HomeNews Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicle makes good on Ubisoft’s threat to coil out hot steaming NFT garbage straight into my innocent eyesYou wouldn’t FUNGE a TOKEN You wouldn’t FUNGE a TOKEN Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami “Worthless,’ they’d declared. Most NFTs were ‘worthless.’ The greatest artistic movement since The Big BSoD, the greatest proof of the power of the blockchain, the very future of the whole funging Infobahn, and the hedgie soybean-counters say it’s all ‘worthless’,” once wrote thegreatest living prophet of our era....

HomeFeaturesRed Dead Redemption Hello Rockstar, please make an open world based on my unplayable Xbox edition of Red Dead RedemptionHow the West was Weird How the West was Weird Image credit:NaughtyMonk33 / Fandom Image credit:NaughtyMonk33 / Fandom I looked around and saw another rider proceeding along the canyon edge, his demeanour calm and his appearance normal save for his hat, which teleported along behind him. I drew in my breath to scream for help but there was no air, for air requires a three-dimensional volume, and I had left such petty Euclidean considerations behind....

HomeNewsSintopia In strategy game Sintopia you harvest a whole civilisation’s souls for your own custom-built hellDevil up Devil up Image credit:Team 17 / Piraknights Image credit:Team 17 / Piraknights Sintopia | Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube Sintopia | Announcement Trailer French developers Piraknights describe themselves as “part pirates, part knights”, but I think they’re lying. In all my years of doing this, I’ve never heard of pirates and knights joining forces to make a video game....

HomeFeaturesLife is Strange: Double Exposure Max Caulfield is a terrible detective - I wish her all the bestBad cop, bad cop Bad cop, bad cop Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Square Enix Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Square Enix Lots of spoilers for Double Exposure ahead - you’ve been warned. A major theme of Life Is Strange is the inability to change the misfortunes of your life. Powers throughout the series are manifestations of trauma, a coping mechanism for all the stacking psychic damage that is smooshed upon protagonists like so much plot avocado on character toast....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, October 30thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #506. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #506. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! It’s a simple premise, but as many of us here know, Connections can be devilishly difficult at times, filled to the brim with red herrings, misleading words, and little-known trivia....

HomeNewsProject ARC The PUBG developers' new PVP shooter looks like top-down Rainbow Six Siege with a bit of Hotline MiamiFancy a different sort of trip down the PUB? Fancy a different sort of trip down the PUB? Image credit:Krafton Image credit:Krafton As mentioned above, the attacking team’s aim is to hack into a “hidden Crypt” on a map, all of which seem to be small buildings promoting close-quarters fights. To get to the crypt, they’re to use grenade launchers and “explosive hammers” to break through walls or get the jump on baddies....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1229): How to solve the Wednesday October 30 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 30? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 30? 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!...

HomeNewsZero Orders Tactics Zero Orders Tactics is a clever turn-based god sim with a touch of From DustRock Paper Mountain Rock Paper Mountain Image credit:Pauloondra Image credit:Pauloondra Now, imagine there are several of these units on the board, each with specific preferences about what they walk on, and different criteria for performing an attack. Where will you bestow your forests, your swamps, your hilltops so as to pluck the needle of victory from this haystack of competing pathfinding?...

HomeNewsMonster Hunter Wilds Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobiaLegs redacted Legs redacted Image credit:Capcom Image credit:Capcom So how does it deal with eight-legged monsters? Theybecome slimes, of course. As Automaton note, so far only small monsters appear to be accounted for. It’s not clear how larger monsters with spider-like legs will be altered, if at all. What even counts as “spider-like” anyway? When your game is full of hybrid creatures that take inspiration from all sorts of wildlife, that line where a phobia kicks in may be hard to define....

HomeNewsHollywood Animal Wildly immoral tinseltown builder Hollywood Animal hits early access in January 2025Wash that down with an extensive new trailer Wash that down with an extensive new trailer Image credit:Weappy Studio Image credit:Weappy Studio I missed my chance to write aboutHollywood Animalwhen a certain Nic Reuben swooped in like a rival showbiz talent scout and pinched the summer Steam Fest demo from right under my nose, capitalising on the fact that I was stranded in an airport at the time....

HomeNewsAscending Inferno In Foddian hell-platformer Ascending Inferno, Orpheus is a footballer and Eurydice is a football"Kick your sibling’s soul out of Hell" “Kick your sibling’s soul out of Hell” Image credit:Oppolyon Image credit:Oppolyon Being a love-drunk spannerhead, however, Orpheus couldn’t resist a quick peek at Eurydice after crossing the threshold - and the result is a timeless moral about human frailty and the specific truism that you should absolutely never date musicians, which Australian developers Oppolyon Studios appear to have totally ignored in their otherwise-redolent game about kicking your brother’s soul out of hell....

HomeNewsJumping Jazz Cats Jumping Jazz Cats mashes the multiplayer minigames of Fall Guys with Disney’s AristocatsPicking up on that feline beat Picking up on that feline beat Image credit:Team 17 Image credit:Team 17 We’ve seenbeans racing, andpenguins racing, but we have not yet seen cats racing. That is because cats will not stoop to such frivolities, where it can be reasonably avoided. Cats are too self-respecting to get caught up in silly online multiplayer party games....

HomeNewsStatic Dread “Gosh…” Image credit:Solarsuit.games Image credit:Solarsuit.games I’ve often thought lighthouse keeping would make a fine second career, albeit mostly because in my head, it would give me endless time to write (and finishBaldur’s Gate 3). You won’t have much time to write inStatic Dread, sadly. The world has ended, the oceans teem with squirmy, extra-dimensional lifeforms, and it’s your job as the apparent sole surviving lighthouse keeper to distinguish vessels loaded with eldritch horrors from vessels loaded with people who need saving from eldritch horrors....