HomeNews Valve reveal Steam’s best-selling games of 2020A whole lotta lists from Valve A whole lotta lists from Valve We’ve told you what we think arethe best PC games of 2020(well, as many as we could fit), but what about cold, hard business? For folks who want metrics and money, Valve have revealed the best-selling games on Steam of 2020. They’re a bit vague about it, mind. Valve avoid giving numbers or even a definitive ranking for anything....

HomeFeatures What are we all playing this holiday?Well? Well? Hullo! Whilewe’re away until the 4th of January, here’s a wee post for you, reader dear, to gab about what you’re playing this holiday. What are you catching up on? What have you still not put down? What did you get in the sales? Which games didour advent calendarnudge you into trying? And if you fancy more chat with folks over the break, perhaps you might visitthe RPS forumorRPS Discord server?...

HomeFeatures The second RPS Christmas crackerThis one is a belter too This one is a belter too Every year Graham opens the secret panel in the back of all our heads (with a little screwdriver) and removes our batteries so we don’t cause any trouble over the break. On January the 4th he’ll put new ones in, but to keep you amused until then we’ve left you a little Christmas cracker with a joke inside....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 devs celebrate Christmas with a song about brainwormsTadpole for you, tadpole for me! Tadpole for you, tadpole for me! To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Baldur’s Gate 3would be a very different game if our characters were quite so enthusiastic about their own Mind Flayer tadpoles. Makes you wonder if they shouldn’t go with the flow. Sounds great fun, really. What’s the worst that could happen?...

HomeFeaturesVirtuaVerse The best game you missed in May 2020: VirtuaVerseNo, not that other cyberpunk game No, not that other cyberpunk game What would the sprawling metropolises of a cyberpunk dystopia smell like? If you look beyond the gleaming skyscrapers of point ‘n’ click adventureVirtuaVerse’s futuristic city, it probably contains whiffs of the industrial odour of diesel and metal, tinged with the stench of rotting food and sewer drains. This is one of the most fascinating aspects of VirtuaVerse, despite the game still hewing closely to the most ubiquitous motifs of the genre: the pouring rain, the neon-soaked city, and of course, the prevalence of East Asian characters and other cultural signifiers, like karaoke and what have you....

HomeFeatures The first RPS Christmas crackerStarting with a strong ‘oof’ Starting with a strong ‘oof’ Every year Graham opens the secret panel in the back of all our heads (with a little screwdriver) and removes our batteries so we don’t cause any trouble over the break. On January the 4th he’ll put new ones in, but to keep you amused until then we’ve left you a little Christmas cracker with a joke inside....

HomeNews The Forest sequel coming in 2021, looking wonderfully horribleAnd I’ll see you, and you’ll see me And I’ll see you, and you’ll see me Most survival games have an element of horror, giving us an inhuman hunger that’ll kill us if we don’t eat a three-course meal every five minutes. I like jokes.The Forestgoes hard on horror, having cannibals and mutants stalk us, and the story-driven survival game’s sequel is looking just as wonderfully horrible....

HomeNewsCyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 speedrunners have raced to have sex in under 11 minutesSpeed to the deed, V Speed to the deed, V Now thatCyberpunk 2077has been in players' hands for a couple weeks, progress has been made in two talented but different groups of goofs. Already this week, modders have cooked up amod to change your hairstylesince V isn’t able to after leaving character creation. Let’s see what the speedrunners are up to then....

HomeNews Indie game publishers are sharing their contracts for developers to inspectA gaze behind the curtain A gaze behind the curtain Indie publisher Raw Fury, who’ve published the likes ofBad NorthandCall Of The Sea, posted a copy of their publishing agreement yesterday. They’ve also compiled other resources for developerson their sitesuch as legal and financial paperwork samples that small or new studios may find useful. To that end, they said they hope other publishers will follow suit and make their own agreements public too....

HomeFeaturesCyberpunk 2077 Let’s be honest, we all know who should have actually played Johnny in Cyberpunk 2077See if you can guess who I mean before you open this See if you can guess who I mean before you open this It’s just that, with the best will in the world, his performance as Johnny Silverhand inCyberpunk 2077isn’t one of them, is it? To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings...

HomeFeatures The RPS Advent Calendar 2020, December 23rdIf you build it, you shall just keep building it, forever If you build it, you shall just keep building it, forever This is the RPS Advent Calendar, in which we reveal one of our favourite PC games of 2020 on each day. Headback to the calendarto open another door. But it was all worth it. It’sFactorio! To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

HomeNews This database of game menus is very cool, actuallyYes, seriously Yes, seriously To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings It’s quite a neat project, and valuable too. Cataloging how games look and work is a priceless resource for future development. It reminds me of themuseum of lockpickingfrom several months back. Although this database is just images, not gifs or recreated interactions, having a reference for visual design is such a wonderful idea....

HomeNews Destiny’s premier dance troupe stage a Christmas spectacularHusky Raid saw something weird in the Cosmodrome Husky Raid saw something weird in the Cosmodrome I don’t want a lot for Christmas, but I certainly am glad to receive the gift of a newDestinydance performance from Husky Raid. This group of players have thrilled and delighted with hot moves and clever staging in their “Saw something weird…” machinima videos for five years, and their latest weird encounter is fittingly festive....