HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, December 23)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #195 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #195 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeFeaturesWorld of Horror The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 23rdMy favourite school subject is survival My favourite school subject is survival Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Christmas is a time for joy and togetherness, yes, but also lends itself to strange spirits, sacrifice, and Old Gods. So if you want the world to still be here in time for you to open your presents and stuff your face with turkey and potatoes, you’re going to have to climb that scary lighthouse and open the Advent Calendar door at the top....

HomeNews Bounty of gaming news discovered in isolated Scottish cabinAn end of year round-up, possibly An end of year round-up, possibly Image credit:Edwin Evans-Thirlwell/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Edwin Evans-Thirlwell/Rock Paper Shotgun The existence of the Upper Lunch Hut implies the existence of a Lower Lunch Hut, but as far as I can tell, no such building exists. It’s one of many mysteries that surround the edifice, which I discovered during a holiday in the Cairngorms this August, while everybody else at RPS was writing about some tyrannous entity called Gamescom....

HomeNews China reveal new limits on game spending and rewards, wiping billions from Tencent and NetEase market valueDraft restrictions ban daily login rewards and limit digital wallet top-ups Draft restrictions ban daily login rewards and limit digital wallet top-ups Image credit:Tencent Image credit:Tencent Chinese regulators have announced far-reaching curbs on monetisation and reward systems for online games, in a move that has wiped almost $80 billion from the market value of the world’s biggest videogame publisher Tencent and their rival NetEase....

HomeDeals Grab NZXT’s Kraken 240mm AiO with LCD display for £90 at Scan UKThat’s £40 off its normal price. That’s £40 off its normal price. Image credit:NZXT/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:NZXT/Rock Paper Shotgun I’ve long been a fan of NZXT’s AiO liquid coolers - in fact, I’m building a PC with onetomorrow. You might be joining me on that, as today NZXT’s Kraken 240mm AiO is down to £90 at Scan UK after a £40 discount....

HomeNewsGrimhook Grimhook is a sweet, free first-person platformer with a touch of LovecraftNot very grim Not very grim Image credit:Unlimited Fries Image credit:Unlimited Fries If you’re looking for something short, free, simple of concept and pleasant of execution to play this Decemberween, may I recommendGrimhook, a first-person action-platformer which had the misfortune to launch on 9th December, while the entire videogame journalism profession were recovering from theGeoffapocalypse. Here’s the setup: you are an irreverent young man called Dart exploring a bunch of caves with the aid of a grappling hook and a grumpy goddess trapped in a pebble....

HomeFeatures Another year oVR. A new one just begun Image credit:Vertigo Games Image credit:Vertigo Games Like a circus strongman’s barbells, 2023’s year in VR has been heavily weighted toward either end. The last twelve months were bookended with the launch of two excellent VR headsets (although only one is truly relevant to us PC gamers) and a whole bunch of great VR titles. The summer, however, was the quietest I’ve known for a long time, to the point where I ended up playing twoVR minigolf gamesin the absence of anything better to do....

HomeNews RPS is on our winter holidays now, please don’t email us until 2024There’s still a bunch of stuff for you to read, though There’s still a bunch of stuff for you to read, though Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Seriously. I have had new emailstodayfrom PRs. What are you doing? Genuine question. But yes, Rock Paper Shotgun is closing up the treehouse for our Christmas break. It’s far too cold to sit in a treehouse at this time of year!...

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, December 21)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #193 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #193 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeNewsStarfield Starfield will get updates every six weeks beginning in February 2024Shattered Space expansion coming 2024 also Shattered Space expansion coming 2024 also Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:Bethesda Game Studios Starfieldwill receive updates “roughly every six weeks starting in February” if Bethesda hit their target, according to an end of year wrap-up. “These updates will include everything from quality-of-life improvements to content and feature updates,” includingpreviously mentionedcity maps, mod support and new methods of travel....

HomeNews Steam now lets you mark games as privateFor your eyes only For your eyes only Image credit:Aurora Games Image credit:Aurora Games If you’ve opted in to the Steam client beta, you can now mark games in your Steam library as private so that they’re invisible to other users. That means that if you’re - as a hypothetical - a games journalist who once had to buy and install some games with questionable names and subject matter for an article you were writing, you can now hide that so it’s no longer visible to your friends or - hypothetically - your child....

HomeNews Steam’s 2023 winter sale is now underwayStart your wallets Start your wallets Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nacon Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Nacon The Steam winter sale is now underway, with discounts across the digital storefront’s catalogue of games from now until January 4th. This also means that voting is now open in the 2023 Steam Awards, with the slightly earlier closing date of January 2nd. 50% seems like a decent discount for a relatively recent game like Star War Wars Jedi: Survivor....

HomeFeaturesAlan Wake 2 The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 21stHark! The herald of darkness sings Hark! The herald of darkness sings Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Before you open this door on the Advent Calendar, make sure you have enough batteries for your mega-powered torch. The environment be damned, throw those spent batts on the floor where you stand and open-palm slam the new ones in, because light is the only way you’re getting out of here alive....