HomeNews The Witcher 3’s Gwent is spawning another singleplayer standalone gameAnd that’s about all we know And that’s about all we know A new standalone singleplayer game ofGwentis coming this year, telling a new tale with the card game spun off from The Witcher 3. It’s codenamed Project Golden Nekker and… that’s about all we know for know. It’s not another ‘Witcher Tales’ like the previous singleplayer Gwent game, likeThronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and it is confirmed to have at least two (2) monsters....

HomeNews Blizzard’s survival game has already been in development for nearly five yearsGames take a long time Games take a long time This past week Blizzard announceda survival game set in an all-new universe. There were almost no other details about it and it was described as being at an “early stage”, but it seems the studio have been working on it for close to five years already. Once upon a time this dream project was humble pitch deck on my desktop....

HomeNews Watch four billion years of humanity in a pixel shaderA long way from making armour shiny A long way from making armour shiny Me, in 2000: ah, so shaders can make textures inQuake3 look glowy or wibbly. Me, in 2016: oh, okay, so shaders can also be used to createshoals of fish in Abzu. Me, right now: wait, so shaders canalsobe used to tell the story of a planet over four and a half billions years, from a lump of molten rock to the formation of mountains, rivers, and human cities....

HomeFeatures An open letter to cute NPC companionsGod Of War and Kena: Bridge Of Spirits have taught me valuable lessons about the art of a good action pal God Of War and Kena: Bridge Of Spirits have taught me valuable lessons about the art of a good action pal Through an entirely unplanned sequence of events, I’m currently playing two big action adventure games that couldn’t be less alike. One isGod Of War, a big, serious dadventure epic about an emotionally distant father trying his darnedest to connect with his (at times very irritating) son....

HomeGuidesApex Legends Apex Legends Season 12 release time: when will Apex Legends Season 12 release?Discover the Apex Legends Season 12 release time Discover the Apex Legends Season 12 release time Want to know the Apex Legends Season 12 release time?Mad Maggie’s dropping into the Apex games, which meansApex LegendsSeason 12 is almost here. If you’re eager to paint the town red and cause carnage withMaggie’s wrecking ball ultimate ability, you’ll want to know the exact release time for Apex Legends Season 12....

HomeNews Death Stranding Director’s Cut will be a $10 upgrade if you own the originalAs hoped As hoped WhenDeath Stranding’s PC pubishers announced in January that the expandedDeath Stranding Director’s Cutwas indeed coming belatedly to PC, they neglected to mention whether they’d offer a cheaper upgrade. Seeing as the newness is very much not worth buying the game again, it was a weird omission. But, now they say they’ll offer a £9/$10 upgrade from the base game, and announced a release date of the 30th of March....

HomeNewsGrapple Dog Grapple Dog, the cute grapple hook platformer about a dog, launches Feb 10thEverything I need Everything I need Grapple Dogis one of those games I’ve been watching on Twitter for years. It’s a 2D platformer in which you play as a dog with a grappling hook. Grappling hooks are the best thing in video games, and I am fully ready to swing through a colourful, cute platformer. To my infinite delight, Grapple Dog now has a release date: February 10th....

HomeFeatures RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2010We list our favourite games from 2010, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else We list our favourite games from 2010, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else Here are the rules: these Time Capsules are not intended to be a definitive list of best games from any given year. The games we pick are all personal favourites, but the key thing is that they’re all games we’d recommend people play today - and it’s this specific version of it they should play, too....

HomeNews Steam Lunar New Year Sale is now on, with discounts galore againAnd free chat stickers! And free chat stickers! Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale started last night, a huge sidewide discount-o-rama with tens of thousands of games and things going cheap. If you forgot to buy something in Steam’s last huge sidewide discount-o-rama a whole three weeks ago, or have received a new paycheque since then, hey! It’s a big sale!...

HomeFeatures TFI Friday: three new indie games to complement the experience of having lived one year twiceComing out of lockdown and I’ve been doing just fine Coming out of lockdown and I’ve been doing just fine Happy New Year! Somehow we went straight from January 2020 to January 2022. That’s weird. Huh. Well, I’m officially giving us a do-over. I think we’ve earned it. The games I’ve collected this week for the first TFI Friday of the year are going to ease us gently out of the time loop that we’ve been stuck in the last umpteen months....

HomeGuidesYu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel structure decks: which is the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?Discover the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Discover the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Want to know which is the best structure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel?Getting started withYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelcan feel a little daunting at first, with so many mechanics and cards available to players. Luckily the game is very welcoming to newcomers, and alongside the initialstarter decksoffered when logging in for the first time, the game also offers you a number of pre-made structure decks that allow anyone to jump right into dueling before they have to build decks of their own....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends' new character Mad Maggie has a giant wrecking ball for an ultimate abilityShe came in like a… She came in like a… Until recently, Mad Maggie’s main claim to fame inApex Legendswas that she had a surprisingly spry 80-year-old mum, and loved to tell people about it. Now we know she’ll be emerging from the backstory and joining the playable Legend roster with Season 12 (Defiance), and a new trailer gives us our first look at her rather destructive set of abilities....

HomeReviewsDeflector Deflector review (early access): a chaotic roguelike with boomerangs and bugsWhat you give, you get back What you give, you get back Deflector review (early access)Deflector is a pretty hectic early access action game that’s got its risk to reward ratio a bit off balance. It’s also pretty buggy right now.Developer:Arrowfist GamesPublisher:Super.comRelease:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamPrice:£TBC/€TBC/$15Boomerangs are cool as hell. The sleek wooden objects careen through the air in a perfect circle - in theory, at least - before returning right back to where they began in the palm of your hand....