Gaming News

First Impressions: The delicate balance of Stormforge’s dangerous and creative multiplayer survival RPG

If there’s one thing I’ve learned playing the number of survival sandboxes and survival RPGs that I have, it’s that there is a pretty broad spectrum of general experiences they offer. Sometimes they’re laid back and colorful. Sometimes they’re hard-bitten. Sometimes they’re full of horror. Other times it’s whimsy. My brief time within Stormforge, the […]

RPG Community

The Daily Grind: If you had unlimited free time, would you spend all of it gaming?

Back in July, MOP’s Justin mentioned his staycation, during which he did indeed get some gaming time in… but he didn’t spend all day every day gaming as he might have when he was younger. And I feel that a lot. I have a lot more things to do, yes, but I also have a […]

PC gaming Community

Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it

If you've considered an OLED gaming monitor or TV purchase over the last few years, you've probably done a little bit of research on the dreaded phenomena of burn-in. OLED panels can retain ghostly images after displaying static on-screen objects over long periods, although many modern displays appear to be better at mitigating the issue.However, RTings has some disappointing news. A long-term test of OLED TVs manufa

Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

Witcher 3 cut quest restoration mod The WAR Project is finding a new voice for its fresh Vernon Roche lines, following alleged "severe incident of gross misconduct"

The creators of massive in-development The Witcher 3 mod The WAR Project are recasting their version of Temerian commander Vernon Roche, citing "a severe incident of gross misconduct" allegedly committed by the person they'd initially given the role. Said person is no longer involved with the mod and those working on it say they don't think this incident "will impact [their] current schedule significantly". Read more

Live service Community

MMO RPG Live service

MapleStory collabs with Frieren, MapleStory Idle RPG adds an XP system, and MapleStory Worlds highlights a new game

Yep, just as with other games in our genre, we’re finding out that we’ll have to report on multiple versions and forks of the same MMO, specifically MapleStory, which has headlines for the primary 2-D title as well as its multiplayer idle game MapleStory: Idle RPG and UGC platform MapleStory Worlds. We’ll begin with Idle RPG’s most recent patch, […]

Marvel Rivals players are messing with their config files 'to cancel games with no consequence' before they get a loss

The devil works hard but cheaters in Marvel Rivals work harder, as always. Some have chosen to go to extreme lengths to avoid getting an icky loss tacked to their precious match history, using their config files to help them do so. "People are intentionally abusing the cheating detection system to cancel games with no consequence when they are losing," streamer LytePk says in a social media post. "Fix this ASAP, this

Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

This week in PC games: survival horror in a waterlogged city, kaiju chaos in a destructible city, and old school GTA vibes in an isometric insurgency simulator

Videogames. Gosh there are a lot of them. We're not even into the hell month of September – where every major developer besides Rockstar seems to be releasing their big games of the year – and we're looking at a packed week. Below you will find the whittled down pickings that stood out to me, but head over to Steam and you will find ten times more. It's a good time for wishlisting, if nothing else. Read more

PC gaming Industry

Game Developer / Aug 17, 2026

Barbie and Hot Wheels owner Mattel launches Mattel Game Studios

The toy company wants to develop, publish, and operate video games based on its sprawling brand portfolio.

Industry

Kingdom Hearts and Until Dawn actress Hayden Panettiere has died at 36

Hayden Panettiere, an actress with a huge body of work spanning TV, film, and videogames, has died at the age of 36. Her death was announced by her father Alan "Skip" Panettiere in a statement released to ABC News which read: "It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her??

Console Industry Community

Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer reportedly worked on a Halo multiplayer prototype before it got canned

A Halo game made by an Activision studio doesn't sound like a far-fetched idea, and is actually something Xbox considered per a new report. Sledgehammer Games, the studio behind several Call of Duty games like WW2, Vanguard, and Modern Warfare 3, is said to have been sought out to develop a Halo multiplayer game. Read more

Gameplay footage for the cancelled Star Wars: Magellan has appeared online

Years after its cancellation, gameplay footage for Star Wars: Magellan, the action RPG developed by the now-shuttered Echtra Games, has appeared online. Read more

RPG

Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 17, 2026

Heroes and Until Dawn star Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36

Hayden Panettiere - the actor who shot to fame as the cheerleader in TV superhero show Heroes - has died aged 36. Read more

Kingdom Hearts 4 releasing in late 2027, according to a trailer in which Donald Duck and Goofy go to hell, miss a skeletal fiesta and rock up as creepy force ghosts

I'll be honest, having just watched the latest trailer for Kingdom Hearts 4, I'm less confident I know what's going on in the game. Protagonist Sora's in a realm visually inspired by Mexican Día de Muertos celebrations, while Donald Duck and Goofy ship of the Greek underworld, then end up as force ghosts before rocking up in the Mexican realm without Sora. At least the game's freshly announced release window is less

Live service PC gaming Industry

Fortnite is getting a collaboration with a game made in Roblox, months after Epic boss Tim Sweeney referred to the rival platform as a force that could "grow and eat gaming"

It looks like Fortnite is getting a crossover with a game made in Roblox. In the latest upcoming season of the game - named Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: Override - the world's biggest battle royale introduces a wealth of gaming properties to its world. Developer Epic's first trailer for the new season (below) shows off a slew of gaming characters from all eras: you've got Crash Bandicoot, Sonic the Hedgehog and his p

Don't sleep on Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave mouse controls - believe it or not, it's become my favourite way to play

Earlier this year, Pokopia convinced me that the Switch 2's gimmicky mouse controls were a worthwhile addition to the console, after all. Since then, I've been trying out other games with the mouse as my primary method of control. My favourites, before I picked up Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, were Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening and Balatro. There's just something more satisfying about clicking to select units, or dr

Console

For the first time ever in a Call of Duty beta, the Modern Warfare 4 beta includes a campaign mission

Activision has announced several new details about the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta, whose first leg is set to kick off Friday. The official Call of Duty X account posted a dense image showing all content players have access to, and it's certainly more than many expected. Read more

Community

The Elder Scrolls 6 is probably subtitled Sentinel, and there's been an easter egg in Starfield hinting at it this whole time

While union members outside Bethesda's Maryland office celebrated a recent Microsoft visit by positioning a field of red flags representing laid-off workers and a giant inflatable rat on the lawn, inside the building CEO Asha Sharma was apparently having a delightful time watching a playthrough of The Elder Scrolls 6. So that's nice."The scale and grandeur are incredible", Sharma said, referring to the game and not t

Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day

Lord of Undead is a "grim" third-person RPG about building an army of vicious zombies in order to maliciously raze the villages of mortals. The goal is to defeat peace and innocence, all the better for evil to prevail. You also get to build houses. It sounds pretty fun and, as far as I can tell, it's the second most popular game releasing on November 19 behind GTA 6.Lord of Undead does have some advantages. The most

RPG PC gaming

Request for comment: Which way did you go when you reached the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3?

At the finale of Deus Ex: Human Revolution you choose which button to press to trigger one of its endings while an AI explains the differences between them. It was not a well-liked way to wrap up the game, and when just over six months later Mass Effect 3 came along with a remarkably similar structure for its ending we were all a bit baffled it came down to this. Three games' worth of agonizing decisions would all be