HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show podcast episode 184: the best video game ideas on paperOh, what a hole is man Oh, what a hole is man We’re a two-hander this week, as Nate has a sore throat, but Matthew and I have a jolly old time talking about the games that sound like amazing ideas on paper (whether they end up being great off the paper or not) and even manage to contrast them with games that sound like a bad pitch but end up great....

HomeGuidesVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt crossplay and cross-progress explainedThe limits and possibilities of cross-platform play in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt The limits and possibilities of cross-platform play in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt Does Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt support crossplay and cross-saves?Dark fantasy battle royaleVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhuntcame as a pleasant surprise when it came out in early access on Steam last year....

HomeNews Call Of Duty: Warzone Season 3 is live, but we’re still waiting for its giant monstersPrivate matches are also down due to stability issues Private matches are also down due to stability issues Raven Software’s military battle royaleCall of Duty: Warzonesees the arrival of Season 3, Classified Arms, today, which just went live at 9am PDT/5pm BST. The update is also dropping forCall of Duty: Vanguard. In addition to new guns and a special timed event featuring Godzilla and King Kong (because of course), this season also sees the debut of some new types of private matches - although Raven have qualified that the latter are temporarily disabled due to “stability issues”....

HomeNewsHunt: Showdown Crytek make working from home a permanent option for staffMaximum House Maximum House “The Covid pandemic led Crytek to support its staff to work from home wherever possible. Development on games including the award-winning Hunt: Showdown and the recently announcedCrysis 4stayed on track, keeping pace with Crytek’s pre-pandemic game productions,” said Crytekin the announcement. “After engaging with employees about how they wish to work going forward, Crytek is pleased to confirm that remote work will continue to be an option for current and future colleagues....

HomeNewsTandis Geometry puzzle game Tandis bends shapes and mindsOut now from the creator of Engare Out now from the creator of Engare Tandis - OUT NOW!Watch on YouTube Tandis - OUT NOW! Each level of Tandis starts you with a target shape to recreate, a flat sheet, and several checked zones that will apply some sort of transformation, with their distorted patterns explaining their processes. Drag your sheet around a zone or rotate it and you’ll see the output in other zones in real time....

HomeDeals Here’s where to find the cheapest Ryzen 5000 CPUs in the US and UKWe’ve done the (processor) time so you don’t have to. We’ve done the (processor) time so you don’t have to. A new raft of Ryzen 5000 processors has hit virtual and physical shelves, making it a good time to pick up a new AM4 CPU at a discounted price. The appearance of the lower-end Ryzen 5500, 5600 and mid-range 5700X have pushed prices for their more expensive counterparts way down, while the 5800X3D remains hard to find due to its relatively low supply and impressive gaming performance....

HomeHardwareGuides How to set the Steam Deck lock screenSecure your Deck with PIN protection Secure your Deck with PIN protection Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper ShotgunSteam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Steam Deck Academybrings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required....

HomeNewsCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Raven Software QA staff win their fight for union voteThe vote will take place this Friday The vote will take place this Friday The QA workers have organised under the name Game Workers Alliance (GWA) and have partnered with the Communication Workers Of America union. In astatement posted after the ruling, the CWA said that union election ballots would be sent to eligible workers on April 29th and the votes counted on May 23rd....

HomeFeaturesRocket Bot Royale Rocket Bot Royale is a free-to-play battle royale that captures the jubilant chaos of Worms5-minute matches filled with sublime skill-based plays 5-minute matches filled with sublime skill-based plays Damn. I really have my work cut out for me with this one. I’ve given myself the span of a fairly short post to try and convince you, dear reader, to giveRocket Bot Royalea shot. It looks like a browser-based game, and it is....

HomeFeatures RPS@PAX 2022: We chat to TinyBuild about Hello Neighbor 2, killer vacuums, giant spiders and a very big bearThe whole carnival’s come to town The whole carnival’s come to town If you thoughtLarian’s walled castle boothat this year’sPAX Eastwas impressive, wait until you clap eyes on TinyBuild’s full-on PAX carnival. It was here where we sawPotion Craft’sdelightfully detailed little magic tent, for example, as well as the world’s largest luminescent, inflatable spider, who was on hand repping their new arachnid-based multiplayer lightsaber game, Spiderheck....

HomeNews Sega are delisting older versions of the classic games in Sonic OriginsNothing shall escape the scouring of Green Hill Zone Nothing shall escape the scouring of Green Hill Zone Not content with confusing people with theSonic Originscollection announcement last week, Sega are now delisting old versions of the games included within it from May 20th. That means Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog 2,Sonic 3 & KnucklesandSonic CDwill bid farewell to Steam in their standalone form....

HomeFeaturesThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has a cursed awareness of its own weird, culty relevanceI don’t plan on playing it again until 2032 I don’t plan on playing it again until 2032 The Stanley Parableis a game about a man who leaves his desk one day to discover that all of his most difficult to animate colleagues have vanished. First released in 2011 as aHalf-Life 2mod, it is a wild fantasy about what it might be like to not be in front of the computer for a while....

HomeNewsTurbo Golf Racing Turbo Golf Racing’s open beta will take a swing from tomorrowCar for the course Car for the course What’s with all the golf, Alice Basked recently, much as I did when I turned 13 and suddenly all my friends took up the pastime. I had no answer then and I have no answer now, but Turbo Golf Racing is the most interesting of the recent crop of wacky walk-spoilers....