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HomeFeaturesParanormasight: The Seven Mysteries Of Honjo Paranormasight’s director says making a visual novel is always “messy work"Takaya Ishiyama is pleased to see his game is going down well outside Japan Takaya Ishiyama is pleased to see his game is going down well outside Japan At the outset, though, Paranormasight loks like it is your average visual novel, with the player working away to prevent curses from claiming the lives of Tokyo citizens....

HomeNewsSongs Of Conquest Raise the undead in Songs Of Conquest’s newest necromantic campaign, out todayAlongside a pet ghost rat Alongside a pet ghost rat Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Early access strategy RPGSongs Of Conquesthas added its newest necromantic campaign today, letting us raise an army of undead and knock a few bones about. The Barony Of Loth campaign features four singleplayer missions, and similar to the previous campaigns - Arleon and Rana - we’ll be focused on one main faction: the necromancer....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Retro styles and dynamically slicing a cat (the cat is fine)Admire these interesting and attractive indie games Admire these interesting and attractive indie games Image credit:Jacob Potterfield Image credit:Jacob Potterfield A staggering stack of guns in roguelikelike shooter Vampire Hunters (coming to Steam): A tricky shot inSniper Killer(coming to Steam), a game where you play both a sniper on a rampage and the detective hunting them:...

HomeGuidesStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solutionThe Star Wars Jedi Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solution is a head-scratcher, but we can help in a pinch The Star Wars Jedi Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solution is a head-scratcher, but we can help in a pinch What is the Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Path of Persistence puzzle solution?The Path of Persistence puzzle requires some serious brainpower, as it requires grappling, wall-running, and moving terrain while thinking about the space in a different way than you might normally....

HomeHardwareFeaturesStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor PC patches tested: less stuttering, still slowA stubborn malaise hangs over stability and ray tracing improvements A stubborn malaise hangs over stability and ray tracing improvements Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Star Wars Jedi: Survivordevelopers Respawn Entertainment have been busy on patch duty, pumping out aseries of updatesaimed at addressing the torrid state of itsPC performance at launch. The newest, last week’s Patch 4, sounded particularly enthusiastic about tackling Jedi: Survivor’s technical troubles, so now would be a fine time to check in on the progress of this fixing-upping campaign....

HomeNewsRoots of Pacha Stardew-like Roots Of Pacha removed from Steam after the developer and publisher disagree “over the rights"The Stone Age farming sim had a successful launch late last month The Stone Age farming sim had a successful launch late last month Image credit:Soda Den Image credit:Soda Den The up-and-coming farmlife indieRoots Of Pachahas been pulled from Steam, following a dispute “over the rights” of the game between developer Soda Den and publisher Crytivo....

HomeFeatures The 15 best open world games on PCKeep your options open Keep your options open Image credit:Hello Games, Bandai Namco, PlayStation, Sega, Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Hello Games, Bandai Namco, PlayStation, Sega, Bethesda Softworks Our list of thebest open world games on PCis for those who look at a forest and think about seeing what’s in the middle. For the players who really do want to climb that mountain. Sure, the size of games these days means in some sense they all have an open world, but here we’re leaning in to those games that want you to adventure, where the onus is on exploring and seeing what you find....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#695): How to solve the Monday May 15 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for May 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for May 15? 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?It’s a new dawn, it’s a new Monday, it’s a new Mon-life....

HomeHardwareDeals Replace all of your HDDs with this massive 8TB Samsung 870 Qvo SSDFast, silent, capacious. Fast, silent, capacious. Samsung’s 870 Qvo SSD isone of the best optionsfor high-capacity solid state storage, with a simple 2.5-inch form factor that doesn’t take up a valuable M.2 or PCIe slot and a fast-enough SATA connection. While performance is good, at up to 550MB/s for reads and a little less for writes, the real benefit here is having up to 8TB of silent, reliable and low latency storage....

HomeDeals Today, the RX 6950 XT has dropped below the £600 mark for the first time we’re aware of, with a chunky triple-fan ASRock model costing just £598 at Overclockers in the UK. That’s significantly cheaper than the £999 that these cards originally debuted at, bringing it into contention with newer-gen cards. Get the ASRock RX 6950 XT for £598 (was £1000) The 4070 is still arguably the better option in terms of features, thanks to better-supported DLSS 2 outperforming FSR 2 in most games and DLSS 3 frame generation offering some new possibilities for boosting visual fluidity in a smaller range of titles, but if you tend to prefer older titles, or ones that don’t use ray tracing, then the RX 6950 XT could be the better choice....

HomeDeals Microsoft’s eco-friendly Remix Special Edition Xbox Controller is down to £60 at Amazon UKIncluding the Play & Charge Kit, normally £20 Including the Play & Charge Kit, normally £20 The Xbox Series Wireless Controller is one of the best gamepads available for PCs, and the new eco-friendly Remix special edition has dropped to £60 on Amazon compared to a debut price of £75. The Remix edition comes in a nifty green colour scheme, is made from recycled materialsandis bundled with a free Microsoft Play & Charge kit, allowing you to replace the battery with a rechargeable Li-Ion alternative - significantly better for the environment than throwing away non-rechargeable batteries, as long as your home’s energy comes from somewhat green sources....

HomeNewsGylt Stadia-exclusive horror Gylt is finally coming to SteamTequila Works previously made Rime and The Sexy Brutale Tequila Works previously made Rime and The Sexy Brutale When Google announced they wereshutting downtheir streaming service Stadia, a bunch of exclusive games began to jump ship to other platforms. Tequila Works - the studio behindRimeandThe Sexy Brutale- have now announced that their Stadia-exclusive adventureGyltis heading to Steam and consoles on July 6th, 2023....

HomeFeatures The 9 best PC games like ZeldaThere shall be no Tears in this Kingdom There shall be no Tears in this Kingdom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / THQ Nordic, Finji, Capcom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / THQ Nordic, Finji, Capcom The Legend Of Zelda has always been one of my personal favourite series over the years, but being a Nintendo game, it’s obviously never graced the PC in any kind of official capacity....