HomeNews Say hello to our new news reporter, CJ WheelerWelcome news Welcome news After months of searching, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finally found our new news reporter. Please say hello and welcome to CJ Wheeler, the latest addition to the RPS hivemind. CJ joins us as a relatively fresh face in the world of video game journalism, but he’s been writing for a bunch of different publications for absolutely yonks....

HomeHardwareReviews Playdate review: a handheld indie curio that goes hand in hand with the spirit of PCCrank up the feel good Crank up the feel good On paper, Panic’s Playdate doesn’t have a lot to do with PC. It’s a standalone handheld console that fits into the palm of your hand (yes, even palms as small as mine), and is controlled via a d-pad, two face buttons and its unique, standout feature, the crank....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls Online Elder Scrolls Online is free to play and heavily discounted until April 26thAhead of the next expansion Ahead of the next expansion It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda’s take on a Tamriel you can play with pals. If you’veneverchecked in on it, now is a good time: the base game and its Morrowind DLC are currently available to play for free until April 26th....

HomeNewsDeath Stranding They remain independent, he says Earlier this week, thePlayStation Studios websitewas updated so that the banner image included an picture of Sam Bridges fromDeath Stranding. Yesterday, Death Stranding designer and Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima tweeted a picture said banner. People then got excited, thinking this wordless tweet meant that Sony had acquired Kojima Productions. It caused enough of a fuss that Kojima did a follow-up tweet saying, hey, sorry, that hasn’t happened....

HomeNewsNo More Heroes III No More Heroes 3 will slash onto PC later this yearTravis touches down Travis touches down No More Heores 3 is headed to PC. The excessive, rude ‘tude hack-and-slash from Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture released on Nintendo Switch last year, and now publishers XSEED say it’ll splash onto our favoured platform this autumn. That’s more or less all they say, sharing the news viaa tweet: Our favorite otaku assassin returns!...

HomeFeatures DreadXP are giving devs the creative freedom to make weird, surprising, lovely horror gamesFrom game jams to indie horror publishing powerhouse From game jams to indie horror publishing powerhouse It’s strange now to think that, until May 2020, there were no Dread X games. Indie publishersDreadXPhave become so synonymous with tightly curated, intriguing horror experiences that it’s hard to believe the original demo anthology that kickstarted that reputation is only approaching its second anniversary....

HomeFeaturesCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 becomes real cyberpunk at its vertical limitsThe high life The high life Early on in my playthrough of CD Projekt Red’s 7/10 NFT screensaverCyberpunk 2077, I realised you could climb washing lines. I’m a real sucker for verticality, so normally I’d be immediately trying to see how high I could get, but after tentatively scaling a few floors I decided to give the urgent main quest the benefit of the doubt....

HomeFeaturesWarhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters Hands on with Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters: promising, but XCOM cowards bewareChance to miss Chance to miss I’ve played a curated, two hour slice ofWarhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters, and I’m keen to play more. As speedy as my sword boy felt in those moments, though, at other times I felt compelled to move forward at a crawl. When I asked creative director Noah Decter-Jackson whether I was just being too cowardly, he hedged his bets....

HomeNewsHardspace: Shipbreaker Hardspace: Shipbreaker launches out of early access and onto Game Pass in MayTake spaceships to pieces for fun and profit Take spaceships to pieces for fun and profit The excellent ship-dissecting salvage gameHardspace: Shipbreakerwill hit version 1.0 and launch out of early access on the 24th of May, the makers announced today. And oooh it’ll come to Game Pass the same day. It has been a cracking game even in early access, a satisfying first-person simulation of carefully cutting up junk spaceships with industrial lasers for maximum profit and minimum workplace injury....

HomeHardwareGuides How to install Proton GE on the Steam DeckFix those missing audio and cutscene problems, maybe Fix those missing audio and cutscene problems, maybe Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Proton, the compatibility software Valve uses to help Windows games work on the Linux-basedSteam Deck, is quite the achievement. There are thousands of games originally built without Linux/Steam Deck functionality in mind, but can work more or less flawlessly after passing through the Proton layer....

HomeNews QuakeCon will again be online-only in 2022QuakeConline QuakeConline “Like you, we’re disappointed to not return to Dallas this year,” says the statementshared on Twitter. “An event of this size requires months of planning, and in this case, we had to make decisions when there was still too much uncertainty to commit to successfully executing an in-person QuakeCon.” Quake - Official Trailer (2021)Watch on YouTube Quake - Official Trailer (2021)...

HomeNewsDark Souls The official Dark Souls pen & paper RPG sounds a bit sloppyOne class doesn’t have the stats to wear its own starting armour One class doesn’t have the stats to wear its own starting armour Image credit:Bandai Namco Image credit:Bandai Namco New Trailer! DARK SOULS™: The Roleplaying GameWatch on YouTube New Trailer! DARK SOULS™: The Roleplaying Game Our corporate siblingsDicebreakergathered a load of complaints from players and ah, it’s a bit silly....

HomeDeals This Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is £1049 - right at the UK RRPElsewhere, an RTX 3080 hits £810. Elsewhere, an RTX 3080 hits £810. Image credit:KFA2 Image credit:KFA2 The downwards march in graphics card prices continues - oh, how I’ve longed to write those words! After posting a deal that had the Nvidia Founders Edition RTX 3080 Tiat its UK RRP of £1049 last week, third-party cards are now reaching the same levels....