HomeNewsExo Rally Championship Exo Rally Championship’s demo is out now, offering a 10-stage race across alien terrainColin McRae’s Interstellar Colin McRae’s Interstellar Image credit:Exbleative Image credit:Exbleative Announced last year,Exo Rally Championshipdoes what the name suggests: takes the rugged, weather-battered terrain ofExo One’s interplanetary journey and replaces the ponderous plot and gravitational rise-and-fall spaceship movement with a six-wheel, space buggy rally competition. Or put another way, if Exo One was Christopher Nolan’s Tiny Wings, then this is Colin McRae’s Interstellar....

HomeNewsSolitomb Solitomb is a demon-fighting prototype which mixes Balatro and solitaire, from the maker of SlipwaysPay-what-you-want with funds going towards a full release Pay-what-you-want with funds going towards a full release Image credit:Jakub Wasilewski Image credit:Jakub Wasilewski You can play Solitomb inyour browser for free right now. Hit the how-to-play button in-game togo to this webpage, which is the basic tutorial. If you’ve played solitaire before, the very basics are familiar: there are stacks of cards spread at the top of the screen, with some facing upwards....

HomeFeatures The reforging of the Rock Paper ShotgunLock, stock and a trip to the archives Lock, stock and a trip to the archives Image credit:Samuel Johannes Pauli / FreeMyCollection.com Image credit:Samuel Johannes Pauli / FreeMyCollection.com Here is how I think everything really happened back in 1872, theactualyear RPS was founded. One darkling day in November, the Founders - starry-browed Sir Alec Walker, Mad MC Meerjohn, time-travelling cowboy Slim Jim Rossignova and Kieron Gillen, who I gather was a magic horse of some description - were wandering in the forest fastness of Errour....

HomeDeals The RTX 4070 Super is hitting new price lows for Black Friday, so snap them up before RPS staff doRace ya Race ya Image credit:Zotac Image credit:Zotac System requirements are on the rise, and a glut of recent PC facepunchers has left some of the RPS treehouse wondering if it’s time for agraphics cardupgrade. Being a helpful colleague and a handsome friend, I dutifully informed them that the highly capableNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Superis currently getting theBlack Fridayprice cut treatment, with Zotac’s Twin Edge model dropping especially low in both the UK and US....

HomeNewsHalf-Life 2 Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunnersTubular Tubular Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Valve “We do primarily use older builds, most often ones from 2012-2013, especially at the top level,” says speedrunner “Peng”, who currentlyholds the world recordfor completing Half-Life 2 in under 38 minutes....

HomeNewsNew Life I want to remove this horrible demo from my Steam library, but my body won’t let meI just want my old life back I just want my old life back Image credit:eagerbeavergames Image credit:eagerbeavergames When and where did theSteam demoforhorrorgameNew Lifefirst find its way to me? When did its non-descript, black hooded protagonist first wriggle, with the transgressive delight of an unbidden slug between naked toes embarking on a 2am fridge odyssey, into the as yet uncolonised crevices of my ‘demos’ library?...

HomeNews Madonna, Dark Souls and Mario meet in a sweet and confounding swimming experiment based on a PS1 obscurityDolphindie gaming Dolphindie gaming Image credit:Hatim Benhsain Image credit:Hatim Benhsain In Benhsain’s rework, b.l.u.e. has become a game about games swimming through each other. Levels from the original Legend Of Water appear within it via emulator, but they’re molten and deferred and spliced with other media to the point that you can’t really call this emulation (let alone piracy)....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1256): How to solve the Tuesday November 26 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for November 26? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 26? 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 Ye gads, Black Friday week means the PS5 DualSense – a surprisingly great PC controller – is on sale for onceAn elusive £20 / $21 off An elusive £20 / $21 off Whereas some bits of games kit are in and out of the sales like they keep forgetting their keys there, ThePlayStation 5 DualSense controlleris one of those peripherals that just seems to hover around its £60 / $75 list price indefinitely....

HomeNewsWhite Knuckle Image credit:Dark Machine Games Image credit:Dark Machine Games Possibly, you are Down because you are a manifestation of the aforementioned Badness. Possibly, the monstrous things trying to thwart your ascent are merely trying to stop you contaminating the surface world. Possibly, they are the Real Heroes. It doesn’t really matter, because you don’t have a choice. There is a wall of unspeakable flesh coming up the tunnel behind you....

HomeDeals Let the Black Friday Steam Deck deals continue, with up to 33% off the clever JSAUX ModCaseProtect your portable Protect your portable Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun “James, please don’t just make half yourBlack Fridaydeal posts aboutSteam Deckstuff again”, warns a steely-eyed Graham. “I won’t”, I reply in sing-song while quietly adding pictures of the JSAUX ModCase to the CMS. That’s right, Amazon and a bunch of other retails have launched their BF sales a week early, which is annoying, unless you’re in the market for aSteam Deck caseupgrade....

HomeNewsManor Lords Manor Lords is getting new maps, building upgrades and reworks for the marketplace and ale distributionPretty much got everything into the headline, there Pretty much got everything into the headline, there Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse Manor Lordsdeveloper Greg Styczeń, aka Slavic Magic, has emerged from his keep with news of a forthcoming patch for the medieval citybuilder. It’ll add new maps, building upgrades and reworks for various economic systems....

HomeHardwareNewsStar Wars Outlaws Microsoft have blocked their own Windows 11 update after it started breaking Ubisoft gamesStar Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and more are affected Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and more are affected Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft “Ubisoft and Microsoft are working on a resolution and will provide more information when it is available,” says an issue log on Windows’ support site. In the meantime, you won’t be able to install version 24H2 if the OS detects that you have one of the affected games installed, which will surely be devastating news if the only thing you love more than clearing outposts is the prospect of 24H2’s slight taskbar redesign....