Star Racer, a combat ship speedfest about evading the fuzz as an alien M.O.M, has zoomed out of early access Nyyyyyyyyyooooooommmmmmm Image credit:Whatnot Games Steam’s in the midst of a racing fest at the moment, and as you can probably imagine if you’ve not taken to tuning out the litany of driving-related words I’ve carved into the tree that houses the esteemed RPS treehouse in the short time I’ve been here thus far (believe me, I don’t blame you if you have), I’m in my element....

Star Wars Outlaws: Counterfeit Credits quest walkthrough Here’s how to complete the Counterfeit Credits quest and all outcomes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Looking to complete the Counterfeit Credits quest in Star Wars Outlaws? As you explore the different syndicate regions in Star Wars Outlaws , you may come across the ‘Counterfeit Credits’ intel. A Pyke member within the Pyke Cardroom in Mirogana City will task you with finding the source of an influx of Counterfeit Credits....

StarCraft 2’s former lead multiplayer designer teases a new RTS he feels is a “paradigm shift” for the genre Uncapped Games will reveal the untitled project at Summer Game Fest Image credit:Noclip The former multiplayer lead for RTS giant StarCraft 2 is working on a new real-time strategy game that he promises will mark a “paradigm shift” for the storied PC genre. David Kim formed new studio Uncapped Games back in 2021 alongside fellow strategy veterans with credits across the likes of Blizzard classics StarCraft and (non-World of) WarCraft , Warhammer 40k RTS Dawn of War and Relic’s WWII gem Company of Heroes ....

Steam’s overlords still think in-game ads are fine as long as they’re “appropriate” And I still have an unhealthy fascination with the practice of adding ads to games Image credit:The Drum Cheery mom-and-pop computer game business Valve have created a new Steamworks page for their policy about in-game adverts and advertising in general, with a troubleshooter’s list of dos and don’ts for developers. As Graham pointed out to me just now, Valve’s handling of such things hasn’t really changed over the past few years, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to chew the fat a little about the intriguingly murky, slippery-slope business of turning your virtual world into an ad platform....

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster review Twice more with feeling Image credit:Konami/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam / Epic Games Store Price: £45/€50/$50 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Gate Rune And Dunan Unification Wars is an unwieldy subtitle for a pair of comfy and often cheerful RPGs , but it’s one you could easily see on the slipcover for a thick slab of historical fiction....

Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form Big blindsided Image credit:Skunkape Games Approximately 15 years, two months, and 14 days ago, Quintin Smith (RPS in peace) lobbed the headline ’ Poker Night At The Inventory Released Today ’ onto this fine site. On this day, February 5th - approximately 479,821,535 seconds further on in time - I’m here to tell you Poker Night At The Inventory is coming back, baby....

Telmari’s toilet plunger arrows are one of my new favourite platforming tricks Play the demo for this speedrunning platformer ahead of its release on February 16th Image credit:Phoenix Blasters Who’d have thought toilet plungers would make for such good jumping assistants when it comes to propelling yourself over big, thorny brambles and angry animals? Well, clearly the trio of developers at Phoenix Blasters did, as their upcoming platformer Telmari puts them front and centre as its main form of traversal....

Tencent accuse Sony of trying “to fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture” with their Horizon copyright lawsuit Lights Of Motiram isn’t a “slavish clone”, they insist Image credit:Polaris Quest This afternoon, a choice of two raging videogame lawsuits to report on. Firstly, a snippet from the on-going courtroom scrap between former Unknown Worlds executives and Krafton over the state of Subnautica 2 ’s development, in which the former accuse the latter of changing their story about why the executives were fired....

Thank Goodness You’re Here! review: edges towards greatness and won’t take you long to beat Carry on Image credit:Coal Supper/Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Coal Supper Publisher: Panic Release: August 1st 2024 On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel i5-9400F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GTX1660 British comedy is too often defined by its relationship to America: either as merely irony and sarcasm, which we’re told Americans don’t understand, or as a sprightly ideas factory for works such as The Office, which Americans can bless by re-making at scale....

The 10 best immersive sims on PC We found this list in the ladies restroom Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Bethesda / Eidos The immersive sim has seen a revival in recent years. Not only from larger studios like Arkane, keeping the faith alive with their time loops and space stations, but also from a bunch of smaller developers bravely exploring a typically ambitious genre. RPS has always had an affinity for these systemically luxuriant simulations, historically lauding the likes of the original Deus Ex as the best game ever made ....

The 50 best strategy games to play on PC From tiny tactics to grand campaigns Strategy gaming is a big house full of war and the rowdy residents we’ve gathered below include real-time strategy, turn-based tactics, stealth-strategy, 4X and many other subgenres besides. What unites our selection is that they’re all fantastic games that will test your brain and reward your decision-making, and we’d recommend all of them today in 2025 whether they’re 3 months or 30 years old....

The developers of 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault are making a 1920s school detective mystery “One scholarship place available” Image credit:Inkle UK national treasures Inkle - they who looped the globe in 80 days , vaulted the heavens and sang of the highlands - are making a brand new investigation-ma-jig called Miss Mulligatawney’s School For Promising Girls, though the presskit notes that this might not be the final title. It’s set in a 1920s boarding school, where you can expect “tuition in Latin, Geometry and a wide range of team sports, all within the beautiful setting of our isolated country estate”....

The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games Who shot first? Image credit:Amazon Since the first Fallout released in 1997, it’s never been quite clear who was responsible for turning North America (and the rest of the world) into a dusty irradiated wasteland full of super mutants, rusted robots and supersized cockroaches. Both developers on the series and fans couldn’t quite agree, either - with original Fallout developer Tim Cain stating that China was the first to launch nukes, while others have interpreted the games as indicating that the United States was the first with the itchy nuclear button-trigger finger....

The Habbos return in Habbo Hotel: Origins, a relaunch of the 2000s chatroom game Habbout don’t Image credit:Sulake You forgot about Habbo Hotel , didn’t you? Habbo Hotel. With those words and the above image, it is possible I have sent a shocking dose of neurochemical nostalgia through your brain and into your various internal organs. Your vision blurs. You sweat. You are 12 years old again, frightened and intrigued at the idea of graduating to teenhood, bathing in the cool glow of a cream-coloured CRT computer monitor....

The Horror At Highrook review Home is where the Tell-Tale Heart is Image credit:Outersloth / Rock Paper Shotgun Developer: Nullpointer Games Publisher: Outersloth Release: May 1st 2025 On: Windows From: Steam , GOG Price: £15.49, $19.99, €18.49 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i7 12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3060, Windows 11 How’s this for playing yourself: after a week spent clearing out my old family home, a week in which I speedran the lives and deaths of several loved ones by combing through crates of school papers, diaries and letters; with hands wizened by cleaning fluids, nostrils blackened by attic dust, back ruined by the floorboards of my childhood bedroom, and a brain brimming with faded happiness and pain, I sat down in an empty kitchen to play The Horror At Highrook , a cosmic horror table-topper in which four occult investigators scour a vast, cluttered house for the secrets of a missing noble family....

The Simpsons: Hit & Run modders have made their own Futurama total conversion, with future and ramas Demo out now for people who don’t want to live on planet Springfield anymore Image credit:Slurm Team. GT-Abe gateway drug The Simpsons Hit & Run ’s status a thing people my age remember from their childhoods has earned it a strong modding community, and the latest export to come out of it is a Futurama total conversion designed to mirror an official expansion....

This 2TB NVMe SSD is a great Steam Deck upgrade for £155 Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD works well in the ROG Ally and Legion Go too. Image credit:Corsair/Rock Paper Shotgun Corsair’s MP600 Core Mini SSD is a solid option for upgrading a PC handheld - devices like the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and Legion Go and so on. It’s a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, so it offers slightly faster speeds on the latter two devices than on the Steam Deck, but it’s compatible with all three major options....

Time to climb a weird mountain in Cairn, the windy backpacking odyssey from the creators of Haven and Furi Out now on Steam Image credit:The Game Bakers One of the nicer Industry Trends of the past few years has been the rise and rise and rise of climbing sims. It turns out climbing is a source of many emotions, from the melancholy wonder of Jusant through the savage loneliness of Lorn’s Lure to the slapstick camaraderie of Peak and the agony of various Sisyphus sims ....

To The Star is a survival game based on Alice In Wonderland in which you can cook your dreams From the Gord devs, features a portable “Briefbase” Image credit:Covenant.dev If you’d been gazing at the present glut of new survival games and bellowing for more, as though engaged in a drinking competition with some kind of cartoon Viking, then rest easy. Gord developers Covenant.dev have announced To The Star, a “whimsical” survival adventure that takes heavy inspiration from Alice In Wonderland, and features a cooking system that lets you combine monster parts with “suppressed emotions”, so as to produce both consumable foodstuffs and weapons....

Today’s NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, January 25) Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #228 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Want a hint for Connections today? Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle game Wordle , the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....