HomeNews Valve are taking no risks on the Steam Deck and stick driftFewer reasons to hit the Deck Fewer reasons to hit the Deck Controller stick drift has been big news for the past several years, leading to lawsuits against manufacturers. It’s a persistent issue on Nintendo Switch’s Joy Con’s - my own Switch suffers from it. In ashort post on IGN today, Valve said they didn’t want to take any risks with stick drift for their just-announcedSteam Deck....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends' next character Seer is cursed with a deadly gazeIf looks could kill, get a bigger hat If looks could kill, get a bigger hat Who doesn’t love a bold fashion choice with a tragic backstory? Respawn have introduced the origin story for their newestApex Legendscharacter, Seer in a new animated teaser. He’s cursed with eyes that can destroy people who look into them. Thus the flash hat, you see....

HomeNewsFall Guys Fall Guys season 5 brings squad modes and jungle themed levels tomorrowJungle stumbles are up next this season Jungle stumbles are up next this season I imagine it would have been tougher for sir Indy Jones to have made it through the Temple Of Doom if he’d been a stumbly, bouncy little guy. That’s the fate thatFall Guysseason 5 is dooming you to as of tomorrow. The new season theme is a jungle adventure with slippery and bouncy new jungle obstacles....

HomeFeatures Final Fantasy X and its infamous laughing scene are 20 years old todayCelebrating two whole decades of HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA Celebrating two whole decades of HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA If you can believe it,Final Fantasy Xwas released 20 years ago today in Japan. When I think of games 20 years ago, I still think we’re talking about the 16-bit, maybe early 3D era of our beloved pasttime - yerFinal FantasyVIIs and VIIIs, perhaps....

HomeNewsFinal Fantasy IV Running laps around your enemies Final Fantasy IVturns 30 today and to celebrate, Square Enix sat game designer Takashi Tokita down to talk about memories from development. It was the firstFinal Fantasygame he was involved with from the very beginning, he explains, so he’s able to share some neat details on how the game’s design evolved. He chats about character designs, romance plots, and the unlikely inspiration for the first ATB battle system that somehow came from watching F1 races....

HomeNews Skate won’t be at EA Play LiveBut a “little something” will be revealed today But a “little something” will be revealed today Electronic Arts' NotE3 stream, EA Play Live, takes place this Thursday, and at this point it seems they’ve announced more of what they’re not showing than what they will be showing.No BioWare,no Star Wars, and now no Skate. I can’t believe they’d do this. Fine, take the magic swords and spaceships, but the skateboards?...

HomeNews Watch the new Tom Clancy game reveal here todayUnfortunately, I don’t think it’s new Splinter Cell Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s new Splinter Cell Today, Ubisoft will announce a new game in the “Tom Clancy’s” universe, but don’t get your hopes up for a newSplinter Celljust yet. While Ubisoft themselves haven’t said much about what they’re revealing, a few snippets of gameplay have already been released, and it sure looks like Call Of Duty: The Division....

HomeNewsDice Wars KDice is multiplayer Dice Wars, and as moreish as the originalA simple browser strategy game that’s like Risk A simple browser strategy game that’s like Risk I don’t know where the best place to play it anymore is, now that the Flash version won’t work in browsers, but you could do worsethan giving KDice a try. It’sDice Warsbut with online multiplayer. I’ve played dozens and dozens of hours of Dice Wars against the AI, and only a couple of hours of KDice against real people....

HomeNews Ubisoft sued in French court for “institutional harassment"French workers union brings complaint against the videogame giant French workers union brings complaint against the videogame giant In astatement released on Twitter(and in a translationprovided to Kotaku), Solidaires Informatique wrote that the “complaint targets Ubisoft as a legal entity for institutional sexual harassment for setting up, maintaining and reinforcing a system where sexual harassment is tolerated because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees....

HomeNewsWar Thunder War Thunder player posts classified document to prove tank is inaccuratePeople take angry houses very seriously People take angry houses very seriously A player of free-to-play vehicular combat gameWar Thunderhas claimed that the game’s representation of the British Challenger 2 tank is inaccurate. This is an everyday occurence for the messageboard of any videogame striving for realism. What sets this apart is that the player claimed to be a Challenger 2 commander and proceeded to post classified documents to prove they were right....

HomeNewsWarframe Warframe’s The New War expansion gets 30-minute trailer at TennoconPlus crossplay and cross saves are on the way Plus crossplay and cross saves are on the way Warframefan event Tennocon has just come to an end. It culminated in a 30-minute gameplay video for The New War, Warframe’s next major expansion, which you can watch below.The VOD of the trailer isn’t live yet, but you can watch it as part of the full archive stream below....

HomeHardwareNews 8 things I want to do with the Steam DeckIt has all the right holes for VR! It has all the right holes for VR! Like most of RPS, I’ve spent the day picking up random rectangular things and trying to pretend they’re aSteam Deck. That’s how I ruined my partner’s jigsaw puzzle. I think… Yes, I think I want one. Steam has stealthily been positioning itself as a good portable OS right under our noses, all it needed was the correct form factor....

HomeHardwareNews AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution added to Unity and Unreal enginesResident Evil Village has it now, too Resident Evil Village has it now, too AMD have declared that their performance boosting upscale tech, FidelityFX Super Resolution (or FSR for short) is here for everyone. They’ve released it on GPUOpen, anddeclared: “You can get access to the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution source code for free under the open source MIT License!”...