No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In the latest unredacted document oopsie stemming from the US Federal Trade Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft acqu…
Baldur's Gate 3 characters were super-horny due to a bug, Larian admit (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
I was a bit taken aback when almost every character in my camp was quick to jump my bones very early on, this explains it.
Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.
What are we all playing this weekend? (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Hunt: Showdown, Minecraft, and Dordogne are in our weekend gaming rotation - what are you playing?
Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Elden Ring is getting a free-to-play mobile version with in-app purchases (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Action-RPG colossus Elden Ring is reportedly getting a free-to-play mobile adaptation with in-app purchases, which takes inspiration from miHoYo’s Genshin Impact. It’s being published by Tencent, who apparently acquired the licensing rights to Elden Ring back in 2022 and put a few dozen people to work on a prototype, even as...
Starfield will get city maps and "new ways of traveling" next year (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
No Man's Sky studio Hello Games unveil Light No Fire, a fantasy survival game set on a single, huge planet (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Stop blaming teeth for Cities: Skylines 2 performance problems, say devs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
"The Next Subnautica" aims to deliver underwater survival spooks in early 2025 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Epic Games reportedly hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
The report comes from Cyber Daily, who also broke the news of last year’s confirmed hack attack on Insomniac Games. The site claims that new ransomware group Mogilevich are the culprits, as per the screencap of a darkweb posting above, and that the hackers are now trying to get Epic or another party to pay up for the return of...
Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 3, which was so massive Larian held it back a day to test it properly, will release today, and it'll add an RPG feature many of us have been requesting since we stepped clear of the Nautiloid - the ability to change a character's appearance. Alas, it comes too late for the Wood Elf Druid I rolled during...
Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. “Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out”
You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Not running the game’s code on a biological computer (maybe that’s next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step
Unity ring in the new year by firing 1,800 people in the name of "long-term and profitable growth" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Developers and experts in CRPGs give us their takes on why Baldur's Gate 3 and RPGs in general seize the public's imagi…
Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/3417167
Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Not directly linux gaming, but still think that its kind of relevant and interesting.
Dungeons & Dragons co-op multiplayer game on the way from Payday devs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
It’ll be out in 2026, and Starbreeze are being upfront with the fact it’ll be a games-as-a-service-type game.
Sci-fantasy roguelike Caves Of Qud is getting a full release in 2024, after 15 years of development (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without...
