HomeHardwareNews CES 2022: More Intel 12th Gen CPUs revealed for gaming laptops and cheaper PCsAlder Lake reinforcements include budget chips without E-cores Alder Lake reinforcements include budget chips without E-cores The vanguard of Intel’s12th Gen Alder LakeCPUs had some seriously good chips in it – including two of thebest CPUs for gamingoverall – though there weren’t many models for aspiring PC builders on tight budgets. Now, though, Intel has usedCES 2022to launch the rest of the 12th Gen desktop lineup, adding loads of more affordable Core i5 and Core i3 processors on top of new Core i7 and Core i9 options....

HomeFeaturesNightingale Ex-BioWare boss talks Nightingale, survival games and taking inspiration from Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellWe speak to ex-BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn about his new studio’s upcoming crafting survival game We speak to ex-BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn about his new studio’s upcoming crafting survival game But don’t go in expecting the sort of huge, arcing plotlines of BioWare’s recent games. While Nightingale will have an over-arching narrative, it’s being designed to offer up adventures that let you make your own stories....

HomeGuidesGenshin Impact Genshin Impact: Masterless Starglitter and Stardust explainedLearn how to get and spend Masterless Starglitter and Stardust. Learn how to get and spend Masterless Starglitter and Stardust. Looking to understand how to get and use Masterless Starglitter and Masterless Stardust in Genshin Impact?Genshin Impact’s currency system is nothing short of confusing — players have to deal with Mora, Resin, and Genesis Crystals, and this list only scrapes the surface of what you might use to pay for things inside of the world of Teyvat....

HomeNews Get any great gaming goodies this Christmas?Gifts for yourself count too! Gifts for yourself count too! Christmas came and went, a fat goose is waddling around honking a muted honk, and people have put so many coins into the old man’s hat that he gets a mild concussion every time he walks the dog. So, not to be crass, but did you get anything good? Rare new hardware? Handy stocking stuffers?...

HomeNews Riot Games to pay $100 million in gender discrimination lawsuit settlementBumped up from a proposed $10 million settlement Bumped up from a proposed $10 million settlement Riot Games, the makers ofValorantandLeague Of Legends, have agreed to pay out $100 million (£74m) as part of a proposed settlement to a class-action suit brought against them for “systemic sex discrimination and harassment”. Money will go to current and former female employees and contract workers....

HomeFeaturesUnsighted The best games you missed in 2021: UnsightedEye on the prize Eye on the prize The first rule of video game club (apart from not talking about video game club) usually involves saving the world somehow. We do our best to rescue others from harm, to avert world-ending disasters, and give everyone around us the happy ending they deserve. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself in 2021, it’s that I’m a cruel, heartless robot who will happily toss others under the bus if they don’t provide any material benefit to me....

HomeFeaturesVagrus - The Riven Realms The best games you missed in 2021: Vagrus - The Riven RealmsMargin orders Margin orders Vagrus: The Riven Realms - Official Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube Vagrus: The Riven Realms - Official Launch Trailer It’s not as grimdark as it seems. Most people I’ve met have been pretty sound, a welcome change from interpreting “difficult” as “everyone is a hostile prick for no reason”. The stock fantasy races are here but rarely remarked upon, with even the dragon people treated more like a neighbouring kingdom than fundamentally Other....

HomeFeatures The best games you missed in 2021: Tux and FannyWhen you take a closer look, everything is an adventure When you take a closer look, everything is an adventure Ghost Time Games’ Tux And Fanny, from co-developers Albert Birney and Gabriel Koenig, is not only the game I think you may have missed this year, but it is also my Game Of The Year for 2021. This game sends two best friends (alongside a courageous flea and a mischievous cat) through adventures great, small, and absurd to stunning effect – and you owe it to yourself to give this little marvel a play before the year is well and truly out....

HomeFeatures The seventh RPS 2021 Christmas CrackerStick with this one, it’s worth it Stick with this one, it’s worth it Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve prepared some Christmas Cracker jokes instead!...

HomeFeaturesAerial_Knight’s Never Yield The best games you missed in 2021: Aerial_Knight’s Never YieldRun and fun Run and fun It’s pretty difficult to quantify which games actually whip ass, mostly because it’s a little subjective. That being said, if barrelling through the streets of a futuristic, neon-glazed Detroit, hopping over pursuing cop cars and racing through business offices and factories to the tune of an engrossing soundtrack doesn’t whip ass, I don’t know what does....

HomeFeatures The best games you missed in 2021: co-openCan you get some of the nice fruit juice I like please Can you get some of the nice fruit juice I like please The concept of co-open is simple: you play as a kid on their first solo grocery trip. Your grandmother drops you off, gives you a phone number, and then the supermarket is your oyster. Oh, and everyone is an anthropomorphic bird, and a majority of the characters are LGBTQIA+ in some shape or form....

HomeFeatures The fifth RPS 2021 Christmas CrackerGenuinely really enjoy this one Genuinely really enjoy this one Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve prepared some Christmas Cracker jokes instead!...

HomeFeatures The best games you missed in 2021: Sluggish Morss: Pattern CircusWhat dreams may come What dreams may come As a child struggling to sleep at night I’d dream of three worlds. First and least of these was Desert World, a blithe eternity of golden sand always viewed from kilometres up, where fizzing white rings rose toward me like expanding surf. I’d try to find my way down to the surface, but always at the risk of glitching straight through and ending up in Snake World, where monstrous serpents emerged from darkened kitchens....