HomeFeatures What’s on your bookshelf?: Nightingale, Absolver, and Total War: Warhammer writer Dan Griliopoulosread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! You know books, right? They’re like RPS articles, but slightly better for piling under a flock mat to make little hills for your plastic spacemen....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1156): How to solve the Sunday August 18 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for August 18? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for August 18? 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!...

HomeNewsJDM: Japanese Drift Master JDM: Rise Of The Scorpion offers a free prologue of drift racing around rural JapanInitial D(emo) Initial D(emo) Image credit:Gaming Factory Image credit:Gaming Factory JDM: Rise Of The Scorpion is a free prologue forJDM: Japanese Drift Master, a racing game about - who could guess - drift racing in Japan. It’s got an open world set in rural towns to burn rubber around as well as several story missions to play....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1155): How to solve the Saturday August 17 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 17? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 17? 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!...

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Black Ops 6 Activision are finally cutting down Call Of Duty’s horrendous install sizes for Black Ops 6’s releaseThey’ll be “smaller and more customized” in future They’ll be “smaller and more customized” in future Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft For years, our PC storage has wobbled and buckled beneath the tyranny ofgigantic Call Of Duty installs. Like 13th century peasants straining to convey huge, teetering loads of freshly quarried LMGs, our SSDs cry out for justice....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Fri, August 16thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #431. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #431. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 16th August?...

HomeNewsTotal War: Warhammer III Tall?! Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega Any gags I could make about an update that letsTotal War: Warhammer3’s dawi play tall are far too obvious for the discerning comedic palette that brought you such bangers asthat time I just wrote “(penis)” a bunchso theOverkill’s Walking Deadpage wouldn’t quote me out of context, so let’s just dive right in to the details. The strategy game’s5.2 update is on the horizon, and tagging along with it are the first of the “extra bits” theteam teased in June....

HomeNewsNightingale Troubled fairytale sim Nightingale is getting a Realms Rebuilt update that trades procgen for “handcrafted” story worldsWill still have procgen, but also a more “structured” campaign Will still have procgen, but also a more “structured” campaign Image credit:Inflexion Games Image credit:Inflexion Games In particular, I like the sound of the new “handcrafted” or “Storied realms”, which sideline the procgen in order to make each of the game’s dimensions “feel more unique and differentiated”....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1154): How to solve the Friday August 16 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for August 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for August 16? 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!...

HomeNewsDefect Defect is a very loud cyberpunk “immersive shooter” from ex-Call Of Duty, Doom and Naughty Dog devsWith Mick Gordon doing the soundtrack With Mick Gordon doing the soundtrack Image credit:emptyvessel Image credit:emptyvessel If you relished the splashier gunfights ofCyberpunk 2077, like the sound ofDoommeetsBlade Runner, or wish you could jam your nose right into the neon trenches ofRuiner, you will likely enjoy the announcement trailer for Defect. It’s a new “cyberpunk, squad-based, Immersive Objective Shooter” from emptyvessel, a team of erstwhile id Software, Call Of Duty and Naughty Dog folks....

HomeNews Homeworld 3’s latest free update and paid DLC probably won’t fix its negative Steam receptionIt’s tough in space right now It’s tough in space right now Image credit:Gearbox Publishing Image credit:Gearbox Publishing I’m not sure iftoday’s free Homeworld 3 updateis the one I’m waiting for, but it does encompass “a host of gameplay improvements, bug fixes, [and] free Skirmish maps”. It will launch alongside the Kalan Fleet pack DLC, which adds two new fleets to the spacestrategysim’s roguelike War Games mode, including the Kalan Raiders from the story, along with three new ships....

HomeNewsinZOI Inzoi begins its fight for The Sims' crown with a time-limited character creator trial on August 20thMake your own zoi Make your own zoi Image credit:Krafton Image credit:Krafton Life sim contender Inzoi is hoping to knockThe Simsfrom its perch when it launches (supposedly) later this year. There will soon be an opportunity to judge whether that feat is likely. Krafton have announced that they’re releasing a time-limited trial of Inzoi’s character creator next week on August 20th....

HomeNewsLet’s Build a Dungeon Let’s Build A Dungeon is a management game about running a dev studio and designing your own subscription MMOShame that every game but one will fail Shame that every game but one will fail Image credit:Springloaded Image credit:Springloaded The management game progression chart is supposed to go: zoo, then theme park, then hospital, then school. Apparently no one told Springloaded Software, who are following up their 2021 tycoon ‘em upLet’s Build A Zoowith a game about building an MMO....