HomeNewsWorkers & Resources: Soviet Republic City builder Workers & Resources finally brings socialism to the USA and UK with latest DLCOut 13th December Out 13th December Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, the Warsaw Pact-era city-building sim from 3DIVISION and Hooded Horse, is getting eight new maps scattered across the globe. These include a map set in the Eastern United States, from approximately New York State down to North Carolina, and another one set in Rock Paper Shotgun’s very own United Kingdom, where Karl Marx wrote most of his best stuff....

HomeNewsHyperdrive Inn Hyperdrive Inn is a Lucasarts style adventure game made entirely from scanned fabric samplesWhole cloth Whole cloth Image credit:Horsefly Games Image credit:Horsefly Games Obviously, I’d scan some real crisp packets and just alter the logos for maximum immersion. One game that’s already taken this scanned bricolage concept and run with it to beautiful effect isHyperdrive Inn. It’s an avant garde point and clickadventurefrom Finnish studio Horsefly, where the entire world is constructed from scanned fabric samples....

HomeNewsAvowed I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content”Chasing waterfalls Chasing waterfalls Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft ‘Confident’ game design is one of those slightly fluffy critic words I sometimes find myself reaching for tenuously, knowing that - sigh - I’m going to have to do all sort of detestable nonsense like ‘back up my vague assertion with concrete examples that are useful to the reader’ if I do....

HomeDeals One of the best cheap mechanical keyboards, Logitech’s G413 SE, is even better value on Cyber MondayAs little as £65 / $60 for a full-size mech board As little as £65 / $60 for a full-size mech board Events likeBlack Fridayand Cyber Monday, while devastating on the emotional wellbeing of hardware editors, are as useful for knocking a few more quid offalready-cheap bits of gaming gearas they are for saving hundreds onbig-ticket luxuries....

HomeDeals The Samsung T7, a modern classic of a portable SSD, is up to 45% off in the Cyber Monday salesSmall yet spacious, like all external drives should be Small yet spacious, like all external drives should be Image credit:Samsung Image credit:Samsung Got yet another quality PC storage deal for ya, this time courtesy ofCyber Mondayand the Samsung T7 – an almost comically dinky portableSSDthat can, nevertheless, stuff itself senseless with file backups and game installations....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Sun, December 1stNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #538. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #538. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 1st December?...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1261): How to solve the Sunday December 1 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 1? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 1? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeDeals Black Friday brings the first big discount on the 1TB Samsung Pro Plus, the Steam Deck microSD card to beatBig storage, little investment Big storage, little investment The Samsung Pro Plus is, alongside theLogitech G502 Hero, one of those hardware products that rocks up at literally every single sales event in the calendar. Just an endless cycle ofmicroSD cards, mice, microSD cards, mice. At least it’s a good’un, though - the bestSteam Deck-compatible microSD of them all, in fact....

HomeDeals Black Friday is here, and so is the best Steam Deck SSD at up to 50% offThe Crucial P310 drops to £64 / $70 for 1TB The Crucial P310 drops to £64 / $70 for 1TB Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun HappyBlack Friday, I definitely don’t say with a gun pressed into my spine. These days, of course, Black Friday sort of just starts whenever retailers feel like it, which is why we’ve already seen the kind ofSteam Deck microSD dealsthat I’d have normally spent this morning writing up....

HomeNews I promise I got her permission to use this image Image credit:Kiera Mills Image credit:Kiera Mills Kiera joined the guides branch of the treehouse just over a year ago, and along with fellow new hire Jeremy she was promptly baptised in that familiar river of hot magma known as “this year’s Call Of Duty”.50-odd gun guides later, she solo-led ourAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandoraguides coverage with a series of clear and carefully-written guides that made it look like she’d been here for years, not weeks....

HomeNewsFrostpunk 2 Next year looks huge for Frostpunk 2, with a free major content update and two paid DLCsStaying frosty Staying frosty Image credit:11 bit Studios Image credit:11 bit Studios We’ll chat about whatFrostpunk 2’s new roadmap is bringing to thestrategy gamein a second, but first, here are some other genres with the -punk suffix I would like to see brought to fruition soon: Even one of these would make me very happy, but here’s something to make you happy, rhetoricalFrostpunk 2enjoyer....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Fri, November 29thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #536. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #536. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 29th November?...

HomeDeals The Crucial T500 wins the battle of the Black Friday SSD deals, with better-than-half-price savingsOne of the fastest SSDs for gaming goes cheap One of the fastest SSDs for gaming goes cheap Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Black Fridayis usually heaving with discounts onNVMe SSDs, and today’s is no exception. Rather than do the usual routine of just suggesting the WD Black SN850X again, however, there’s no better SSD-for-yer-money deal right now than the Crucial T500, which is going for an exceptionally low £58 right now for the 1TB capacity – down from £120....