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HomeGuidesBlack Myth: Wukong Best Relic skills in Black Myth WukongThese are our picks for the best relic perks in Black Myth: Wukong These are our picks for the best relic perks in Black Myth: Wukong Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Wondering what the best Relic skills are in Black Myth: Wukong?Sun Wukong’s soul was split into six pieces after his untimely defeat, and these are the Relics that you’ll slowly uncover throughout Black Myth: Wukong’s Chapters....

HomeDeals Bloated game installs stuffing your SSD? The 4TB Crucial P3 Plus is up to 42% off for Prime Big Deal DaysThat’s, like, 22 God of War Ragnaröks That’s, like, 22 God of War Ragnaröks One of the more compelling arguments for gaming graphics degrowth is that all those extreme-fidelity moss textures andMaster Chief helmet dentsare producing some horrifically engorged installation sizes. That’s a recipe for anSSDupgrade, and if it’s space you’re after, thenAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayshas the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus on some big discounts....

HomeNews Combo Critters is a free, crunchy creature collecting deck builder from the Shotgun King devsA nutritious start to the day A nutritious start to the day Image credit:PUNKCAKE Délicieux/Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:PUNKCAKE Délicieux/Rock Paper Shotgun Tiny deck builder Combo Critters exhibits the winning combination common to both small games and radical breakfast cereals - it’s very crunchy, but also bright, sugary and moreish. IfThaddius Cornflakeshad recommended struggling families play Combo Critters instead of eating Cookie Crisp for dinner, I imagine the backlash would have been far more reserved....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Tue, October 08thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #484. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #484. 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 08th October?...

HomeDeals Get an Asus RTX 4060 Ti for its lowest-ever price in the Prime Big Deal Days saleDown to £340 on Amazon UK Down to £340 on Amazon UK Image credit:Asus Image credit:Asus It’s a stubborn little beggar, but theNvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti’s pricing has been dragged down enough in recent months that it’s now a far tastier prospect than it was at launch. Now, theAmazon Prime Big Deal Dayssale has a twin-fan Asus model down to£340in the UK – the lowest this particulargraphics cardhas ever been, and as far as I can tell, the least you’d have to pay for a brand-new RTX 4060 Ti in the current market....

HomeDeals If you missed that cheap Steam Deck dock deal from last week, it’s back for Prime Big Deal DaysSitting pretty at £26 / $30 Sitting pretty at £26 / $30 Truth be told, this represents a sneaky bit of price-wrangling on the part of Amazon UK: installing theKeepa price trackerreveals that Ugreen’s dock has flitted between £40 and £25 several times since August, so I can’t honestly say that this some kind of incredible gold dust deal that’s returned against the odds....

HomeDeals Might be time to go OLED, now that Prime Big Deals Days has knocked £400 off the 240Hz LG UltraGear 27GR95QE-B40% off at Amazon UK 40% off at Amazon UK Image credit:LG Image credit:LG Two years since they emerged as a serious screen option for PC games,OLED monitorsstill haven’t cracked the issue of how they just look too bloomin’ expensive next to similarly specced LCD displays. Which is a shame, as the OLED gaming monitorsI’ve usedhave invariably looked sumptuous, without the movement blurring issues you might expect if you own a TV of the same panel tech....

“A life sim made sense, and perhaps still make sense,” says chief creative officer Image credit:Paradox Interactive Image credit:Paradox Interactive Next time, however, Paradox need to make smaller investments at the outset and be prepared for a longer spell in prototyping, Lilja went on. “We need to do it a different way. We need to start with a smaller team. We need to do pre-production longer. We need to prototype a lot, before we go into big production, because when you have a full game team, quite honestly, it costs a lot, so any pivot is going to cost all of that....

HomeDeals Prime Big Deal Days cuts the excellent WD Black SN850X SSD to its lowest price in agesSavings ahoy on the 1TB and 2TB models Savings ahoy on the 1TB and 2TB models Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This latestAmazon Prime Big Deal Daysreally is playing all the hits for PC storage. As well as money off thefinest Steam Deck microSD, there are savings to be had on our tip-top desktopSSDpick, the WD Black SN850X – which is a few years old now, but still produces superlative gaming load times....

HomeDeals Prime Big Deal Days returns with 15% off one of Logitech’s best gaming keyboardsThe one I’m typing on right now, in fact The one I’m typing on right now, in fact Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s time for (yet) another ofAmazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, days of big Prime deals that have deals on days for Prime. I don’t know anymore, this is like the third or fourth one this year....

HomeNews Rime and Song Of Nunu developers Tequila cancel game and lay off staffStudio restructuring “to concentrate on the development of only one game” Studio restructuring “to concentrate on the development of only one game” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Riot Forge Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Riot Forge Ah, this makes for sore reading. Spanish developers Tequila Works have cancelled a game and made a “small” number of layoffs in the face of financial difficulties....

HomeNewsRed Dead Redemption Rockstar finally reveal Red Dead Redemption PC port for October 2024 release, together with Undead NightmareThey’ve remarstoned it at last They’ve remarstoned it at last Image credit:Take-Two Interactive Image credit:Take-Two Interactive One of the games industry’s worst-kept secrets, the PC version ofRed Dead Redemption, is a worst-kept secret no longer. After anunconscionable period of leakage, Rockstar have at last confirmed theopen worldport, together with a PC version of its Undead Nightmare expansion - they’re coming to Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29th 2024....

HomeReviews Silent Hill 2 review: a handsome horror remake that plays safe with its own historyHole lot of trauma Hole lot of trauma Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami No game protagonist is more willing to stick his hand down a toilet than James Sunderland. Why is he doing this? You would have to ask him or the psychiatrist he badly requires. And it’s unlikely he’d explain himself....