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People are using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference calls

HomeFeaturesRed Dead Redemption 2 People are using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference callsIt still beats Zoom. It still beats Zoom. “Found my own body floating down the river today. Didn’t recognise myself for ages.” This may sound like the start of a magical realist detective story, rather than something you’d say in a meeting with colleagues. But inRed Dead Redemption 2, which is rapidly emerging as an unlikely competitor to Zoom and Skype in the world of conference calling, this is business as usual....

The Witcher 3 is most fun if you ignore almost all of The Witcher 3

HomeFeaturesThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Witcher 3 is most fun if you ignore almost all of The Witcher 3Plot, what plot? Plot, what plot? It has taken me a long, long time to figure out how I, personally, can enjoyThe Witcher 3. It got recommended to me loads because it’s a big flouncy fantasy RPG, which is my type of thing. But playing it was like running into a brick wall....

The Witcher games are going cheap in the anniversary sales

HomeDeals The Witcher games are going cheap in the anniversary salesToss a coin to your developers… Toss a coin to your developers… If a Netflix show and years of people going on about it have finally convinced you to consider giving The Witcher a go, good news: to celebrate the fifth birthday of The Witcher 3, the whole series is on sale. Both Steam and GOG have big Witcher sales, including the whole RPG series plus various spin-offs....

Train Station Renovation early access review

HomeReviewsTrain Station Renovation Train Station Renovation early access reviewTrain in vain Train in vain We can only presume Train Station Renovation is launching through early access owing to the enormous complexity of the project, which primarily involves the player – a kind of janitorial Fat Controller – picking up thousands of cigarette butts and tin cans and placing them in a big skip out back. Without the vital feedback of a small army of beta testers, who knows what kind of bugs and glitches might creep in?...

Warzone brings back Most Wanted contracts, adds assault rifles to the Gulag

HomeNews Warzone brings back Most Wanted contracts, adds assault rifles to the GulagYay, I wanted those Yay, I wanted those War never changes, but sometimes the optional mid-war missions do get swapped around. That’s actually quite common. Developers Infinity Ward briefly added Most Wanted contracts toWarzonelast month, wiping over a different type of mission thatI really liked. Fortunately, they quickly swapped them back around - and more fortunately still, yesterday’s update lets us have both....

You can now use any USB cable with your Oculus Quest on PC

HomeHardwareNews You can now use any USB cable with your Oculus Quest on PCIncluding the one in the box. Including the one in the box. Until recently,Oculus Questusers looking to play a bit of PC VR via Oculus Link had to use a high-speed USB3 cable to connect it to their PCs. Thanks to a recent update, however, Quest owners can now start testing Oculus Link with regular USB2 cables, including the charging cable that comes in the box....

AOC have five new 240Hz gaming monitors on the way

HomeHardwareNews AOC have five new 240Hz gaming monitors on the waySuper high refresh monitors incoming. Super high refresh monitors incoming. Good news for anyone on the lookout for a new 240Hz gaming screen, as monitor maker AOC have announced they’ve got five of them coming out over the next couple of months. There’s a mix of curved and flat monitors to be found in AOC’s new batch of super high refresh rate gaming monitors, as well as screen sizes ranging from 24in all the way up to 32in, so there should be something for pretty much everyone....

Apparently Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be bigger than Odyssey, actually

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla Apparently Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will be bigger than Odyssey, actuallyAnd nobody was surprised And nobody was surprised Forget review scores. The only true way to judge a game’s quality is the converted square kilometers of its virtual world. Or so you’d think, with how big a talking point it is during the marketing campaign for every big open-world adventure. For a minute there, it sounded likeAssassin’s Creed Valhallawould actually be smaller that its enormous predecessor Odyssey....

Best Red Dead Redemption 2 mods

HomeFeaturesRed Dead Redemption 2 Best Red Dead Redemption 2 modsCowpokes Cowpokes Red Dead’s modding scene lags a little bit behind GTAV’s. I’m still waiting for the public release of thislawman modand for the online role-playing mods to get a little more mature before plunging in. To that end, all the mods below add to the experience of playing the game rather than the content, but I’ll always keep an eye on Red Dead 2’s modding scene, just in case something spectacular arrives....

Declare your allegiance in the website wars with new RPS merch

HomeNews Declare your allegiance in the website wars with new RPS merchThe shirt off our back The shirt off our back You may remember a while back that we dipped our toe into the sea of merchandising, and we have now decided to roll our trousers up and wade a bit deeper in. To this end, we now have a brand spanking newTeespring store! Check out the wares we have currently on display....

GTA Online crashed so Epically this weekend that someone built a robot to retry connecting

HomeNews GTA Online crashed so Epically this weekend that someone built a robot to retry connectingSMASH! SMASH! Rockstar have finally managed to getGTA Onlineback up, after a weekend where the game was basically unplayable due to overwhelming numbers of new players. The Epic Games Store isgiving GTA V away freeat the moment, see. So many people came to claim it that Epic’s own servers collapsed during at the start the giveaway, so I guess it’s only fair that Epic players crash Rockstar’s servers in return....

I enjoy the glorious sound of jumping in Elite Dangerous

HomeFeatures I enjoy the glorious sound of jumping in Elite DangerousFeeling jumpy Feeling jumpy BEEEUUUUUHHHH. That’s my impression of a battlecruiser jumping in to ruin, or make everyone’s day, depending on its mood. For the next eight days,Elite Dangerous’s fleet carriers are here in temporary form for its ongoing beta. I have not, frankly, been doing anything exciting, because I am like that. I’ve been enjoying the jumps, though. Elite’s ships make a lot of noises, some of which I (extremely subjectively) find mildly irritating....

Minecraft cheats list for 1.21 including XP commands

HomeGuidesMinecraft Minecraft cheats list for 1.21 including XP commandsUse these Minecraft commands to get free XP, control the weather, and much more Use these Minecraft commands to get free XP, control the weather, and much more Image credit:Mojang Studios Image credit:Mojang Studios Want to learn how to use Minecraft commands and cheats?The Minecraft console is every bit as creative a tool as Minecraft itself. With it, you can teleport to various locations, change the time or weather, spawn items or entities, chat with your friends, or control entireMinecraft serversfilled with players....