Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Over 12.3 million people dropped into Fortnite last night for the world premiere of Travis Scott’s new song, The Scotts, and it was really quite cool. The in-game event sees a giant holographic Travis descend from the skies to serenade players with an extravegant performance including fire raining from the skies, the world flooding, rollercoaster tracks growing across the skies, everything going topsy-turvy… a real fancy show! The event will repeat today and Saturday so you can still catch it in-game, or you can just watch it recorded in this here handy video below.

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Overdungeon - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

The Peggle of Slay The Spire-likes.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

You know what you did. Your team knows what you did. That Reinhardt play was awful, but how are you supposed to express remorse? Open the chat box? Plug in a headset? Nonsense. Until now, Overwatch had absolutely no way of letting your team know you messed up. Today’s PTR update changes everything, letting you customise your chat wheel with new voice commands to drive plays, count down ultimates, say goodbye, and yes – even apologise for that terrible, ill-planned charge.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

A new trailer for Paradise Killer dropped today, which means it’s finally a chance to check in on Kaizen Game Works’ open-world crime-solver. Pretty standard, murder mystery visual novel stuff then, right? Chat to the suspects, explore the scene for clues, crack the case before celestial entities hard-reset the universe into its 25th iteration, a perfect reflection of Paradise as a concept, borne of the corpses of alien gods.

Y’know. The usual.

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Dead Cells - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Please don’t touch the exhibits. Stab ’em, shoot ’em, or trap ’em with poisoned arrows? Sure, but please do not touch them. They’re riled up enough as is. This week’s free Bestiary Update brings nasty new foes to roguelite slash ’em up Dead Cells, alongside new tools to face them with and an overhaul to The Bad Seed’s botanical wing. But once again, please. No touching.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

XCOM Chimera Squad agent builds

XCOM Chimera Squad has you take command of 11 specialised units. Each one has a dramatically different role that you can use to your advantage in battles, and abilities that you can unlock as you use them in missions. Some agents work very well with others, allowing for combos to quickly take out enemies.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

XCOM Chimera Squad assembly

One way to upgrade your agents in XCOM Chimera Squad is via the assembly. Here you can invest time and resources into improving their equipment, improving field team ranks, and tons more. It can be daunting to know what to start off with first, so we’ve prepared a table with all the available research. (more…)

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

XCOM Chimera Squad training

There are plenty of ways to upgrade your agents in XCOM Chimera Squad, one of which is via the training facility. Training can either be used to increase the stats of your agents permanently, give them new abilities, or remove scars. (more…)

Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dave Irwin)

XCOM Chimera Squad guide

XCOM Chimera Squad came out of nowhere didn’t it? The latest in the rebooted XCOM series opts for a more streamlined approach than its predecessors, focusing in on a fixed squad that must keep the peace in City 31. Things can quickly snowball out of control if you don’t know what you’re doing, but that’s where we come in.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

In the fiction of The Division 2, there must’ve been some folks who gave pause to the whole concept, right? Who, when their orange watch started beeping, reckoned they needed some time to decide whether they really wanted to become state-authorised secret soldiers? I can’t say, but Ubisoft will, at least, now let you take a brief shot at The Division 2 for free – swaying over potential agents with the promise of goodies in Tom Clancy’s other> shooter.

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