HomeFeaturesInkbound The Monster Train devs' new roguelike has the snappiest turn-based combat I’ve seenInkbound has impressive freedom of movement Inkbound has impressive freedom of movement Earlier this year I watched a very short presentation ofInkbound, an upcoming turn-based roguelike from Shiny Shoe, the devs behind deckbuilderMonster Train. Ithought it had potential, but it’s difficult to determine just how much potential something has when all you’ve got to go on is footage they’d prepared earlier, like a cottage pie from a Sunday Brunch oven....

HomeFeaturesReturn to Monkey Island The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 14thYou can sometimes go back You can sometimes go back Two weeks are down on the RPS Advent Calendar this year, and you’ve started to feel the call to adventure again. You thought that you’d rolled up your treasure map for good, and swabbed your last deck, but it seems like the wind is here to fill your sales once more…...

HomeHardwareFeatures The Witcher 3 next-gen update tested: worse performance, even without ray tracingUpdate: Hotfix deployed, no longer a downgrade Update: Hotfix deployed, no longer a downgrade Update:CDPR have released a PC hotfix thatreturns non-ray traced performance to its previous levels, with RT performance getting a boost as well. Hooray! Though it’s still quite stuttery and it appears AMD FSR is causing crashes. Less hooray! The original article, based on test results taken before the hotfix, continues below:...

HomeNews The Witcher 3’s next-gen update is borked, so here’s how to roll it backGo back to Witcher 3 “Classic” with its final PC patch 1.32 Go back to Witcher 3 “Classic” with its final PC patch 1.32 Today is the dayThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s much touted free next-gen update arrives on PC and consoles, but it’s not been going so well for a lot of us folk on PC....

HomeFeatures What’s better: becoming overpowered, or a chunky manual?Vote now! Vote now! Becoming overpowered I’m always pleased when a game lets me become overpowered. I’ve figured out a weird niche combination of skills or items, and my reward is to run rampant. Or I’ve nailed the perfect party composition. Or I’ve turned my brain off and grinded power for a few hours while listening to podcasts. Or I’ve found a super-rare item which is just plain daft....

HomeFeaturesHyper Demon Why Hyper Demon’s devs suggest you slow down to speed upToo fast = too furious Too fast = too furious Devil Daggerswas fantastic,Hyper Demonis better. The sequel to Sorath’s exquisite wave survivalFPSflips a slow-building, protracted struggle into a hyperdense spurt of action that escalates in lockstep with your abilities, thanks to enemies that spawn the moment you’ve dispatched their chums and a score that ticks down with every second you spend not actively murdering....

HomeNewsChop Goblins Chop Goblins releases retro FPS three weeks early, blames it on catOr on boredom Or on boredom Games get delayed so often that it’s always a pleasure when a release date is instead moved earlier.Chop Goblinsmaybe takes it to an extra extreme. The 30-minute retro shooter from the developer of Dusk was due for release on January 2nd, but it’s out now after being released several weeks earlier. “I was bored,” explained the developer on Twitter....

HomeNewsHypnospace Outlaw It is time to listen to Christmas Pain In Christmas TownA favourite Christmas song from Hypnospace Outlaw A favourite Christmas song from Hypnospace Outlaw The Chowder Man - Christmas Pain in Christmas Town (feat. Dave Pino)Watch on YouTube The Chowder Man - Christmas Pain in Christmas Town (feat. Dave Pino) This is what I crave in Christmas music, musical maximalism and a raw blast of emotions. Look, The Chowder Man isn’t a poet but his feelings are real....

HomeHardwareDeals The excellent SN770 SSD is going cheap at the WD UK store1TB for £75 or 2TB for £140, a good deal for a PCIe 4.0 drive. 1TB for £75 or 2TB for £140, a good deal for a PCIe 4.0 drive. The WD Black SN770 is a rather lovely PCIe 4.0 SSD, offering sequential speeds up to 5150MB/s at a surprisingly low price. The drive was dubbed ‘just short of SSD greatness’ on its debut earlier this year, but price drops have brought it increasingly into contention....

HomeHardwareDeals $101 for a 2TB SATA SSD is kind of wildAnd it’s TeamGroup’s Vulcan Z model, a TLC drive. And it’s TeamGroup’s Vulcan Z model, a TLC drive. Teamgroup’s T-Force Vulcan Z SSD isn’t the most well-known drive, but it offers some pretty solid value for money - especially when the capacious 2TB model is reduced to a shade over $100 at Amazon US. That’s a nice $69 reduction from its MSRP and an excellent value for a drive of this size and spec....

HomeHardwareReviews AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX review: rise of the redsAMD strike back against the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 with two cheaper, 4K-ready GPUs AMD strike back against the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 with two cheaper, 4K-ready GPUs TheAMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTXhark back to a simpler time – about three months ago – whengraphics cardsresembled graphics cards and not Coca-Cola lorries....

HomeDeals AMD’s powerful Ryzen 5700X CPU is down to $190 at EbayThe 5800X’s little brother is a better value. The 5800X’s little brother is a better value. Another week, another great AMD CPU deal on American Ebay. This time it’s on the Ryzen 7 5700X, a powerful eight-core 16-thread processor with the same basic design of the 5800X - at a significantly lower price. This model debuted at $300, but is now available for just $190 when you buy it from Antonline on Ebay....

HomeNews Fortnite’s “highly addictive” nature being challenged in courtThree families are seeking damages from Epic Games Three families are seeking damages from Epic Games A class-action lawsuit against Epic Games’Fortniteis going ahead in Quebec, more than three years after it was originally filed.CTV Newsreport that parents of three Canadian children who regularly play Fortnite claim the game was created to be “highly addictive”, and allege the battle royale has caused their kids psychological and physical problems, along with financial issues....