HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Sunday 1 January 2023): Wordle word of the day #561 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle #561 Hints and the answer to Wordle #561 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Sunday 1 January 2023?Happy new year, fellow Wordlers! Now that 2022 is officially history, I hope 2023 brings you good cheer, good fortune, and a good run of successfully completed Wordle conundrums....

HomeNewsCult of the Lamb Cult Of The Lamb’s first major update will overhaul combat to add depthPlus revisions to difficulty, accessibility and quality of life Plus revisions to difficulty, accessibility and quality of life Cult Of The Lambwill get a “free major content update” sometime in 2023, which will focus on adding “depth, difficulty, accessibility and quality of life”. Specifically, it’s adding a new heavy attack for every single weapon in the game....

HomeNews Steam Mystery Fest will offer discounts and demos in FebruaryCrime doesn’t pay, but it’ll be cheap Crime doesn’t pay, but it’ll be cheap RPS apparently never met a detective game it didn’t like. There are six on our list of thebest games of 2022, for example. If the glowing praise of the team here convinced you to tryChinatown Detective AgencyorThe Case Of The Golden Idol, then you might want to wait a little while longer before buying them....

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: CJ’s bonus games of the year 2022Worth your time when it’s too frosty outside Worth your time when it’s too frosty outside As both a parent and the resident news lad here, I probably spend way more time talking and writing about games than getting hundreds of hours to actually play them. While most of the games I’ve snuck the odd minutes with – I hesitate to say hours – made it onto our Advent Calendar for Horace’s approval, the three below were a few that made me and my family smile at different points throughout 2022....

HomeNews There are now over 7000 “playable” games on Steam DeckThat’s a lotta games That’s a lotta games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Valve launched theSteam DeckVerified system to make it easy for folks to spot what games on their digital store would work with their handheld gaming PC. As we careen into the new year, there are now over 7000 games marked as “playable” or better on Steam Deck....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Saturday 31 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #560 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle #560 Hints and the answer to Wordle #560 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Saturday 31 December 2022?And so 2022 draws to a close. Although I try to avoid generalisations, I think it’s safe to say it’s been a challenging year in many ways, one that I’ll personally be celebrating the end of later tonight....

HomeFeatures Alice0’s favourite posts of 2022From virtual bicycles to cyberpunk novels From virtual bicycles to cyberpunk novels It’s been a weird year at RPS for me. After eight years as news editor, I started the nebulous new role of associate editor. This brought a broad mandate to cover indie games andPC Game Passand to do, like, whatever else I think might be fun or good. It has been weird to not clock in and just Do News, and to have responsibility only over myself....

HomeHardwareDeals Samsung’s 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD is down to £98 for a 1TB heatsink modelNearly as fast as the 990 Pro, and considerably less expensive. Nearly as fast as the 990 Pro, and considerably less expensive. The Samsung 980 Pro, a ‘PCIe 4.0 SSD speed demon’ with ‘absolutely barnstorming… read and write performance’ and a former ‘fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD’ pick has been reduced over at Amazon UK. There, you can pick up the 1TB model for £98, and it’s even the premium version that includes a high-grade heatsink preinstalled....

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: Alice0’s bonus games of the year 2022Some favourite games which didn’t make the RPS Advent Calendar Some favourite games which didn’t make the RPS Advent Calendar I confess: I usually did my damndest to rig the RPS Advent Calendar vote. When every year has so many more than 24 good games, I always tried to tactically vote and reshuffle points to wedge in a few wee great games I knew not many people had played....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Friday 30 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #559 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle #559 Hints and the answer to Wordle #559 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 30 December 2022?Two more days of 2022 remain. 2023 has breached the perimeter, and is closing in on our position fast. If you’ve any lingering resolutions left unmet from back in January, you’d better get on them pronto....

HomeNews Dishonored and its excellent DLC is free to keep from Epic this weekAnd Dishonored 2 is free from Amazon Prime And Dishonored 2 is free from Amazon Prime Image credit:Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Bethesda Softworks The Epic Games Store’s festive season of freebies has drawn to a close. The Epic Games Store’s weekly freebies have therefore resumed. Right now and until January 5th you can grabDishonored: Definitive Editionfor free, which includes Arkane’s first-person stealth playground and all its expansions....

HomeFeatures Our favourite RPS features from 2022You’re all bestest bests in my heart You’re all bestest bests in my heart Project Zomboid shows The Walking Dead is not helpful in a zombocalypse Much to enjoy in Hayden’s piece about how his zombie-apocalypse survivalist dreams hit the wall ofProject Zomboid. Both funny and well considered. CORALLL! (That’s the only Walking Dead joke I know). Video game characters recreated in OlliOlli World Apparently Brendygot a jobor something, so isn’t contributing as much at the moment, but this is my favourite thing he did for us this year because it made me laugh a lot....

HomeNews Outpath: First Journey is a free demo that’s like Forager in first-personMixing clicking and crafting Mixing clicking and crafting Last week, developer David Moralejo Sánchez releasedOutpath: First Journey, a free “prologue chapter” for a first-person mix of clicker and crafting due in 2023. As of right now, it has an “overwhelmingly positive” rating on Steam and over 700 reviews.Watch on YouTubeIn Minecraft, you punch trees, gather resources, and gradually kit yourself out until you’re able to survive the night and build your grand creative vision....