HomeFeatures Monster Hunter: World got Iceborne, unionisation efforts intensified, and award season is on this week in PC gaming newsRead all about it! Read all about it! This week, the industry’s still a sleepy after the Christmas holiday butMonster Hunter: World’s Iceborne expansion got its delayed PC launch (with a few wrinkles), an American trade union launched a new campaign encouraging unionising the games industry, andAwesome Games Done Quickraised millions for charity with a week of speedrunning....

HomeHardwareFeaturesMonster Hunter: World Monster Hunter: World PC performance guide: how to get the best settingsDon’t let these monsters slay your frame rate Don’t let these monsters slay your frame rate Monster Hunter: Worldis one of the biggest games on PC right now, and it’s just got even bigger with the launch of its giant Iceborne expansion. So, if you’re been thinking about jumping into Capcom’s dinosaur-hunting / hat-making sim, but aren’t sure if your graphics card can run it properly, then have a read of myMonster Hunter: WorldPC performance guide below....

HomeNewsApex Legends Apex Legends' next event will let you play seven unique limited-time game modesGet ready for the Grand Soirée. Get ready for the Grand Soirée. Feeling the January blues nowApex Legends' Winter Express game mode is over? Me too. Then I suppose then it’s a good job Respawn just announced that in the next event we get to play not one, not two, but seven new game modes!They’re all part of Apex’s Grand Soirée, an Art Deco-themed arcade event arriving on the 14th of January that boasts fancy new skins, rotating Limited-Time Arcade modes, and even a return to the Kings Canyon map....

HomeNewsDota Underlords Dota Underlords tunnels out of early access in FebruaryBlunder forward Blunder forward The undertown is nearly ready. ItsDota Underlordsare chomping at the bit, a mere month away from the point where Valve go ‘yep, that’s version 1.0’ and bury the early access label on their wizarding general simulator. They say all this intheir post about yesterday’s update, a smaller affair aimed at reducing misclicks, fixing bugs, and delivering the usual round of balance tweaks....

HomeGuidesLeague of Legends League of Legends: Best Support Champions 2020Our guide to the best picks in the Support category of Champions. Our guide to the best picks in the Support category of Champions. In LoL, the support role is also a hugely diverse one, and there’s much more to handle than simply checking in on your teammates’s health bars, and throwing the odd top-up around. Although there are champions that focus specifically on the healing side of things, many others are built around the idea of crowd-control, initiating, and disrupting some of the more problematic enemy plays as well....

HomeGuidesLeague of Legends League of Legends: Best Top Laners 2020The best top laners currently in the game. The best top laners currently in the game. Nothing better defines the top lane inLeague of Legendsthan two bulky bruisers going toe-to-toe in a gruelling, slugfest of a laning phase. In the top lane you’re likely to be on your lonesome, so the ability to outplay and outlast your opponent is what separates experiences top laners from those who are new to the field....

HomeNewsMonster Hunter: World Monster Hunter World: Iceborne could delete your PC save filesBack it up Back it up The new Iceborne expansion forMonster Hunter: Worldlaunched on PC yesterday. For players who are running the new campaign without issue, RPS’Iceborne reviewcalls it one of the “bestest bests.” For others, save file issues and performance problems might make for a frigid first experience. Make sure to back up your MH:W save files because there’s a chance Iceborne or the simultaneous game update could delete them....

HomeNews RPS Asks: Which Witcher should Netflix Witcher watchers play?And how many jackets would Jaskier pack if Jaskier could pack jackets? And how many jackets would Jaskier pack if Jaskier could pack jackets? If someone enjoyed Netflix’s live-action Witcher series and it made them want to try the games, where should they start? Following the show’s debut in December, I’ve had pals who sorta fell out of games pop up asking that to me, some sort of professional opinion-haver....

HomeNews Rusty Lake continues with The White Door, out nowHelp a man recover his memories through his dreams. Help a man recover his memories through his dreams. The Rusty Lake series continued yesterday with the launch ofThe White Door. The new adventure game puts you in the shoes of Robert Hill, a man who wakes up in a mental health facility having lost his memory, and it’s up to you to recover it through his dreams....

HomeNews Spend your Saturday watching several more PC speedruns on AGDQTo do (quickly!!) To do (quickly!!) The yearly speedrunning eventAGDQis nearing its end but there are still a lot of PC runs to watch tomorrow, many of them new releases from 2019. The week-long winter edition of Games Done Quick is always fascinating even for older games with established speedrunning strategies. For new PC games, it will be a treat to see the earliest methods and discoveries that speedrunners have concocted....

HomeNewsThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Skywind project may want your help even if you have no experienceThe end is in sight, they say. The end is in sight, they say. For several years now, a group of volunteer modders called The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project have been working onSkywind, a standalone mod recreating Morrowind usingSkyrim’s Creation Kit. The Skywind team posted a rare development video today giving a status update on the project wrapped in a callout for new volunteers in several disciplines with all levels of experience....

HomeReviewsAO Tennis 2 Wot I Think: AO Tennis 2It’s the court that counts It’s the court that counts Release:Out nowOn:WindowsFrom:SteamPrice:£36/$45/€45 I wish I could tell you she got better. That this floundering blossomed into mastery, and that the nuances of net and racket revealed themselves like a streaker during the Wimbledon 1996 final. Alas, she quit before she ever won a match inAO Tennis 2. Or even a set. She won a game, at least!...

HomeNewsVVVVVV You can now tinker with VVVVVV’s source code for freeFree Vs Free Vs Gravity-swapping platformerVVVVVVis 10 years old as of today. For this big birthday, creator Terry Cavanagh is releasing its source code for free. You can dig into the guts of a breakout indie game from the booming years of the 4:3 aspect ratio which might actually be a more interesting prospect than it sounds. Over the years,VVVVVV’s challenging platforming has inspired other similar challenges likeMMMMMM....