The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Black Myth: Wukong, Concord and Tactical Breach Wizards are the bigguns Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images New week, same old terror of that cyclopean glutton known as the Maw emerging from its cosmic bolthole and swallowing the entirety of Devon. As ever, we have a way of thwarting the Maw’s advance, and it’s… pasta sauce? Graham, why is there pasta sauce in the Trello?...

The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, September 13th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Saturday, 13th September? The NYT Crossword is more than just a game. It’s a morning ritual designed to test your knowledge, the strength of your vocabulary, and, most of all, your commitment....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 17th A perfectly normal workplace lies behind today’s 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. Uh, it’s probably not a problem - probably - but I’m seeing a small discrepancy in today’s advent calendar and… no, never mind… it’s well within acceptable bounds....

The RPS Selection Box: Mark’s bonus games of the year 2025 Three choccies I’ve not been able to resist regularly nibbling this year Image credit:Free Lives / Rengame / Kaizen Game Works Here we go. The picks of mine which made it into the advent calendar weren’t embarrassing enough, so now I get to flick a few extras at you like discarded bits of liquorice I’ve found down the back of the sofa....

The spirit of Far Cry 2 still burns in Rescue Ops, a sandbox firefighting sim with huge wilderness maps Includes a mission-based campaign for 1-4 players Image credit:Exkee I have a minor but unwholesome obsession with fire that extends from Far Cry 2 ’s self-propagating blazes through the pyropoetics of Andrea Brady to, most recently, Rescue Ops: Wildfire . In the latter, single and multiplayer firefighting sim, you must save people and battle dynamic blazes on large, countryside maps....

The spirit of Zachtronics lives on in Kaizen: A Factory Story Left hungry by the demo Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Astra Logical I love it when a machine whirrs and clunks and bzzts in just the right way. Kaizen: A Factory Story is the next mechanical puzzler from the people who made Opus Magnum and Exapunks . A demo hit Steam a few weeks ago, but it fell down the wrong side of a conveyor belt here at RPS and we all forgot about it until it jammed up our meticulous assembly line of articles and I had to jimmy it out with a big salad fork....

This Keychron mechanical keyboard is a genuine steal at $30 Plus: Thanks and good-bye from your friendly neighbourhood deals writer. Image credit:Keychron It feels pretty appropriate that my last deal post for RPS is for my favourite PC peripheral: the humble mechanical keyboard. This mechanical keyboard is more humble than its peers too, with a $30 asking price that is absolutely exceptional for a name-brand keyboard that gets rave reviews: the Keychron C3 Pro....

This week in PC games: Next Fest demo excess and Double Fine’s sentient lighthouse What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Xbox Game Studios Alright readers, here’s the bad news: the Maw ate Edwin. I know, it’s unfortunate, but we all saw it coming. You can’t feed a Stygian horror nothing but PC game releases and expect it to simply forget about protein. The good news is that the Maw isn’t a particularly thorough masticator, so I imagine Edwin will have clambered back out by, ooh, say, Wednesday....

Times Of Progress is an elegant, focussed city builder set during the Industrial Revolution More steam engines for Steam Image credit:Pressing Thumbs Games Times Of Progress is a special game for me, because it’s the first news tip I have ever received from Sin Vega, Prime Minister of Strategy Gaming . Sin once described writing news articles for our former news editor Alice0 (RPS in peace) as like practising backflips in front of the kung fu master....

Turns out Bungie’s plan to save Destiny 2 is literal Star Wars and two expansions a year Feels like they’re forcing this one Image credit:Bungie While Bungie is obviously quite busy presumably stressing over lukewarm responses to its next game Marathon , they’re still working on a bunch of Destiny 2 stuff. The studio revealed a plethora of expansions today, all of which are building up a new “multi-year saga” called the Fate Saga....

Tyrant’s Realm is a grimy, spartan soulslike infused with Deathtrap Dungeon nostalgia If I was a citizen of such a realm I would simply say to the tyrant no thank you Image credit:Team Tyrant The baggiest thing about PS1-harkening soulslike Tyrant’s Realm is the ratty pair of prisoner pants you start out with. Everything else is pleasingly austere. It is, like Dark Souls , a game about equipment and stamina management, but it finds most success as a soulslike in the sensation that you are alone somewhere bad, not able to do very much except hit horrible things in the space between them trying to hit you....

Ubisoft try to fix Star Wars Outlaws stealth with latest, galaxy-sized update New patch also nixes misfiring open world events, UI and graphics issues Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Ubisoft have released a big new Star Wars Outlaws patch which, amongst other things, tries to fix and improve the open world game’s stealth. I’ve seen, read, heard, intuited and telepathically detected a lot of complaints about Outlaws stealth, ranging from “it doesn’t look realistic when she punches out stormtroopers through their blaster-resistant hats” to “please remove the hide-and-seek entirely, I wishly merely to pew-pew”....

Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot suggests remakes of older Assassin’s Creed games, then bangs on about generative AI for a bit “Technology is evolving at such a pace that there are limitless possibilities for evolution” sure are some words in a certain order Image credit:Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed fans “can be excited about some remakes” of the older games in the open world series, permits generous soul Yves Guillemot, via one of those odd promotional things disguised as a conversation....

Until Dawn devs Supermassive announce layoffs, with 150 jobs reportedly at risk Bloomberg claims 90 layoffs expected Image credit:Supermassive Games Supermassive Games have announced a period of consultation and reorganisation that will end in job losses, as the Until Dawn developers try “to ensure the continued sustainability of the company”. It follows a report that studio leadership told 150 people their jobs were at risk earlier today, with around 90 staff expected to eventually leave the business following the consultation....

V Rising Blood Types and Blood Quality: Every Blood Type explained and how to get 100% Blood Quality Looking for information on every V Rising blood type? There are 7 different blood types in V Rising , each offering different stat boosts and buffs to your character, who has a blood pool that will slowly diminish over time. If your blood pool is empty, you’ll take damage until you fill it again....

VR studio Wimo Games, Battle Bows and Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem devs, have closed their doors Around three dozen staff affected. Image credit:Wimo Games Virtual reality-focused developers Wimo Games have joined the ever-expanding list of studios to be hit by layoffs and closure in recent months, as the Battle Bows and Micro Machines : Mini Challenge Mayhem studio confirmed their closure last week. Wimo emerged only a few years ago in 2021, going on to specialise largely in virtual reality titles with co-op archery wave-defence game Battle Bows and track-build-and-racer Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paris: Perrotin, 1844 I’m terrified to go out, because last time I stepped outside the black ice on my road waggled my feet around threateningly at every step. I’m afraid I’ll fall over, but weirdly I’m not so worried about, I dunno, hitting my head, as I am wanging my elbow and getting that jolt of fuzzy numbness all the way down my arm....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Citizen Sleeper’s Gareth Damian Martin read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to Booked For The Week - our new Sunday feature where we ask a selection of cool industry folks questions about books! You know books, right? They’re a bit like RPS articles, but heavier and smell a bit nicer. This week, it’s Citizen Sleeper and In Other Waters ’ creator Gareth Damian Martin!...

What’s on your bookshelf?: Supermassive and Niantic narrative designer Anastasia Dukakis read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com 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! As is customary, I must jam my new cat into every article. I’ve tried to offer her several books, but she’s failed to turn even a single page so far....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Syphilisation and The Quiet Sleep’s Nikhil Murthy read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com 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! Of course, regular readers will know that ‘book’ was actually the name of the doctor, but that’s beside the point. This week, it’s Syphilisation and The Quiet Sleep developer and RPS contributor , Nikhil Murthy!...