The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for treating your mum to something nice. Let’s gift as we read the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For Unwinnable, Emily Price wrote about what time loops mean to her . Price speaks to In Star And Time’s creator Adrienne Bazir about the repetitiveness of loops as well as their hidden sinister sides. The game’s creator Adrienne Bazir agrees that time loops have an underexplored sinister side....
This Asus Mini ITX motherboard is perfect for SFF Ryzen 7000/8000 PCs PCIe 5.0, DDR5, two NVMe slots and WiFi included. Image credit:Asus Get the Asus ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi for £239.99 (was £329.99) Mini ITX motherboards often come at a premium, especially AM5 motherboards suitable for Ryzen 7000 and 8000 CPUs, so the £240 price point is fairly reasonable all things considered. You get a board with PCIe 5....
This new Dell GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming PC just dropped to only $1650 4K-ready graphics, future-proof internals, and reasonably priced. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Dell You don’t need to drop two grand to play in the big leagues. Right now, Dell is offering its Tower Plus Gaming PC with an RTX 4070 Ti Super for $1,649.99 , and it’s quietly one of the smartest buys in the prebuilt space....
This week in PC games: deep-sea roguelite raids, first-person horror cookery, and a spruced-up Dawn of War What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Relic Entertainment Edwin’s off for a few days – something to do with the thesis that he’s recently started using to make us call him “Dr Edwin” in meetings, turning his camera off and muting himself if we forget. So, for this week’s rundown of new PC game releases, you’ve got me, fresh from my recent encroachments into WAWAPW and the Sunday Papers....
This week in PC games: Mecha Break, ICE protest charity bundles and vibrant ostrich farming What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Hedgehorse This week in PC gaming news my flat continues to feel like a fondue served in a grizzly bear’s armpit. Readers in equatorial latitudes may sneer at what we in the UK are pleased to call a “heatwave”, but you have to remember that British people are all descended from ice trolls, and that we live in small volcanoes dug out by steampunk druids who thought the glaciers would return sometime in the year 1963....
Top city builder Against The Storm gets a grumpy bat faction and giant pooping birds in its next DLC this July Grin and manure it Image credit:Hooded Horse Bestest best roguelite city builder Against The Storm is getting invaded by bats. Not the kind that swoop and screech and dive around your car in New Games Journalism articles that lean a bit too obviously on Hunter S. Thompson - bless our hearts, we’ve all done it - but the kind who labour at the forge and rejoice when their colleagues crumble and may even drive other workers out in order to make themselves feel better....
Ubisoft reassure us that Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is still in “deep” development We didn’t ask, but okay Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Ubisoft Ubisoft made a brief statement today to reassure antsy fans of time travel that their remake of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is still in development. “Yep, we’re still deep in the game,” they said in a social media post , “exploring, building, and ensuring the sands move with purpose....
Universal Tower Defense codes (February 2026) Need Gems in Universal Tower Defense? Buy some powerful new units using these free codes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Universal Tower Defense [UTD] Looking for Universal Tower Defense codes? The latest addition to Roblox’s sensationally popular roster of anime tower defence games, Universal Tower Defense asks one simple question: how many dudes could Goku, Luffy and Hatsune Miku beat in a fight if they teamed up?...
Until Dawn Remake studio “effectively closed” following layoffs, says new report “Nice reward for our hard work,” said one source Image credit:Supermassive Games Until Dawn Remake players are still sharing bug reports with UK developer Ballistic Moon, but there’s apparently no one left to respond. “The studio has effectively closed now," one anonymous source told Insider Gaming . An undisclosed number of layoffs were publicly announced last September , shortly before the Until Dawn remake’s launch in October....
V Rising’s 1.0 changes to PvP, endgame and armour detailed ahead of spring release Vampire diary Image credit:Stunlock Studios V Rising remains on track to reach 1.0 in the second quarter of this year, in what finance people call Q2 but I like to call Aprilmayjune. The latest developer blog post goes into detail on some of the new features coming for the full release and in particular its changes to PvP, higher tier weapon and armour, and vampire fashion....
VA-11 Hall-A devs’ next game is a modern successor to horror strategy classic Parasite Eve, and that has me unreasonably excited Sequel N1RVAnn-A development is on pause for the moment, say Sukeban Games Image credit:Sukeban Games The developers behind cyberpunk bartending gem VA-11 Hall-A have revealed their next game, and it looks a doozy. .45 Parabellum Bloodhound draws its inspiration from PlayStation masterpiece Parasite Eve in offering a mix of real-time and turn-based combat dubbed as “active time action”....
Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn’t currently an option in a whole bunch of countries UPDATE: Valve respond Image credit:Valve Update: Valve have confirmed to RPS that this withdrawal of support for Steam transactions by one of PayPal’s acquiring banks “is regarding content on Steam, related to what we’ve previously commented on surrounding Mastercard “. “In this case, one of PayPal’s acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions, which cut off PayPal on Steam for a number of currencies,” a Valve spokesperson added....
Valve owe you 44 quid, according to a £656m lawsuit against the company for allegedly overcharging UK customers “We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games” In what is possibly the biggest scandal the UK has seen since the last time the price of Freddos went up, a digital rights campaigner is suing Valve for £656m in compensation, accusing the company of overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour....
Valve upgrade Steam’s trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos Vid watching should now be easier to navigate and come with less sudden quality jumps Image credit:Valve If you’re the sort of person who likes to take in plenty of trailers when you’re hunting for new stuff to play on Steam, Valve have just put out an update that should make doing so a bit more pleasant....
Varsapura adds some flashy-but-plain-looking, pyschic action to miHoYo’s Genshin Impact formula in its first gameplay trailer Control yourself Image credit:miHoYo I think miHoYo might just have a bit too much money. Somehow, they have yet another game on the way called Varsapura, yet another anime-looking, open-world action game, this time by way of psychic mishappenings. As many have pointed out, there’s a vague Control-like quality to it, at least in its newly shown off, lengthy gameplay demo....
VHS-veiled Huntdown: Overtime, a retro gangland roguelite run and gunner, arrives in early access this year It’s the prequel to 2021 side-scrolling 80s shooter Huntdown, if you hadn’t guessed Image credit:Easy Trigger Games Break out your blocky cybernetic killing apparatus and the sort of shotgun Arnold Schwarzenegger might have wielded on the big screen back in the days of big hair and cocaine. Huntdown: Overtime, a prequel to side-scrolling shoot-em-up Huntdown has been announced and is set to arrive in early access this year....
Warner Bros. are returning some Adult Swim-published Steam store pages to their developers after all Corporate giant had originally planned to delist all games Image credit:Adult Swim Games Warner Bros., owners of the now-defunct Adult Swim Games publishing label, have contacted some developers about returning ownership of their game’s Steam pages. The developers of both Small Radios Big Televisions and Duck Game shared the news on X yesterday. It’s a seeming reversal of Warner Bros....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / The Library of Congress After forgetting to change my alarm for the weekend, my Saturday has started far too early. I clearly don’t respond well to surprise free time, as I spent the morning writing my will. Disappointingly, Co-op don’t let you set challenges and riddles for bequestees. This oversight has dashed the mental image of my brother and sister duelling over my gaming PC, armed with those Gladiators-style padded polearms that look like oversized cotton wool buds....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Just to check: you’ve already sent a Mother’s Day card, if necessary, right? Because the final post pickup is noon and you know that won’t even arrive until Monday. So. Just so you know. If you need to know. Anyway! What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on! Alice Bee This weekend I’m not reviewing anything! So I’m going to play Chasing The Unseen , which seems weird enough to soothe my frazzled brain right now....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Jacob Strutt, Sylva Brittanica (1822) Hello! This is weird. Last time I was here, I predicted the future . I can’t say I’m not proud of my clairvoyance, but sometimes it is a curse. In any case, I shall endeavour to continue Alice0’s great work in finding endless excellent vintage illustrations to pop at the tops of these posts. And I’ll also be hiding a little smiley face in each one, for giggles....
