Skate will release into early access at “the end of summer”, say EA Flipping excited Image credit:Electronic Arts Do one of those kick-the-flips. Okay, now do it again but spinny. Wow, fellow teen, that was radical, well done. Here is some video game news for you as a reward: physics-funny skateboarding sim Skate (aka Skate 4 ) will release in a couple of months. That’s what publishers Electronic Arts say, anyway....
Skateboarding studio Roll7 is reportedly being closed down by parent company Take-Two More layoffs Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Roll7 Roll7, developers of bright skateboarding games OlliOlli World and dual-wielding bloodsport Rollerdrome , are being closed down as part of large scale layoffs by parent corp Take-Two Interactive, according to documents seen by Bloomberg . The British studio has been responsible for some great stuff over the years but the report says they’ll be following the fate of Kerbal Space Program 2 developers in being laid off....
Splinter Cell lives… in the form of Steam achievements for the 12 year old Blacklist Ok! Image credit:Ubisoft If a Splinter Cell remake fell in the woods, would over the top industry secrecy and NDAs even allow us to hear it? That’s the million dollar question literally no one is asking, because who phrases things that way, but enough about that game that may or may not exist at this point in time, we’ve got a different Splinter Cell to talk about: Blacklist ....
Star Control 2 becomes Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters on Steam next week A free re-release minus the trademark Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters will make its way to Steam on February 19th. It’s a version of 1992 strategy classic Star Control 2 that takes advantage of updates from its long-running open source project , and it’ll be completely free. The Steam release is being orchestrated by Pistol Shrimp, a company founded by original Star Control creators Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford....
Starfield best ship: 7 best ships in Starfield and locations We break down Starfield’s best ships for combat, cargo, and more Image credit:Bethesda Looking for the best Starfield ship? Aquiring the best ship in Starfield can be a confusing search given the large number of ships available throughout the game. Below we’ve gathered the best ships in Starfield according to important factors like ship storage , weapons the grav jump mechanic, fuel capacity, cargo capacity, the ship’s shield strength, and hull, which is a numerical representation of the overall health of the ship....
The 11 best JRPGs on PC in 2024 The party line Image credit:Square Enix / Atlus / Sega Can you believe we didn’t have a best JRPG list until now? Baffling. To be fair we did once tackle this topic with a preliminary blast of recommendations for those completely new to the genre. We also have a few familiar fantasys in our list of the 50 best RPGs on PC ....
These SSDs are fast and affordable, but the discount ends at the end of today. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Crucial Product Interface Speed (Read/Write) Form Factor Capacity Heatsink Special Transcend MTE300S 1TB PCIe Gen3 x4 2000 / 1650 MB/s 2230 1TB No SLC Cache, Steam Deck/ROG Ally Ready Kingston FURY Renegade 500GB PCIe Gen4 x4 7300 / 7000 MB/s 2280 500GB Graphene Heat Spreader PS5 Compatible Crucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 7300 / 6800 MB/s 2280 1TB Yes PS5 Ready, Adobe CC 1mo Included Crucial P310 2TB PCIe Gen4 7100 / Not Listed 2230 2TB No Steam Deck/ROG Ally Compatible Samsung 990 PRO 4TB PCIe Gen4 7450 / 6900 MB/s 2280 4TB Optional AES 256-bit Encryption, High-End Use If you’ve been squeezing games into a drive like it’s a suitcase on holiday, now’s the time to stop the madness....
The best, worst, and weirdest gaming tech of CES 2024 Plus! Why is Mario’s mouth moving like that Image credit:Consumer Technology Association CES 2024 is drawing to a close, and honestly, I’m not especially sad to see it go. While the Las Vegas tech megashow is probably the closest thing PC gaming hardware has to an E3 (and in some ways surpasses it, given CES still exists ), this year’s event has been characterised by an all-too-credulous obsession with AI nonsense....
The big laptop back-to-school roundup: Every hot discount that’s live at Dell, HP and Lenovo I wish I could’ve had a gaming laptop at school. Image credit:Dell/Lenovo/HP As an old man yelling about deals at the clouds, I’ve often felt a bit jealous of these back-to-school sales. By my recollection, unless you wanted a new writing pad, some stationery, or a backpack, these deals didn’t really exist. Now? I can get a gaming laptop that would’ve blown my secondary-school PS2 out of the water at a knock-down price and probably get the latest GPU included, too....
The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 7: we lose it over PowerWash Simulator’s Warhammer 40K crossover This pleases the Omnissiah Image credit:Square Enix This week on a spotlessly cleansed Electronic Wireless Show podcast : Alice takes the opportunity to make everyone talk and think about PowerWash Simulator , which also means Nate gets to talk about Warhammer 40K bloody loads, because that’s the next DLC pack for PowerWash Sim ....
The full original Marathon trilogy is now free on Steam, but Bungie are still quiet on the reboot Pfhorst person shooter Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Bungie Earlier this year, Bungie’s 1990s sci-fi shooter, Marathon , came to Steam for free . And Marathon 2 followed in July. But this series is a trilogy. Where’s the third one? I want the thir– oh, it’s here now. Yesterday, the final game, Marathon Infinity trickled onto the storefront , offering a neat little bundle for fans of retro shooters....
The new shooter from Romero Games loses funding as staff post they’ve been let go thanks to Microsoft cuts Original Doom developer’s studio “currently evaluating next steps” Image credit:GDC Romero Games have announced in the wake of mass layoffs at Microsoft that funding for their next shooter has been pulled by its publisher. A number of former staff at the studio founded by Doom co-creator John Romero and Brenda Romero have since written on social media that they’ve lost their jobs as part of those MS cuts ....
The NYT Crossword answers for Monday, September 22nd 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 Monday, 22nd September? Well, you have come to the right place! Every single day, the NYT bestows upon us yet another crossword filled with riddles designed to stretch your vocabulary and send you reaching into the depths of your mind to conjure up the most obscure of facts....
The NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, August 31st 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 Sunday, 31st August? Here it is, the first of this week’s toughest NYT Crosswords!...
The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, September 11th 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 Thursday, 11th September? Crack the code of America’s favorite puzzle with this concise guide to the NYT Crossword....
The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Wednesday, September 3rd 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Wednesday, 3rd September? Well you’re in luck, because we have all of them neatly packaged up for you in this NYT Mini Crossword guide!...
The PowerWash clean ‘em up genre is dead, long live the sci-fi undertaker sim Hands-on with Ambrosia Sky, a funereal space game from Fallout 4’s lead level designer Image credit:Soft Rains You’d think there’d be more video games that are explicitly about clearing away corpses, given how many corpses players produce. Getting rid of bodies is a routine problem for developers, with a variety of crafty or cursory solutions. Horror projects such as Resident Evil sometimes resort to accelerated decomposition, with felled zombies dissolving to maggots in seconds, but in most shooters, it’s a question of despawning the victims when you look away....
The ROG Xbox Ally’s Project Killswitch is nice, but spotlights handheld PCs’ chronic case neglect Why hardware makers should literally give us free stuff Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Sweary peripheral experts Dbrand sent me the Asus ROG Xbox Ally/ Xbox Ally X version of their Project Killswitch case yesterday. I squeezed my Xbox Ally X into it. It was great. Sturdy. Form-fitting. Protective and grip-enhancing in one. Everything that makes the original Killswitch one of the best Steam Deck accessories , wrapped snugly around 800 quid of Windows handheld....
The Silent Hill 2 Remake’s Wikipedia page briefly got transformed into a phantasmagorical reflection of the psyches of idiots unable to accept reality Dream logic Image credit:Konami If you’ve been keeping up with the positive review scores for the Silent Hill 2 Remake , you may have been surprised to read the Wikipedia page over the weekend, only to learn that the horror game had “received the worst reviews imaginable.” As spotted by Eurogamer , the page has now been locked following some deranged edits that altered review scores to appear much lower than they actually were....
The third RPS Christmas Cracker 2024 Good dad joke Image credit:RPS The fell moons rise, and in their cold glare emerges a parcel from the dirt. Bloat and gangrene, crimped as if by tourniquet. A dark promise wriggles within. Grip the fibrous handles, feel its jagged soul imprint upon your palm. Now pull! Rend the sinew, tear muscle from bone, hatch their fetid gift! The yoke draws near! Take up the slip and read the words upon its face....
