HomeNews Dauntless and Fae Farm devs lay off 34 people but insist DLC plans and unannounced games unaffectedPhoenix Labs makes another round of job cuts Phoenix Labs makes another round of job cuts Fae FarmandDauntlessdevelopers Phoenix Labs have cut 34 jobs following an internal review. It’s a sad end to a busy year for the Canadian studio, whobought their independence back from previous owner Garena in February, and laid off 9 per cent of their workforce in May....

HomeNewsEndure The Swarm Endure The Swarm pits your sokoban skills against endless, horrible insectsAlso, you are a miserable shut-in Also, you are a miserable shut-in Image credit:Ternary Games Image credit:Ternary Games Endure The Swarm, which launches on Friday 8th December, takes that most abstract and respectable of game genres, the block-pushingpuzzler, and fills it with ghastly, flesh-eating insects. There’s no amount of pesticide that can stay this tide, nor (sadly) is there the option to stand on a chair screaming and waving a broom....

HomeDeals Look at the size of this absolute unit of an NVMe heatsink - and also it’s discounted in the UKIt might actually be useful for PCIe 5.0 SSDs too. It might actually be useful for PCIe 5.0 SSDs too. Image credit:Thermalright Image credit:Thermalright Get the Thermalright HR-09 NVMe heatsink for £7.51 (was £9.39) In a world where the most popular NVMe SSD heatsinks are super short in order to boast PS5 compatibility, it’s a breath of fresh air to see one that is unabashedly about pure performance no matter the (z-height) cost....

HomeFeaturesAssassin’s Creed Nexus VR Bird’s eye spew? Image credit:Ubisoft Image credit:Ubisoft Also, I’ll admit, a VR Assassin’s Creed game intrigues me. The idea of cavorting across historical rooftops and shanking templars in the sternum sounds brilliant. It also sounds like barf city. MostVR gameslimit the need to move around as much as possible, so translating a game as kinetic as Assassin’s Creed into VR seems mighty challenging. Nexus, it turns out, makes a decent stab at this, successfully translating most of the series' hallmark mechanics into VR....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: A little bit GTA 6, a little bit Mad MaxI go on Twitter to find indie games so you don’t have to I go on Twitter to find indie games so you don’t have to Image credit:Tzschk Image credit:Tzschk Whilethe impending GTA 6 trailerhas everyone jazzed about palm trees and neon, you can tide yourself over until tomorrow with a jot from this procedurally-generated infinite city:...

HomeDeals Start your Christmas PC build off right with this Corsair 4000D Airflow and RM750 PSU bundle from Scan UK£130 for a high-end PC case and PSU is a great deal. £130 for a high-end PC case and PSU is a great deal. Image credit:Corsair/Scan Image credit:Corsair/Scan Here’s a fun fact: Corsair started off making L2 cache modules in the 90s, before Intel started including a L2 cache in their CPUs....

HomeNews The Maw - 4th-9th December 2023Our weekly news liveblog Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Pierre Denys de Montfort/Wikimedia Commons Image credit:Pierre Denys de Montfort/Wikimedia Commons This week is the week ofThe Games Awards, aka Geoffest, aka the Ke3ghleys - an absolute banquet of trailers, release dates and game announcements for the Maw. There are a few reveals in the offing. Some, we already know about, and may even have written up in advance; others, we’ll learn about together with your good selves when the livestream begins at 4....

HomeFeaturesCocoon The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 4thDid you ask for marbles for Christmas this year? Did you ask for marbles for Christmas this year? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The fourth game in our 2023 Advent Calendar is really carrying the world on its back. Solve puzzles with balls and bugs inCocoon! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Annapurna Interactive I’ve heard some puzzleheads haven’t clicked with it because it’s not complicated enough, which is fair!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#898): How to solve the Monday December 4 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, December 3)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #175 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #175 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?...

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, December 2)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #174 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #174 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?...

HomeNewsStardew Valley Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update progressing as developer enters “(self-imposed) extreme crunch mode"“I want it to be the best it can be” “I want it to be the best it can be” Image credit:ConcernedApe Image credit:ConcernedApe Stardew Valleydeveloper Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, says he is currently in “(self-imposed) extreme crunch mode” while working on the pastoral life sim’s 1.6 update. When asked what motivates him to keep working on the already-beloved game, Barone called Stardew his “life’s work....

HomeNews The Fallout TV series trailer certainly looks like Fallout, except for that one cyclopsIt’s coming April 12th It’s coming April 12th Image credit:Amazon Image credit:Amazon Perhaps the Last Of Us TV show on HBO getting it right was the dawn of a new era of good TV based on video games, but I still approach each adaptation with trepidation. That includes Amazon’sFalloutseries from Westworld and Person Of Interest writer/director Jonathan Nolan, which just got its first trailer....