HomeNewsHades Demeter the Goddess of Seasons is the latest Olympian to arrive in HadesWintery boons and new weapon upgrades inbound. Wintery boons and new weapon upgrades inbound. Hadesthis week launched The Long Winter Update, bringing more blessings and boons to help poor Zagreus escape the underworld. This time around the game is introducing us to Demeter, the goddess of seasons, who’ll be offering us her powers over the cold to fight back against the fires of hell....

HomeNewsDisintegration Disintegration’s multiplayer will show us what “biker gangs of the future” look likeGet geared up for some gravcycling. Get geared up for some gravcycling. Disintegrationis V1 Interactive’s upcoming sci-fi FPS meets RTS about putting human brains into robot bodies, and riding hoverbikes into battle to stop a civil war. I recently got a chance to find out a bit more about it all from game director Marcus Lehto (who you might recognise as one of the original creators of Halo)....

HomeDeals Get Europa Univeralis IV for $1 in the latest Humble BundleDivide and conquer Divide and conquer Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive Empire builders, rejoice. Thanks to thelatest Humble Bundle, you can now conquer the whole ofEuropa Universalis IVand its many, many expansion packs for as little as £13 / $17, or just get the base game (and six other DLC packs) for a single US dollar - that’s 76p in the UK!...

HomeFeatures Hyperspace: Pirates Of Atira is like Sea Of Thieves meets FTLThe Brief Life and Tragical Death of Captain Farts The Brief Life and Tragical Death of Captain Farts Hyperspace: Pirates Of Atirais a co-op space ship sim in which players manually operate different parts of the ship, physically running about its interior as needed. An Alpha versionwas released last week, and though it may be early days, the promise of space piracy overlapping with petty office arguments was too much for me to resist....

HomeNewsMutazione Mutazione’s new Garden Mode lets you make more plant musicNeeds more coral bells! Needs more coral bells! Mutazioneis the name of an island town, or what’s left of one, after a rogue meteor crashed into it decades ago. Now all the folks are mutant-y creatures and the protagonist Kai is the only human-looking human around, come to hang out with her old gramps for a bit. Aside from chatting with the locals,Mutazionelets Kai play around cultivating musical plants, which is what its new Garden Mode update lets you do a lot more of....

HomeNews The whole Half-Life story is free to play on Steam right nowCatch up on the story so far! Catch up on the story so far! It has come to my attention that some people have not played theHalf-Lifegames, to which I can only say: mate, I think you might really like it. Valve will soon return to the series after thirteen years withHalf-Life: Alyxin March, and ahead of that they’re inviting everyone to catch up on the story so far....

HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx Valve are confident Half-Life: Alyx won’t be delayedValve Time is on time this time Valve Time is on time this time Delay season has hit the big games of this year pretty hard. Several large releases have been pushed back from their early 2020 estimates to several months down the line. Some haven’t given new estimated dates at all. Today, Valve says they’re confident that they won’t missHalf-Life: Alyx’s planned release....

HomeHardwareFeatures AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT review: Just as fast as Nvidia’s RTX 2060But can its cheaper price make up for no ray tracing support? But can its cheaper price make up for no ray tracing support? It’s been a bit of a whirlwind week leading up today’s launch ofAMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT. Dubbed the “ultimate” bestestbest graphics cardfor 1080p gaming, the RX 5600 XT was originally meant to be AMD’s answer toNvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, coming in at an identical price of $279....

HomeFeaturesBattlerite Have You Played… Battlerite?May the best wiz win May the best wiz win Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I am partial to top-down wizards. It’s a perspective that makes plans as important as reaction speeds, where every spell and step is clearly visible to everyone. Battling inBattleriteisn’t about who gets the jump on who, it’s about who can bait out a jump and counter it with their own wizard nonsense....

HomeHardwareFeatures That, and the fact it costs an absolute fortune The Samsung T7 Touch is the latest member of Samsung’s portableSSDfamily. Like theSamsung T5before it, this titchy drive has a lovely, sleek aluminium chassis that’s roughly the same size as a couple of stacked credit cards. Only now it has a fancy fingerprint reader for extra security and supports the nippier USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard, leading to sequential read and write speeds that are almost twice as fast as its T5 predecessor....

HomeHardwareNews Steelseries unveil new budget-friendly Apex keyboards and Rival gaming mouseRival that, mate Rival that, mate Let’s start with theRival 3. Despite having a 3 in its name, this £35 / $40 right-handed gaming mouse looks to be a direct replacement for Steelseries' entry-level gaming mouse (and one of our currentbest gaming mouserecommendations), theRival 110, rather than theRival 310. The Rival 3, for example, comes with one of Steelseries' 8500 DPI TrueMove Core sensors, which is a step up from the Rival 110’s 7200 DPI TrueMove 1 sensor, but not quite as nippy as the Rival 310’s 12,000 DPI TrueMove 3 sensor....

HomeFeaturesThe Sims 4 To practise for our The Sims 4 Tiny Living building competition, I built a giant kitchenIt’s a bold strategy. Let’s see if it pays off for me. It’s a bold strategy. Let’s see if it pays off for me. Tension is ramping up in the RPS office, as we approach the release ofThe Sims 4’s newTiny Living Stuff Pack, and thus the editorial Tiny Build-Off between me and Graham....

HomeFeaturesThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Best The Witcher 3 modsToss a mod to your Witcher Toss a mod to your Witcher Almost five years and a surprisingly good TV series later, andThe Witcher 3is still going strong; a surprising turn of events given how static the game has remained these past few years. Beyond a round of free DLC and two excellent expansions, Geralt Of Rivia’s grand quest to become a cool step-dad and maybe settle down at a vineyard in the south of fantasy France remains largely timeless....