HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: forever in the DeathloopRotting away in the great Blackreef Rotting away in the great Blackreef After getting a taste last week, both myself and Matthew have spent the last few days in Blackreef. We’ve been enjoying doing the same things over and over. Yeah,Deathloopis pretty good. Before we chat about our looping adventures in Arkane’s FPS, we discuss the recently leaked Nvidia GeForce Now list. You’re not going to win any prizes for guessing that some of these games will come to PC, but the prospect of others is a little bit more exciting....

HomeNews You can once again check whether your PC will run Windows 11The PC Health Check app is back for all The PC Health Check app is back for all Microsoft have put their PC Health Check app back online. The simple tool is designed to tell you whether Windows 11 is compatible with your computer, but it was pulled offline back in June when it kept telling people with modern PCs that they couldn’t run the new operating system, with little information as to why not....

HomeNewsStar Wars Rumour: Quantic Dream are making a Star Wars gameFlashy, famous actors, always falls to pieces? Not a bad fit! Flashy, famous actors, always falls to pieces? Not a bad fit! 10 Best Star Wars Games You Can Play On PC Right NowWatch on YouTube 10 Best Star Wars Games You Can Play On PC Right Now French YouTuberGautozfirst reported Quantic Wars rumours on Friday, then DualShockers reported they’d heard that too....

HomeFeatures The Nvidia RTX 30 series, one year on: should you upgrade?RTX off until further notice RTX off until further notice Even if they don’t recall the exact date, plenty of gaming PC owners will remember what they were doing on September 17th 2020. They, and I, were staring at a black-and-green storefront, mashing F5 until a “Notify me” button changed to read “Out of stock”. This was theNvidia GeForce RTX 3080launch, and what initially looked like a one-off failure of Nvidia’s anti-bot measures ended up heralding the worst year in memory to upgrade a graphics card....

HomeNewsDota 2 Valve are removing 32-bit support from Dota 232-bit was old even when the game launched a decade ago 32-bit was old even when the game launched a decade ago Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve If you have an ancient PC, you may soon be ejected from Valve’s wonderful world of warwizards. They have announced plans to stripDota 2of “support for some older systems and configurations”, including 32-bit operating systems, saying it’s so they can “keep the game and the Source 2 engine fresh”....

HomeNews We’ll need new imperial units for the digital ageIt takes 1/3 royale (or 1/2 Apex) to reheat a cuppa in the microwave It takes 1/3 royale (or 1/2 Apex) to reheat a cuppa in the microwave To distract from the ongoing dire consequences of leaving the European Union with all the grace and finesse of a child uninviting someone from their seventh birthday party, the UK government plan torevive imperial units....

HomeNews Dicey spaceship crisis sim Tharsis is the latest Epic Games Store freebieAlongside 2D clock-puncher Speed Brawl Alongside 2D clock-puncher Speed Brawl The central dilemma at the heart of Tharsis is what your crew should be doing in any given moment. Should you send someone to fix the life-support system, or the food module? The decision is yours, but the outcome relies on the roll of a dice. Tharsis TrailerWatch on YouTube...

HomeNewsDestroy All Humans 2: Reprobed Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed is in developmentFrom the same devs as 2020’s DAH1 remake From the same devs as 2020’s DAH1 remake Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobedhas been announced. It’s a ground-up remake of the 2006 third-person action game in which you go on a globe-trotting adventure to, uh, destroy all humans. Reprobed follows last year’s remake of the first Destroy All Humans, and comes from the same developer, Black Forest Games....

HomeFeaturesWebbed Sling for joy Scout Reportis an irregular series of indie game recommendations from Sin Vega, offered first to RPS supporters. Today it’sWebbed, a joyful little 2D platformer about a spider. PlayingWebbedseemed inevitable for someone who watches her ceiling spiders when she can’t sleep or finish an article. But within about a minute of playing, it became clear that it’s the kind of game that will bring joy to almost anyone....

HomeNews Hello, the 90s are calling and they’d like to offer you sequels to games you’ve probably forgotten about.Outcast 2: A New Beginningis the newly announced follow-up to 1999’sOutcast. It’s an open-world third-person shooter that takes place right after the events of the original, where Cutter Slade (the best-named man in the world) has been stuck in time for 20 years after trying to get home to Earth from the alien planet Adelpha....

HomeHardwareNews Steam Deck dev kit screenshots show a likely Big Picture replacement, SteamOS 3 allegedly leaksSomeone might be losing their dev kit privileges Someone might be losing their dev kit privileges Image credit:Pavel Djundik Image credit:Pavel Djundik Whelp, that didn’t take long.Steam Deckdev kits were only sent out to game developersthis week, and it looks like Valve’s handheld PC is already getting picked apart. That’s according toSteamDBcreator Pavel Djundik, whotweeted screenshotsof the Steam Deck UI before claiming the entire SteamOS 3 operating system has been leaked....

HomePodcasts Ultimate Audio Bang podcast: what makes a good online shooter?Weighty weapons and audible footsteps Weighty weapons and audible footsteps And for this week’s theme, we consider the things that make up a good online shooter? Cue a solid chat about weighty guns and the sounds of footsteps. And also a bit more Deathloop chat. We’re actually both pretty passionate about the sound of footsteps in games, particularly if they’re varied....

HomeNewsWuchang: Fallen Feathers Wuchang: Fallen Feathers looks like a Chinese take on BloodborneComplete with gut-ripping counterattacks Complete with gut-ripping counterattacks Following fawning over the Monkey King violence ofBlack Myth: Wukong, the latest upcoming Chinese game to turn heads with Souls-inspired action and shiny graphics might beWuchang: Fallen Feathers. A new gameplay trailer released today gives a long look at a sexy babe fighting against plague-mutated people using her melee weapons, firearms, and gut-gouging counters....