August 2023 Archive

    1. Get SteelSeries' excellent Arctis Nova Pro headset for £169 after a 32% discount
    2. Grim Dawn is getting a new expansion next year, five years after the last one
    3. This 2TB Lexar NVMe SSD is under £60 at Amazon UK
    4. Mystery puzzler The Case Of The Golden Idol now has a free browser-based demo - and new DLC
    5. Dota 2's latest update gives you new tools to filter out jerks
    6. Baldur's Gate 3's major second update is live now, with performance improvements and more
    7. Embracer close Volition, developer of Red Faction and Saints Row
    8. Starfield's map is even worse than Fallout and Skyrim's
    9. Starfield review: surely, the best Starfield game you'll ever play
    10. The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 28: Gamescom 2023 was thoroughly whelming
    11. Let the Aperture Desk Job chat commence: the RPS Game Club liveblog returns today
    12. The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria has a lot in common with Valheim and... PowerWash Simulator
    13. Developers rally to defend Larian against Baldur’s Gate 3 "cut content" fallout
    14. Smalltown pixel horror game Holstin has a playtest, and it's creepy indeed
    15. Arco is one of the most fascinating blends of turn-based and real-time tactics I've seen in ages
    16. Baldur's Gate 3: How to solve the Defiled Temple stone disk puzzle
    17. Todd Howard hails Starfield as "our best performing game" and Starfield redditors as "gaming's smartest fans"
    18. Wordle hint and answer #803 (August 31 2023)
    1. Sea of Stars, The Messenger devs’ love letter to classic RPGs, sells 100,000 copies on its first day
    2. Space Marine 2 shows off 10 minutes of stomping, chainswording and a Chaos tease for the Warhammer 40k sequel in extended gameplay
    3. Call of Duty's new AI chat moderator can tell "hate speech" from "friendly banter"
    4. Making of Karateka delves into Prince of Persia creator’s debut in an interactive doc, includes a remaster and playable prototypes
    5. What's better: Interrupt attacks, or a lore codex?
    6. Custom Mech Wars looks like a budget Armored Core that lets you build a drill penis robot, and I can’t wait to play it
    7. This well-reviewed electric sit/stand desk is down to £116 at Amazon UK
    8. Enter the Chronosphere is a bullet hell shmup that actually gives you time to think
    9. Our top PCIe 4.0 SSD pick is back down to $99.99 for 2TB at Newegg
    10. AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT price, specs, release date, and features
    11. Starfield Early Access release date, and how to play early
    12. Midway-esque double-A horror shooter Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle is out now
    13. Where Winds Meet is a wildly ambitious RPG that lets you yeet bears
    14. Baldur's Gate 3: How to finish the Masterwork Weapon
    15. Unable to "defeat gravity" and keep old content, Destiny 2 has become the Darkness
    16. A new bombshell has entered the Hercule Poirot villa in The London Case
    17. Diablo 4 has only made Diablo Immortal more popular, say Blizzard
    18. Pong is getting a "creative sequel" in which you play the ball
    19. Wordle hint and answer #802 (August 30 2023)
    1. Original Picross developers are releasing their next nonogram puzzler on Steam
    2. Steam's Strategy Fest is underway with discounts and demos
    3. Baldur's Gate 3 is getting expanded epilogues, starting with Karlach in the next update
    4. Dark Messiah of Might & Magic might get raytracing and co-op thanks to modders
    5. Our Starfield review is going to be a little late
    6. Thank Goodness You're Here is a bit like a Yorkshire Untitled Goose Game, but infinitely weirder
    7. AMD's incredible Ryzen 7 7800X3D gaming CPU drops again, to $354 from Newegg
    8. Call of Duty's bottomless content machine has claimed Lara Croft
    9. Solidigm's P44 Pro 2TB SSD reaches $105 at Newegg in the US
    10. Let’s talk Aperture Desk Job in the RPS Game Club, this Thursday
    11. AMD FSR 3 demystified: how the next-gen upscaler could upgrade performance on "any" GPU
    12. Shadow Gambit studio Mimimi are closing down "to prioritize our well-being"
    13. I have consumed Starfield's universe and it tastes of whole milk and cinnamon
    14. Starfield's "are planets planets" debate recalls the amazingly weird cosmology of Elder Scrolls
    15. Life By You's humans are always watching you, and some of them can be real creepy about it
    16. Granblue Fantasy: Relink might be the king of chaotic JRPG combat
    17. Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: Wet worlds and cool violence
    18. Diablo 4 Season 2 will put fun before balance, but "we want every build to be viable"
    19. Starfield's endgame includes Legendary Ships, but space derelicts may house its best stories
    20. Baldur's Gate 3: Should you let Volo take your eye?
    21. Wordle hint and answer #801 (August 29 2023)
    1. Sea Of Stars review: a slick RPG that harks back to the Chrono Trigger classics
    2. Mediterranea Inferno takes you on a beautiful hallucinogenic anxiety holiday
    3. Wordle hint and answer #800 (August 28 2023)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #799 (August 27 2023)
    1. Soulframe's full reveal shows a "slow and pensive" fantasy RPG built on the bones of Warframe
    2. Warframe's next updates include a secret Necralisk lab, grimoires, and a Headless Horseman homage
    3. Run-and-gun Flash classic Alien Hominid HD will come to Steam alongside a sequel
    4. Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora will support raytraced reflections and ultrawide monitors
    5. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide's next update will add skill trees to all four classes
    6. Factorio's huge Space Age expansion will let you build conveyor belts among the stars
    7. What are we all playing this long weekend?
    8. Wordle hint and answer #798 (August 26 2023)
    1. Save $170 on this 28-inch 4K 144Hz monitor with HDMI 2.1 for PC and console gaming
    2. This 22TB WD My Book external HDD is down to $329.99 after a 45% discount
    3. Armored Core 6 tips and tricks
    4. Station To Station delivers minimalist railway management in October
    5. Have you played... Fugue In Void
    6. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a great time even if you disliked Jet Set Radio
    7. Europa's demo channels Journey's gentle gliding and Fumito Ueda's classics
    8. Baldur's Gate 3's first major patch fixes 1000+ bugs and brings back "Short King Summer" smooching
    9. Like A Dragon Gaiden lets you fight alongside the series' finest weirdos and I love it
    10. Stardew Valley's fishing gets the Wordle treatment in this new browser game
    11. Prefabs and ride sharing coming to Park Beyond alongside next month's Beyond eXtreme DLC
    12. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's irradiated world is dreadfully peaceful, if a bit confusing at the moment
    13. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Astarion
    14. Ghostrunner 2's cyber bike is the closest I've felt to a modern F-Zero in years
    15. Wordle hint and answer #797 (August 25 2023)
    1. Climbing puzzler Jusant will grip and release this October
    2. Blasphemous 2 and its Goya-inspired brutal action-platforming is out now
    3. No Man's Sky's Echoes update is out, with new robots, quests and revised space combat
    4. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty livestream offers a longer glimpse of five-star chaos
    5. Rejoice, Citizen Sleeper 2 is heading to Game Pass
    6. Have you played... Below?
    7. Summer holiday turns treacherous in horror visual novel Mediterranea Inferno, out today
    8. Western townbuilding spin-off SteamWorld Build digs into release this December
    9. The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria comes out in October for some drunken dwarf looting
    10. BioWare lays off around 50 employees as work on Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf continues
    11. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Steam Deck performance and settings guide
    12. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Gale
    13. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Shadowheart
    14. Armored Core 6 best weapons
    15. Hyenas' space-pirating actually makes for a refreshingly speedy extraction shooter
    16. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Wyll
    17. Baldur's Gate 3 best Warlock build guide
    18. Wordle hint and answer #796 (August 24 2023)
    1. Puzzle-platformer It's A Wrap! has you direct an '80s action movie, and it's out right now
    2. Turok 3 remaster will complete the return of the dinosaur-blasting FPS trilogy later this year
    3. What's better: Timed dialogue choices, or a stress-free co-op helper?
    4. Endless Dungeon's closed beta for the part-tower defence, part-roguelite, part-squad tactics not-sequel to Dungeon of the Endless kicks off next month
    5. Epic will start offering devs 100% of revenue for Epic Games Store exclusivity
    6. System Shock devs are remastering cult classic Star Wars shooter Dark Forces in 4K
    7. Classic adventure series Broken Sword returns with a sixth instalment and a beautiful remaster
    8. Our 'best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSD' pick is now £85 for 2TB at Amazon UK
    9. Starfield's opening is a lot of shades of literal grey
    10. Have You Played... Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2007)?
    11. This RTX 3080 Ti + 12900K pre-built gaming PC is $1250 at Woot
    12. Persona 3 Reload shoots out next February with effortless style
    13. Armored Core 6: Fires Of Rubicon review: FromSoftware's full spectrum mech experience mostly delivers
    14. Armored Core 6: How to reload
    15. Armored Core 6: How to save your loadout
    16. The mantis people are the real victims in Aperture Desk Job
    17. Quantum Break and Max Payne aren't in Remedy's Connected Universe, despite the Easter eggs
    18. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Lae'zel
    19. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Halsin
    20. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Karlach
    21. Become a bear whisperer and overthrow the president in Streets Of Rogue 2 next year
    22. Tencent's new Delta Force game restages one of the USA's greatest military disasters
    23. Supermassive are making Little Nightmares 3, but are sticking close to the series' DNA
    24. Wordle hint and answer #795 (August 23 2023)
    1. Diablo 4 season 2 will let you farm for specific Unique and Uber Unique items
    2. Every new trailer from Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023
    3. Modern Warfare 3's first campaign gameplay trailer sure looks like more COD
    4. Zack Snyder and Netflix's Rebel Moon-verse looks doomed to repeat the mistakes of Final Fantasy 15
    5. Ara: History Untold hopes to get out in front of Civilization 7 with its 2024 release window
    6. MudRunner continues off-roading with Expeditions, for science
    7. Dustborn is the latest addition to the nascent misfits-on-a-road-trip genre
    8. Thank Goodness You're Here! is surely the best trailer from Gamescom
    9. Colossal bosses take centre stage in looter shooter The First Descendant
    10. Crimson Desert in action looks like a sort of janky Assassin's Creedlike where you explode stuff a lot
    11. Cyberpunk 2077 players will get some of Phantom Liberty's biggest changes for free
    12. Payday 3's Gamescom trailer robs the wildest place yet: New Jersey
    13. Tekken 8 comes out next January with a very literal Arcade Mode
    14. Last Epoch is an ARPG coming for Diablo and Path Of Exile's crown
    15. Frontier's Warhammer Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin RTS hits PC on November 17th
    16. Steampunk survival crafting game Nightingale is entering early access in February 2024
    17. More RTS games should have gross ogres that burst open for a reverse Alien-like surprise
    18. Killing Floor 3 announced, continuing the co-op monster mash FPS
    19. Speedy Soulslike parries are out in full force in Black Myth: Wukong's newest trailer
    20. LG's 27GL850 monitor was legendary - and now the 27GP850 follow-up is down to $299.99
    21. Little Nightmares 3 is coming next year, and it's a co-op game with a podcast tie-in
    22. Get AMD's screaming-fast Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU for $385 with Starfield (was $449)
    23. Starfield's new live action trailer probably inspires more emotion than the entire game will
    24. Fort Solis review: a handsome haunted spacehouse with a deflating shortage of spectres
    25. Star Fox meets Vampire Survivors in this new roguelite starring cat pilots
    26. Have you played... Pyre?
    27. Baldur's Gate 3: How to romance Minthara
    28. Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 liveblog
    29. Release date for dystopian platformer Replaced slips to 2024
    30. All Baldur's Gate 3 companions
    31. Nvidia’s Ray Reconstruction aims to do for ray tracing what DLSS did for anti-aliasing
    32. Half-Life 2 RTX mod brings ray tracing and DLSS to another Valve classic
    33. Cult Of The Lamb and Don't Starve Together cross over to celebrate each other's birthdays
    34. Ubisoft set to buy cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games from Microsoft
    35. Wordle hint and answer #794 (August 22 2023)
    36. Fantasy auto-battler Tales & Tactics is more complicated than it needs to be, but still a reasonably fun time
    37. Immortals of Aveum: PC performance tested and the best settings to use
    38. Immortals Of Aveum review: a sometimes fun magical romp that lacks spark
    1. This 4K 160Hz Mini LED monitor is down to $679.99 at Amazon after a $120 discount
    2. The popular Be Quiet! Pure Base 500DX PC case is down to $99 at Amazon, a historic low
    3. This Vampire Survivors-like has catgirls, is brilliant, and costs nothing
    4. Stanisław Lem adaptation The Invincible is out in November
    5. Have You Played... Firewatch?
    6. October just got even busier with Ghostrunner 2 slated for the 26th
    7. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Undersea and oversea after the apocalypse
    8. Relax everyone, Paralives lets you kill your Parafolk just like The Sims
    9. Kentucky Route Zero's Postmodern update makes it more readable on the Steam Deck
    10. Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out review: a fascinating story-generator with a wealth of possibilities
    11. Fight Crab 2 adds playable humans for a Titanfall-esque twist
    12. Wordle hint and answer #793 (August 21 2023)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Wordle hint and answer #792 (August 20 2023)
    1. '90s internet animation Killer Bean is getting a video game, and it looks like procedural Just Cause
    2. No Man's Sky is seven years old and its next update is called Echoes
    3. Dave The Diver's button mashing is now optional - among many other improvements
    4. Wayfinder's developers apologise for rough launch as it receives 'mostly negative' reviews on Steam
    5. Wordle hint and answer #791 (August 19 2023)
    6. What are we all playing this weekend?
    1. Grab AMD's great value RX 6800 GPU with Starfield Premium Edition for $430
    2. Intel's Arc A770 16GB graphics card reaches $300 in the US, as DX11 performance rises by 19 percent
    3. The best thing about Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge is that I get to wear a nice murder cape
    4. Most of you will enjoy Black Skylands more than I do
    5. How should RPS report the news?
    6. GTA 5 AI mod shot down by Take-Two, even as Rockstar relax policy on modding
    7. Aperture Desk Job continues the story of business mega-bastard Cave Johnson absolutely perfectly
    8. Baldur's Gate 3 mod sort of turns it into Dragon Age: Origins
    9. Winning every Baldur's Gate 3 conversation as a charismatic bard isn't nearly as fun as I thought
    10. Wordle hint and answer #790 (August 18 2023)
    1. Savescumming has returned to Freelancer mode in Hitman: World Of Assassination
    2. Hyenas' closed beta will launch this month, might change business model
    3. Alan Wake 2 delayed ten days to avoid other game releases
    4. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will release this November
    5. The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 27: ill-advised Baldur's Gate 3 discourse chat
    6. The latest Starfield controversy is a reminder that gamers really love pacifism
    7. Fish the heavens for lost messages in free indie beauty The Anglerfish Project
    8. The Lamplighters League might be about to rip up the XCOM rulebook
    9. Blasphemous 2 review: a worthy 2D Dark Souls tribute drenched in literal Catholicism
    10. Baldur's Gate 3 lockpicking
    11. Armored Core 6 release time
    12. Todds away - Starfield preloads are live on Game Pass today
    13. The creators of the System Shock remake want to do Unreal next
    14. Wordle hint and answer #789 (August 17 2023)
    1. Astra: Knights of Veda, the first video game from the company behind K-pop megastars BTS, looks like a 2D Elden Ring
    2. Dell's ultra-premium ultra-wide OLED is down to $899.99, a high price that's nonetheless justified
    3. Starfield info drop covers pacifist runs, player houses and contraband
    4. Get Lexar's 1TB Play Micro SD card for just £67 after an Amazon discount
    5. What's better: Mimics, or tactically sealing doors?
    6. Escape Simulator is getting free Portal DLC
    7. Netflix are testing their own game streaming service
    8. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood review: a wonderfully witchy fable told through player-created Tarot
    9. Baldur’s Gate 3 Lone Wolf mods let you ditch companions for a truly solo adventure
    10. How Sigono craft sci-fi visual novels with heartfelt stories that keep players coming back
    11. You don't need to like or know about D&D to enjoy Baldur's Gate 3
    12. Is Baldur's Gate 3 the ultimate Dungeons & Dragons video game?
    13. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew review: an all-time treasure
    14. Genshin Impact 4.0 is out, adding new sunken kingdom area, water mechanics, distracting tophats
    15. Baldur's Gate 3's second patch will include player requests, after "+1000 fixes and tweaks"
    16. Wordle hint and answer #788 (August 16 2023)
    1. Get LG's 27-inch 4K 144Hz wonder-monitor for $543, down from $800
    2. Samsung's titanic 49-inch CRG9 gaming monitor is down to £649 via Samsung's Ebay outlet
    3. Blizzard stops Diablo 4 player trading "until further notice" to fix gold and item exploits
    4. Cities: Skylines 2 will simulate layoffs, homelessness and bankruptcies
    5. Aperture Desk Job is still the first game you should install on your Steam Deck
    6. Hammerwatch 2 is the Mighty Max pixelated mini-RPG that I need right now
    7. The Dark Urge in Baldur's Gate 3 makes every nap a potential nightmare
    8. Sclash is a short but sweet low-pressure duelling game
    9. The Murdle book manages to weave jokes and a plot in the spaces between logic grid puzzles
    10. Gord review: fertile ground covered in stagnant water, also swamps
    11. Lords of the Fallen has a novel approach to trolling multiplayer invaders
    12. Orbo's Odyssey is Psychonauts meets Sonic Adventure, and you can shoot your character like a bullet
    13. Bethesda’s new Starfield lore timeline leaves Earth's fate a mystery
    14. Wordle hint and answer #787 (August 15 2023)
    1. Roblox’s Hamilton Simulator lets you rap Redcoats to death with a squad of Founding Fathers
    2. Larian teases the future option to change your Baldur’s Gate 3 character appearance
    3. Installing a new CPU? Get Arctic's MX-4 thermal paste with a wee spatula for $5.56
    4. Assassin’s Creed Mirage release date sneaks forward by a week
    5. IO have a policy against using AI in gamedev, but it "might be for us in the future"
    6. Grab Intel's Core i7 12700K CPU for $347 - with a free Z690 motherboard and 16GB DDR4 RAM
    7. Aviary Attorney dev’s Redwall-meets-Final Fantasy RPG Small Saga still looks incredible as it gets a release date
    8. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 review: the least underwhelming 1080p graphics card
    9. How the co-creator of Skins became the lead writer on an upcoming AAA open world game
    10. Vampire Survivors-alike Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors has a release date
    11. Screenshot Saturday Mondays: "Sekiro with a gun?"
    12. Cliff Bleszinski wants a new Jazz Jackrabbit "in the style of Jumping Flash"
    13. Baldur's Gate 3 is Metacritic's highest-rated PC game ever, but devs are rejecting cheap comparisons
    14. Wordle hint and answer #786 (August 14 2023)
    1. The Sunday Papers
    2. Wordle hint and answer #785 (August 13 2023)
    1. To The Core contains interplanetary mining with the spectacle of Vampire Survivors
    2. Make I before E and every other letter in optimisation puzzler Word Factori
    3. Anno 1800 will make it easier to find and download mods with official support
    4. South Park: Snow Day is a 3D co-op multiplayer action game coming in 2024
    5. What are we all playing this weekend?
    6. Wordle hint and answer #784 (August 12 2023)
    1. Airhead looks great, but its puffy platforming is a little lightweight
    2. Titan Quest 2 announced with a "hand-crafted" open world
    3. Alien landlord sim Space For Sale looks thrillingly unsavoury
    4. Outcast: A New Beginning wants to be a caring open world shooter
    5. Relive your Command & Conquer glory days with the free demo for Tempest Rising
    6. Come say goodbye to RPS guides writer Rebecca Jones
    7. AMD Radeon RX 7600 review: a GPU with nothing new
    8. Hot tip: Baldur's Gate 3's Rangers are basically utility Rogues with bonus animal friends
    9. Blackbird Interactive used VR to sculpt Homeworld 3's new Mothership
    10. If you like Wordle, why not try Murdle? It's Wordle, but murder. Murdle!
    11. Bethesda and AMD announce limited edition Starfield GPU and CPU at Quakecon
    12. The best free PC games
    13. Epic Games free games list
    14. Overwatch 2's "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam launch brings years of frustration to the boil
    15. Wordle hint and answer #783 (August 11 2023)
    1. Get the fastest gaming CPU, bar none, for £40 off - with free Starfield and blue light glasses
    2. Pick up this slick Asus ROG Z11 Mini ITX case for £99.98
    3. Baldur's Gate 3 review: the rumours are true, this is a really good RPG
    4. Quake 2 remaster released, includes Quake 2 64 and new expansion
    5. The secret best Baldur's Gate 3 class is, of course, Barrelmancer
    6. Armored Core 6: Everything we know
    7. The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 26: is it okay to call games 'retro'?
    8. Turbo Overkill review: a relentless retro FPS, best enjoyed in bursts
    9. Give yourself a present with this PS1-style Twin Peaks game
    10. Baldur's Gate 3 Caravan Strongbox: What is the Iron Flask?
    11. Lords Of The Fallen's magical lantern could make it a top Soulslike contender
    12. In a Call Of Duty first, Modern Warfare 3 will share its arsenal with Modern Warfare 2
    13. Vote now for your favourite RPGs of all time
    14. Starfield’s multiple ideas of time have fans asking about black holes
    15. Next Honkai Star Rail Banner [Version 1.2]
    16. Wordle hint and answer #782 (August 10 2023)
    1. Samsung's RPS-recommended 970 Evo Plus 2TB SSD is down to $74
    2. Atlas Fallen review: middling action adventuring upheld by (mostly) stellar combat
    3. The best RPGs to play on PC in 2023
    4. This Corsair power supply can handle the RTX 4090 and is down to $125 at Newegg
    5. Lucas Pope marks 10 years of Papers, Please with a free demake for your browser
    6. Videoverse's fictional video game magazines are the stuff of dreams
    7. Starfield characters and crew companions
    8. Baldur's Gate 3: How to get to the Underdark
    9. Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical review: a melodic adventure with something to sing about
    10. How to find your belongings in Baldur's Gate 3
    11. Baldur's Gate 3 Strange Ox
    12. The one time I didn't pick everyone's pockets in Baldur's Gate 3 really came back to bite me
    13. Baldur's Gate 3 patch fixes "Exorcist" moments and infinite spell loops, also surprise dick shots
    14. Obsidian "really pushed" Avowed as a co-op RPG, pivoted to single player in eight months
    15. A Red Dead Redemption PC port could still be on the cards
    16. Valve are selling refurbished Steam Decks, and they're dirt cheap
    17. Starfield PC requirements
    18. Wordle hint and answer #781 (August 9 2023)
    1. This 128GB USB flash drive is just five bucks at Newegg
    2. Dead By Daylight: Alien trailer confirms playable Ripley, unique map elements
    3. This Ryzen 5 3600 is the heart of many gaming PCs - and for £70 it can be yours too
    4. Total War: Warhammer 3's Shadows of Change DLC brings three new playstyles
    5. Baldur's Gate 3: How to rest
    6. Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 DLC anxieties make me wish they'd develop a god sim
    7. Baldur's Gate 3: How to respec your character
    8. Baldur's Gate 3 is a relentlessly horny video game
    9. Promising dungeon crawler Dark And Darker hits early access after being kicked off Steam
    10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer has old faces and flashy enigmas
    11. Wordle hint and answer #780 (August 8 2023)
    1. Logitech's G502 X gaming mouse hits $50 in the US with this coupon
    2. Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) review: the grand duke of desktop replacements
    3. Following a price cut in the UK, DualSense PS5 controllers are down to $49 in the US
    4. Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya wants us to drop the "retro" game label
    5. How to multiclass in Baldur's Gate 3
    6. Baldur's Gate 3: How to revive characters
    7. Baldur's Gate 3: How to highlight objects
    8. Next Genshin Impact banner [Version 4.0]
    9. Baldur's Gate 3 players already have a bazillion requests for modders - I have only one
    10. Say hello and welcome to Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, our new news editor
    11. Videoverse review: hold onto your heartstrings
    12. Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck: perfectly playable, once you fix the crashing (Update: the crashing is fixed)
    13. Wordle hint and answer #779 (August 7 2023)
    1. Wordle hint and answer #778 (August 6 2023)
    1. What are we all playing this weekend?
    2. Wordle hint and answer #777 (August 5 2023)
    1. Reality Bytes: Revisiting The Room VR in a golden age of VR puzzlers
    2. Intrigue and empathy overcome UI annoyances in Frank And Drake
    3. Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition now has a time-unlimited free trial version
    4. Who is the Guardian in Baldur's Gate 3?
    5. How to open the Elaborate Chest in Baldur's Gate 3
    6. I always create the most boring characters possible in RPGs, pls help
    7. Steam’s Puzzle Showcase has big discounts for Portal, Outer Wilds, Obra Dinn, and more
    8. Meet my Baldur's Gate 3 character, Edders Sheeran the psychopathic bard
    9. Persona 5 Tactica is locking two of the best Phantom Thieves behind DLC
    10. Baldur's Gate 3 absolutely trains you in the noble art of savescumming
    11. Looter shooter The First Descendant pushes back its open beta to September
    12. How to escape the Enclave Library in Baldur's Gate 3
    13. The RPS 100: Reader Edition (2023): your favourite PC games of all time
    14. Quake 2 Remastered might be announced at QuakeCon 2023 next week
    15. Developers! Makers! Submit your work to our alt controller booth at EGX 2023
    16. How to save Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3
    17. The joy of cheesing bosses in Remnant 2
    18. Survival sandbox Scum makes all its men "Smokin' Hot" in today's 0.9 update
    19. Wordle hint and answer #776 (August 4 2023)
    1. Steam survived the onslaught of players downloading Baldur's Gate 3
    2. Dave The Diver's quality-of-life update will make button mashing optional
    3. Classic shmup Radiant Silvergun will arrive on PC this month after 25 years
    4. American Truck Simulator's Oklahoma DLC adds ten cities and a bee plush
    5. The Rally Point: This year's low-intensity strategy for the Summer (?) heatwave (??) is Myriads: Renaissance
    6. Professional weird little guy Wheatley distills everything I love about Portal 2
    7. Pour one out for Losiir, the unsung hero of Baldur's Gate 3's intro
    8. Apex Legends Season 18 will turn Revenant into an absolute terror
    9. Baldur's Gate 3 scuffed rock
    10. Two Point Campus' next expansion is a Two Point Hospital throwback, coming this month
    11. This 2TB SSD with heatsink is the ultimate PC or PS5 upgrade for £126
    12. Final Fantasy creator's dioramic RPG Fantasian could be headed to PC soon
    13. Letter From The Editor #11: A note on how we're covering Baldur's Gate 3
    14. PSA: Don't miss out on Baldur's Gate 3's hero introductions when picking your character
    15. How Baldur's Gate 3 morphed Larian Studios into wild new shapes
    16. Baldur’s Gate 3 PC performance and best settings to use
    17. The Electronic Wireless Show S2 Episode 25: Baldur's Gate 3 is a good game
    18. The best moment of Portal 2: the part where he kills you
    19. Diablo 4's 1.1.1 patch revises controversial nerfs to the Sorcerer and Barbarian classes
    20. Return Of The Obra Dinn is the perfect recommendation for folks who don't play games
    21. Get Logitech's classic 720p webcam for $13
    22. The Callisto Protocol studio hit by lay-offs for 32 employees
    23. The best moment from Return Of The Obra Dinn: the shoe and hammock revelation
    24. Vampire Survivors: Directer's Cut is real, but "may or may not" ever release
    25. Delete your Baldur's Gate 3 early access saves and uninstall the game, say Larian
    26. Wordle hint and answer #775 (August 3 2023)
    1. What's better: In-game memorials to players, or Dark Souls bonewheels?
    2. This 27-inch 1440p 180Hz Acer monitor is down to $200 at Amazon.com
    3. AMD's 7900X3D processor has dropped to $439 at Ebay in the US
    4. Half-Life 2's Zombie Chopper achievement elevates Ravenholm to a true horror masterpiece
    5. Baldur's Gate 3's narrator posts hilarious outtakes that tease just how thirsty the game might be
    6. Tower defence citybuilding has reached its peak with the adorable but deadly Thronefall
    7. Alien's iconic Xenomorph is stalking into Dead By Daylight
    8. Tactical CRPG Dark Envoy shows off its many steampunk-fantasy classes and specialisations
    9. The joy of playing Half-Life 2 in VR
    10. Starfield editions compared
    11. More games should steal Half-Life 2: Lost Coast's developer commentary
    12. Escort lost souls when folkloric roguelike An Ankou enters early access on August 17th
    13. The RPS Game Club pick for August is Aperture Desk Job!
    14. Saints Row gets a third expansion next week and a Steam release later this month
    15. Hasbro's claims about classic Transformers games being lost on Activision's hard drives were made "in error"
    16. Wordle hint and answer #774 (August 2 2023)
    1. Hitman is getting its first elusive target in two years and it's DJ Dimitri Vegas
    2. Ludicrously, Ebay USA's Back To School sale includes 20% off this $999 LG OLED 240Hz gaming monitor
    3. Race to solve puzzles in Escape Simulator's new versus update
    4. This 100W 4-port GaN charger is down to £42 at Scan in the UK
    5. Sin remaster "isn't dead", say Night Dive, but will "go through some changes"
    6. Want a height adjustable sit/stand desk for $110?
    7. Upgrade your Steam Deck or ROG Ally with this 1TB SSD for £80
    8. Nearly 250 non-violent, cosy and relaxing games are discounted for Steam's Wholesome Games Celebration
    9. The best moment of Citizen Sleeper: meeting the stray cat
    10. Will Starfield run on Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally?
    11. Death Stranding is leaving Game Pass, while A Short Hike and Limbo join
    12. Puzzle box 'em up The Room celebrates its 10th anniversary with a series-wide sale next month
    13. The joy of spending five hours cleaning out Dishonored 2's Clockwork Mansion
    14. Dishonored 2's ingenious A Crack In The Slab mission shows Arkane at their best
    15. Suzerain's 2.0 update is a "massive overhaul" to the already-excellent political RPG
    16. The Expanse: A Telltale Series episode one veers dangerously close to a slightly boring Dead Space
    17. Baldur's Gate 3's "hidden" mind flayer skill tree sounds equally cool and gross
    18. Baldur's Gate 3 release time
    19. Patapon creator's new rhythm strategy game Ratatan is heading to PC
    20. CSGO best launch options
    21. Wordle hint and answer #773 (August 1 2023)