Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Beta test site and small game curator Alpha Beta Gamer have put out their Games To Get Excited About 2025 showcase, and (salt to taste, granted) it’s exactly what it says on the tin. 110 curated trailers in an hour and five minutes, organised and timestamped by genre, with no paid adverts and no teeth-grindingly awful skits. They’ve also made a point to not include any cinematic trailers, although I haven’t watched the whole thing yet. They might be liars. Are you liars, Alpha Beta Gamer? Wait, don’t answer that. I’ve seen Labyrinth like fifty billion times, I know how this ends up.

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NVIDIA’s latest GPUs are here, and whatever you think about them, the combination of DLSS, Reflex, frame generation and more makes them impressively capable.

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Early in my hands-on for End Of Abyss, the developer sitting next to me expressed surprise at how readily and consistently I was using the game’s handheld scanner. I myself was surprised – perhaps even appalled – to hear that other journalists had been neglecting it.

End Of Abyss, you see, takes place in an underground plate-metal labyrinth where every corner is a huddle of waiting shadows, every doorway a mystery, and every ventilation fan a web of fungal grot. I hate to cast aspersions on other members of the press, but you would have to be an absolute chowderhead to explore such a warren using your eyes alone. This is a world that feels like it’s holding its breath.

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Massive modding site Nexus Mods have announced a change in ownership, with founder Robin ‘Dark0ne’ Scott set to step back. As to who the new owners are, a couple of first names and modding profiles have been provided, as well as an assertion that these new overlords understand what makes Nexus Mods tick.

Scott – who founded the site as the Elder Scrolls-focused TES Nexus in 2001, and has owned it via his company Black Tree Gaming since 2007 – announced the news via a post on Nexus Mods.

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Stellar Blade modders have made a lot of sexual stuff so far. As it turns out, the game’s director is cool with that, though he is hoping that despite the game not having any official tools, modders’ll have a go at creating fresh wrinkles that add to what the Stellar Blade experience offers.

Hyung-tae Kim gave his opinion on where the game’s modding scene is currently at in a recent interview with South Korean site This Is Game, translated by Automaton and Genki.

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Invisible Inc and Don’t Starve developers Klei Interactive have announced Away Team, a 2D base-building game from the same universe as Oxygen Not Included. I have yet to play Oxygen Not Included, but Klei seldom miss – their Mark Of The Ninja remains one of my favouritest ninja shankfests – and Away Team already seems very appealing for putting a deeply inhumane emphasis on traitorous physics. Here be trailer.

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PlayStation have finally come to their senses and rolled back a lot of the unpopular PC region locking that’s been stopping folks in various parts of the world enjoying a bunch of games. It looks like one of those titles, Helldivers 2, could finally be getting a cape players have craved for a year or so as a result.

Yep, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani has teased deploying the review bomb-themed cape that first emerged as a meme following the backlash to PlayStation attempting to change the game’s PSN account linking rules last year. We’ve known the cape was a real item the studio had made for a while now, but with the region locking still ongoing, Arrowhead have opted to keep it locked away for months on end.

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Shogun: Total War is 25 years old this year, and Creative Assembly are holding a multi-month long celebration kicking off in August with livestreams, interviews, sales, and multiplayer tournaments, all culminating with a showcase in early December. This will be the first showcase of its type they’ve done, and it’s billed to feature announcements for “new games” in the strategy series. That’s more than one, as the discerning pluralisation understanders among you have no doubt sagely clocked.

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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! No cool industry person this week. Instead, you are stuck with me. In an elevator. And I have eaten nothing but cabbage-wrapped beans for a week. You’ll doubtless want something to keep your mind off that, so let’s talk about books instead.

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I feel like money laundering is one of those concepts you see in a lot of crime TV shows but it’s not really something that seems to come up much in games. I certainly can’t think of any games that feature money laundering as an actual mechanic, but I’ll be able to add one to the list next week: GTA Online. The multiplayer game is getting a new update this coming June 17th called Money Fronts, and is literally all about buying up small but generally lucrative businesses that you can sneak some money through.

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