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HomeFeatures What’s better: enemies stopping respawning after you kill them loads, or removing a card from your deck?Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Enemies stopping respawning after you kill them loads In most games with respawning enemies, they keep on coming back. Either they’re back on a timer or they’re back when you die....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#984): How to solve the Wednesday February 28 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for February 28? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for February 28? 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!...

HomeFeaturesCobalt Core Cobalt Core is wonderful because it’s actually PongThat’s a paddling That’s a paddling Image credit:Brace Yourself Games/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Brace Yourself Games/Rock Paper Shotgun Fine, I guess I’ll show my working. To the uneducated eye, Cobalt Core might appear to be a lush tactics experience withunspeakably suave musicin which kitbashed, wide-bottomed spaceships take turns to dodge, shoot or defend using the medium of cards. As in other roguelike deckbuilders, each run sees you acquiring and upgrading these cards, which correspond to ship systems such as beam cannons and shield generators, while moving through a campaign made up of minor or major enemy encounters, resourcing or repairing opportunities, and chapter-ending bossfights....

HomeDeals Connect All The Things with this £19 7-port powered USB hubThat’s £2.71 per USB port! That’s £2.71 per USB port! Image credit:Sabrent Image credit:Sabrent Here’s something a little different: a seven-port powered USB hub from Sabrent that makes it easy to connect a huge amount of peripherals and drives to your PC without having to fumble blindly with the back of your PC - or turn one of your laptop’s USB ports into many many more....

HomeNewsElden Ring Elden Ring might have one little secret left, Miyazaki says, and I hope we never discover itI like a little mystery left in a world I like a little mystery left in a world While players have scoured and stained every inch of the Lands Between in the two years sinceElden Ringlaunched, they might not have uncovered every secret just yet. Witha June releasenow confirmed forShadow Of The Erdtree, the long-awaited expansion, director Hidetaka Miyazaki has now hinted that we Tarnished may have missed something....

HomeNewsClown Meat In precision platformer Clown Meat, you have to cheer up a Godzilla-sized clown from JupiterWe’re going to need a bigger tent We’re going to need a bigger tent Image credit:2 Left Thumbs Image credit:2 Left Thumbs I’ve done some elementary study of the planet Jupiter for various creative research projects/dead-ends. It’s probably a symptom of my failings as an astronomer, but I have to say that at no point have I noticed any gigantic, depressed clowns....

HomeNewsPalworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PocketPair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/PocketPair Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Palwoods, Pocketpair have revealed a newPalworldupdate - Steam and Xbox patch v0.1.5.0. This is a larger overhaul, encompassing a juicy mixture of balance and technical tweaks that together make this spring’s breakoutsurvival gameeasier to play, less buggy and, dare I say, a little kinder, with various tweaks aimed at making life more liveable both for trainers and Pals....

HomeFeaturesLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Like A Dragon’s localisation team explain how they bring the series’ singular storytelling to the west“We love kink-based wordplay here at Sega” “We love kink-based wordplay here at Sega” Image credit:Sega Image credit:Sega “Ever since the very firstYakuzaon PS2, the Like A Dragon series has always tried to capture the cultural zeitgeist of Japan, reflecting and satirising whatever’s trending around when the game comes out. This means that the way people speak in Like A Dragon is constantly evolving to match the times,” says Dan Sunstrum, senior translator at Ryu Ga Gotoku’s localisation team....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, February 27)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #261 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #261 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! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeDeals Our favourite wireless gaming headset is down to under £100 at Amazon UKThe SteelSeries Arctis 7+ is a great cross-platform choice. The SteelSeries Arctis 7+ is a great cross-platform choice. SteelSeries make some of my favourite gaming headsets - andRPS' favourite wireless gaming headset, which today is discounted to under £100 versus its normal price of £175. That’s a good price for the Arctis 7+, a comfortable and great-sounding headset that works not only on PC but also on Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S - that’s all the consoles!...

HomeNewsShashingo Shashingo, out today, helps you learn Japanese through photographyI think I’ll Leica this one I think I’ll Leica this one Image credit:Autumn Pioneer Image credit:Autumn Pioneer As someone who’s learning Japanese, I crave other methods of language acquisition that don’t feel like studying. Textbooks, flashcards, even watching Japanese media can all feel a bit too close to being back in a classroom.Shashingo, a game that helps you learn Japanese through taking cute photos, may be the study companion I’ve craved....

HomeHardwareFeaturesSons of the Forest Sons of the Forest 1.0 makes a big performance upgrade on early access, with or without FSR 3The new upscaler is nice, but this full release runs quicker regardless The new upscaler is nice, but this full release runs quicker regardless Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Since I’m apparently onsurvival gameduty for the rest of my days, and we’vejust had a firm reminderof how wobbly an early access launch can be, it seems like a good time to check in on that thereSons Of The Forest1....

HomeNews Sony announce 900 layoffs across Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Insomniac and PlayStation studios worldwideIt’s proposed that Sony London be closed It’s proposed that Sony London be closed Image credit:Sony Image credit:Sony Several well-known PlayStation studios are affected, including The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog, Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games, Horizon developer Guerilla Games and PlayStation VR specialists Firesprite. It’s also proposed that PlayStation close Sony London in their entirety, though the exact scale of the reductions remains to be seen....