: Children Of Infinity, which is a sequel to the series formerly known asStar Control, has so far raised $332k (£268k), although it’s still shooting for several stretch goals - including one as high as $4....

HomeNewsTinkerlands Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free demo of 2D crafting and spider fightsNecesse-ry Necesse-ry Image credit:HypeTrain Digital Image credit:HypeTrain Digital I spend a portion of my every week surviving and crafting.And in the game, where the game is called Minecraft. I still have appetite left forTinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure, a demo that offers topdown, 2D construction and fights with giant frog bosses, among others.Thefree prologue is available to download from Steam....

HomeNewsDragon’s Dogma 2 Capcom plan to make Dragon’s Dogma 2’s dragonsplague less frequent, and more obviousThey’re also fixing pawn high fives They’re also fixing pawn high fives Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom. Capcom are working on anotherDragon’s Dogma 2patch, and this one takes as its target the dreaded dragonsplague, which causes the game’s AI-controlled pawns to go nuts and murder everybody, including story-critical NPCs, if you allow it to go untreated for long enough....

HomeNewsFallout 76 Fallout 76 has a hellish new area and Bethesda want you to nuke itWelcome to Skyline Valley, live now on the public test server Welcome to Skyline Valley, live now on the public test server Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Timed perfectly off the back of theFalloutTV show’s success,Fallout 76players can start testing out Skyline Valley, a new woodland area in the game’s upcoming major update. There’s a new public event to try, as well as combat readjustments that’ll be drip fed over the course of the test period....

HomeFeaturesGrowing My Grandpa! Grow your very own grandpa in this wonderfully unpleasant little indie horror gameGrowing My Grandpa! offers just that opportunity Growing My Grandpa! offers just that opportunity Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Yames Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Yames I don’t remember much about my grandfathers anymore, only that they were once there and they loved me, and now they are gone. So if I were a small child with quarreling parents and I stumbled across a hidden abandoned lab housing a horrifying shapeshifting psychic lifeform, perhaps I would also try to want this maybe-a-demon to be my grandpa....