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6 days ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Published on May 31, 2025
The next Phasmophobia update, Chronicle, is due out next month with a newly revealed June 24th release date, and developer Kinetic Games have offered up some details on what it calls one of the game's "biggest updates" so far.
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6 days ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Developer Rebellion Developments revealed a first look at Atomfall's first DLC expansion yesterday. Titled Wicked Isle, it unsurprisingly brings you to an island called Midsummer Island that is, in fact, a bit wicked, but like, in the bad way, not in the something a teen in the 2000s would say about something they like kind of way. Specifically it'll have a bit more of a folk horror vibe to it, which I'm certainly into conceptually.
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6 days ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Yesterday, ZeniMax Workers United-CWA, the union made up of more than 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft via its subsidiary ZeniMax Media, reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft. The union was formed back in 2022, and has been bargaining with Microsoft in the intervening years since. Last month, the union was preparing to potentially strike against Microsoft, but now it seems like this may be avoided.
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6 days ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Earlier this week, EA did the thing they oh so frequently loves to do, which is making a bad decision. This time, it was cancelling Marvel's Black Panther, alongside shutting down the two year old studio that was making it, Cliffhanger Games. As every single announcement like this over the past few years has been, it was an incredibly frustrating one that can't be justified.
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6 days ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Elden Ring Nightreign is, to the surprise of no one, off to a bit of a flying start (even if not everyone is completely in love with it just yet). I have no intention of diving into it just yet, in part because the solo experience doesn't interest me all that much, and I don't really want to be matched up with two other randos that would surely abandon me the moment I forget what my character can do.
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1 week ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Anyone that's ever been on the London underground, no matter their background, can all likely agree on one thing: that place is nasty. I mean, it's all underground, where's the dirt meant to go? And it's not like anyone's putting any money into getting the place cleaned. But, if you've ever fantasized about hosing down a Northern Line train for yourself, one, that's possibly slightly odd, and two, you'll be able to do almost just that in PowerWash Simulator's next and last update.
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1 week ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
To be a person that looks forward to video games and DLC for video games is to also be a person that must do so knowing that, at this point in time, they are likely to be delayed. It is what it is! Perhaps the dismantling of our current economic system and rebuilding one that doesn't put profits first would mean developers could take their time, but that'll probably also take a while.
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1 week ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
"BEING A TEENAGER SUCKS. So we made a videogame about it." These are the opening words on the Steam page for Jenny Jiao Hsia's Consume Me, a "life-simulation RPG" about feeling "stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school." Now, I'm going to go out on a limb and say many of you that are of a post-high-school age probably don't want to re-experience it anytime soon, but Consume Me looks like such a good time I'm going to suggest you do so anyway, especially because it just got a demo.
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1 week ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Published on May 29, 2025
What do you think Islands & Trains is about? I'm not going to give you long, because it really is just right there in the name. As you've presumably already guessed, it is a quaint-looking sandbox builder where you make tiny diorama-like islands, adorning them with tracks for trains to choo-choo along. I told you, it's a name that does what it says on the tin, and if it appeals to you at all, well, there's some good news, as it just came out today.
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1 week ago | 
rockpapershotgun.com | Oisin Kuhnke
Published on May 29, 2025
Day one patches are the curse that comes with the modern age of video games because development doesn't end at the point of printing the discs we play them on any more. It sucks, it's bad for preservation, but we're stuck with them. However, it's also a bit funny that Elden Ring Nightreign, due out tomorrow, May 30th, sort of has a day minus one patch that's already available.
