HomeDeals Might be time to go OLED, now that Prime Big Deals Days has knocked £400 off the 240Hz LG UltraGear 27GR95QE-B40% off at Amazon UK 40% off at Amazon UK Image credit:LG Image credit:LG Two years since they emerged as a serious screen option for PC games,OLED monitorsstill haven’t cracked the issue of how they just look too bloomin’ expensive next to similarly specced LCD displays. Which is a shame, as the OLED gaming monitorsI’ve usedhave invariably looked sumptuous, without the movement blurring issues you might expect if you own a TV of the same panel tech....

“A life sim made sense, and perhaps still make sense,” says chief creative officer Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive Next time, however, Paradox need to make smaller investments at the outset and be prepared for a longer spell in prototyping, Lilja went on. “We need to do it a different way. We need to start with a smaller team. We need to do pre-production longer. We need to prototype a lot, before we go into big production, because when you have a full game team, quite honestly, it costs a lot, so any pivot is going to cost all of that....

HomeDeals Prime Big Deal Days returns with 15% off one of Logitech’s best gaming keyboardsThe one I’m typing on right now, in fact The one I’m typing on right now, in fact Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s time for (yet) another ofAmazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, days of big Prime deals that have deals on days for Prime. I don’t know anymore, this is like the third or fourth one this year....

HomeNews Rime and Song Of Nunu developers Tequila cancel game and lay off staffStudio restructuring “to concentrate on the development of only one game” Studio restructuring “to concentrate on the development of only one game” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Riot Forge Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Riot Forge Ah, this makes for sore reading. Spanish developers Tequila Works have cancelled a game and made a “small” number of layoffs in the face of financial difficulties....

HomeReviews Silent Hill 2 review: a handsome horror remake that plays safe with its own historyHole lot of trauma Hole lot of trauma Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami No game protagonist is more willing to stick his hand down a toilet than James Sunderland. Why is he doing this? You would have to ask him or the psychiatrist he badly requires. And it’s unlikely he’d explain himself....

HomeDeals The best Steam Deck microSD card, Samsung’s Pro Plus, is nearly half price for Prime Big Deal Days512GB of top-notch handheld storage 512GB of top-notch handheld storage Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I’m acutely aware someone on RPS, usually me, ends up dealsposting about the Samsung Pro Plus every time there’s a big hardware sale going on. As there currently is, withAmazon’s Prime Big Deal Dayshaving returned to town....

HomeNewsTraveller’s Hymn Traveller’s Hymn is a free open-world grid-based RPG, and it’s out todayLooks lovely Looks lovely Image credit:Aquatic Ranger Studio Image credit:Aquatic Ranger Studio Traveller’s Hymnis a top-down, grid-based, open-world adventure game (and breathe), set in a dark fantasy land. The tileset is lovely, as are the little dialogue boxes and menus and the gentle bob of your backpack-ridden character as they walk. Basically, it looks like it’s worth everyone’s time, particularly because there’s one big twist here - it’s entirely free....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Mon, October 07thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #483. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #483. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 07th October?...

HomeReviewsDread Dawn Dread Dawn review: dawn’t botherIs this the end of zombie Shakespeare?! Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?! Image credit:Kioop/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Kioop/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Kiopp/Rock Paper Shotgun My first task is to go check on my character’s sister in the girl’s dorm. On the way, I run into one of several footballs scattered around and accidentally pelt it at a dude lying on sleeping bag, who then jumps up and follows me around for about a minute, knocking me to the floor every time I get up....

HomeNewsHalo Infinite 343 retitle themselves Halo Studios in bid to upset and confuse me specifically Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft A New Dawn | Halo StudiosWatch on YouTube A New Dawn | Halo Studios New helmet dents aside, Halo Studios are switching to Unreal Engine 5 for some fairly straightforward practical reasons. One is that it saves them time creating, updating and maintaining their own tools - as the developers note, parts of the Slipspace engine are technically 25 years old, though I imagine the same is true of Unreal Engine’s latest incarnations....

HomeNews Pathologic 3 announced with time travel mechanic, due for release in 2025Eligible bachelor Eligible bachelor Image credit:Hype Train Digital Image credit:Hype Train Digital Found a dead rat in my inbox this morning. When I examined the entrails it spelled out the following: PaThoLoGiC 3 aNnOuNcEd ToDaY. Ah, I see. Developers Ice Pick Lodge are working on a sequel to their infamously oppressive plague town simulator, only this time the follow-up will feature “a time-travel mechanic, allowing players to go back and see how their decisions change the lives of the townspeople....

HomeHardwareFeaturesSilent Hill 2 Remake Silent Hill 2 Remake’s PC performance isn’t a total horror show, but low-end rigs will shudderThis mysterious letter from my wife says “Lower the shadow quality” This mysterious letter from my wife says “Lower the shadow quality” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Konami TheSilent Hill 2 remakeis only out today, but it’s been nearly two years since thefirst system requirements appeared, immediately distressing our PCs so badly that they started having their own nightmares of fog-smothered towns and James Sunderland in an uncomfortably high-poly nurse outfit....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sun, October 06thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #482. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #482. 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! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 06th October?...