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Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode REDSEC is out now and surprise surprise, there’s a new Gauntlet mode attached Prepare to lay waste to the alleyways and beaches of California Image credit:EA Battlefield 6 ’s battle royale mode REDSEC is out now, a “genre shifting free-to-play destination” that includes both the promised Fortnite functionality and a new squad-based competitive mode, Gauntlet - no, not that Gauntlet, auto keyword linker, stop it, you’re making me look daft, UGH I don’t have time to argue with you, please just go away - together with additional gubbins for Battlefield’s Portal editor....

Best deals for PC gamers today: Epic gaming monitors, rapid M.2 drives and a handy accessory Don’t forget about a cheeky RAM upgrade too. Image credit:Dell and Basesailor Checked the deals this morning and found some epic picks worth sharing. There’s good value across the board, from fast storage and memory upgrades to dependable gear for your setup. A few of these are steeply discounted and won’t hang around long. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading or just need reliable hardware, now’s a good time to jump in....

Best graphics cards: the top gaming GPUs Our top graphics card picks for 1080p, 1440p, and 4K Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I can only assume you’re reading a list of the best graphics cards because you’re interested in buying a graphics card. In which case, consider me your convenient Environmental Storytelling Skeleton, my eroded bone-hand found clutching a final scrawled testament: stay away . If you can, anyway. GPUs are, to put it charitably, in something of a tizz, being caught up in the industry-wide memory chip shortages that have been engorging RAM and SSD prices , possibly delaying the Steam Machine , and making Larian do unwanted game optimisations ....

Better for Battlefield 6 vehicles to start off “too weak”, says producer to players sore about tooled-up engineers But agrees there’s a “balancing issue” to address post-beta Image credit:EA In my experience, there are two kinds of tank in Battlefield games. There are the ones driven by other people, which are cut from solid granite yet move like ballet dancers. And then there are the ones driven by me, which are made out of candy floss and handle like shopping trolleys....

Black Friday? Never heard of it. But the Asus ROG Ally is £100 / $150 off on Cyber Monday It’s the faster Ryzen Z1 Extreme version, too Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I had a horrible dream last night that I had to spend a whole day, as well as a good chunk of the preceding week, rounding up discounted PC hardware. Chilling visions indeed. Good thing today is only Cyber Monday , meaning I can get away with spending a mere 80-85% of the day rounding up discounted PC hardware....

Black Myth Wukong Journal Entries: All Characters and Yaoguai Whether it’s NPCs or Yaoguai you’re missing, let’s complete your Journal Portrait collection Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Game Science Want to complete your Black Myth Wukong Journal? Every time you defeat a new enemy type or meet a new NPC in Black Myth: Wukong, their profile will be added to the in-game Journal under the “Portraits” section. Not only is this a fun way to track your progress, but you also get a ton of background lore, which makes your next encounter with that same enemy or NPC all the more interesting....

Black Ops 6 QA staff walk out over Activision return to the office policy, which has “unquestionably harmed disabled employees” ABetterABK and Communication Workers Of America back walkout Image credit:Activision A number of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 quality assurance staff from Eden Prarie, Minnesota have walked out in protest over Activision’s ending of hybrid or remote working, which was announced in December last year . They’re being supported by the Communication Workers Of America union, who claim that Activision are forcing the return to the office on staff “with serious medical conditions and doctor’s recommendations to work from home”....

Blue Lock: Rivals codes (February 2026) Redeem lucky style spins and more with these Blue Lock: Rivals codes Image credit:Blue Lock Rivals Unofficial Fans Searching high and low for new Blue Lock: Rivals codes? As you may have gathered from the title, this Roblox football game sets out with the noble goal of turning the stylish sports anime, Blue Lock, into a playable video game. If you’ve never heard of Blue Lock, just imagine football, but every player can seemingly phase through the fabric of reality itself and strikers are able to shoot the ball like it’s a bullet firing from the barrel of a heavy-duty sniper rifle....

Borderlands 4’s latest update aims to deliver more performance fixes, ends up causing more stuttering for some It also includes changes to the likes of gear and weekly boss battles Image credit:2K Another day, another Borderlands 4 update aiming to smooth out more of the performance problems which have plagued the looter shooter since launch, especially on PC. Unfortuntely, this latest patch looks to have led to an uptick in stuttering for some players, with Gearbox recommending some shader messing around as a potential fix....

Bungie admit to Destiny 2 having an audience problem, as they try to figure out how to not make a “dead live game” “We want to keep building Destiny” Image credit:Bungie It is not exactly a secret that, in recent years, Destiny 2 hasn’t been doing so hot. Frequenters of the pseudo-MMO have found certain expansions and updates to be disappointing, and for a live service game a few too many disappointments can be devastating....

CEO Andrew Wilson tells EA staff 5% of them will be laid off via empty and infuriating email Close to 670 employees will be affected, as EA move to concentrate on their owned IP and online communities Image credit:Electronic Arts In Shakespeare’s Anthony And Cleopatra, said famous woman says “Give to a gracious message an host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.” I.e., when you have good news you can go round the houses, but if you have bad news - like sending an all-hands email to the staff at EA to let them know that, less than a year after the last round of layoffs , a further 5% of them are getting booted - then you should just come out and say it as quickly and simply as possible....

Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicle makes good on Ubisoft’s threat to coil out hot steaming NFT garbage straight into my innocent eyes You wouldn’t FUNGE a TOKEN Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Konami “Worthless,’ they’d declared. Most NFTs were ‘worthless.’ The greatest artistic movement since The Big BSoD, the greatest proof of the power of the blockchain, the very future of the whole funging Infobahn, and the hedgie soybean-counters say it’s all ‘worthless’,” once wrote the greatest living prophet of our era ....

Chill cyberpunk city builder Dystopika’s B-Sides DLC offers up polished experiments for you to play with Plus a new update to go along with it Image credit:Void Within I think games are generally quite bad at acknowledging that they are things that are made by people. These people tend to have conversations about ideas, which turn into implementing those ideas, and sometimes these ideas are abandoned. We’ve all enjoyed a deleted scene in the extras of a DVD, yet the cutting room floor does not seem to be a thing for most games, at least not publicly....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was originally set in a steampunk England with aliens and zombies France is definitely a more ambitious England Image credit:Ibex73 / Sandfall Interactive All creative work goes through several iterations before arriving in its final form. This very post, for example, began as a little notice of the release of The Midnight Walk , before I realised Edwin had already done that. Now it’s instead about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , an RPG which Nic definitely described in his review as “operatically, hauntingly, and slightly unhingedly French”....

Classic ’90s PC racing series Screamer is returning, from the makers of Hot Wheels Unleashed It’s anime now Image credit:Milestone Games Back in the mid ’90s, I was hooked on an PC racing game called Screamer . It got a sequel a couple of years later, and then the series went dormant. Until now, when it’s seemingly returning as a foreboding, anime-infused racer about defying death, once again called simply Screamer....

Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy Six health code violations before breakfast Image credit:General Interactive Co. The exact difference between a cool, fun sci-fi reference and a tiresome, please get out of my house and into the sea sci-fi reference will remain a mystery to me, but I haven’t seen anyone try and do Milliways from Hitchhiker’s Guide as a management sim yet, so sure, I’ll bite....

Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 21st Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #467. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 21st September? If today’s assortment of words has you in a tizzy we have just the thing to help....

Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 15th Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #461. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out the Connections hint for Wednesday 11th February ! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 15th September? We’ve rustled up some clues to help you solve today’s Connections along with the answers to double-check....

Constance is a beautiful, hand-drawn metroidvania that actually has a release date No shade here, promise Image credit:btf Now, I’m not naming any names here, but there’s a certain hand-drawn metroidvania that everyone’s a bit sick of waiting for by this point, and could really do with a release date. OK, fine, yes it’s Hollow Knight: Silksong , and if those recent Steam backend updates mean anything, I expect it’ll get some kind of update sometime in the next few days....

Corsair’s RM1000x Shift PSU is £50 off refurbished from Scan £110 versus £160 for a recently released PCIe 5.0 1000W 80+ Gold power supply. Image credit:Corsair/Rock Paper Shotgun Corsair’s RM1000x Shift power supply is quite a tempting one for any PC build, providing 1000W of power at 80+ Gold efficiency - but the best feature here is its conveniently reachable side-mounted connector placement. Corsair charges a premium for this feature, with the PSU normally going for £160, but today you can pick up a refurbished unit from Scan in the UK for just £110....