Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

There are some mods that you need to read up on before you understand why you might want to give them a whirl. There are some mods with which that process can be accomplished via a single GIF. A new Oblivion Remastered work that makes it possible to hilariously reduce the contents of Cyrodiil’s cities to chunks of flying rubble just by slapping buildings with spells is firmly in the latter camp.

Before you get too worried about the karmic balance of the modding wizard powerful enough to make this sort of wanton destruction possible, it’s worth bearing in mind that they’ve previously given players the ability to build new homes any displaced citizens could probably move into.

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There are at least two ways to write about parrying mechanics. On the one hand, you have people like me who compose farking ridiculous intros such as “a good parry mechanic is a kind of redemption”, then spend hundreds of words overegging the pudding. On the other, you have Nic, who sums parrying up far more elegantly as “a pleasingly low-effort method to make your opponent look very silly”. I hope that both Nic and I will be at home in Memoria Wake, a new isometric action-RPG in which you can parry giant black cats with an umbrella. There’s now a demo on Steam.

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Itch.io have announced that they are seeking out new payment processing partners who are more willing to handle the purchase of NSFW games, after delisting or removing a vast swathe of games in accordance with the content restrictions of companies such as Paypal and Stripe. They’ve also offered an explanation for why they’ve recently delisted so many more “infringing” games than Steam, which has carried out its own cull of sexually explicit games under pressure from finance firms. Finally, Itch have acknowledged that their recently posted list of newly prohibited adult material is far too vague to be useful.

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Monster Hunter Wilds is now set to get an endgame revamp earlier than originally advertised, with Capcom having opted to chuck their established update plans for the next few months out of a window. Well, I say that, all they’ve really done is move around some bits.

While performance issues have proven to be the main achilles heel of the action game about hunning mons, the stuff you’re left to do once you’ve slapped up Arkveld has been another source of player ire.

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There are a number of official Jumanji video games, but they don’t seem very Jumanjish to me. You’ve got a bunch of nineties-to-noughties minigame compilations, a pachinko adaptation, and a few reportedly dismal games based on the recent Dwayne Johnson movies, also feat. Steve off Infiniminer and Amy Pond from Dr Avenger: Endgame.

Ludogram’s just-announced streamerbait co-op horror game Invokyr seems to be cleaving a lot closer to the 1995 movie, which is itself based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book from 1981. The game sees you and up to three others playing a cursed boardgame that transforms the house it’s played in.

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Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West publishers Sony have called in the lawyers over Tencent’s upcoming Light of Motiram, arguing in a lawsuit filing (spotted by Reuters) that the post-apocalyptic action adventure looks a little too much like their post-apocalyptic action adventure. The case alleges that Light of Motiram, currently in development at Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, is a “slavish clone” of Guerrilla Games’ original series, and seeks to block its release on copyright infringement grounds.

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Microsoft have become the latest company to start introducing age verification measures in response to the the Online Safety Act that’s just come into force in the UK. Folks logging into Xbox services with a Microsoft account from today will start getting optional notifications directing them to verify they’re over 18, with the checks becoming a hard requirement in early 2026.

To be clear, these checks are UK-only for now, in line with this new legislation that aims to stop users who aren’t verified as over 18 seeing content that’s illegal or deemed unsuitable for children.

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Last week, Itch.io delisted thousands of games featuring various kinds of “NSFW” material, rendering them invisible to anybody searching or browsing the site. Other developers reported that their games had been taken offline entirely. Among the games delisted was Mouthwashing, Rock Paper Shotgun’s game of the year 2024.

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Team Fortress 2, that shooter with wacky character intro videos so good I have to watch each of them at least once every six months, got its 2025 summer update late last week. There are a host of new community-made maps, items, and taunts, in addition to a fair few bug fixes from Valve themselves.

Cool to see, though one vocal group of players are keen to see the developers delve back in and make some changes to matchmaking, having penned an open letter to the Steamy company outlining hopes for the revised system that melds the very old old one with the slightly less old one the game’s had since 2016’s Meet Your Match update.

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Amazon has rolled out major price cuts on the latest GPUs, making it a great time to upgrade your gaming rig. There are big savings across the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5060 series cards, along with solid discounts on AMD’s RX 7900 XTX, 7700 XT and 9060 XT. These deals cover every price bracket, from high-end 4K powerhouses to budget-friendly 1080p options. If you’ve been holding out for a new graphics card, this is one of the best times to buy.

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