This AMD RX 7900 XT graphics card is just £699 - and it’s a rare white OC model too With the recent release of the RTX 4080 Super, AMD cards are getting even cheaper. Image credit:ASRock/Rock Paper Shotgun Get the ASRock RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming White 20GB OC for £699.92 w/ code JAN24 (was £951) The RX 7900 XT ranks as AMD’s second-fastest consumer graphics card ever, just behind the RX 7900 XTX....
This Lexar Play 1TB Micro SD card is down to £67.85 and works great in Steam Deck Plus a wide range of other gaming handhelds, cameras and more. Image credit:Lexar/Rock Paper Shotgun Lexar’s Play Micro SD cards are some of the most affordable 1TB memory cards you can buy, and now you can pick up one for just £67.85 - within £3 of the cheapest price ever recorded for this model, which was during Black Friday last year....
Tic Tactic turns the world’s most boring game into a promising roguelike deckbuilder Nought-cross-lightning Image credit:unbreaded / Rock Paper Shotgun Tic-tac-toe, known to British people as noughts and crosses, is a famously boring game that is nonetheless often played by anybody with a sweet wrapper, a pencil and five minutes to burn while waiting for any form of public transport. It’s boring because it’s a “solved game” whose outcomes can be safely predicted regardless of where you place your first nought or cross, allowing the “perfect” player to at least draw their opponent....
Titan Quest 2 sure looks like that brighter, breezier action-RPG you Diablo 4 haters were gunning for THQ Nordic releases first in-game trailer Image credit:THQ Nordic Titan Quest 2 ! Now there’s a name you can set your watch by. No colons, no bespoke jargon, no tortuous subtitles like “Gaia’s B.O.U.N.T.Y.” or “Hyperion’s Wild Rumpus” - just the steadying prospect of a titanic quest that, who knows, may involve actual titans....
Today we learned about a survival game featuring Will Smith, but only because it’s a massive failure It’s not just you, we’d never heard of it either Image credit:Level Infinite Last night, IGN posted a news piece about how Undawn , a free-to-play survival game starring Will Smith as some kind of apocalypse pal called Trey, has been a massive flop. Released in June 2023 for mobile and PC, Undawn had an allegedly huge budget, according to Reuters sources, but which only brought in under $300K last month, as estimated by research firm Appamgic....
Tomoe is back in the free demo for Sekiro-like indie Bloodless Not that one Image credit:Point N’ Sheep That was…slightly cheeky of me. The Tomoe you play in parry-ful action adventure Bloodless is not the same Tomoe that was conspicuously absent from undeniable influence Sekiro . They might be based on the same historical figure , but that’s simply Sek-ulation. However! You can make your mind up yourself for zero money, since Bloodless has a free demo on Steam....
Total War: Pharaoh’s High Tides update, previously a paid DLC pack, will release for free on Jan 25th As per Creative Assembly’s earlier apology for messing up Total War Image credit:Sega Back in December, Creative Assembly posted a lengthy apology to players for their recent handling of the Total War strategy series, in particular Total War: Warhammer 3 and Total War: Pharoah. Seeking to smooth down feathers ruffled by overpricing and buggy launches, to pick out two of the biggest fan complaints, the developers offered to - amongst other things - make Pharoah’s first paid DLC pack a free update....
Ubisoft didn’t cancel Beyond Good & Evil 2 because open world games are a “priority”, but I suspect the real reason is more boring Thoroughly Jaded Image credit:Ubisoft / IGN Earlier this week, Ubisoft cancelled six games, delayed seven more, and closed three studios in Halifax, Canada and Stockholm , as part of efforts to “right-size” the ship under Commodore Tencent by chucking a lot of people and projects into the sea....
Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday Up to 33% off ther RPS dock of choice Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I, erm, write about the Steam Deck a lot , and keen eyed readers may have spotted a recurring theme among the accompanying photographs : a lurking Ugreen logo. That’s the Ugreen 9-in-1 Steam Deck Dock , aND what it lacks in sexy naming, it makes up for by being just the nicest little stand/port extender combo that a handheld PC could ask for....
V Rising 1.0 review: one of the slickest survival games gets even slicker I’d bat for this one Image credit:Stunlock Studios Developer: Stunlock Publisher: Stunlock Release: May 8th 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £30/€35/$35 Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 11 You won’t be surprised to know that after two years in early access, V Rising ’s 1.0 launch hasn’t seen Stunlock Studios drastically change the V for “Vampire” to V for “Venetian Blinds” or “Vienna Sausage”....
Valve are expanding the Steam Deck Verified system to cover future SteamOS devices Starting with the Lenovo Legion Go S Image credit:Lenovo Steam Deck owners will be familiar with the practice of peering into a new game’s Steam store page and hoping, begging, praying to whatever god is yet to abandon this cruel joke of a reality that it has a little green tick mark on it. This is, of course, the Steam Deck Verified programme , wherein Valve gives good behaviour stickers to games that function fully on their handheld PC....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Les merveilles de l’industrie, vol. 1 Wrong answers only please: how did I slice open my finger earlier this week? Bystander in a climactic shinobi duel? Fell afoul of the local mantis shrimp? Got out of bed too quickly? Whatever the case, typing is painful for me at the moment, so let’s get straight to it. Here’s what we’re all clicking on this lovely weekend!...
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/London: Longman & Co., 1836 This weekend, readers, there’s an extra challenge for you. In addition to the excellent tales of game-playing and cat-contentedness we always get, I’d like anyone who’s interested in partaking to tell me: what’s the very best thing about that genre you don’t like? What is it that always draws you back in before you remember that these aren’t your sorts of games?...
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/London: George Redway, 1899 Let it be known that whatever I write lower down about what I’m playing this weekend may end up being a big old lie, as I’m exhausted and will likely instead spend my entire weekend asleep. But with my last conscious breath of the week, I shall shout to the heavens… What are you playing this weekend, my friends?...
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Paris: La Librairie Illustrée, 1885-1891 I played badminton yesterday. I am now incredibly sore all over. It made me realise that, perhaps more than anything else you could say about them, weekends are for being sore. Sleeping in, waking up covered in aches, making a noise like someone three times your age when you get out of bed, and then pretending you’re a third of your current age by doing nothing except play games for the next 48 hours....
What’s better: instant-death bottomless pits, or being able to reroll your build? Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Larian Studios Last week, you decided by 60% to 40% that vampires are better than werewolves . I trust we will never hear of this again. Alas, I must respond to serious allegations. RPS reader Truffles commented, “This is an absurd comparison, I thought this was meant to be scientific!...
Wheel World, let me build weirder bikes Break the chain Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Annapurna Interactive I’ve been liking, even occasionally loving ghostly bicycle racer Wheel World , for several reasons. One, it’s relaxing enough for post-work decompression; two, it’s just competitive enough that I can enjoy winning without necessarily undermining point one; and three, it’s far enough outside my usual interests that the culture and lexicon it celebrates feel fresh and interesting to learn....
Where to get the Well Depths Key in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Here is where to get the Well Depths Key in Shadow Of The Erdtree and where to use it Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Wondering where to get the Well Depths Key in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? The Well Depths is an optional region to explore beneath Belurat, Tower Settlement in Shadow Of The Erdtree and contains one of many optional bosses in the DLC....
Wife pestering you about every little pregnancy? Crusader Kings 3 will soon let you decide which messages are important Mute your heir Image credit:Paradox Interactive You will be able to arrogantly ignore the advice of your wife and councillors in whole new ways in Crusader Kings 3 , thanks to a small but mighty update to the game’s message settings. Players are due to be given much more granular control over what scrolls and missives appear on their troubled monarch’s war table, thanks to the free update that will accompany the Roads To Power DLC....
Windblown, the new co-op hack-and-slasher from Dead Cells’ developers, is out in Early Access now First draft Image credit:Motion Twin Windblown looks rad. It’s an action-roguelite for 1-3 players in which you dash-and-slash in rapid combat on floating islands, and I am extremely interested in feeling its game-feel for myself. Good news! I can get my game-feelers on it now because it’s out in Early Access today. If you watch its launch trailer below out of context however, you might be fooled into thinking it’s actually the emo second half of an Isekai anime series....
