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HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, December 18)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #190 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #190 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! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeFeatures Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Bumper Christmas EditionI go on Twitter so you don’t have to I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Image credit:horbror Image credit:horbror Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week is the end of the year for us here at RPS, so this is the last look I’ll bring you until the future arrives....

HomeReviewsThe Finals The Finals review: the most exciting new multiplayer shooter in yearsI hope it blows up I hope it blows up Image credit:RPS/Embark Studios Image credit:RPS/Embark Studios The Finals' real master stroke, I think, is that it has found a design that lets it be generous with power - even while containing an unlock system, a battle pass, and a not insignificant skill floor. Those things aren’t an obstacle between you and the childish joy of smashing the world to bits....

HomeNews The Maw - 18th-23rd DecemberOur weekly news liveblog Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:George Timothy Tobin/Wikimedia Commons Image credit:George Timothy Tobin/Wikimedia Commons It’s the last week before the Xmas break, and the grapevine runneth dry. Soon, we will commence the annual Engluttification ceremony, a ritual of banishment in which we feed the Maw our entire Steam wishlists while singing an arcane carol of our own devising, Nth Days of Solstice, in which the famous partridge in the pear tree has Twice-Twenty Wings, and on each Wing I saw an Eye, verily, and a Mouth rejoicing for lo, the Great Catch-Up Period has come....

HomeFeaturesShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 18thIs a ghost ship a ship full of ghosts, or is the ship itself a ghost? Is a ghost ship a ship full of ghosts, or is the ship itself a ghost? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We’ve reached another day on our Advent Calendar, shipmates! Yo ho ho and a bottle of stealth! Arrr, me hearties, it’sShadow Gambit:The Cursed Crew!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, December 17)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #189 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #189 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! Want a hint for Connections today?...

HomeNewsShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew gets surprise modding tool as a “very final parting gift"Make your own stealth missions Make your own stealth missions Image credit:Mimimi Games Image credit:Mimimi Games Stealth tactics ‘em upShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crewis an “all-time treasure”, according to Katharine’sreview, and it has to be given that developers Mimimi announced their closure almost immediately after its release.This might help extend its life closer towards eternity: as a “very final parting gift”, Mimimi have released a modding tool that lets players create their own missions and stories....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#910): How to solve the Saturday December 16 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for December 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!...

HomeNews Creative Assembly apologise for “mistakes” with Total Warhammer 3 and Pharaoh, offering part-refunds and free DLC“We see the confusion, the frustration, and the distrust of us across the community" “We see the confusion, the frustration, and the distrust of us across the community" Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Sega “It has been a difficult few months, and we recognize that we have made mistakes when it comes to our relationship with you all,” Collumwrote in the letter....

HomeNewsDeath Stranding Death Stranding movie is being made with Hereditary studio A24, will be more than a “direct translation”Kojima aiming for something “achievable only through the medium of film" Kojima aiming for something “achievable only through the medium of film" The upcoming film adaptation of Norman Reedus Walking Simulator - akaDeath Stranding- has signed up arthouse darlings A24. Death Stranding PC Review | Kojima’s Stunning Open World Is Best On PCWatch on YouTube...

HomeFeatures Doom At 30: The developers of your favourite boomer shooters share their favourite things about DoomDevs from Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, Prodeus and more weigh in on why the shotgun is cool Devs from Ultrakill, Turbo Overkill, Prodeus and more weigh in on why the shotgun is cool Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks To celebrateDoom’s 30th birthday we had a discussion about the (understandably) vauntedFPS’s influence, and what games would look like without it....

HomeNews Duke Nukem and Ghostrunner devs 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks are latest Embracer studios to suffer layoffsJust over two years after being acquired Just over two years after being acquired Ghostrunner Is Brutal, But Fun | Ghostrunner ReviewWatch on YouTube Ghostrunner Is Brutal, But Fun | Ghostrunner Review More and more sources have told me at least half the company (Slipgate/3DR) is laid off. We’re looking at hiring at least 2-3....

HomeNewsBaldur’s Gate 3 It doesn’t sound like Baldur’s Gate 3 will be on Game Pass anytime soon - if ever"We made a big game, so I think there’s a fair price to be paid for that” “We made a big game, so I think there’s a fair price to be paid for that” Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Larian Studios / Rock Paper Shotgun If you’ve been holding out hope thatBaldur’s Gate 3might find its way onto PC Game Pass in the future, I’ve got some bad news for you: it’s very unlikely to happen....