A Good Puzzle Game Is Hard to Build (2015)

What are the secrets of a good puzzle game? We investigate. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 1 year ago

Quake goes Brutalist in a new map pack that's all about concrete

If you love Brutalism and shooting monsters, check out the free new Quake map pack with 35 new levels inspired by concrete and Brutalist architecture. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 1 year ago

Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds has blockchain integration, NFT plans

Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds has blockchain integration, which players say is causing balance issues, and plans to add NFTs by the end of the year. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 1 year ago

EA reportedly looking for a buyer and has spoken to “Disney, Apple and Amazon”

EA are reportedly looking for a buyer, and have held discussions with Apple, Amazon, Disney and others. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 1 year ago

Sony and Lego's owners have invested $2B in Epic Games

Sony and Lego have invested a combined $2 billion in Epic, to aid in their efforts to build the metaverse, whatever they think that is. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Hardspace: Shipbreaker became the video game union movement's final frontier

Blackbird Interactive talk about the unionisation themes in their hit sim Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the way those themes fit in with their own workplace. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Games must let us be proper villains again if they want us to make moral choices

These days you can basically only be a hero or a bully, but being a proper compelling villain is a fun power fantasy too. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Wot I Think: Sorcery Parts 1 And 2 (2016)

Three games into Inkle's four-part video game conversion of Steve Jackson’s legendary choose-your-own-adventure (… | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Homeworld 3 and Hardspace studio switching to four-day working week

Blackbird Interactive are the latest video game company switching to a four-day working week, after a trial led to happier workers with no productivity loss. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Views of Valve, Itch.io, and Epic on NFTs

Excellent indie game store Itch.io has come out hard against NFTs, calling them "a scam". | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

80 Days PC review (2015)

Videogames can take you on a thousand different adventures, but few offer the thrill of travel as 80 Days does. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Let's have a button to skip boss fights (2017)

It's time to say gaming is for everyone | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games (2018)

After decades of banning swastikas and such symbols of Nazis and other "unconstitutional organisations" from games, Ger… | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

You Can't Be Jeff Bezos in New World

New World launched today, but you can't be Jeff Bezos in it. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

New Doom mod will let you send Thatcher back to Hell

Watch the amazing trailer for new Doom mod Thatcher's Techbase, which will send us into hell to put British prime minster Margaret Thatcher back in her grave. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

The Steam Deck won’t run your entire Steam library

Not every Steam game will run on the Steam Deck at launch, one of Valve's major software development partners has clarified. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Quake Renaissance: how to start playing original Quake today

After examining the history of Quake and the renaissance of its modding community, our 3 part series on Quake culminates on how you, too, can start playing it! | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Kerbal's creator is building from scratch with Balsa Model Flight Simulator

We sit down with Kerbal Space Program creator Felipe Falanghe to talk about his latest game, Balsa Model Flight Simulator. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Skyrim's intro was once interrupted by a single, powerful bee

Skyrim's on-rails opening sequence often goes awry, but it turns out it was a problem in development too, when a tiny bee derailed it. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

SteamOS Switches from Debian to Arch Linux

Valve's new SteamOS is prioritising updates, and the designers explain why they've made the move from Debian to Arch Linux. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”

Newly unsealed court documents allege that Google contemplated buying Epic to stop their attempts to sidestep the app store with Fortnite. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Activision Blizzard sued by California over harassment, discrimination

California is suing Activision Blizzard after a two-year investigation revealed an alleged culture of sexual harassment, discrimination, unequal pay, and more. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Games of Linguistic Experimentation

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 2 years ago

Humble are capping charitable donations at 15% starting in May

Humble Bundle is a digital storefront selling games where you donate some of your purchase price to charity - but less to charity now than before. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Making a Crusader Kings 3 ruler with every setting on maximum

Crusader Kings 3 has a brilliant custom ruler design feature. We used it to make an unstoppable, Pope-bursting nightmare man. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

The original Postal is now open source (2017)

Controversial isometric shooter Postal is now open source, available for modding and porting to new platforms. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Alienware's new gaming laptops now come with Cherry MX keyboards

Alienware and Cherry have teamed up to create the world's first gaming laptops that come with mechanical Cherry MX keyboard switches. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Mod will let you settle Crusader Kings 3 battles in Mount and Blade

Crusader Blade will let you play out your strategic designs in Crusader Kings 3 and then fight your wars on Mount & Blade's battlefields. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Age Of Empires 2: Lords Of The West review

Age Of Empires 2's new Lords Of The West expansion has some superb design points, but some issues with stability and power creep | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Among Us devs explain why things are “taking so long”

Yesterday, Among Us developers Innersloth released a dev blog explaining why development and updates have been taking so long. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

My sole weeps for these RTX 3080 shoes

I honestly don’t know where to begin with this pair of trainers that PC manufacturer NZXT and fashion outfit Artifact Studios announced last night. At first, I thought it was merely a fancy sneaker with an RTX 3080 ground into the heel – a feat that, during a global graphics card … | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Devotion pulled from GOG before it goes live

Red Candle Games announced that their horror game would finally return to sale this week but GOG disagree. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Have You Played Conkers?

Conkers is a kids' game played wherever horse chestnut trees may be found. It remains to this day the world's most extreme sport... according to the conkers. | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Among Us has been overrun by a politically-charged spam attack

Innersloth's fight against Among Us' hacker and cheater problems escalated this week, as seemingly thousands of public games were hit by the | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Players Are Fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Monuments with Google Maps

Players are ripping out landmarks from Google maps to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator's map | Continue reading


@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Haunted PS1's EEK3 event promises an E3 showcase from hell

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Holding meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

Small game makers found their community with Bitsy

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 3 years ago

New Nvidia noise reduction tech makes voice chat way better

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Who made fy_iceworld? A forensic investigation

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Interview with Steve Walmsley, Creator of Aurora, the 4X Sci-Fi Dwarf Fortress

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Game developers share what they're most proud of making

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Factorio: The End of Management Games

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Minecraft mod recreates the Earth to scale – it wants players to fill the gaps

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

You can walk around some Half-Life: Alyx environments in VR now, so I have

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Why F.E.A.R.'s AI is still the best in first-person shooters

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago

Devotion's short-lived horror will be preserved at Harvard University

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@rockpapershotgun.com | 4 years ago