The ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X prices aren’t too bad in the UK, but tariffs bite in the US $600 for the cheaper one, $1000 for the faster one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun After much hemming and hawing , Asus and Microsoft are finally ready to talk pricing on their handheld PC team-ups, the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X . It’s nothing too egregious in the King’s sterling, with the Xbox ROG Ally confirmed at £499....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 23rd Journey through this door 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. An ancient tale, often re-told - and that’s just the story of the development studio that made it....

This Alienware Aurora 16 5060 gaming laptop for $1,100 is the best budget gaming laptop deal right now Black Friday in July delivers again. Image credit:Alienware / SEGA Dell’s Black Friday in July sale has knocked the price of an Alienware 16 laptop down to $1,099.99 , and while it’s not the perfect machine, it’s a decent price for a reasonably affordable mid-range gaming setup. This one comes with an RTX 5060, specifically the 8GB version, which isn’t the most future-proof GPU in the world....

This free Steam tycoon prologue isn’t quite Dungeon Keeper, but I’m not complaining Roll up, roll up Image credit:Lunheim Studios Well, would you look at that! I just got done pining for the merest whiff of Dungeon Keeper when what should appear on Steam but a free prologue for delightful voxel-arty management sim Dungeon Tycoon . I’m using the word ‘appear’ because, following yet more industry layoffs yesterday, I’m choosing to adopt the brain of an idiot as to shield myself from the crushing reality of material conditions....

This new co-op horror is like if the chefs of Overcooked got together for a night of R.E.P.O Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking Image credit:Strange Scaffold Put down that cursed bag of frozen curly fries and come here. I’ve spotted a game you might like. Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking is essentially the four-player hangout horror of R.E.P.O but instead of ghost hunting you are collecting ingredients to feed a big monster its favourite dish....

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 drops in full today, so of course a modder already has Mary Poppins poppin’ kickflips The very same person who once modded the Birdman himself into 2006 mega-hit Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses Image credit:Activision/Huckleberrypie It’s time to get totally radical, dudefolks. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 , the latest nostalgia-fest about avian athletes artfully acing acrobatic boardiness, drops in full today, July 11th. Though, thanks to pre-order early access meaning the game sort of released three days ago, its modding community is already off and running....

Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL gaming keyboard review A new brevity-based hardware review series, starting with (and typed on) a nice mech board Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Hello you. Welcome to Quick Kits , a new series of PC hardware reviews for people who just want to know, with minimal preamble and probably zero bar charts, what a piece of gear is like to use. I’ll still be testing everything as if it were getting a full-length writeup, but shrink-raying the wordy parts should help us bring you more hardware advice, more often, and across a wider range of component and peripheral types....

Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners Tubular Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Half-Life 2 just got a small update, mostly to fix a long-running music bug. But hiding in the patch notes is an apology of sorts, a nod to that most tenacious of bunnyhopper: the Half-Life 2 speedrunner. It seems the recent 20th anniversary update for the classic first-person shooter messed with some beginner speedrun strategies by introducing an invisible wall to a big sewer pipe....

Visit a mystical Montreal corner shop in this lovely little indie game It’s taken me four years to post Dépanneur Nocturne but it’s still great Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/KO_OP Need anything from the shop? Mushroom milk? Fresh tarts? Mystical bejewelled skull? I’m just popping out to Dépanneur Nocturne , a lovely little game which came out in 2020 and I kept forgetting to post about. It’s a small first-person explore-o-chatter set within a corner shop in a magical, mystical Montreal, full of things to admire, find, poke at, and chat about with the owner....

Warren Spector and Thief’s game director are making a multiplayer immersive sim called Thick As Thieves Inside the Looking Glass-style extraction stealth game coming to PC in 2026. Image credit:OtherSide Entertainment A master thief creeps over cobbles in an early modern metropolis that splits the difference between Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool. Lit by gaslamps that can’t quite dispel the industrial haze, they pass for a civilian - a rough one, admittedly, but not shady enough to cause an itch in the swordarm of any passing guard....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Thomas Allom / Old Book Illustrations This week featured some bordered lands. Four of them, in fact. A real turn up for the books, that one. Here’s hoping the five people on Earth who aren’t singing songs of silk appreciate a good knob gag, or several bad ones made in quick succession by a rectangular robot. I should de-sark myself....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Perley’s Reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis Look, I know you’ve come here purely to read my trite wittering about weather and daylight, but I don’t have time for it today. I need to go play Balatro. Every additional word I type is another half-second I could have used to play Balatro. Oh god that was 8 seconds of unBalatro, and for nothing....

What time does Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 release? Here’s when Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 releases in your region Image credit:Deep Silver When does Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 release in your time zone? February is going to be a truly phenomenal month for massive RPGs, and the first one to throw their 15th century hat into the ring is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 . This hardcore RPG comes out swinging with an enormous host of quality of life improvements and a much larger world and story compared to its predecessor, but keeping all the same lures of in-depth life-sim-esque mechanics, direction-based melee combat, phenomenal voice acting… All that good stuff....

What’s on your bookshelf?: here’s to 52 more edition read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Booked For The Week is our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! No cool industry person this week....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Liminal biscuit filling edition read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com My brain is still thawing for the comment freeze, and thus there is sadly no cool industry person to talk to us about books this week. I’m currently reading Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection. Jia Tolentino wrote about it for the New Yorker. Jia Tolentino also writes very good books. But enough about books, tell me about books! One’s you’ve read, preferably, but I will also accept books you’ve formed opinions on based on their covers, as is good and proper....

Wordle hint and answer #1018 (April 2 2024) Stuck on the Wordle word for April 2? 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 is an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance....

Wordle hints and answer (#1040): How to solve the Wednesday April 24 Wordle Stuck on today’s the word for April 24? 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 ! Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

Wordle hints and answer (#1091): How to solve the Friday June 14 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for June 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 group of clues followed by the word if you need it, to help keep your streak firmly in place....

Wordle hints and answer (#1200): How to solve the Tuesday October 1 Wordle Stuck on the Wordle word for October 1? 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’re on your last guesses for the day, don’t fear!...

Wordle hints and answer (#1234): How to solve the Monday November 4 Wordle Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 4? 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’re on your last guesses for the day, don’t fear!...