HomeVideosMinecraft Allow me to show you around my wonderful Minecraft house… in hellI’ve imprisoned a pig man I’ve imprisoned a pig man I playMinecraftto build pleasing little houses, and so new block types are the most exciting things that can be added to the game, as far as I’m concerned. I’m pretty happy, then, as the new 1.16 “nether” update, which launched this week, has addedloads. What’s more, they’re almost all found in the titular nether - Minecraft’s weirdo hell dimension, which was pretty underwhelming for the first nine and a half years of its existence - so I can now build pleasing little housesIN HELL....

HomeVideosBiomutant Biomutant sounds like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but furrierWhere the wild things are Where the wild things are TheBiomutantreveal feels like a lifetime ago. Announced at Gamescom in 2017, the kung fu… cat/panda/bear-thing captured the imagination of everyone with that first trailer. And, despite some delays, the excitement for Experiment 101’s open world RPG has been growing ever since. No wonder, I suppose. You are a kung fu cat/panda/bear-thing, after all....

HomeFeaturesCurious Expedition 2 Curious Expedition 2 seems to be heading backwardsI think we’re lost I think we’re lost Playing the latest early access build has left me thoroughly de-psyched, because the new events are thin and far between and the combat I liked has been dumbed down. It’s a curious step back. Problem is, those shipwrecks stop being mysterious the moment you find your third one. For this to work, you need to see these events asevents, not just mechanical opportunities to gain loot....

HomeNewsDisco Elysium Disco Elysium might be getting a TV show, of all thingsGive it a go, Harry Give it a go, Harry Well, betcha you didn’t expect to read that headline today any more than I expected to write it. Dark 70s detective RPGDisco Elysiumis being spun off into a TV show, assuming that the production company partnering with ZA/UM studio are successful in assembling a team of writers and pitching it....

HomeFeaturesAge of Mythology Have You Played… Age Of Mythology?Kraken stuff Kraken stuff You know I start at least one post a month with a seemingly tangential zoology metaphor, and I’m afraid you just hit this month’s. Because when I think about Age Of Mythology, I think ofGomphotherium. Why do I think of a weird, extinct elephant? Because it was a perfectly good ‘phant, is why, and a definite improvement on previous iterations on the theme of “Big Grey Lads”....

HomeDeals Our highlights from the Steam Summer SaleDealsdealsdealsdealsdeals Dealsdealsdealsdealsdeals Steam’s Summer Saleis well and truly underway. Running until July 9th, there are hundreds and thousands of great gameson sale. Too many, if you ask us, but hey, everyone loves a good deal, right? To help you navigate this latest deluge of games going cheap, the RPS Treehouse has put their collective, socially distanced heads together to bring you our top Steam Summer Sale recommendations....

HomeNewsLegends of Runeterra Runeterra’s new Gauntlets might, just might, get me playing againGo-go gadget Gauntlet Go-go gadget Gauntlet This is part of Patch 1.4, which also brings big changes to a whole bunch of cards and introduces the new ranked season. But I’m still thinking ‘bout Gauntlets. Gauntlets are only open from Friday through to Monday, “with each weekend featuring a single format from the Gauntlet rotation”. The first one kicked off today, and developers Riot Games say they’re treating the current, very simple one as a way to “test-drive the underlying tech”....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Sea Of Thieves will get custom serversThey’re more what you’d call guidelines They’re more what you’d call guidelines Sea Of Thievesis meant to be a dangerous sandbox full of threatening skeleton ships and dastardly fellow players nipping at your heels. It is that, and more, but as players do with sandboxes, many organise less lethal events on the high seas. In the past, pirate crews have hosted everything fromfashion showstoship races, but those events always exist with the threat of other interloping players....

HomeNews Square Enix will announce their upcoming games individually in July and AugustE3 never ends E3 never ends Question:Normally, you would announce new games at E3, but how has coronavirus affected your plans this year? Answer:We would normally announce new games at E3, yes. We had planned to have a press conference as a replacement event, but were unable to do so since assets were not complete. We’ll be announcing new titles individually as the timing permits....

HomeFeatures The 9 best nights out in gamesOne Off The List One Off The List Down it, down it, dowwwn it, yeeaahhh! Nice one, you skulled that pint of fizzy water and lemon like an absolute legend, mate, well done. I always knew you were a top enjoyer of a wild night on the tiles, on the rip, on the slosh, on the tear, on the floor, on the bathroom floor, no listen you’re on the bathroom floor mate, for real, get up....

HomeFeatures The Flare Path: Fletchers and ForkliftsThoughts on 1272010, 1227530, 1341170 and 873840 Thoughts on 1272010, 1227530, 1341170 and 873840 Thinking about making a U-boat game? Unless you’ve some quirkynewangleor have a mind to model WWI U-boats my advice would bedon’t. The genre is asrammedas a freshly sealed sardine can at the moment. First-time devs Iron Wolf have the right idea. Instead of following their well-reviewedco-op board game about Kriegsmarine convoy molesterswith a PC take on the same subject, the Polish outfit is aiming to spellbind simmers with a game played from a convoy chaperone’s perspective....

HomeNews The next Dark Pictures Anthology chapter shows off seven minutes of spooksLittle girls are always a bad sign Little girls are always a bad sign The next spooky bedtime story game from Supermassive Games has conjured some new witch-y gameplay.Little Hopeis the second in the spooky choose-your-own-movieThe Dark Pictures Anthologyseries. As withMan Of Medan, this new gameplay video shows the new protagonists ambling about, disagreeing about whether or not something weird is going on around here (it is), and getting in way over their dense horror protagonist heads....

HomeNewsMinecraft You can emote in Minecraft Bedrock Edition nowCrouch no more Crouch no more For all thatMinecraftis full of ways to express your creativity, it’s always had very few ways to express a greeting. Sure, you can type a message to a friend playing with you but that’s such work. Minecraft’s Bedrock Edition (that’s the Windows 10 one, not the Java launcher) now has emotes you can use to say hello....