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The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales Bang bang bang, pull my adaptive trigger Convention tells us that to be a PC gamepad, the gamepad in question must follow the layout – or, at least, match the button glyphs – of the Xbox controller’s ABXY design. Even the new Steam Controller is doing it. To convention, though, I say: appreciate you’re an important component of usability design but also get lost ....

The RPS 100: 2024 Edition is here, with our picks for the best PC games ever made And every one worth playing today Image credit:RPS Update: The RPS 100 is our list of the best games to play on PC. It encompasses the full breadth and width of PC gaming stretching back to 1873, but focuses solely on those games that remain great to play today. It’s updated yearly by our crack team of writers, and the first half of the 2024 edition is live now ....

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 9th Open the door to our Heart 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. There’s an awful lot behind this door, lemme tell ya. Hours of adventure, of tension, of action, of sci-fi strangeness....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for landing on a mysterious planet. At first, the surface seems barren, a dusty sheet of paper stretching towards the grey horizon. Does anything live here? Could anything live here? Is there anything here which can inform how I’m supposed to feel about it all? The emptiness is a feeling, but one can only deploy the world bleak so many times before starting to read it as ble-ack just to try and avoid dying of boredom....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for unsubscribing to the deluge of ‘Happy 4/20! Here’s 10% off’ emails I’ve gotten from every place I’ve ever bought CBD from in the past five years. Before I do so much clicking my fingers get sore and I immediately order some soothing CBD - perhaps at a tempting 10% off? - let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!...

Titanfall and Tribes fans, don’t miss skyfaring shooter Echo Point Nova Lead in the clouds Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Greylock Studio Not technically an Indiescovery -type deal, this, as Edwin already called attention to breathless FPS Echo Point Nova back when the demo came out. The full game has just released, though, and as someone with such chronic Titanfall withdrawal that I’ll ingest anything with a decent wallrun, I’ve bought it, played it, and am here to tell you why it rocks....

Better connected Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun It’s still my job – it is still my job, right? Okay just checking – to dig through the Paltrow-adjacent junk and yank out the good stuff, so let’s start small with a few quid/bucks off one of my favourite Steam Deck docks . The JSAUX 6-in-1 Multifunctional Docking Station may have a clumsy name but it’s a keen bit of accessory design, with the port-adorned central block (which acts as a stand in docked mode) able to detach and pull double duties as a portable USB-C hub....

Turtle Beach Burst II Pro gaming mouse review 8K lightweight, nothing to hate but not quite all-time great Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Turtle Beach Burst II Pro specs: Connectivity: 2.4Hz wireless, Bluetooth, USB-C Weight: 57g Battery life: 40 hours (2.4GHz), 150 hours (Bluetooth) DPI range: 50-30,000 Buttons: 8 Price: From £120 / $140 The Turtle Beach Burst II Pro’s raison d’être is to bung a Valorant esportist’s Christmas list of premium features into an ultra-lightweight gaming mouse; a class of peripheral that’s more accustomed to jettisoning luxuries than hoarding them....

Valve casually gut Counter-Strike’s billion dollar skins market with a “small update” Extended “trade-up” feature crashes the price of knives and gloves Image credit:Valve / Rock Paper Shotgun / Profilerr Ah Valve, you awful, giggling vultures. You terrible purveyors of mischief and misfortune. Weeks go past without you making any significant game-related announcements, and then you suddenly dropkick the entire Counter-Strike cosmetics economy into the sun. The developers have released what they breezily call a “small update” for Counter-Strike 2 that, essentially, allows players to exchange five cosmetic items for other items that sell for a lot, lot more over the Counter-Strike player marketplace....

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors is a first-person deckbuilding spin-off out 2026 And also a very swanky name Image credit:Poncle Moreish roguelike bullet hell Vampire Survivors is getting a cousin next year. It’s called Vampire Crawlers, or as per its Steam page: Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. It’s a first-person roguelike deckbuilder in which you can fight Merdusas with spinach and it’s set to hit PC in 2026....

Warner Bros. leave developers feeling “sick and dizzy” as more Adult Swim games are being delisted Only “fair to transfer no one’s games since they can’t do them all” <img loading=“lazy” src=“https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/eqev1oxpcujkwcwtpoil.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&dpr=3&auto=webp" onerror=“this.onerror=null;this.src=‘https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe7F7TRXHtjiKvHb5vS7DmnxvpHiDyoYyYvm1nHB3Qp2_w3BnM6A2eq4v7FYxCC9bfZt3a9vIMtAYEKUiaDQbHMg-ViyGmRIj39MLp0bGFfgfYw1Dc9q_H-T0wiTm3l0Uq42dETrN9eC8aGJ9_IORZsxST1AcLR7np1koOfcc7tnHa4S8Mwz_xD9d0=s16000';" alt=“A cowboy points a gun at a bar owner with options to put away the weapon, cock it, or “confirm”. - 1”> Image credit:Ostrich Banditos More developers have confirmed that they have been told by Warner Bros. Discovery that their games will imminently be delisted from digital storefronts....

What are we all playing this holiday? Well? Do tell! Image credit:John Leech / British Library Without further ado, reader dear, what are you playing over the hols? Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in Sign in and join us on our journey to discover strange and compelling PC games. All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints...

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Old Book Illustrations Hehe. Hohoho. Ollie couldn’t dream of such devious placement. This is my column now. Videogames? Yes, several. Here’s what we’re playing this weekend. Brendan I have discovered an incredible activity called “Foot Ball”. You can enjoy it online via the magic of a video game called Rematch , and that’s probably what I’ll be doing this weekend....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/London: Henry Graves & Company, 1861 I went to an owl sanctuary the other day, it was great. I got stares like this one . Wonderful stuff. The cats of the bird world, they surely are. And now I want more games about (or at least prominently featuring) owls to exist. Where’s the owl MOBA, damn you? WHERE?...

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Please excuse my lack of pleasant chitchat today; my kitten has decided I no longer get to sleep. This week she’s woken me up by sprinting down the full length of my body, licking my armpits, dropping toys on my face, and generally shouting. Baby, I love you, but night is when I do my sleeping. You wouldn’t be happy if I came and licked your armpits at noon when you’re snoozing in your hanging radiator bed, little cat....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Old Book Illustrations Ollie has fallen foul of Big Ill once more, so I’ve emerged from my cave, brushed the stalactites from my hair, picked the luminescent beetles from my beard, and put together this week’s column. Would you like a beard beetle, reader? I have many of them. Oh, how they glow! That was a trick question. The beetles are mine and mine alone....

What is Canon Mode in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Here’s how to see the canonical story of AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft What is Canon Mode in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Since Odyssey, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has doubled down on RPG territory, including the ability to make choices in the dialogue that can affect the outcome of the story in both minor and major ways. Shadows continues this tradition, though you now have the option to play in Canon Mode....

What’s on your bookshelf?: Baldur’s Gate 3 lead writer Adam Smith 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! July has shrivelled up like a freshly laundered sock left on the radiator for too long, and yet, it’s still hot enough that even typing the word radiator makes me want to inject concentrated Solero straight into my bloodstream....

When do you unlock space travel in Star Wars Outlaws? Here’s how to visit other planets in Star Wars Outlaws Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Wondering when you unlock space travel in Star Wars Outlaws? Although this may sound like a no-brainer, Star Wars Outlaws makes players wait a long time before they can explore space and even longer before they can explore distant star systems and new planets with a hyperdrive....

Where Winds Meet: How to delete your character How to delete your character and create a new one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Want to delete your character and create a new one in Where Winds Meet? While Where Winds Meet might feature an expansive wuxia world and two impressive Solo and Online modes , the game is lacking in several quality of life features. Chief among these is the simple act of deleting your character to create a new one....