Dave The Diver's button mashing is now optional - among many other improvements

HomeNewsDave the Diver Dave The Diver’s button mashing is now optional - among many other improvementsWho’d want mashed sushi Who’d want mashed sushi Image credit:MintRocket Image credit:MintRocket Dave The Diverteased its coming updatea couple of weeks ago, and it’s here now. It focuses on resolving quality-of-life issues in the sushi restaurant ‘em up, such as making the UI larger and allowing players to eliminate button-mashing. Dev Interview | Upcoming Quality of Life Update!...

August 19, 2023 · 1 min · 149 words · Eddie Rios

Wayfinder's developers apologise for rough launch as it receives 'mostly negative' reviews on Steam

HomeNewsWayfinder Wayfinder’s developers apologise for rough launch as it receives ‘mostly negative’ reviews on SteamServer issues amid monetisation woes Server issues amid monetisation woes Image credit:Digital Extremes Image credit:Digital Extremes Wayfinderwill be free-to-play when it reaches 1.0, but it costs money if you want to get involved with the early access version which launched earlier this week. That didn’t dissuade players, it seems. Its launch was popular enough for its servers to fall over, leaving players unable to login, a fact for which its developers have now apologised....

August 19, 2023 · 6 min · 1080 words · Adriana Ramos

Aperture Desk Job continues the story of business mega-bastard Cave Johnson absolutely perfectly

HomeFeaturesAperture Desk Job Aperture Desk Job continues the story of business mega-bastard Cave Johnson absolutely perfectlyAn ironical yet fitting development An ironical yet fitting development Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Cave pops up in Portal 2 when you’re exploring the lower, older areas of Aperture Science, as voice notes recorded between somewhere in the 50s, 70s, and 80s - at which point he became incurably sick from rubbing moon rocks together, and the voice notes become increasingly emotional....

August 18, 2023 · 2 min · 365 words · Sarah Nielsen

Grab AMD's great value RX 6800 GPU with Starfield Premium Edition for $430

HomeDeals Grab AMD’s great value RX 6800 GPU with Starfield Premium Edition for $430A great price for a solid card for 4K gaming without RT. A great price for a solid card for 4K gaming without RT. Image credit:XFX/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:XFX/Rock Paper Shotgun AMD’s RX 6800 is one of the best value high-end graphics cards on the market - and today you can pick up this GPU withStarfieldPremium Edition for just $430 at Amazon US, down from $490....

August 18, 2023 · 2 min · 293 words · Stephanie Mercer

Intel's Arc A770 16GB graphics card reaches $300 in the US, as DX11 performance rises by 19 percent

HomeDeals A good day for Intel. Image credit:Asrock/Digital Foundry Image credit:Asrock/Digital Foundry Intel’s A750 and A770 graphics cards tend to be great value, but have a few gaping holes when it comes to performance in older graphics APIs like DirectX 9 and DirectX 11. That’s slowly changing though - in fact,the company announced significant frame-rate improvements in DX11 titles today- while price drops continue to bring these GPUs into an even more favourable price/performance window....

August 18, 2023 · 2 min · 291 words · Ryan Graham

The best thing about Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge is that I get to wear a nice murder cape

HomeFeaturesBaldur’s Gate 3 The best thing about Baldur’s Gate 3’s Dark Urge is that I get to wear a nice murder capeThe wages of sin is capes The wages of sin is capes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios ONCE AGAIN, SPOILERS. PLEASE DO NOT READ BECAUSE THERE ARE SPOILERS PRESENT. SPOILERS. HEY LOOK SPOILERS. I’m playing Edders Sheeran inBaldur’s Gate 3, a bard with a Dark Urge to lash out and murder largely anything and everything....

August 18, 2023 · 3 min · 539 words · Jason Jarvis

Winning every Baldur's Gate 3 conversation as a charismatic bard isn't nearly as fun as I thought

HomeFeaturesBaldur’s Gate 3 Winning every Baldur’s Gate 3 conversation as a charismatic bard isn’t nearly as fun as I thoughtThere’s more joy to be had in fudging chats than winning them There’s more joy to be had in fudging chats than winning them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios AsEdders Sheeranthe bard inBaldur’s Gate 3, I’ve come to realise I’m a jack of all trades. I do a bit of bow, a bit of sword, a bit of plucking the lute and buffing my pals with a nice song....

August 18, 2023 · 4 min · 728 words · James Rich

Armored Core 6 release time

HomeGuidesArmored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon Armored Core 6 release timeHere’s when Armored Core 6 releases in your region Here’s when Armored Core 6 releases in your region Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco When does Armored Core 6 come out on PC and consoles?You must surely have been hiding under a rock if you haven’t heard aboutArmored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon, From Software’s first game since the monumentally successfulElden Ring, and the first new Armored Core game in over a decade....

August 17, 2023 · 7 min · 1453 words · Monica Crawford

Baldur's Gate 3 best Druid build

HomeGuidesBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 best Druid buildUnleash your inner animal with the best Druid build in Baldur’s Gate 3 Unleash your inner animal with the best Druid build in Baldur’s Gate 3 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Do you need a strong Baldur’s Gate 3 Druid build?If you’re itching to channel the elemental forces of the world around you inBaldur’s Gate 3, the Druid is the class to choose to help you unleash your inner nature-loving beast....

August 17, 2023 · 5 min · 859 words · Shane Smith

Blasphemous 2 review: a worthy 2D Dark Souls tribute drenched in literal Catholicism

HomeReviewsBlasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 review: a worthy 2D Dark Souls tribute drenched in literal CatholicismOh Pointy-hatted one Oh Pointy-hatted one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team17 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team17 Hear me now, Penitent Ones, for thou are subject to an intro that borrows its style from thine video game. With divine expedience you must go forth into a world from which all unworthy creatures impart their knowledge with great excitations, entangling their speech with a verbosity comparable only to how the holy miracle does imbue our city with its fearsome illumination....

August 17, 2023 · 3 min · 576 words · Lindsey Knapp

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will release this November

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will release this NovemberWith new single and multiplayer modes With new single and multiplayer modes Image credit:Activision Image credit:Activision Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3was announceda little over a week ago, offering a back-to-back sequel for the first time in Call Of Duty’s history. Now we have a release date of November 10th and a proper first trailer....

August 17, 2023 · 2 min · 307 words · Shane Lowe

Fish the heavens for lost messages in free indie beauty The Anglerfish Project

HomeNewsThe Anglerfish Project Fish the heavens for lost messages in free indie beauty The Anglerfish ProjectHooked Hooked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Selkie Harbour The brutish “X curio is like Y behemoth” logic of mass entertainment nooze requires me to associate Selkie Harbour’s The Anglerfish Project withStarfield. They do form a pleasant contrast, in fairness. Both are space games but one doesn’t have a fishing mechanic, whereas the other isallfishing mechanic....

August 17, 2023 · 1 min · 168 words · Joseph Wheeler

The creators of the System Shock remake want to do Unreal next

HomeNews The creators of the System Shock remake want to do Unreal next"You’ve seen what we’ve done with DOOM & Quake" “You’ve seen what we’ve done with DOOM & Quake” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Epic Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Epic Games Stephen Kick, CEO of Nightdive Studios, has said he’d love to remaster Epic’s 90s FPS Unreal. Not familiar with Nightdive? They’re the team behind this May’s triumphantSystem Shockremake, which Jeremy Peeldescribed in his reviewas “a breathtakingly beautiful and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring power of Looking Glass design”....

August 17, 2023 · 2 min · 386 words · Karl Daniels