HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves has gone all Lock Stock in Season 12 with double-barreled guns and, er, skeleton summonsPlus tightrope walking and owls! Classic London gangster stuff! Plus tightrope walking and owls! Classic London gangster stuff! Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Remember that bit in that Guy Ritchie film where Dexter Fletcher shoot a guy and then throws a glowing jar over his soldier that summons a bunch of skeletons to help him out?...

HomeHardwareFeatures Should you bother with… Wi-Fi 7?The hows and Wis of the latest in cable-free connectivity The hows and Wis of the latest in cable-free connectivity Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Having ‘launched’ in January 2024, Wi-Fi 7 is the latest in a line of various wireless networking standards that you may already be familiar with, and that you almost definitely already use. Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) is the most ubiquitous, while Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E (both 802....

HomeNews More layoffs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Roll7 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Roll7 It would be dispiriting to see an accomplished studio like this being shuttered.OlliOlli2 is one ofmy favourite games of all time. I own it on three platforms. I played it so much I brokethe top 50 on the leaderboards. After that,OlliOlli World was an incredible and colourful updateon everything that made their skateboarding so responsive, wild, and focused. That’s not to mention the giffable joy of Rollerdrome, whichour review called “polished and precise”....

HomeFeaturesSky Of Tides Sky Of Tides is the anti-Disco Elysium in which balance is queenIn this lush sci-fantasy RPG adventure, min-maxing is a sin In this lush sci-fantasy RPG adventure, min-maxing is a sin Image credit:ESDigital Games Image credit:ESDigital Games Leonardo Da Vinci’sVitruvian Manis a legendary drawing of a nude with his arms and legs reaching towards the rim and corners of a circle and square. It’s often invoked as an archetype for the humanist worldview of Man the Measure and Centre of all Things, holding a perfectly proportioned universe in shape....

HomeNewsStar Wars: The Old Republic Star Wars: The Old Republic’s next update adds pie-baking and a galactic egg huntThis is canon I can prove it This is canon I can prove it Image credit:Broadsword Online Games Image credit:Broadsword Online Games Star Wars: The Old Republic’s ongoing developmentswitched last year from creators BioWare to Broadsword, with promise that the 13-year-old MMO would continue to receive new story content and improvements. The approaching update 7....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show podcast: a patch of patchesThink it’s over at launch? Oh no. This is never over. Think it’s over at launch? Oh no. This is never over. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Over the past while a few games have had post-launch patches, the exemplars beingStarfieldand Stardew valley, which have post-launch patches of different kinds and for different reasons. We take some time on the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastto talk about this patch of patches, and what it was like in the good ol' days, where a broken game came out and stayed broken, gosh darn it!...

HomeDeals The excellent Logitech G915 is on sale at Currys in two different form factorsGet the TKL model for just £100 Get the TKL model for just £100 Logitech have kicked off its Playdays event for 2024, with some of their best headsets, mice and keyboards on sale across various retailers in the UK.That list includes one the currentbest Wireless gaming keyboard, the G915 Lightspeed wireless, which is now on sale at Currys with two different form factors on offer: the full size model and the more compact tenkeyless (TKL) version....

HomeNewsThe Forever Winter The Forever Winter is a co-op shooter about scavenging among the wreckage of a never-ending mech warHellsurvivors Hellsurvivors Image credit:Fun Dog Games Image credit:Fun Dog Games If I was writingWhat’s Better, it would be a short series. The first entry would declare that the best thing in video games, obviously, was watching NPCs fight among themselves.It’s this which most interests me aboutThe Forever Winter, which takes place in a “PvEvE conflict” in which enemy factions - including enormous, stomping robots - are constantly fighting one another while you and your squad try to scavenge and survive in their shadow....

HomeNewsManor Lords The Manor Lords dev has the “ideal” approach to early access, says Hooded Horse: “It’s not like, vote on the next feature"Publisher CEO also stresses the value of in-game footage in trailers Publisher CEO also stresses the value of in-game footage in trailers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Styczeń understandably doesn’t have much time for interviews right now - those troublesome archers aren’t going to balance themselves - but yesterday I spoke to Tim Bender, CEO ofManor Lordspublisher Hooded Horse, about how Styczeń is getting on....

HomeDeals The top SSD for gaming is down to £150 for 2TB in Amazon’s Gaming Week saleA great SSD for PC and PS5 A great SSD for PC and PS5 Amazon’s Gaming Week sale has lots of deals on gaming accessories and hardware, including a decent discount on the heatsink version of the 2TB WD Black SN850X SSD, which is still thebest SSD for gamingyou can get.UK DealsWD Black SN850X 2TB with Heatsink- £150 at Amazon UK (was £167)Buy nowUS DealsWD_Black SN850X 2TB with Heatsink- $180 at Amazon US(was $200)Buy nowThe SN850X pretty much pushes the limit of the PCIe 4....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1048): How to solve the Thursday May 2 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for May 2? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for May 2? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeNewsFallout 76 My kingdom for a Scorched Image credit:The Wasteland Theatre Company/Bethesda Game Studios Image credit:The Wasteland Theatre Company/Bethesda Game Studios “Just imagine a post-apocalyptic ghoulified Laurence Olivier – that’s what we’re going for. " The exact date of opening night is yet to be announced but it won’t be the first show we’ve seen from this band ofStation 11-style thespians of the apocalypse. They’ve been performing for a few years, previously showing adaptations ofMacbeth,Romeo and Juliet, andA Christmas Carolamong others....

HomeNews Call of Duty 2024 and Gears 6 to get June reveal alongside Avowed and Indiana Jones release dates, claims reportMicrosoft Flight Simulator 4 release date demoted to subheadline in outrageous snub Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 release date demoted to subheadline in outrageous snub Image credit:Activision Blizzard Image credit:Activision Blizzard Microsoft’s Xbox summer showcase in June will reportedly include a hefty post-show segment on the next and currently untitled Call Of Duty, alongside release dates for such first-party headliners asMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2024,AvowedandIndiana Jones And The Great Circle....