The Fallout TV Show season 2’s NCR ranger power armour has already arrived in Fallout 4 thanks to modders Following its cameo in the latest trailer to drop ahead of the series’ December debut Image credit:PrincessAries / Bethesda Well, that was quick. Season two of Prime Video’s Fallout show is still weeks away from arriving on December 17th, but a group of modders have wasted no time in studying its latest trailer and taking a crack at adding the NCR ranger power armour shown off to Fallout 4 ....

The Finals’ latest patch makes progression faster, stops corpses exploding The exploding wasn’t a bug Image credit:RPS/Embark Studios The Finals update 1.7.0 released this past week and makes substantial changes to the destructive shooter’s progression. It should make it much faster to advance through battle pass levels, if skins and cosmetics are what you’re after. Several of the changes double or even triple the amount of XP you get for certain actions....

The fourth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 Not as good as yesterday’s Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: How do you convince a costumed subordinate not to quit their job? A: Promise Mascot Agency Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in...

The legendary Ryzen 7 5800X3D is back down to £234 at AWD-IT in the UK Just £1 more than the slower 5700X3D that we featured yesterday. Now though, the faster 5800X3D has dropped to nearly the same price, just £234 - an even better deal given its higher clock speeds and (very marginally) faster performance. If you’re still running an older Ryzen processor and your motherboard can be updated to support the 5800X3D, then I highly recommend this processor, especially if you’re using a comparatively low-res 1080p or 1440p display as you’re more likely to be CPU-limited at these resolutions!...

The Maw - 11th-16th March 2024 Our weekly news liveblog, and the week’s most appetising game releases Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images A new week has slouched into view, and with it a slight shift in The Maw’s terrifying visage. A new presence can be seen through the mist, perched on its shoulder, whispering tendrils of video game news nuggets into its greedy, hungry ear. The Maw appears sated, but will the distraction hold while we await the return of our news editor Edwin, whose long weekend sojourns won’t conclude until tomorrow?...

The Maw - 25th-30th March 2024 Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s bestest videogame releases Image credit:Jacopo Ligozzi It’s a brand new week in Computer Game Land, and right now, I am playing a nasty little survival sim called “Beating Jetlag”. I landed back in the UK from GDC on Saturday afternoon, and my brain and eyeballs still feel as though they’re being gently sautéed in a medicinal blend of oil and vinegar....

The Maw - 2nd-6th January 2024 Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Hartmann Schede/Wikimedia Happy new year all. What’s the weather like where you are? We’ve got Amber and Yellow warnings in London - I do not understand what these terms mean, but I’m going to add a Sapphire warning for escalating Maw activity. The creature was pretty lively over the Xmas weekend, but Graham managed to soothe it with posts about gaming-related new year resolutions and, of all things, the Spike Video Game Awards ....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? InZoi and Atomfall, plus some strategy, soulsliking and surrealism Image credit:Megabit Publishing Happy this week, all! And what a fine week it is for feeding the Maw. I’ve slipped on my lead-plated exosuit, stocked my enchanted utility belt with open beta announcements, and am ready to dispense some news. Here’s what’s coming down the games industry oesophagus in the next few days....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Blops 6, The Axis Unseen, Factorio Space Age and, you guessed it, more Image credit:Old Book Illustrations/Carlo Chiostri Happy this week, everybody! In my efforts to achieve the absolute tranquility needed to spend five days shovelling PC game news stories into a ravenous otherworldly monster, I often go for an early morning walk. I tend to do this while wearing my trusty, enveloping Honcho Poncho, because the UK summer is thoroughly behind us and the very air has begun to squelch....

The original Warcraft and Diablo are now available from Battle.net After time on GOG Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard tend to do a good job maintaining even their oldest games, releasing patches sometimes decades after their original release. I therefore assumed that 1994’s Warcraft: Orcs And Humans and 1997’s Diablo were available via the studio’s store and launcher, Battle.net. Not so, it turns out, because Blizzard have just announced they’ve added them today, and with working multiplayer for both....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 11th This door was ordered to open earlier Image credit:RPS The RPS Advent Calender 2024 is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. When I were a lad, you’d open an advent calendar and get a piece of chocolate shaped like a bell with an aftertaste so rancid you’d wish you’d eaten the little cardboard window instead....

The RTX 5080 is here, but you should probably just buy this RTX 4080 Super gaming PC instead The same power, for less. Image credit:HP The Nvidia RTX 5080 is out! Kind of. In theory. If you can find one. But here’s the thing: it’s basically just an expensive RTX 4080 Super in disguise (in my opinion). Performance is near-identical, stock is non-existent, and unless you’re willing to shell out over $2,500 for a prebuilt system , good luck getting one....

The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with “financial distress”, claims report What, a piffling 20 billion? Pay the man, Edmund, and damn his impudence Image credit:Neom Saudi Arabia’s conquest of the games industry continues apace, but whoops, the country’s Public Investment Fund appear to be running out of money. In the sense of being reportedly down to a mere pocketful of billions, anyway. According to the New York Times (paywall), via GamesIndustry....

The sequel to the sequel to Snake just dropped Barr’s doing what Noki-ain’t Image credit:Pippin Barr Snakists is a game by Pippin Barr, author of many small and wonderful ludic experiments . The most pertinent of which, in this case, is Snakisms . That one takes the can-I-borrow-your-Nokia-for-a-minute-mate ’em up and explores a smattering of experimental design tunnels based on different schools of thoughts. ‘Pessimism’, for example, forces you to contend with a prized gobblin’ dot placed permanently outside the confines of your snakely entrapment box, ‘Asceticism’ kills you as soon as you eat a dot, and so on....

The Sims 1 and 2 are coming back to PC this week with all original expansion packs, says report Simthing for the weekend Image credit:EA The Sims and The Sims 2 are getting digital PC versions with all their original expansion packs included, and should be released by the end of the week, say Kotaku . The report follows teases made by the official Sims account on X as part of a 25th anniversary celebrations roadmap, as well as a few other scattered hints in various bits of promo as collated by Redditor skyline7284 ....

The Sims 4’s Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will let open your own business and tattoo your Sims Or make them terrible pottery Image credit:EA Maxis Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, the saying goes. (This is why so many games journalists are unemployed - ba-dum tish.) Thankyfully the next expansion for The Sims 4 seems to understand the permeable boundary between passion project and career as purely aspirational....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for rediscovering the joy of bouncing a tennis ball off your bedroom wall. When’s the last time you bounced a ball? I recommend it. Sometimes I play a game with myself where I say “if I bounce and catch this ball 10 times in a row, I will win a million pounds”....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for watching yet another episode of Catfish. Let’s feign surprise as we read the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For Eurogamer, Ed Nightingale wrote about what the ultimate character creator might look like . Nightingale talks to devs about their approach to character creation, its challenges, innovations, and what its future might hold. She also has a more philosophical take on diversity....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for doing back mobility exercises because your body is crumbling. Let’s stretch as we read the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For IGN, Wesley Yin-Poole wrote about Delaney King’s Xweet thread, all about why Starfield’s character smiles look like they’re dead inside . Apparently it’s because of a very specific muscle not contracting?? King references Hungarian model András Arató, who was made famous by the Hide the Pain Harold meme....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for squishing nids. I…was at least 35% wrong about Space Marine II. The new patch and a trick I learned to deal with Zoanthropes means I can play on Veteran now, and a lot of the issues I had with feeling overpowered have been sorted. I still think the guard are more interesting, but it’s a very fun bit of smashy. Before I continue to never be wrong about a videogame ever again, let’s read some writing that I personally found interesting about games (and game related things!...