Wordle hints and answer (#1634): How to solve the Tuesday December 9 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 9? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? If you don’t guess a Wordle word within the first few minutes, don’t feel bad; that’s perfectly normal, and to be expected, even....

Wordle hints and answer (#1662): How to solve the Tuesday January 6 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 6? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle puzzles are often tricky, but this one doubly so....

Wordle hints and answer (#970): How to solve the Wednesday February 14 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for February 14? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Wordle hint and answer for Wednesday 11th February ! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak....

Xbox boss Phil Spencer says games journalism has too much “what do they call it? Search engine optimization or something like that?” Also misses magazines Image credit:Exputer / Microsoft Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would like to know if video games journalism is OK. He is concerned that the “whole space is gonna go away or be corrupted by things”. He mourns the heyday of magazines, and is bemused by this “SEO” malarkey he keeps hearing about....

Xbox wireless controllers now available from just $34.99 at Lenovo Use these promo codes to save big. Image credit:Christian Wait / RPS I think this is the best deal I’ve seen on a PC controller in a long time. Lenovo just dropped official Xbox wireless controllers (Series X|S variants) to Black Friday equivalent prices. Pulse Red and Shock Blue are going for $34.99 with the code SPRINGGAMES, while other colors like Carbon Black and Astral Purple are $39....

You can get my old battered gamer chair for, oh I dunno, 50 quid? You have to come pick it up though I’m not sure it’s even worth that, to be honest. Messed my back up a right old treat. Also, I have no idea what that stuff is, so don’t bother asking. I’m not bloody posting it, either. Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games....

You can play Cult of the Lamb with a friend in a local co-op update this summer Fun fact: internet acronym GOAT stands for “the goatest of all time” Image credit:Devolver Digital A goat or a lamb - which makes the better sacrifice? Trick question, it’s neither. The best sacrifices are old rich people. In Cult of the Lamb ’s next update, Unholy Alliance, you can sacrifice folks with a pal....

You’ll need a RTX 2060 Super at minimum for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Ractical Tespionage Xaction Image credit:Konami The requirements for your PC to feast on the treefrogs of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater tactical espionage action have been revealed. The minimum specs ask for a RTX 2060 Super, same as The Great Troy Bake Off . While this might sound like Delta is following the likes of Indiana Jones And The Great Circle and Star Wars Outlaws in requiring ray tracing, producer Noriaki Okamura told Eurogamer last year that no ray tracing features are included - so the RTX requirement is likely down to Unreal 5’s Lumen lighting tech (although that can include ray tracing techniques anyway....

ZeniMax QA workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, paving the way for better wages and more Congrats to ZeniMax Workers United-CWA! Image credit:ZeniMax Online Studios / Bethesda Softworks Yesterday, ZeniMax Workers United-CWA, the union made up of more than 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft via its subsidiary ZeniMax Media , reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft . The union was formed back in 2022 , and has been bargaining with Microsoft in the intervening years since....

“All the hair on the right side of my body fell out” - how Tekken nearly broke its designer from stress “I didn’t have a single ally. Not one.” Image credit:Bandai Namco Game development can be stressful, I’m sure you’ve heard. The director of fighting game series Tekken yesterday shared an anecdote about how wild that stress can get. Speaking about the release of Tekken 4 in 2001, director Katsuhiro Harada remembered it didn’t perform as well as previous games....

#Drive Rally is an arcade racer with forgiving physics out in Early Access now Nothing says ’90s throwback like a hashtag Image credit:Pixel Perfect Dude I don’t know why it’s throwback racing game Christmas, but it is. Parking Garage Rally Circuit came out September 20th , Golden Lap is out tomorrow, Victory Heat Rally is out October 3rd , and today - today brings the Steam Early Access release of #Drive Rally , an unfortunately hashtagged arcade racer trying to recapture the “spirit of the 90s”....

$70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO $70 games with beaks and feathers? Sign me up! The $70 release day price for standard AAA titles is both unsustainable and on the way out, claims Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch, via an interview with IGN reporter Rebekah Valentine. Speaking to Valentine, Karch reckoned in public that the $70 game is “going to go the way of the dodo" because it isn’t “sustainable”....

007: First Light gets updated system requirements, with IOI’s apologies 007: Second Attempt Image credit:IO Interactive Young’un James Bond game 007: First Light has had a little redo of its PC system requirements, after “an internal miscommunication” – according to developers IO Interactive – led to last week’s specs reveal containing some whoopsies. “We’re sorry for the confusion this caused and appreciate everyone who brought it to our attention”, sayeth the company’s tXeet ....

5 years of Apex Legends: how “surreal” success became a fight to stay fresh Respawn on their battle royale’s past, present, and future Image credit:EA If there’s a secret to how Apex Legends has endured the past five years, an era marked by as many FPS failures as successes , then it might be this: there are no sacred cows in live service. Since its surprise launch in February 2019, developers Respawn Entertainment have chopped and changed everything from hitbox-shrinking Naruto run animations to entire character designs and ability kits, gutting and reworking gear and class mechanics along the way....

Amazingly grim retro sci-fi android spelunker Lorn’s Lure finally has a release date Will clamber onto Steam in September Image credit:Rubeki If you like jumping on enveloping pixelly architecture while basking in an atmosphere of pathological sadness, set aside some time on 20th September, because that’s when Rubeki’s first-person spelunker Lorn’s Lure launches on Steam. Ah, I’ve been waiting a while for this one. Catch a new trailer below. Lorn’s Lure is the tale of an android who is chasing a weird visual glitch through an enormous, dreary, dystopian edifice made up of retro 90s PC textures....

Arc Raiders doesn’t AI-generate guns from Youtube videos, Embark clarifies: “that’s a research project, and not something that we’re using in the game now” Executive producer breaks down the game’s use of generative AI Image credit:Embark Studios Let’s get the hot potato out of the way without preamble: Embark’s extraction shooter Arc Raiders doesn’t include any gun models generated from Youtube videos, executive producer Aleksander Grøndal has told RPS in an interview about the game’s usage of generative AI and machine learning technologies....

Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Steam update sparks more remake speculation, but hold fire, sailor UPDATE: Ubisoft confirm the reason behind these Steam updates Image credit:Ubisoft Update: Ubisoft have confirmed that these updates to Black Flag et al were just rejigging of Steam pages “to reflect each game’s accessibility options” in line with the new accessibility tags Steam introduced in June . So, everyone can most definitely put their tricorns away....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: How to clear Wanted status Here’s how to get rid of your pesky Wanted status in AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft How do you clear your Wanted status in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? It’s not quite as elaborate as GTA’s five-star wanted system, but you can still find yourself at the wrath of alerted hostile soldiers in AC Shadows. You will only get this status if you are caught by enemies while infiltrating a castle and if the bell is rung....

Asus ROG Ally X vs Steam Deck OLED: battle of the beefed-up handhelds Which portable gaming PC’s upgrade hammer swings the hardest? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Is early adoption a chump’s game? I dunno about that, though between the Asus ROG Ally X and the Steam Deck OLED , those who stayed their hand on their earlier handheld gaming PC counterparts do have a couple of quality second-genners to choose from....

Atomfall’s second expansion, The Red Strain, unleashes its crimson tendrils next month Red Alert Image credit:Rebellion Dig your finest cricket bat out of the loft - Atomfall developers Rebellion have revealed its second story expansion is set to arrive in September. It’s dubbed The Red Strain, and looks to star a not-Robobrain who’s connected to a bunch of crimson plantlife filling the Cumberland quarantine zone. This second DLC follows Wicked Isle , the first Atomfall expansion that you got automatically if you plumped for the deluxe edition of the radioactive pasty survivathon....