HomeNewsStarCraft The ghost of StarCraft: Ghost endures as a new shooter set in the RTS universe is in the works at BlizzardOutstanding Outstanding Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Ghosts of the Past Trailer - StarCraft II: Wings of LibertyWatch on YouTube Ghosts of the Past Trailer - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty This’ll be Blizzard’s third attempt at a Starcraft shooter. Nihilistic Software’s Ghost was announced in 2002, put on indefinite hold in 2006, then officially cancelled 8 years later in 2014....

HomeFeaturesApartment Story Image credit:Blue Rider/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Blue Rider/Rock Paper Shotgun Experimental, feature-lengthsimulation gameApartment Storyis not especially brilliant, but it does feature a home invasion that’s stressful in several, systemically tangible ways I’ve never quite felt in such a specific combination from a videogame before. It’s partly a story about mental health, partly about the absolute horror of not just managing aSimbut actually being one, and partly about seeing how many wanks and cheese sandwiches you can fit into a single morning....

HomeNewsCold And Afraid Affine day for murder Image credit:Sunamii Image credit:Sunamii Indie developers love making retro-styled games that look like PlayStation games you rented from Blockbuster and blitzed through in a feverish winter weekend. I’m glad, so here’s another.Cold And Afraidis a murder mystery that aims to channel the 1990s with chunky characters and lots of lovely dithering. You play a detective out to stop a serial killer with a grisly pattern who’s preying on the young women of an unnamed US city....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Thu, September 26thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #472. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #472. 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....

HomeNews Food Boy wishes only to deliver pizza, but the twerkers won’t let himFortunately, pizza is a weapon Fortunately, pizza is a weapon Image credit:Short N' Sweet Image credit:Short N' Sweet During his tenure as the foremost newsperson of the 1980s, Atari’s Paperboy faced many grievous challenges - squabbling drunks, swarms of bees, the actual Grim Reaper - and yet, day after day he answered the noble call of journalism, lashing his basket to his doughty BMX and daring the treacherously oblique suburbs of Reaganite America....

HomeNews Hooded Horse is having a Steam publisher sale, with discounts on Manor Lords, Against The Storm and many moreStrategy games to keep you occupied for years Strategy games to keep you occupied for years Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hooded Horse Indie publisher Hooded Horse have been on a roll of late, publishing wonderful strategy games likeManor Lords,Against The StormandCataclismo. Good news, then, that they’re currently running a publisher saleover on Steamwhere those games and many others in their library are discounted....

HomeNewsJunxions Junxions is a traffic engineering sim where you can finally fix that junction near your houseI sure hope this post gets some traffic I sure hope this post gets some traffic Image credit:CyberStorm Image credit:CyberStorm Do I like citybuilders such asCities: SkylinesandSimCity 4, or do I simply like roadbuilders? I spend most of my time in both those games tweaking the network of roads and junctions that form the veins of my cities, after all, and attempting to solve traffic jams via public transport and simulation-expanding mods....

HomeNewsKnown Mysteries Known Mysteries is a lo-fi climate fable that runs off a solar-powered server on its developer’s balconyPraise the sun Praise the sun Image credit:Kara Stone Image credit:Kara Stone You might remember Kara Stone as the developer ofRitual Of The Moon, a game about a banished witch that is played in bursts of five minutes a day, over the course of a lunar cycle. Alice B (RPS in peace) dedicatedan article series to it back in 2019, summarising it as “a sad, quiet, meditative game about breathing and loneliness and drawing pictures in the stars”....

HomeNewsSlay The Princess Slay The Princess gets three new chapters and more when The Pristine Cut releases 24th OctoberI keep wanting to call it a regicide-em-up because the accurate Latin is too awkward I keep wanting to call it a regicide-em-up because the accurate Latin is too awkward A year and a day after wonderfulhorrorvisual novelSlay The Princessfirst released, the promised Pristine Edition is arriving this October on the 24th. Like a very loud sticker on a very large bag of crisps, it promises to have “roughly 35%” more stuff in it....

HomeNewsMechabellum Strategy autobattler Mechabellum has hit 1.0 after over a year in Early AccessThought bots Thought bots Image credit:Game River Image credit:Game River I don’t know why we haven’t written aboutMechabellumbefore now, but we haven’t. Let’s correct that. It’s an autobattler in which you plonk down squads of stompy robots then watch them win or lose against your opponent’s army based on the formations and upgrades you’ve chosen. After more than a year in Early Access, it’s just released version 1....

HomeReviewsThe Forever Winter The Forever Winter early access review: a messy extraction shooter that should have stayed in cover longerThe winter of our discontent The winter of our discontent Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fun Dog Studios Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Fun Dog Studios Wartorn sci-fi extraction shooterThe Forever Winterhas had a messy launch into early access. For those who don’t know the game, this third-person helljaunt sees its players wandering through the battlefields of an endless conflict between three major world powers....

HomeNews Alan Wake 2’s next expansion is about a Control agent investigating a spooky painting - and it’s out next monthSomeone’s been huffing turps again Someone’s been huffing turps again Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Alan Wake 2 - Lake House Expansion | PS5 GamesWatch on YouTube Alan Wake 2 - Lake House Expansion | PS5 Games The DLC is “set in an eerie new location on the shores of Cauldron Lake,” say the developers, and runs parallel to the main story....

HomeNewsGhost of Yōtei Image credit:Sucker Punch Productions / PlayStation Image credit:Sucker Punch Productions / PlayStation Ghost of Yōtei - Announce Trailer | PS5 GamesWatch on YouTube Ghost of Yōtei - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games You’ll be slitting throats as Atsu, a “wandering warrior” seemingly out for revenge. This time the game will be set in Hokkaido, Japan, we’re told, in the lands surrounding Mount Yōtei, a snowcapped mountain in the southwest of the island....