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On a Monday in early 2018, Adam Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun's deputy editor at the time, handed in his notice. On Thursday that same week, I emailed Alice Bell, a person I'd never spoken to before, to ask if she would consider applying for the role. Alice thought it over for a week, and then emailed her response: no. Thank **** I was able to change her mind, so I could spend the next six years giving her ***** about it. But now Alice is leaving RPS, and you should join me in saying goodbye. Read more View the full article

A new Wuthering Waves ***** reveals the characters that will appear during the two banner cycles in the upcoming update 1.1. Similar to most gacha games at the moment, Wuthering Waves will release frequent updates that keep the game fresh by constantly adding new content. View the full article

Nintendo decided to end X support for the Switch on June 10 as part of the handheld's 18.1.0 update, meaning no more account linking or directly posting game content to Elon Musk's site. Read Entire Article View the full article

Disney has been steadily putting out live-action remakes of its films over the past decade, but the same treatment isn't in Pixar's future. Back in 2014, Disney began its trend of remaking some of its classic animated films, starting out with the Sleeping Beauty retelling Maleficent. It kind of abandoned that alternate perspective angle quite quickly, instead just going for mostly straight remakes with at least one new song added so they can submit something to the Oscars, but for the most part all the house of mouse has done is produce commercially successful but critically poor films. Thankfully, it doesn't sound like Pixar films will be getting any live-action remakes in the near future, as in a recent interview with Time, chief creative officer Pete Docter expressed disinterest in them. Docter was informed by Time that Challengers star Josh O'Connor had been talking about his love for Ratatouille on the tennis film's press tour nonstop, and that there's a fan campaign for O'Connor to star in a live-action remake of the cooking rat movie. When asked if live-action adaptations are something Pixar would ever consider, Docter said quite bluntly, "No, and this might ***** me in the ***** for saying it, but it sort of bothers me. I like making movies that are original and unique to themselves. To remake it, it's not very interesting to me personally." Read more View the full article

The Codename Frontiers is the next big thing for Destiny 2 after the first three Episodes end. Not much is known about the project, but the game gives plenty of hints that in year 11, Guardians will journey beyond Sol. The latest hint is in one of the cutscenes of Episode: Echoes, which kicked off in Destiny 2 on June 11. During the main quest, there’s a cinematic where Saint-14 talks about his dream to explore the universe with Osiris. He talks about how, all this time, everything was about the ****** with the Witness. And now that the battle is won, the future is ours again. View the full article

We are a couple of days away from VALORANT’s console beta on June 14, which means it’s time to look at what achievements console players can work towards to increase their gamer score and trophy collections. Coming from TrueAchievements, there are 15 achievements in total, most unlocking simply by playing the game. The full achievement list includes: View the full article

A new Genshin Impact ***** has revealed that the new five-star character Emilie has already received a set of strong buffs. Emilie has officially been revealed on the game's social media accounts, and she's scheduled to arrive in the upcoming Version 4.8, which should drop around July 17. View the full article

Treyarch recently held a Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 direct that came with the information that content from previous CoD games, including Modern Warfare and Warzone, will not carry over. You may have dozens of operators, skins, and **** camos from recent Call of Duty games, and all of that will stay in the past once ****** Ops 6 drops. It’s a move that’s certain to enrage some players, but Treyarch has a justification for the decision. View the full article

US labour union the CWA (Communications Workers of America) have filed Unfair Labor Practice charges against Activision QA supplier Lionbridge Technologies. As Game Developer reports, the CWA allege that Lionbridge fired an entire 160-person team in Idaho in retaliation for union-related activities. Read more View the full article

Despite recently saying he's not going to commit to a specific number, The Boys creator Eric Kripke has confirmed season 5 will be its last one. It was just the other week that Kripke said he doesn't want to say how many seasons of The Boys there will be, primarily because of how wrong he got it with Supernatural, and yet now on his personal Twitter account he's announced that actually, yes, season 5 will be the final one. "Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season!" he wrote on Twitter. "Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax. Watch Season 4 in 2 DAYS, cause the end has begun!" Kripke also spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the announcement, saying that he's "excited to finally ******** a 5-season plan," *******-in-cheekily referencing his ******** to do so with Supernatural. "That's very exciting for me." Kripke explained his reasoning for putting a hard cap on it, saying, "Part of it is such a wonky ******* screenwriter thing but three and five are the big magical numbers for writing. Three is movie acts, TV acts are five. Jokes are a runner of three for five. Five just seems like a good round number. It's enough to tell the story but also bring it to a climax without wearing out its welcome. It's been hard because I haven't been able to tell everyone. I was thrilled to finally be able to get the word out there." Read more View the full article

Psychroma looks pretty wild. A narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

A Genshin Impact chart has revealed the revenue difference between Clorinde and Alhaitham, the five-star characters featured on the current Limited Character Banner. Every update in the game is divided into two parts, each containing a double banner that includes two separate five-star units and a four-star lineup that is shared between both banners. View the full article

Tales of Kenzera: Zau has gained a new demo on PC through Steam, in addition to trials on PS5 and Xbox Series systems (on June 13).. EA Originals has also begun a limited-time discount for the critically acclaimed game. View the full article

Elden Ring fans have to break a mountain to play the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, releasing on June 21, by defeating a menacing late-game optional boss, and things aren’t looking bright for everyone as less than half the community has reached that feat. If you thought you could ignore the Elden Ring‘s Starscourge Radahn and Mohg bosses and play the DLC without breaking a sweat, you’re in for a surprise. The developers announced on June 11 that there are less than two weeks to complete the feat. After completing the main questline, you must conquer these fearsome optional bosses to be eligible to play the game’s expansion. View the full article

Battlefield 2042 is introducing a new voice chat moderation tool, enhancing in-game communication and player behavior. Battlefield 2042 is an FPS game developed by DICE and published in 2021 by Electronic Arts. From the very start, the game has faced significant backlash from players because of numerous bugs in the game. The developers have released several updates and patches to address these concerns and make the game better. This latest update introducing chat moderation ensures that players abide by the fair play rules EA has established. View the full article

In the game Prickle you play as a hedgehog dad trying to collect all your children, as they've done a bit of a runner so you need to stick them all together and get them back home. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

We already knew a PC version of FF16 was coming, and here's more fuel to the Final Fantasy IX rumor ***** View the full article

French solo developer Kalinarm has a demo available for Linkito, a logic puzzler all about making engineering connections. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

Dragon Age: The Veilguard features seven distinctive romanceable characters and no second chances to choose between them. As it turns out, the unromanced characters eventually find love among themselves, leaving them unavailable should you change your mind. This unique concept, first revealed in an interview with Bioware hosted by Eurogamer, stands out because it’s a little different to other similar titles where companion NPCs are just there for your entertainment more than anything. However, their relationship needs are considered inhttps://dotesports.com/dragon-ageDragon Age: The Veilguard. If you don’t want to woo them, they find love for themselves, whether with another teammate or in the world, which makes the whole concept of romancing and even who to romance that much ******* because you won’t have any NPCs waiting in the wings. They’ll be out finding their own love stories, even if it’s not with the hero. View the full article

What the heck is a "Kagura Action Strategy" game, anyway? View the full article

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children is slowly gaining popularity after originally releasing in 2020, and with that popularity has come demands for a “waifu” or dating system. It’s a demand the developers can’t secede too though—and for a very funny reason. Dandylion, the lead developer of Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children, today responded to the chorus of calls on Steam for his team to add a dating system by turning down the many requests and dryly adding the reason: “My team members have no experience with it, even in real life…” The hilarious response immediately went viral when it was then shared by Chise Hator’s Love on X (formerly Twitter), with the quip getting lots of love. View the full article

There certainly weren’t many flaws to shine a shaky flashlight beam on in Alan Wake II, but one thing I did lament in 2023’s excellent survival horror sequel was the total absence of Night Springs episodes on the in-game televisions. These quirky, Twilight Zone-inspired tales were a consistent joy to discover in Alan Wake’s original 2010 adventure, so to find them seemingly off the air as though they were the casualties of some sort of in-game writers’ strike was a touch disappointing. The good news is that the series has returned in a now fully-playable form thanks to the Alan Wake II: Night Springs DLC, which serves up three standalone stories that take us back to the small town of Bright Falls and beyond. They’re admittedly a little on the short side since I was able to knock all three episodes over in a single two-hour sitting, but I certainly had a blast with these twisted new nightmares while they lasted. Night Springs’ first episode, Number One Fan, is definitely both the goofiest and goriest in the collection, allowing us to play as obsessive Alan Wake fan Rose Marigold as she waits tables in Bright Falls’ Oh Deer Diner. This action-heavy installment begins with Rose topping up coffee cups and clearing away pie crumb-covered plates, but she’s soon compelled to blaze a trail through a bloodthirsty mob after she’s sent an **** from Alan Wake himself, who’s apparently been kidnapped. How does she receive this request for help? Via an unexpected transmission through the puckered maw of one of those wall-mounted Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fishes that thousands of disappointed dads unwrapped on Fathers Day in the year 2000. Yep, things in Night Springs are enjoyably off-kilter almost from the very outset. Number One Fan completely strips the survival component out of Alan Wake II by strapping a fully automatic shotgun to Rose’s shoulder and lining the pockets of her apron with an almost limitless supply of shells. The whole episode takes place during the magic hour shortly before sunset so none of the enemies are cloaked in shadowy shields, and therefore there’s no need to ***** the darkness away with a battery-hungry flashlight before you can dispatch them. Instead, the combat in Number One Fan swaps the series’ signature light-based fights for more high tempo running and gunning. Although its crunchy gunplay may be more straightforward, it still manages to be an ultra violent delight thanks to the campy ‘50s rock music that propels it and the cutesy quips that Rose spouts with each axe-wielding maniac she mulches – like she’s a pump-action-toting Princess Peach. Night Springs’ first episode kicks the collection off with a concussive sequence of skull-shattering bangs in Rose’s relentlessly entertaining and revved up rescue mission. Night Springs’ first episode kicks the collection off with a concussive sequence of skull-shattering bangs. Guest Side Story The second episode, North Star, slows the pace down considerably as you plunge into the inkiest depths of darkness you’d expect from an Alan Wake adventure. I was initially thrilled to step back into the shoes of Jesse Faden from Control here, however my enthusiasm took a bit of a hit when I realised that she hadn’t brought her amazing shape-shifting **** and spectacular suite of superpowers from the 2019 action epic along with her. Still, this midnight stalk through the creepy Coffee World theme park featured in Alan Wake II’s main campaign successfully ratchets up the tension after the comparatively carefree ******* spree of the previous episode, arming Jesse with a flashlight and regular, non-transforming ******* as she is pit against the same spooky silhouettes that had me nervously ********* at shadows in last year’s game. North Star is also the more puzzle-oriented of the episodes featured here, and I enjoyed cracking keypad codes and manipulating the mechanical controls of a ferris wheel during this brief investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Jesse’s brother. Still, I can’t help but feel that of the three episodes included in Night Springs, this second one is the least remarkable. It fails to leverage the jaw-dropping skill set of its guest star, and a lot of what transpires in it feels like well-made but fairly standard survival horror fare. This whole second episode effectively went down like a hot beverage from the Coffee World concession stand – stimulating enough, but it also left me with a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. Serling Silver Thankfully, Night Springs’ third and final episode, Time Breaker, is the best and boldest of the bunch and rounds out this collection in the most mind-bendingly meta way possible. Here we’re cast as the real-world actor Shawn Ashmore, who we find reprising his role as Sheriff Breaker from Alan Wake II in a brand new game being directed by developer Remedy Entertainment’s creative director, Sam Lake. During a break in production and after a hilarious moment with Lake giving an extremely self-aware and exhaustingly acronym-heavy explanation of his new game’s plot, Ashmore is blinked into another time and space by Night Springs’ Rod Serling stand-in and multiversal maestro, Mr. Door. What follows is a surreal string of sequences through ominous forest paths and disorientating hotel corridor loops, psychedelically shifting from the monochrome presentation of early television to the vivid colours of comic book paneling that seem to intentionally mirror Remedy’s past work on the Max Payne series. To say anything more would be to spoil too much, but there are some excellent story surprises and left-turn level designs to be found here that rival the most outside-of-the-box moments from the main Alan Wake II campaign, and it meant that Night Springs finished on a thoroughly hypnotic high note that left me wanting more. View the full article

NetEase Games has released the details on the upcoming Closed Alpha Test for FragPunk, its newly announced multiplayer shooter. Revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 10, 2024, FragPunk promises to put its own spin on the team-based hero shooter scene with a unique "rule-changing" gameplay mechanic. View the full article

A League of Legends developer addressed the backlash that the Faker Ahri skin received, and defended their decision to put an expensive price tag on it. This special Ahri skin was created as part of League of Legends' Hall of Legends 2024 event, where it inducted the multi-awarded Korean pro player Faker. View the full article

It's been nearly six years since the newest Dragon Age was originally teased, and we finally get to see it in action. View the full article