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HomeNewsCairn You can play the demo for heavy-breathing open world mountain climber Cairn nowDeath climbing Death climbing Image credit:The Game Bakers Image credit:The Game Bakers “So, you’ve fallen off a mountain,” strikes me as a brilliant book to write and then stock in every mountainside gift shop across the land, purely for the image of a falling climber rapidly scanning the pages as they tumble comically to their doom, searching for the one piece of sage advice that might alleviate their predicament....

HomeNewsIndiana Jones and the Great Circle Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’s recommended PC specs require some deep pocketsI don’t think I could Harrison Afford ray tracing I don’t think I could Harrison Afford ray tracing Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft Indiana Jones And The Great Circlearrives soon, which will be exciting to many of you who like the guy who runs from large boulders and occasionally cracks a whip. It may be worth holding back that excitement, though, until you’ve had a glance at the just-released PC requirements....

HomeGuidesInfinity Nikki Infinity Nikki release timeFind the Infinity Nikki release date and time according to your time zone Find the Infinity Nikki release date and time according to your time zone Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Papergames Looking for the Infinity Nikki release time?Blurring the line between open-world adventure game and dress-up sim,Infinity Nikkiis the perfect game for explorers with a great sense of style. If you’d like to be one of them, be ready to enter the magical world of Infinity Nikki between December 4 and 5....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Wed, December 4thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #541 Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #541 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 4th December?...

HomeNewsAstrometica Subnautica clone Astrometica is the most flagrant rip-off I’ve played in a year that also contains PalworldSea of stars Sea of stars Image credit:RockGame S.A. Image credit:RockGame S.A. It’s got its own close variations on Subnautica’s fonts, Subnautica’s tubular habitats and building interface, Subnautica’s curvy, slightly luminous gadgetry, Subnautica’s softly contoured menus, even a fair approximation of Subnautica’s lilting, characterless music. Based on a quick 20 minutes with the Steam demo, being set the other side of an atmosphere is theonlything that differentiates Astrometica from the Unknown Worldssurvivalsim - OK, that and perhaps the gentlest drizzling ofHardspace: Shipbreakerin the ability to melt the locks off cargo pods in zero gravity....

HomeNews The creators of Jett and Sword & Sworcery are making a 2D mystery action gameMight be out in 2027 Might be out in 2027 Image credit:Superbrothers Image credit:Superbrothers Jett: The Far Shoreand Sword & Sworcery developers Superbrothers are making a new “2D mystery action pixel videogame”, in partnership with an unnamed publisher. In what feels almost like a pivot away from the developers' previous, magnificently hipster experiments, it’s billed as “satisfyingly finite, immediately legible, entertaining, funny, and generally satisfying for a broad audience”....

HomeNewsDragon Age: The Veilguard The next Dragon Age game might be another “reinvention”, say BioWare, drawing parallels with Final FantasyVeilguard’s creative director hints at story directions Veilguard’s creative director hints at story directions Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Dragon Age: The Veilguardwon’t receive any major story DLC. It also ends pretty decisively, save for a few hints about the future of Thedas in a secret post-credits scene....

HomeFeaturesDeep Rock Galactic: Survivor The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 4thWe really dig it We really dig it Image credit:RPS Image credit:RPS If you’re the naughty sort, legend has it that on Christmas Eve a portly bearded chap will descend down your chimney and leave behind a lump of coal. The dwarven heroes of today’s game are much the same, except instead of using the chimney they will deploy pickaxes and power tools to burrow straight through your living room wall, and will make off with any minerals in the house rather than leaving them behind in a sock....

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s XDefiant Ubisoft shut down multiplayer shooter XDefiant and lay off hundreds who worked on itGames as a service “remains a pillar of our strategy” Games as a service “remains a pillar of our strategy” Ubisoft have discontinued their PvP shooterXDefiantand laid off roughly 277 employees at the studios who worked on the multiplayer game. “[We’ve] not been able to attract and retain enough players in the long run to compete at the level we aim for in the very demanding free-to-play FPS market,” said Ubisoft executive Marie-Sophie de Waubert in a statement to workers that was later postedon Ubisoft’s website....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1264): How to solve the Wednesday December 4 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 4? 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!...

HomeNewsShadows of Doubt You can grab Shadows Of Doubt, Citizen Sleeper and more in Jingle Jam’s 2024 bundle, and support eight worthy causes19 games for 35 nicker 19 games for 35 nicker Image credit:ColePowered Games Image credit:ColePowered Games “Bestest best?! We’ll have that!” is how I imagine detectiveimmersive simShadows Of Doubtmade it on the roster for the Jingle Jam 2024 charity bundle. “RPS have never steered us wrong before!” they said, thus cementing our reputation as the most selflessly heroic gaming website, seven years running....

HomeNewsA Difficult Game About Driving A Difficult Game About Driving is a difficult game about drivingIt’s like A Difficult Game About Climbing but with a bathtub for a car It’s like A Difficult Game About Climbing but with a bathtub for a car Image credit:Elegant Horse Studios Image credit:Elegant Horse Studios As Graham pointed out earlier this year,A Difficult Game About Climbingis adifficult game about climbing. A Bennett Foddy’sGetting Over It-inspired limb-flailer, where hoisting yourself up a mountain as a bald man is painfully moreish....

HomeHardwareNews Battlemage lives: Intel announce the Arc B580 and B570 graphics cards1440p-minded GPUs launch from December, both under $250 1440p-minded GPUs launch from December, both under $250 Image credit:Intel Image credit:Intel Well slap my backplate and call me CUDA, because not only are Intel’s Arc Battlemagegraphics cardsnot dead – having once been mired in production trouble rumours – but they’ve got names and are out from next week. The CPU makers’ second batch of dedicated gaming GPUs (following the decent budget-end Alchemist series) will comprise the Arc B580, releasing December 13th at $249, and the Arc B570, which arrives on January 16th from $219....