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

Hitman 3

is nearly here to bring you more adventures in deadly dressup with Ian Hitman himself. Ah but what will you be dressing up as while you seek out your targets and stash their friends in closets? You might be able to take some guesses as Io Interactive have now revealed the remainder of the locations you’ll be visiting when the stealth adventure sneaks out later this month.

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

A mashup of classic shooter Wolfenstein 3D and silly arcade romp Super Monkey Ball is ridiculous. It shouldn’t work, any rational person would say. Return To Castle Monkey Ball is indeed ridiculous but somehow it does actually work. You can find out for yourself by rolling your way through this fan project for free right in your browser.

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

High society MMO Ever, Jane managed to snag necessary crowdsource funds to get off the ground way back in 2013. The socialising and gossiping online game went through both closed and public beta in the years since, aiming for a full launch at last in autumn 2020. Alas it’s gone the other way. Ever, Jane shut down its servers right at the end of 2020, it turns out.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Online game roleplay is a wonderful and curious exercise in creativity and adaptability, especially as the number of participants in an attempted scenario grows. Such was the case when the Wild West RP server for Red Dead Redemption 2 got together a group of players to act out the sale and transfer of cattle between two ranches. Herding cattle can’t be so hard, can it? Unless people are playing the unruly cattle, that is.

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Cyberpunk 2077

may not have any aerial vehicles, but thanks to mods, you don’t need them to get V airborne. A modder has created the Freefly mod, which allows players to take off into the air at the touch of a button. I had a go of it and it works pretty well. Seeing Night City from a brand new angle is great – just beware some weird bugs if you try and use it with other mods.

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

Twitter Plays Pokémon's Wartortle,

Pokémon’s all about becoming “the very best, like no one ever was”, and game programmer Constantin Lietard has given hundreds, if not thousands of budding trainers the opportunity. He’s built a script which lets people play Pokémon Red inside his Twitter avatar.

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

Find out all the very best guns in Warzone with our tried and tested tier list.

Knowing the very best guns in Warzone like the back of your hand is a key skill in Call of Duty’s uber-popular Battle Royale mode – and we’re here to help you hone that skill. Below you’ll find our tried and tested Warzone weapon tier list, along with detailed explanations and tips on the very best Warzone guns.

This guide was written by Ollie Toms and James Law.>

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Dishonored 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Seven-day speedrunning marathon Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has ended, raising a brilliant $2,758,847 million (around £2 million) for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. It’s the second-highest amount ever raised at the event, right behind last year’s winter marathon, which is pretty good going considering this year was the first fully digital AGDQ.

Despite not having a roaring crowd sat behind them, the speedrunners still put on an excellent show from the comfort of their own homes. Here are a few of my fave runs from the week.

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

Uther Lightbringer, the Paladin off of the warcraft, having an utter rager in magaluf.

Every month as part of its Book Of Heroes business, Hearthstone releases a short single-player adventure, telling the life story of one of the big characters off of Warcraft, via card-based boss battles. They’re lovely, and I really like them. The new Book Of Heroes just became available, and features everyone’s favourite mellifluous fantasy bigot, the paladin Uther Lightbringer.

Uther is a sort of cross between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bean Dad, who in Warcraft lore does such a piss-poor job of mentoring young Prince Arthas, that the geezer only goes and becomes the Lich King. Over the eight battles of Uther’s story, the paladin himself narrates these events from his perspective, and some insights are gleaned: Uther used to be a priest. Uther really, properly despises orcs (in a way that gets quite uncomfortable to listen to). But most of all, Uther used to be an ABSOLUTE MAD LAD>.

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Jurassic World Evolution - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nate Crowley)

Two big tall lads having a walk on a summer's day. They're dinosaurs.

I love Frontier’s trio of park-building games, but they are strange beasts. All three (that’s Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, and Jurassic World Evolution, for the record) are slightly shallower management games than I usually tend to enjoy, but they make up for it with severe overperformance in every other regard.

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