HomeReviewsA Total War Saga: Troy A Total War Saga: Troy reviewAchilles' feels Achilles' feels What I am saying, of course, is that Troy is anotherTotal War game. And it’s a good one, for what it’s worth. It’s certainly better thanThrones Of Britannia, its predecessor in the Saga subseries. But for all of its tweaks to the general formula, which are largely welcome, it still has the feeling of the same old soldier, wearing a different helmet....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Best Budget Scholomance Academy decks - Cheap deck lists for the casual Hearthstone playerSave dust in Scholomance Academy Save dust in Scholomance Academy Scholomance Academy has arrived, so we’re bringing you the very best low-cost decks to play if you aren’t particularly flush with Arcane Dust. Of course, a lot of archetypes might not work in the very highest ranks of play, but if you pilot them well they’re sure to bring you some solid results....

HomeNews Dying Light’s skeleton-smashing Hellraid DLC is out nowCome Hell and High Scores Come Hell and High Scores Go to hell,Dying Light. Techland’s open-world zombie smasher is still cranking out DLC five years after release - and this time, it’s trading shamblers for skeletons with a brief excursion to the underworld. Crack open the piggy-bank, get in line for the cursed arcade cabinet, and prepare to crack some skulls, survivors.Dying Light:Hellraidis out today....

HomeNews Epic open fire on Apple with a Fortnite propaganda reelExactly as Orwell predicted. Exactly as Orwell predicted. The latest show to hitFortnite’s Party Island isn’t a blow-out concert or Chris Nolan flick. Somehow, it’s weirder. Hop in front of Fortnite’s big telly right now and you’ll find a call to “#FreeFortnite” from the supposed tyranny of tech giant Apple, who today removed the battle royale from the App Store for sidestepping its revenue policies....

HomeNewsHalo Infinite Halo Infinite chose delay over being broken into piecesKeep your head down. Keep your head down. GettingHalo Infiniteout of the door this year was kind of a big deal. But while serious consideration was given to severing the game’s singleplayer from its multiplayer, the folks at Xbox instead opted todelay Halo Infinite into next year. It’s better, they reckon, to deliver all of Halo all at once, even if it means waiting a few months to finish the fight....

HomeDeals Newegg has some killer Corsair RAM deals until the end of the week16GB and 32GB deals ahoy. 16GB and 32GB deals ahoy. There are RAM deals aplenty this week at Newegg if your PC is due for an upgrade – including a number of sets that get theRPS Rigseal of approval. Katharine gave a couple of these a nod last week, but there are now a few new ones worth highlighting – especially if you like a bit of colour in your build....

HomePodcasts Podcast episode 105: the Romans in video games specialWhen in Reme, do as the Remans do When in Reme, do as the Remans do Ave, citizens! Rome wasn’t build in a day, but this podcast was built in a few hours, so you tell me which is better? This week, we’re doing a Romans special. We talk about the games Romans appear in, the way they’re portrayed, and the difference between Romans on console vs on PC....

HomeNewsRimWorld RimWorld has added custom difficulty options, for those who really want a challengeCome and have a go if you think it’s not hard enough Come and have a go if you think it’s not hard enough If managing an unruly colony of idiots on an alien planet filled with hostile wildlife, raiders, aliens, and robots has somehow become easy for you: good news, you can now makeRimWorldmore difficult. Thanks to this week’s free patch, you can fiddle with over two dozen difficulty settings to create your own ‘playstyle’ - everything from trades prices and friendly fire to the rates of disease and nasty enemy spawns....

HomeFeaturesThere Is No Game: Wrong Dimension There Is No Game is almost too meta to be meta"If only you could talk to these creatures." “If only you could talk to these creatures.” You know that joke from The Simpsons, where the kids find out that cows don’t look like cows on film so you have to use horses, and for horses you have to “tape a bunch of cats together”? When I was playingThere Is No GameI kept thinking about that joke....

HomeNewsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive A shockingly easy Counter-Strike: Global Offensive wallhack has been fixedCounter-terrorists win Counter-terrorists win Valve’s strict new anti-cheat system was powerless to protectCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveplayers from a very simple trick that let perpetrators see everyone through walls. Until last week, players could make a single file tweak that gave them a huge, cheatily cheat advantage. It now appears to have been fixed. The hack took just a small file replacement and a change of an in-game setting, which CS interpreted as an instruction to make other player models visible through regardless of any obstacles, a bit like a floating HUD marker....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Big Warrior deck list guide - Scholomance Academy - Hearthstone (August 2020)Our starter guide to playing the Big Warrior archetype in Scholomance Academy. Our starter guide to playing the Big Warrior archetype in Scholomance Academy. Big Warrior is aHearthstonedeck that aims to tower over its opponents with giant and bulky minions, many of which you will have summoned onto the board for a discount - or via bonus effects - to make them more surprising or imposing....

HomeNewsDead Cells Dead Cells' new update adds explosive barrels and explosive mimicsDon’t drink that stuff Don’t drink that stuff Everyone loves a good distillery tour, right? Gawk at the big barrels, sample the products and all. Not so much in the latest update toDead Cells, which adds an area called the Derelict Distillery. In this house of horrors the barrels explode and the products are death—your death specifically. The new update is out now, adding new enemies, weapons, and mimics—oh my!...

HomeHardwareFeaturesHorizon Zero Dawn I accidentally unlocked Horizon Zero Dawn’s N64 modeWhen graphics cards go wrong When graphics cards go wrong Over the last week, I’ve sat throughHorizon Zero Dawn’s lengthy optimisation process more times than I care to count. Most people will only ever have to do this once when they play Horizon, but in my attempts tobenchmark the game with lots of different graphics cards, it meant sitting through that 10-15 minute start-up sequence every time I put a new card inside my PC....