HomeNews More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023A record breaking year A record breaking year Image credit:Myco Image credit:Myco In 2023, more than 500 games earned more than $3 million (around £2.3 million) in gross revenue via Steam, according to Valve. The stat was shared as part of their annual summary, a breakdown of the platform’s past year in terms of new features and performance....
HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, February 20)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #254 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #254 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....
HomeReviewsPacific Drive Pacific Drive review: the car’s the star in this atmospheric yet unwieldy survival gameHard driving Hard driving Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kepler Interactive PlayingPacific Drivereminds me of an army recruitment advert shown on British TV about 20 years ago. A group of soldiers are travelling along a road at night in a Land Rover, when suddenly they spot the enemy ahead. The front seat passenger starts barking orders at the driver: “Get off the road!...
HomeNewsPowerWash Simulator PowerWash Sim’s Warhammer 40K crossover arrives next week, and the new trailer is very funnyCleanse the dirt heresy! Cleanse the dirt heresy! Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix My experience with Warhams isn’t flat zero - I had some minifigs when I was a teenager and played a few of the Dawn Of War video games - but I haven’t actively checked in on it for a while. I know enough to make “[x] for the [x] throne!...
HomeHardwareFeatures RPS presents Steam Deck Academy: a grand repository of Steam Deck knowledge, made simpleThis’ll learn ya This’ll learn ya Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Welcome to Steam Deck Academy, where we take the microfibre cloth of understanding and wipe away the smudgy touchscreen fingerprints of handheld gaming ignorance. Here, eager students – that’s you, I’m assuming – can feast their minds on all theSteam Deckguides, explainers, and investigations that we’ve produced, as well as further instructive pieces to come....
HomeNews Temtem: Swarm looks like an enticing mix of Vampire Survivors and PokémonComing later in 2024 Coming later in 2024 Image credit:Crema Image credit:Crema Temtemwas a brief mega-hit when it launched in Early Access back in 2020, as a Pokémon-like that was both online and on PC. Now it’s getting its own “survivor-like bullet heaven” spin-off calledTemtem: Swarm. Temtem: Swarm - Official Announcement TrailerThe announcement trailer for Temtem: Swarm.Watch on YouTube...
HomeDeals This 32GB DDR5-6000 kit is just £64 at Amazon UKThese XPG Caster DDR5-6000 sticks are the same as I use in my Intel PC. These XPG Caster DDR5-6000 sticks are the same as I use in my Intel PC. Image credit:Adata/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Adata/Rock Paper Shotgun I always love it when stuff I’ve legitimately bought appears on sale, and that’s the case today with this XPG Caster DDR5 kit that’s 10% off on Amazon UK today....
HomeDeals This full-size mechanical keyboard is reduced to just £5The Trust GXT 865 is actually a decent bit of kit too. The Trust GXT 865 is actually a decent bit of kit too. Image credit:Trust/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Trust/Rock Paper Shotgun Mechanical keyboards can be pretty cheap these days, but I’ve not never seen one on sale for as little as £4.99 - especially not for a full-size RGB model available for a brand I’ve actually heard of before!...
HomeNewsWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader WH40K: Rogue Trader’s “first major update” is out, and everyone gets a free respec17,000 words of patch notes to dig through 17,000 words of patch notes to dig through Image credit:Owlcat Games/RockPaperShotgun Image credit:Owlcat Games/RockPaperShotgun A colossal new update forWarhammer 40,000: Rogue Traderlaunched last night, hitting the grimdark space-aristocratRPGwith so many changes that the patch notes are almost 17,000 words long. Fitting for a game that ourRogue Trader reviewcalled “engrossing, obscure and absolutely exhausting”....
HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#976): How to solve the Tuesday February 20 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for February 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for February 20? 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!...
HomeNewsXenonauts 2 Xenonauts 2 gets biggest update yet, adds new UFO, missions and weaponsIt will break existing save files, though It will break existing save files, though Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Xenonauts 2received its biggest update yet last night, adding a bunch of new things to the early access X-COM-like that will be sure to please yourrude Chief Science OfficerGaius BaltarJames Calliswhatever his name isSMUG FACE. Alongside a brand-new Cruiser UFO to pilfer for new technology to help fight back against your alien invaders, the Milestone 3 update also brings new story missions, weapons and vehicles, extending the campaign’s play time from 180 in-game days all the way up to 260....
HomeNewsFallout: New Vegas A mod that adds Fred Durst to Fallout: New Vegas, thought to be lost media, has been foundWho Durst, wins Who Durst, wins Image credit:Bethesda Softworks/lb8068/Micky D Image credit:Bethesda Softworks/lb8068/Micky D Someone known only as UsagiCola, assumed fan of either Limp Bizkit or shitpost mods, or both, and who has now locked down their Xitter account (presumably because of their new Durst-related fame) happened to have the mod saved....
HomeReviewsBalatro Balatro review: only fools would sleep on this moreish poker roguelikeNo joke No joke Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Playstack The boss blind I keep coming a cropper with, though, is The Flint. This sucker not only halves a hand’s chip score, but it also cuts its multiplier in two as well, and I’ve yet to figure out exactly how to defeat it. Sometimes it appears with a blind of just 600, but other times it’s been an enormous 22,000....
