HomeNewsGalactic Civilizations IV Galactic Civilizations 4 expands out of early access on Epic Games Store todayStar Sectors link maps into bigger than ever areas of explorable space Star Sectors link maps into bigger than ever areas of explorable space Galactic Civilizations IV - Release TrailerWatch on YouTube Galactic Civilizations IV - Release Trailer Galactic Civilizations 4was announced just shy of a year ago, with a fairly lengthy early access period typical for Stardock games, which involved monthly updates....

HomeNewsWordle Moviedle is a Wordle-like that condenses a movie down to a single secondGet it wrong? Two seconds. Get it wrong? Two seconds. I continue to playFramed every day, a browser quiz in which you attempt to guess a movie based on an image from the film. Get it wrong and it shows you another image, and so on. The terribly named Moviedle does something different. The aim, again, is to identify a movie, but instead of a single frame, it squeezes the entire movie into a single second....

HomeFeaturesWarstride Challenges Warstride Challenges is an ultra fast FPS with a rally racing spiritTake this in your stride Take this in your stride Warstride Challengesis an early access FPS that takes the retro shoot ‘em up and straps it in a rally car. Each level is a course with straights and corners and demons. You must cross the finish line as fast as you possibly can, but the chequered flag only springs up if you’ve turned every demon along the way into a red paste....

HomeReviewsDune: Spice Wars Dune: Spice Wars early access review: a compact 4X that falters in the middleI have already used the pun ‘Atreides Nuts’ and will not do so again I have already used the pun ‘Atreides Nuts’ and will not do so again Right, housekeeping first.Dune: Spice Wars’ Steam page describes it as a “real-time strategy game with 4X elements”. An odd choice, considering Shiro Games themselves downplay RTS elements in a Steam blog....

HomeNewsHalf-Life Half-Life’s tram intro using the TikTok voice is distressingBut this great/horrible joke mod… kinda works? But this great/horrible joke mod… kinda works? Part of the modern soundscape is a sing-song synthetic voice telling us about everything from slime recipes and teenage drama to unionisation procedures and scissor-wielding ‘fashion hacks’ that surely are covert fetish videos. It is TikTok’s text-to-speech voice, and it is everywhere. Now it’s even inHalf-Life, thanks to a mod which replaces the opening tram ride voiceover with a TikTok TTS version....

HomeHardwareReviews Lenovo Legion 5 review: all-AMD gaming laptop keeps it simpleA minimalist notebook with decent gaming power A minimalist notebook with decent gaming power Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Not to damn with faint praise, but the Lenovo Legion 5 is kinda okay. A bit alright. Reasonably reasonable. It’s a gaming laptop with specs, price and performance that are so straight down the middle of the road that they might as well be studded with cat’s eyes....

HomeFeaturesMidnight Ghost Hunt Midnight Ghost Hunt’s prop hunting can be hard - but haunting is a hootFour RPS pals test whether ghost busting makes them feel good, but turns out you’re better off dead Four RPS pals test whether ghost busting makes them feel good, but turns out you’re better off dead Midnight Ghost Huntis the latest in a steadily lengthening line of Prop Hunt-inspired party games. There are two teams: the Ghosts, and the Hunters....

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: bodysurfing, doorkicking, and a spooky ghostReturning to look at more indie games Returning to look at more indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Bodysurfing ultraviolence in this yet-untitled action game looks downright ridiculous, though I’m also interested in the garish skybox with a mishmash of branding and roads like a megacity-sized strip mall:...

HomeHardwareDeals This rapid SK Hynix Gold 1TB NVMe SSD is $92.58 - a historic low priceNearly $20 off a great value NVMe SSD rated up to 3500MB/s. Nearly $20 off a great value NVMe SSD rated up to 3500MB/s. SK Hynix aren’t a company that most folks have heard of, but this Korean firm produces a sizeable percentage of the world’s flash memory and DRAM chips alongside the likes of Samsung, Kioxia and WD....

HomeNewsTwo Point Campus Turn your head into a pumpkin with Two Point Campus’ wizardry courseStrap on your pointiest hats in August Strap on your pointiest hats in August Who doesn’t want to go to wizard school? In fairness a few people, probably, and they’d best steer clear of Sega and Two Point Studios’Two Point Campuswhen it launches later this year, because there’s going to be a canny few wizards kicking about being all magical....

HomeNewsProject Q Ubisoft have announced Project Q because it was leaked so many timesIt looks like a certain battle royale, but they really don’t want you to think that It looks like a certain battle royale, but they really don’t want you to think that Ubisoft playfully confirmed over the weekend that they’re working on a much-leaked MOBA dubbed ‘Project Q’ ,tweeting“So, we heard you heard…” The game, which Ubisoftinsist isn’t a battle royaledespite its strong resemblance to other battle royales thatshall remain nameless, is still early in development....

HomeFeaturesMcPixel 3 RPS@PAX 2022: McPixel 3 is back and just as daft as ever"We don’t talk about McPixel 2," says dev “We don’t talk about McPixel 2,” says dev The firstMcPixelwas one of those point and click adventures that was just so wholesomely silly that it won you over with its mix of daft humour and bonkers, quickfire ‘save the day’ scenarios. Now, everyone’s favourite bomb disposal expert is back inMcPixel 3(solo developer Sos Sosowski prefers we never mention the likes of McPixel 2), which we got to see in action over at the Devolver booth atPAX East2022....

HomeHardwareFeatures RPS@PAX 2022: The evolution of PC hardware moddingWe chat with panel moderator Isaïe “Trouffman” Simonnet about the past, present and future of the hardware modding community We chat with panel moderator Isaïe “Trouffman” Simonnet about the past, present and future of the hardware modding community As some of you may remember, the first major innovation in PC modding was the use of colour, with hardware manufacturers such as DFI blazing a trial with bright green and yellow motherboards and I/O ports to try and bring some flare to the back of our sealed PC cases back then....