HomeNewsTenebris Somnia Tenebris Somnia is an 8-bit horror adventure with a flashy twistPoint and creep Point and creep Image credit:Saibot Studios Image credit:Saibot Studios Some would say the best way to wind down after a rough day down the Content Reactorsisn’tto play a grotty occulthorror game, but I caught a trailer forTenebris Somniaearlier, and couldn’t help myself. In this foetid offering from Argentinian devs Andrés Borghi and Tobías Rusjan of Saibot Studios, you play a young woman, Julia, who is visiting her film-maker ex-boyfriend to drop off their old apartment key....

HomeFeaturesStarfield The Starfield no-planets run: Golden Age of PiracyMary Read faces her greatest foe yet - schoolchildren Mary Read faces her greatest foe yet - schoolchildren Image credit:RockPaperShotgun/Bethesda Image credit:RockPaperShotgun/Bethesda My first trophy as greenhorn orbital bandit Mary Read was a UC Transpo, which isn’t so much a spaceship as a shoebox with toilet roll tubes and detergent bottles glued to the outside, its ordnance limited to a single laser. I began my second leg confidently expecting to spend many hours in this Fisher Price starmobile, vainly searching for a wounded battlecruiser or an abandoned solar yacht or some other, more capable vessel accessible to a space pirate of extremely modest means....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#810): How to solve the Thursday September 7 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for September 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for September 7? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

HomeNewsAlone in the Dark Alone in the Dark reboot release window slides back to 2024 to avoid Alan Wake 2 and Spider-ManIt had been due out for Halloween It had been due out for Halloween Image credit:THQ Nordic Image credit:THQ Nordic Alone in the Dark’s reboot will skip the scares of Halloween in favour of the bleak terrors of January, as publishers THQ Nordic announced that their star-studded revival of the classic horror series has been delayed to 2024....

HomeNewsDune: Spice Wars Dune: Spice Wars gets a 1.0 release date alongside a devious new factionHouse Ecaz to sway the Landsraad with the power of… art? House Ecaz to sway the Landsraad with the power of… art? Image credit:Funcom Image credit:Funcom I never got round to playing Shiro’s 4X-plus-RTS adaptation of Dune, but chuckling spice baron Nic Reuben deemed it “intricate”, “polished” and “well-considered” in hisearly access reviewlast year, and I trust his nose for these things....

HomeNewsFortnite Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival gameThe end is Fortnigh The end is Fortnigh “This team is responsible for building a new experience in the Fortnite ecosystem,” it continues. “This experience will involve working on an open world survival crafting game within a physics sandbox. There is much opportunity to build something either in the frontend or in-game.” You can read “open world survival crafting game” many ways, of course....

HomeHardwareFeaturesStarfield Got Starfield on PC Game Pass? Here’s how to play it with a Steam DeckLocal play is bleh, but Game Pass Ultimate holders can still call upon the cloud Local play is bleh, but Game Pass Ultimate holders can still call upon the cloud Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Sad news vis-a-vis playingStarfieldon theSteam Deck:it runs like a slug, even on the lowest possible settings. And if you were planning to get it throughPC Game Pass, that’s another issue, as Game Pass games are locked down behind the fully Deck-incompatible Universal Windows Platform system....

HomeGuidesStarfield How to get to the Starfield Wolf System and find The Den’s locationHere’s how to reach The Den in The Wolf System for all your smuggling needs Here’s how to reach The Den in The Wolf System for all your smuggling needs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Game Studios How do you get to the Wolf System in Starfield?There are dozens of star systems you can visit inStarfield, but the Wolf System has quickly become one of the most popular destinations....

HomeNews Stardew Valley dev posts another look at next game Haunted Chocolatier, sparks immediate fan theoriesIs it Grandpa? Is it Grandpa? Image credit:ConcernedApe Image credit:ConcernedApe Stardew Valleycreator Eric Barone - better known as ConcernedApe - has been quietly working away on the follow-up to his wildly popular and beloved farming gamesince at least the end of 2021. Given that secrecy and Stardew’s enormous following, it’s perhaps little surprise that a single cryptic screenshot fromHaunted Chocolatierhas immediately sparked fervent theories about its possible connection to Barone’s previous game....

HomeNewsStarfield Starfield’s Potato Mode mod looks like a sci-fi Morrowind you could run on a 20-year-old PCPerhaps this might help you play it on Steam Deck, at least Perhaps this might help you play it on Steam Deck, at least Image credit:BulwarkHD/Bethesda Image credit:BulwarkHD/Bethesda Starfieldis asurprisingly demanding PC game, requiring a fairly hefty GPU and CPU to run it smoothly at anything approaching max specs even at 1080p. And, alas,it’s just a bit much for the Steam Deck to handleunless you’re happy to sacrifice visual fidelity, framerate or - in most cases - both if you plan on spending your time doing anything except browsing menus (though there’ll be plenty of that)....

HomeFeaturesWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is Warhammer Mass Effect, and you can own planetsPlus, visit Commorragh for the first time in a game Plus, visit Commorragh for the first time in a game Image credit:Owlcat Image credit:Owlcat In the grim darkness of the far future, the galaxy is your oyster. Or at least it will be, once you’ve played 100 hours ofWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, anRPGfromPathfinderdeveloper Owlcat in which you can buy planets, configure your genocidal Dark Eldar friend to strike ten times a turn, and gaze on ruefully as a demon explodes out of your Psyker’s head....

HomeNewsIsles of Sea and Sky Why not try out this blissful oceanic Zelda-style puzzlerNew wave New wave Image credit:Jason Newman and Craig Collver Image credit:Jason Newman and Craig Collver Friend, are you weary of talk of blockbuster space-faring RPGs and blockbuster D&D adaptations and blockbusters in general? Do you yearn for the older, simpler days before the great Unrealification and the invention of sex scenes, when people called a spike pit a spike pit, and you could count all the different colours in a screenshot on your fingers?...

HomeNews Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the “barbarians at the gate” of the games industry, says ex-Sony bossConsolidation and rising costs also bad news Consolidation and rising costs also bad news Image credit:Wikipedia Image credit:Wikipedia Speaking on stage with GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring at GI’s Investment Summit in Seattle, Laydenlisted three challenges the aforesaid industry must face. “First, consolidation can be an enemy of creativity,” he said, referring to recent mass acquisitions and studio closures such asVolition’s demise at the hands of Embracer Group, who have scooped up developer after developer in recent years, apparently more with a view to attracting investment than developing games....