HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch’s new map arrives today, complete with cat café and lotsa loreThe lore is weirdly detailed too The lore is weirdly detailed too Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Kanezaka is a pretty new deathmatch map set near the fictional Japanese town of Hanamura. In the developer update above, you can spy some images of the Shimada castle (which you fight in onOverwatch’s Hanamura assault map) just peeking out over its walls....

HomeNews Please let Indy in the new Indiana Jones game be a clumsy doofusWho says RPS doesn’t cover Indy games anymore Who says RPS doesn’t cover Indy games anymore Earlier today publisher Bethesda Softowrks announced that MachineGames, the developers of the recent Wolfenstein games, were working ona new Indiana Jones game. There’s not much more known about the game other than that it is quite a ways off, and so I am here to beg the developers now: please let Indy fall down a lot....

HomeHardwareNews Razer have just unveiled the world’s maddest gaming chairIt has a fold-out screen and everything. It has a fold-out screen and everything. Razer have told me it’s likely still a few years away from completion at the moment, but the idea behind Project Brooklyn was to create a fully-fledged entertainment ‘powerhouse’ that wouldn’t look out of place in any part of your house. That’s because most of the time Project Brooklyn looks just like an ordinary gaming chair, not somecolossal rotating chair mega riglike Acer’s terrifying Thronos contraption....

HomeHardwareNews Razer’s Project Hazel face mask has big Metro 2033 energyWith added RGBs, natch. With added RGBs, natch. Back at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer began converting some of their manufacturing facilities to make face masks for frontline workers. So far, they’ve donated over a million face masks worldwide to hospitals, governments and other healthcare organisations, but now Razer are putting their own spin on this now vital part of our lives with their Project Hazel concept....

HomeNews Disney have rebranded the Lucasfilm video games division, this time sending the Star Wars lords back to a name from 1986: Lucasfilm Games. That’s the brand under which they developed games includingThe Secret Of Monkey IslandandLoom. This seemingly is only a rebranding, mind, and they’re not rebuilding the development studio. Because Disney run time on a loop, presumably they’ll rebrand to LucasArts in 2025, essentially close it down in 2048, then return to Lucasfilm Games in 2056....

HomePodcasts The Weekspot podcast: some early Hitman 3 impressionsIan’s been on holiday Ian’s been on holiday The tree is in the attic, there isn’t a scrap of chocolate left in the house, and those that took annual leave at the start of the year — the people we were all jealous of — are now back. 2021 is well and truly underway. Well, sort of. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeHardwareFeatures These are the RTX 30 gaming laptops to watch out for in 2021The most exciting laptops from Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Razer The most exciting laptops from Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Razer Nvidia have just announced theirRTX 30 GPUs are coming to laptops, and that can only mean one thing. We’re about to get inundated with dozens and dozens of newly refreshed gaming laptops, all with beefed up innards and even higher resolutions and refresh rate displays to make the most of Nvidia’s latest crop of mobile RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 chips....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant’s new teleporting wizard Yoru arrives todayAlong with the game’s next Act Along with the game’s next Act Riot Games are dropping a sneaky new character intoValorantlater tonight. His name is Yoru, and not only can he go invisible, but he can fake the sound of teammates' footsteps and teleport to get the drop on everyone. He sounds like a lot of fun to play, and a lot less fun to play against....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077’s flying mod lets you see Night City from a new perspectiveJust beware the headless V glitch Just beware the headless V glitch Cyberpunk 2077may not have any aerial vehicles, but thanks to mods, you don’t need them to get V airborne. A modder has created the Freefly mod, which allows players to take off into the air at the touch of a button. I had a go of it and it works pretty well....

HomeFeaturesHearthstone Hearthstone’s Uther Lightbringer: absolute ladHe put the “lad” in Paladin. He put the “lad” in Paladin. Every month as part of its Book Of Heroes business,Hearthstonereleases a short single-player adventure, telling the life story of one of the big characters off of Warcraft, via card-based boss battles. They’re lovely, and Ireally like them. The new Book Of Heroes just became available, and features everyone’s favourite mellifluous fantasy bigot, the paladin Uther Lightbringer....

HomeNewsHitman 3 Hitman 3 reveals all six of its locationsAgent 47’s travel itinerary incoming Agent 47’s travel itinerary incoming Hitman 3is nearly here to bring you more adventures in deadly dressup with Ian Hitman himself. Ah but what will you be dressing up as while you seek out your targets and stash their friends in closets? You might be able to take some guesses as Io Interactive have now revealed the remainder of the locations you’ll be visiting when the stealth adventure sneaks out later this month....

HomeNews Red Dead Online roleplayers wrangle a tricky cattle drive and one hallucinating heiferSassy Cow Winkle’s last ride Sassy Cow Winkle’s last ride Online game roleplay is a wonderful and curious exercise in creativity and adaptability, especially as the number of participants in an attempted scenario grows. Such was the case when the Wild West RP server forRed Dead Redemption 2got together a group of players to act out the sale and transfer of cattle between two ranches....

HomeNews You can now play Pokémon Red inside a Twitter avatarCan I get an Up in the chat? Can I get an Up in the chat? Pokémon’s all about becoming “the very best, like no one ever was”, and game programmer Constantin Lietard has given hundreds, if not thousands of budding trainers the opportunity. He’s built a script which lets people play Pokémon Red inside his Twitter avatar.Reply to Lietard’s Tweet below with any of the game’s inputs (Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, Start, and Select), and the most popular result every 15 seconds will be chosen....