Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

After years in hiding, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game is returning to the stage to play a comeback tour. Earlier this year, Ubisoft announced that the beat ’em up game that’s been unavailable to buy for several years now would be back on the digital shelf this winter. The Complete Edition will launch on January 14, 2021.

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The Sims™ 4 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Earlier this year, Maxis told players that they would expand the character creation tools in The Sims 4 to help create more diverse Sims, specifically focusing on darker skin tones and textured hairstyles. That effort has produced results today in a free update that massively expands your ability to choose skin tones and makeup colors along with a couple hairstyle improvements.

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Detention - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Spooky artwork for the Detention series.

Red Candle Games are perhaps best known for Devotion getting into trouble with the Chinese government, but they also, y’know, made decent video games. One of those, the high school horror Detention, has now spawned a live-action series on Netflix. It started this weekend, and after seeing the first two episodes, sure, I’ll keep watching. Oh, and they have a new game coming.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Call Of Duty players have unraveled a yarn of clues and sleuthed out a new trailer for season one coming to Black Ops Cold War and the battle royale Warzone. Looks like dataminers were spot on when they uncovered Rebirth Island as the new map for Warzone. The trailer also reveals a new operator and map for Cold War multiplayer.

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Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Johnny Silverhand, the Keanu Reeves fella, in a frame from E3 2019's Cyberpunk 2077 cinematic trailer.

We’re three days off the launch day for Cyberpunk 2077 but PC players can start downloading the game right now ahead of time. Of course you can’t play it yet though. Or perhaps you can? Folks who have pre-loaded the game on their machines may be delighted to see that you can in fact press “play” once it’s done. Alas, you’re only in store for a scold from Johnny Silverhand until the game is properly out.

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

The mysterious Utah 'monolith', in a photo by the Utah Department of Public Safety.

Over the past fortnight, mysterious metal pillars (if they’re not stones, they’re not monoliths okay) have been found across the world. Who erected them? What are they for? We do not know. Are they art? Possibly! Are they moonman threats? We should be so lucky! Are they ‘viral’ marketing for a yet-unknown product? Yeah, maybe. Upon hearing folks found another column on Sunday, I realised: oh no, The Game Awards are this week, what if these are teasers for a game announcement? God, they could be. Oh, I would be so unhappy.

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Dragon Age: Origins - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Cullen from Dragon Age: Inquisition.

What did you do to celebrate Dragon Age day on Friday? I watched a voice actor get brutally shut down by Dragon Age fans, after he posted the cringiest video I have ever watched in my life. Greg Ellis, the voice of Cullen in Dragon Age: Inquisition, decided that it would be a good idea to post a 40 minute video, in-character as Cullen>, complaining about him and his voice actor being victimised by cancel culture. It is awful. It is hilarious. It might well be the best thing to happen to Dragon Age since Dragon Age 2.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ed Thorn)

My character stands before two stone statues. Below each statue there is a weapon cradle. The statue on the right has a hammer on it, but the one on the left is mysteriously missing.

I think Chronos: Before The Ashes is very much okay>. It’s a prequel to looter shooter Remnant: From The Ashes, but it trades gun-toting, chest-pillaging action for a soulslike experience so grey, I swear my pulse flatlined a few times.

It was also previously an Oculus VR exclusive, so the version I played is a port. It’s a shame it’s not one that adapts the game to fit its PC home comfortably, because instead it ends up feeling a bit out of place.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ed Thorn)

A Juggernaut wielding a huger minigun and rocking a lot of kevlar.

Find a Juggernaut suit in Call Of Duty: Warzone and you’ll transform into a minigun-wielding beefcake who’s practically unstoppable. It’s a golden ticket to victory, basically, and now players have found an exploit which enables you get an unlimited number of them. Excellent.

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

An image of Horace the endless bear wrapped around a Christmas tree, for the RPS advent calendar 2020.

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Sometimes you open a door to get a wonderful surprise. Sometimes you open a door to find something truly terrifying. Which will it be on day seven of the RPS advent calendar?

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