I’ve found some huge discounts on Steam Deck micro SD cards, Secretlab chairs, and a RTX 4070 Ti PC And a budget 27-inch QHD monitor. Image credit:Secretlab and Samsung Storage, screens, rigs and chairs, I’ve found the whole loadout today. There’s speedy microSD cards for your Steamdeck and ROG Ally, some slick upgrades for your battlestation, and a few big names slashing prices on premium gear. From a beastly gaming PC to the comfiest chairs in the game, these deals are full in Independence Day deals material....

I’ve snapped up SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless at (nearly) its lowest price ever One headset to rule them all. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / SteelSeries I’ve been eyeing SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless for a while, and now that it’s down to $269.99 from $349.99, I’m ready to pull the trigger. That’s a solid 23% off, which puts it just shy of its best-ever price . I don’t usually get too worked up over headsets, but this one ticks every box and then some....

If you own any Steam Deck verified games, then you’ve already got a guarantee they’ll work on the Steam Machine Wizard! Image credit:Valve How about that Steam Machine, ’ey? Consoles are now computers and computers are now consoles. What a topsy turvy world we’re living in! I’m sure you have lots of questions, a lot of which I hope can be answered by James’ hands-on look at the thing , but you may still be wondering how you’ll know what games will actually work on it....

Impressive dwarf-vs-alien autoshooter Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor burrows out of early access What’s mined is yours Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ghost Ship Publishing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has launched its 1.0 version today, September 17th, ending the Vampire Survivors -like and DRG spinoff’s two-year spell in early access. Despite some initial umming and ahhing about how a comedy co-op FPS would translate into a single-player autoshooter – if I press the Rock and Stone button and nobody hears, did I say Rock and Stone?...

In first-person Myst-alike Looking For Fael you’re stuck in a surreal apartment maze, but you do get a Game Boy Advance SP that’s not a Game Boy Advance SP Image credit:ARTE If you have experience of the London rental market, there’s only one way you can react to a game – a French game, no less, the product of a country where two-bed apartments apparently grow on trees – that promises to maroon you in a sprawling labyrinth of flats....

In Foddian hell-platformer Ascending Inferno, Orpheus is a footballer and Eurydice is a football “Kick your sibling’s soul out of Hell” Image credit:Oppolyon In case you don’t know the headline reference, Orpheus was a mythical Greek musician who famously descended to the underworld to rescue his snake-bitten lover, Eurydice. The underworld’s rulers, Hades and Persephone, were massively bummed out by Orpheus’s emo lyre-playing, and swiftly agreed to let him lead Eurydice’s soul upward to the waking world, with the extremely simple proviso that he not look back at her till they’re both on the surface....

Indiana Jones And the Great Circle redefines the gun-toting archaeologist as a grabby Lucasfilm fanboi Hands-on time Image credit:Microsoft Going by three hours with a preview build last month, the Indiana Jones of Indiana Jones And The Great Circle has the hungriest hands this side of Thief 2014 . They’re always surging into view, reaching restlessly toward objects as you explore, for there is ever so much to touch: photos and letters; pipes, frying pans, and other blunt implements; relics that translate into “Adventure Points”, used to “unlock” books of skills; camouflaged levers and other chunks of fusty comicbook exotica that harbour clockwork secrets....

InZoi’s early access misses its shot to launch the definitive Steam Deck life sim You can work around its bigger breakages, but should you? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. InZoi ’s early access release isn’t a particularly good fit for the Steam Deck , primarily because it isn’t a particularly good game ....

Itch.io apologise for “frustration and confusion” after delisting thousands of NSFW projects Thousands of projects under the NSFW category have been delisted Image credit:Itch.io Thousands of creators today found their Itch.io projects missing from the online storefront - effectively delisted to anyone searching or browsing the site. Others still are reporting actual takedowns “with no notice” , halted payouts, and those who have previously purchased their games being unable to download them ....

Jailrat horror adventure Centum was the wrong game to play on this crowded London Underground train The gods may be merciful, the children keep invading my personal space Image credit:Serenity Forge This piece is being written on a train as I trundle towards our very first staff meeting with Rock Paper Shotgun’s new overlords . The morning is cloudy but bright and calm, the north London suburbs are a blissful checkerboard of red roofs and flourishing lawns, hope glistens faintly in the gutters and ditches beside the tube....

Jetpacking space pirates taught me a painful lesson in punishing strategy game Menace Why couldn’t they be the kind that drink grog and sing songs? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Hooded Horse / Overhype Studios There’s an accidental element of roleplaying to the Early Access launch of Menace , the latest turn-based tactics game from Battle Brothers developers Overhype Studios. Like the newly-minted commander of the TCRN Impetus, thrust into leadership after a warp travel accident left everyone on the bridge of the colonial navy ship violently decompressed, I too have very little idea what I’m doing....

Known Mysteries is a lo-fi climate fable that runs off a solar-powered server on its developer’s balcony Praise the sun Image credit:Kara Stone You might remember Kara Stone as the developer of Ritual Of The Moon , a game about a banished witch that is played in bursts of five minutes a day, over the course of a lunar cycle. Alice B (RPS in peace) dedicated an article series to it back in 2019 , summarising it as “a sad, quiet, meditative game about breathing and loneliness and drawing pictures in the stars”....

Leila is a dreamy puzzle adventure with shades of Gorogoa The unmapped mind Image credit:Ubik Studios I’m not sure how to classify Leila , a hand drawn, sort of point and click, sort of puzzle adventure out this summer. I’d say it’s maybe a Gorogoa -like, but the demo is also a series of little vignettes that sort of reminded me of Edith Finch , but way less in depth. It’s about a middle aged woman navigating her past and present by taking a closer at her mind, which means sorting through a load of magical realist meldings of memories....

Lil Guardsman review: a simpler, fantasy-fuelled take on Papers, Please Open the gates Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Versus Evil Developer: Hilltop Studios Publisher: Versus Evil, tinyBuild Release: Out now On: Windows, macOS From: Steam , GOG Price: £16/€20/$20 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-11900K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 10 Lil Guardsman is a game that wears its heart on its sleeve. In a victory for normative determinism, this is a fantasy adventure about a small girl named Lil who somehow becomes the first (and seemingly only) line of defence at a city’s border patrol as a guardsman....

Manor Lords buildings: Every building in Manor Lords explained Explaining every building in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Looking to make sense of all the different Manor Lords buildings? If you want to make a true town out of your starting encampment in Manor Lords , you’ll need to seriously diversify the number of buildings in your settlement. Manor Lords gives players access to a whopping 40+ buildings, most of which are unlocked from the start of the game....

Manor Lords performs fine on Steam Deck – it’s the controls you’ll want to watch out for Contort your thumbs now, my lord Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I remain the least qualified person alive to appraise Manor Lords an actual strategy game – my village stewardship is proving inept, even by medieval posho standards – but I have delayed economic and social ruin long enough to know it runs well on the Steam Deck ....

Manor Lords wealth: How to get Regional Wealth The easiest ways to gain Regional Wealth in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Trying to understand the inner workings of Manor Lords wealth? Money in Manor Lords isn’t quite as simple as how many coins you have for building projects. Funds are split into your Treasury - that’s how much you, the Lord, owns - and Regional Wealth, which is the local wealth of each of your settlements....

Minecraft house ideas: 50 Minecraft house designs and tutorials Use these cool Minecraft house designs and tutorials as inspiration for your newest build Image credit:Lomby on YouTube Looking for Minecraft house ideas? Minecraft is the ultimate sandbox of architectural magic, and if you’re looking to build your perfect house to take advantage of the latest 1.21 update, we have you covered with a range of magnificent house designs below. In this guide, we’ve compiled a list of 50 of the best Minecraft house ideas we’ve ever come across....

Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough Every Monster Hunter Wilds guide you could need, in one place Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Looking for a full Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough? Monster Hunter Wilds takes players to the Forbidden Lands to fight all sorts of new and old monsters that fans of Capcom’s longrunning series will surely appreciate. With a multitude of environments to explore and the franchise’s classic weapon roster returning in full force, lots of tough battles await you, and we’ve put out guides on everything from making your character look cool with Layered Armor to finishing every objective in the game’s campaign....

Monster Hunter Wilds: Insect Glaive weapon tree The full list of all Insect Glaives in Monster Hunter Wilds Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom Want to inspect the full Insect Glaive weapon tree for Monster Hunter Wilds? There’s a grand total of 75 different Insect Glaives in Monster Hunter Wilds (not including the Artian weapons you can craft yourself), which is quite a stunning amount of choice for such a niche weapon type....