HomeFeatures 2022 has been a fantastic year for mystery gamesI love a good sleuthing I love a good sleuthing It’s getting to the time in winter when we reflect on the year, and pick our Bestest Best games that we’ve played over the past twelve months (okay eleven months, but December is always kinda quiet). We recently had this chat in the RPS hive-mind, and going through each month and making note of my favourite releases completely shocked me with how many fantastic mystery games have come out this year....

HomeNewsGenshin Impact Genshin Impact Version 3.3 will deal out a trading card gameBut Scaramouche, will he do the fandango But Scaramouche, will he do the fandango With the possible exception of Gwent, mini-games inside open world RPGs tend to suck. They’re often poor imitations of much deeper and exciting board and card games you can play in the real world, offered as an unwanted break from the monsters I’ve come to stick a sword through....

HomeFeaturesNidhogg Have You Played… Nidhogg?Nothing beats the Truffle Hog Shuffle Nothing beats the Truffle Hog Shuffle Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.PlayingNidhoggis like playing a dozen frantic games of rock-paper-scissors back to back. Like all the best couch co-op games, it’s very easy to get to grips with the controls: you have a sword, and you can raise it or lower it across three different heights to try and get around your opponent’s guard....

HomeHardwareDeals Intel’s brand-new 13th Gen gaming CPUs are already up to £51 off on Black FridayDeals across the Raptor Lake range, but only in the UK Deals across the Raptor Lake range, but only in the UK Black Fridaygenerally doesn’t involve as many CPU deals as it does, say,SSD dealsorgaming keyboard deals– probably because there just aren’t that many CPUs. Nevertheless, a few choice discounts have emerged for an unlikely group of chips: Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors....

HomeNews Live: Black Friday’s best PC gaming dealsJoin us for rolling updates on the day’s best bargains on SSDs, keyboards and moreLive Join us for rolling updates on the day’s best bargains on SSDs, keyboards and more Black Friday: The Actual Day Itself has begun, which means this is perhaps your best chance of picking up the SSD, keyboard, GPU, or monitor you’ve wanted on the cheap. Please enable JavaScript to see our live coverage of this event....

HomeNewsDiplomacy Meta’s new AI can beat human players at DiplomacyIt never “intentionally” lies It never “intentionally” lies Here’s an exciting ‘AI can do that now’ moment: Meta’s latest AI, Cicero, can beat human players at classic negotiation and betrayal game Diplomacy. While playing online atwebDiplomacy.net, it’s achieved “more than double the average score of human players”, ranking “in the top 10 percent of participants who played more than one game”. It can figure out who needs persuading to do what, then engage with those players using impressive and effective natural language....

HomeNewsYakuza Now we know why Yakuza games are obsessed with karaokeGo! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! The magic ofYakuzagames (now known as Like A Dragon, technically but hey) lies in the dramatic ascents up the Millenium Tower to prevent surprisingly muscular 60-year-old men from detonating Kamurocho. The rain falls. The lads rip their suits off. Then they settle things with their fists, because to do anything otherwise would be silly....

HomeNewsNo More Heroes Suda51 cans rumour he’s working on an Alien game without saying a word“?????“ “?????“ No More Heroes 3 - Launch Trailer (PlayStation/Xbox/PC)Grasshopper Manufacture are best known for their work on No More Heroes and its sequels.Watch on YouTube No More Heroes 3 - Launch Trailer (PlayStation/Xbox/PC) The article and tweet about the rumoured Alien game have been taken down. No More Heroes 3hopped onto PC just last month, and it’s onSteamfor £45/$50/€50....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Friday 25 November 2022): Wordle word of the day #524 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 25 November 2022?I won’t lie to you: I had a bit of a panic when I looked at today’s date and realised it’s only one month until Christmas....

HomeHardwareDeals £449 off this MSI Katana GF66 looks like the best Black Friday gaming laptop deal of the dayAn RTX 3070 laptop for only £949 An RTX 3070 laptop for only £949 It’s still the frigid morning ofBlack Friday 2022, but there might already be a superlative gaming laptop deal up for grabs. Here in the UK, Ebuyer has an RTX 3070-equipped version of the MSI Katana GF66 laptop down to just £950 – a saving of £449....

HomeDeals AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X is £125 off its launch RRP nowA tidy Black Friday discount on one of the fastest ever gaming CPUs. A tidy Black Friday discount on one of the fastest ever gaming CPUs. Image credit:Will Judd, Digital Foundry Image credit:Will Judd, Digital Foundry AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X is an awesome gaming processor that also kicks a lot of butt in content creation tasks, but a high asking price means that it’s out of reach of many....

HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Best Warzone 2 RPK loadout: The best RPK class setup and attachmentsTear through squads with the best Warzone 2.0 RPK loadout Tear through squads with the best Warzone 2.0 RPK loadout As it turns out, players are discovering that the RPK has the rather unique ability to turn itself into something more like an Assault Rifle - but with the stopping power and range of an LMG....

HomeHardwareDeals Black Friday sales have slashed the RTX 3080 GPU back down to £700 / $700Half the price of some RTX 4080 models, and still great for 4K Half the price of some RTX 4080 models, and still great for 4K Two years on and I’d more or less forgotten what a fairly pricedRTX 3080looked like. Yet on the eve ofBlack Friday 2022, a couple of early deals have presented that most elusive of sights: Nvidia’sbest graphics card for 4K, down to a perfectly reasonable £700 / $700....