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HomeFeaturesHorizon Forbidden West The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 16thGrapple with this door handle Grapple with this door handle Image credit:RPS Image credit:RPS It’sHorizon Forbidden West! James:Structurally, Horizon Forbidden West adopts a fairly routine open-world setup, which I think sometimes gets lumped in with the kind of factory-produced map marker collectors one might associate with certain France-based publishing houses. Fighting the robot dinosaurs is also a pleasure in itself. Partly because of the beasts: I love the detail of their creaking carbon fibre muscles, or the constantly spinning chainsaw-teeth on some of the deadlier predators....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1276): How to solve the Monday December 16 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 16? 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Sun, December 15thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #552. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #552. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 15th December?...

HomeFeaturesStraftat The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 15thThe past and future of video games The past and future of video games Image credit:RPS Image credit:RPS Today’s advent calendar window is a window upon Xmas past. It returns us to the days of LAN parties and dial-up, of demo discs and Fileplanet – a more innocent era, before multiplayer shooters fell under the spell of progression. Not that innocent, maybe. There were plenty of arseholes back then....

HomeFeatures What’s on your bookshelf?: I am going to sleep for several weeks editionread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Weekis our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future.Can one sleep on a bookshelf? I’m going to find out. See you in the new year. Or, probably next Sunday with another minimum effort column entry. Book for now!...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1275): How to solve the Sunday December 15 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 15? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 15? 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Sat, December 14thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #551. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #551. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 14th December?...

HomeFeaturesAnimal Well The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 14thThe coming of the beast The coming of the beast Image credit:RPS Image credit:RPS Squeezing through the advent calendar window into a sodden glade of flower and coral, you spy a curious organism on a ledge in the shadows. It’s a video game of some description, though it looks like a squirrel, with frantic white eyes. What’s it doing? Ah, whoops, you’ve startled it....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1274): How to solve the Saturday December 14 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 14? 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!...

HomeNewsDispatch Aaron Paul stars in Dispatch, a story based superhero management game from ex-Telltale devsRobert Robertson needs a new mech suit Robert Robertson needs a new mech suit Image credit:AdHoc Studio Image credit:AdHoc Studio Wait. I’ve found it! Leaving that last bit in though. Consider it my gift to you reader. The gift of visible workflow at 4am. DISPATCH | Official Reveal Trailer - Extended Cut (HD)Watch on YouTube DISPATCH | Official Reveal Trailer - Extended Cut (HD)...

HomeNewsBorderlands 4 Borderlands 4 looks ready to drop the hottest memes of 2011 in first-look trailerFourderlands was right there Fourderlands was right there Image credit:Gearbox Image credit:Gearbox LooterFPSBorderlands 4has gotten its first trailer, courtesy of Medium Geoff’s Happy Hour and..wait. What you mean it’sthree hours? I’m going to die tonight, aren’t I? Ah well, at least I’ll die doing what I’m ambivalent about. Here’s the trailer for Fourderlands, which is out sometime next year....

HomeNewsScreamer (2026) Classic ’90s PC racing series Screamer is returning, from the makers of Hot Wheels UnleashedIt’s anime now It’s anime now Image credit:Milestone Games Image credit:Milestone Games Back in the mid ’90s, I was hooked on an PC racing game calledScreamer. It got a sequel a couple of years later, and then the series went dormant. Until now, when it’s seemingly returning as a foreboding, anime-infused racer about defying death, once again called simply Screamer....

HomeGuides Everything announced at The Game Awards 2024A roundup of all announcements and trailers shown at TGA 2024 A roundup of all announcements and trailers shown at TGA 2024 Image credit:CD Projekt Red Image credit:CD Projekt Red The Game Awards 2024 has run its course, and among the awards, trailers, and celebrity cameos there were a great many intriguing announcements. Ranging from Naughty Dog’s brand new game Intergalactic to the unexpected news of an Okami sequel, there was very nearly something for everyone this year....