Yet another studio formed of Disco Elysium alumni has announced a cerebral sci-fi RPG, just to confuse you XXX gonna give it to you Image credit:Dark Math Games You have woken to the sound of multiple former Disco Elysium developers arguing inside your own skull. They are bickering about whose game is the true spiritual successor to the rockbottom detective RPG . Is it the unnamed project announced earlier today by new studio Longdue, involving some kind of “psychogeography mechanic”?...

You can get a 5080 rig for $1820 right now at the Dell Outlet, saving over $600 It’s an Alienware Aurora R16 build, too. Image credit:Dell We’re always on the lookout for bargains , and having spotted some great starter rigs in recent weeks , we’ve found a doozy of a PC packing the RTX 5080 . Dell has given its outlet store a bit of a spring clean, and there are Blackwell models seeing a significant saving over buying them new, like this Alienware Aurora R16 with an RTX 5080 for just $1820 ....

“A lot of people” at Avowed studio Obsidian would be up for a Pillars Of Eternity tactics spin off But “not that many” would buy it, says Josh Sawyer Image credit:Obsidian Pentiment , Pillars Of Eternity , and Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says there’s enthusiasm at Obsidian for a potential tactics game set in the same universe as Avowed and the Pillars RPGs , but he’s not sure the audience is there for it....

“Lovecraftian Stone Age” town builder The Tribe Must Survive hits early access in February What we do in and out of the shadows Image credit:Starbreeze Entertainment Take the little boy with lancing white eyes from Playdead’s Limbo , ruthlessly clone him a few dozen times (an extremely Playdead thing to do) and herd all the clones into a world redolent of Klei’s Don’t Starve , and you have something like The Tribe Must Survive ....

97% of Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta’s early cheaters were caught within 30 minutes of sign in, Activision say “Fewer than 1% of cheating attempts reached a match”, according the publishers’ wallhack police Image credit:Activision Call of Duty Black Ops 7 beta cheaters were inevitable and expected , with Activision hinting that they were intentionally prepping their big anti-cheat guns prior to early access kicking off. Now the beta’s first weekend’s passed, the publishers’ anti-cheat enforcers Team Ricochet have posted an update addressing the cheating situation, claiming that their efforts thus far have seen a lot of success....

A skeezy crypto GTA 6 clone will launch on Steam this week despite Valve’s blockchain ban The other kind of crime sim Image credit:Ultra Games An alleged cryptocurrency scam that models itself on Grand Theft Auto 6 will be launching on Steam this week, despite Valve’s promises that they do not allow NFT or blockchain games to exist on the platform. Paradise has been advertised as an action game set in a sunny city which will allow players to drive cars, shoot enemies, and earn money....

Activision are finally cutting down Call Of Duty’s horrendous install sizes for Black Ops 6’s release They’ll be “smaller and more customized” in future Image credit:Microsoft For years, our PC storage has wobbled and buckled beneath the tyranny of gigantic Call Of Duty installs . Like 13th century peasants straining to convey huge, teetering loads of freshly quarried LMGs, our SSDs cry out for justice. Perhaps scenting imminent rebellion and a mass audience desertion to low-poly shooters with more civilised file sizes, Activision have relented....

After 250 hours, I keep coming back to Arc Raiders not because it’s surprising, but because it’s predictable A quick trigger finger isn’t what gets you ahead Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios When I gave extraction shooter Arc Raiders a glowing review in November , I wasn’t certain it would keep me hooked. Two months later and I’m 250 hours deep. Despite clear flaws – and developer Embark Studio’s insistence on retaining AI-generated voice lines – I feel its pull every day, and not for the reasons I would’ve thought....

Against The Storm’s 1.3 update is out now and it’s one for the zoomers Because you can zoom out further now Image credit:Eremite Games Against The Storm ’s latest update adds a a River Kelpie, a “legendary water demon” that can mesmerise villagers in your rain-slick settlements. I’ve been mesmerised myself by another part of the update, however: the ability to zoom out 66% further than before. Why does a big zoom compel me so?...

All 24 Black Myth Wukong weapons and how to get them A full list of all 24 staves, and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science On the hunt for all 24 weapons in Black Myth: Wukong? The Monkey King begins the game with his iconic staff, Jingubang, but alas you cannot keep it for the entire playthrough. Quickly, you’re relegated to the lowliest of tree branches, and most scavenge and defeat bosses for the crafting materials you need to upgrade to more powerful weapons....

All Lost Fleas in Hollow Knight Silksong How to find all 5 Fleas for Fleamaster Mooshka Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry Looking for the Lost Fleas in Hollow Knight: Silksong? One of the early quests in Silksong occurs when you run into Fleamaster Mooshka and the Flea Caravan, a jolly bunch found in The Marrow. Fleamaster Mooshka will ask Hornet for help in finding five lost Fleas. Completing this quest will let you fast travel with the caravan to Greymoor and avoid an extremely hard early boss....

It’s cheaper than Black Friday last year. <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/samsung-g9-ultrawide-drops-to-amazing-price-rps.png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“Amazon knocks $650 off the Samsung 49” Odyssey G9 OLED curved gaming monitor - 1”> SAMSUNG 49” Odyssey G93SC Series OLED Curved Gaming Monitor $949 (was $1599.99). 3/yr Warranty. 240Hz, 0.03ms, Dual QHD, DisplayHDR True Black 400, FreeSync Premium Pro. See at Amazon Our friends over at IGN have declared this as the “best large OLED monitor” and for good reason....

An Elder Scrolls 6 memorial character moulded by Tamriel’s finest internet lorekeepers is now set in stone Nice to see Image credit:Bethesda You might remember that a little while ago, Bethesda announced an auction which’d see the winner given the chance to design a character in The Elder Scrolls 6 . Bids were donations to the charity Make-A-Wish, and narrowly missing out on top spot was one from the folks behind the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, the series’ long-running and very good independent wiki....

Apartment Story is a game about murder, loneliness, and the mental health benefits of straight up jorking it And by “it”, well, let’s just say, haha <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/apartment-story-header.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A man sits and watches a television that reads “The End Of The World” in Apartment Story. - 1”> Image credit:Blue Rider/Rock Paper Shotgun Experimental, feature-length simulation game Apartment Story is not especially brilliant, but it does feature a home invasion that’s stressful in several, systemically tangible ways I’ve never quite felt in such a specific combination from a videogame before....

Apex Legends’ Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth crossover arrives on January 9th A metaverse is born Image credit:EA/Respawn Entertainment Every game is Who Framed Roger Rabbit now - or, less charitably, a metaversal hellscape where canonical integrity matters far less than providing a platform through which to sell cosmetics. Apex Legends is the latest live service game to take the plunge with its first crossover event. It’s with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and it’ll bring the Buster Sword, Aerith, and other elements from the JRPG to the battle royale on January 9th....

Arcade shooter Nova Drift is a Petri dish in which to spawn the daftest, deadliest spaceship You’ve got ARPG in my shmup again Image credit:Pixeljam I’m no shoot ’em up nutter - or “shmutter”, as I understand they prefer to be called - but some of the first games I remember playing are shmups. Games like Maelstrom, Ambrosia’s Macintosh clone of Asteroids, and the proto-shmup Crystal Quest from Patrick Buckland, who would go on to make Carmageddon ....

Arma’s ‘Rats map’ April Fools’ is now a real Tiny Wars mode you can play Servers live until April 9th Image credit:Bohemia Interactive RPS was on holiday yesterday, which is fortuitous timing because it was April 1st and it meant we missed all the “jokes” (lies) the games industry likes to spread on that day each year. Credit to Arma developer’s Bohemia Interactive, however. Their April 1st announcement was that the latest update for Arma Reforger was Tiny Wars, a game mode in which you controlled tiny toy Army Men as they waged war around a proportionally huge home....

Armello devs’ new multiplayer strategy game in hell captures tabletop treachery like no other Watch the Treehouse burn itself in hell in Solium Infernum Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/League Of Geeks It took all of one turn before the insults started flying in our Solium Infernum multiplayer preview session this week. Specifically, they’d been launched straight into the court of League Of Geeks co-founder and studio director Trent Kusters, who was attempting to show us how the game’s asynchronous multiplayer mode worked in a six-player match-up - the public playtest for which goes live today, Thursday January 11th, over on Steam....

Assetto Corsa Rally’s first big update adds in snow, an ice circuit and a majestic 70s stage smasher Ice, ice, brakeby Image credit:Kunos Simulazioni Having launched with plenty of tarmac and dirt spaghetti for your car to be violently spit from into a tree or hedge, Assetto Corsa Rally now features the usual third type of surface that’s rallied along. Supernova Games Studios have let snow and ice encrust their sim in its biggest update since it took off from the early access start line....

Bambas! is Untitled Shoes Game Here’s the kicker Image credit:DevilishGames The trailer for Bambas! starts off innocently enough. It’s an “innovative urban walking simulator” in which you play a disembodied pair of shoes, individually moved with a controller’s analog sticks and trigger buttons. The first half of the trailer is all whimsy and playground fun - kicking a football, standing on a climbing frame, riding a skateboard. But then a note of darkness creeps in, as the player begins to channel the sheer nihilistic inconsequentiality of a world in which shoes have no thinking human bodies to restrain them....