HomeGuidesPath Of Exile 2 Path of Exile 2 Skill Gems and Gemcutting guideHow to get Uncut Skill Gems and use them for Gemcutting How to get Uncut Skill Gems and use them for Gemcutting Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Wondering how to use Skill Gems in Path of Exile 2?Both Uncut Skill Gems and Uncut Support Gems are essential items if you want to unlock more abilities inPath of Exile 2....

HomeFeaturesMechabellum The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 11thThis door was ordered to open earlier This door was ordered to open earlier Image credit:RPS Image credit:RPS TheRPS Advent Calender 2024is underway! Each day reveals one of our favourite games from this year, leading up to our Game Of The Year on the 24th. Checkthe main calendar postto see the full list.When I were a lad, you’d open an advent calendar and get a piece of chocolate shaped like a bell with an aftertaste so rancid you’d wish you’d eaten the little cardboard window instead....

HomeHardwareNews Valve are now selling refurbished Steam Deck OLEDs at up to £110/$130 off – if you can find them in stockGabe’ll fix it Gabe’ll fix it Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun TheSteam Deck OLEDhas joinedValve’s Certified Refurbishedprogramme, offering a much cheaper way of getting your hands on the best handheld PC around. Provided you don’t mind it being in someone else’s first, anyway. As with official refurbs of the originalSteam Deck, “certified” Steam Deck OLEDs are formerly-broken models that have been returned to Valve, fixed up and tested in-house, thenput back on the market at steep discounts....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 You can now scan and steal paint jobs from any car in Cyberpunk 2077, plus more customisation with the 2.2 updatePatched Again! Patched Again! Image credit:CD Projekt RED / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:CD Projekt RED / Rock Paper Shotgun While it’s always worth starting a new game ofCyberpunk 2077just to hear Judy say “his own choomba shot him!” for the thirtieth time, there’s now a slightly more tangible reason to start a new journey into Night City’sopen world....

HomeNewsNebulous: Fleet Command Beautiful, brainy space RTS Nebulous: Fleet Command is getting carriers and fightercraftCarrier update coming in January Carrier update coming in January Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse I feel guilty about repeatedly comparingNebulous: Fleet Commandto Homeworld, inasmuch as it’s an appalling bait-and-switch. It’s like offering somebody a cake that is actually a cunningly painted hunk of torpedo fuselage. It’s like offering to shake hands while wearing one of those comedy hand buzzers - except that the hand buzzer is an intricate simulation of zero-G physics, missile behaviours and comms jamming, featuring spacecraft with proper internal layouts that require you to think hard about attitude control if you don’t want, say, your engines to become Swiss cheese about 90 seconds before you need to retreat from combat....

HomeNews Dread toy-peddler Funko Pop gets cool, handsome Itch.io taken offline via dodgy “AI-powered” brand protectionIt’s back online now It’s back online now Image credit:Funko / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Funko / Rock Paper Shotgun The situation has now beenresolved, thankfully, and you can access Itch.io as normal, but I will never pass up the opportunity to cast shade on Funko Pop, whoseNFT-garlanded bobbleheads I hate as I do veruccas and forest fires....

HomeNewsToem 2 Friendly photography adventure Toem is getting a sequel with more black-and-white pocket worlds to exploreStop and shoot Stop and shoot Image credit:Something We Made Image credit:Something We Made Ooh, this feels like the biggest news out of this evening’sWholesome Snackshowcase: nourishing photography adventureToemis getting a sequel, appropriately called Toem 2. It looks to follow much of what made the first so well liked, including its pocket-sized black-and-white worlds in which you wander about, snapping photos and helping the locals....

HomeGuidesPath Of Exile 2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Need to get more Spirit in Path of Exile 2?As one of the main resources in the game, Spirit is used to unlock persistent buffs as well as minion sidekicks, which can translate to a massive permanent DPS boost. Needless to say, it’s important to gather plenty of Spirit for yourfirst character build. Using Spirit is relatively easy as you only need to allocate it once....

HomeNewsSNØ: Ultimate Freeriding If the demo for this magical Scandinavian skiing game is so “serene” then why do I die constantlyIs serenity only found in death? Is serenity only found in death? Image credit:Studio Gauntlet Image credit:Studio Gauntlet The demo for SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding isn’t that new. It actually came out in September, but I’m filing it under the secret best unspoken RPS site category of “News (To Me)”, a whizcrack piece of web 3....

HomeNewsHitman World of Assassination Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman this week as a double-crossing ICA agent, and it’s free to play for a month’The Splitter’ is the game’s next elusive target ‘The Splitter’ is the game’s next elusive target Image credit:Io Interactive Image credit:Io Interactive HITMAN: World of Assassination - The Splitter (featuring @JCVDWorld ) Mission RevealWatch on YouTube HITMAN: World of Assassination - The Splitter (featuring @JCVDWorld ) Mission Reveal...

HomeNewsLittle Rocket Lab Little Rocket Lab is a Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup about building a rocketship in a cute townCountdown to cosy Countdown to cosy Image credit:Teenage Astronauts Image credit:Teenage Astronauts Stardew Factory? Factory Valley? Whichever it is, Little Rocket Lab is a factory-builder about efficiently placing conveyors and robot arms, and is drawn in the warm, pixel art small-town of a Stardew-like. That sounds like a fitting combination, although it does mean you’re building a NASA-sized rocketship on the outskirts of your quaint hometown....

HomeReviewsNaiad Naiad review: still waters run deep they say, but then these waters aren’t stillI’m going to pour cold water on it I’m going to pour cold water on it Image credit:RPS / HiWarp Image credit:RPS / HiWarp Yet here’s the cause of my pity. All those other games, with their decisive action, systemic consequence, and neck-snapping: I was playing those to relax, too. Why else would I have snapped all those necks?...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hints and answers for Tue, December 10thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #547. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #547. 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 10th December?...