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HomeNewsBeast Beast, out in early access today, is Baldur’s Gate 3 meets Diablo 4 via Unreal Engine 5Inner demons! Insanity! Gridlessness! Inner demons! Insanity! Gridlessness! Image credit:False Prophet Image credit:False Prophet If you’re weary ofBaldur’s Gate 3’s whimsy, or you’ve finished gnawing the bones ofDiablo 4and are hungry for more of that sweet, sweet grimdark, you might like to check out Beast from Polish developer False Prophet, which goes into Steam early access today....

HomeNews Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’s first gameplay shows off a faithful MGS3 remake in Unreal Engine 5What a thrill What a thrill Image credit:Konami Image credit:Konami Metal Gear Solid 3arrived on PC for the first timeyesterday thanks to thestealth-actionseries’ Master Collection. Unfortunately, it seems to be a fairly underwhelming PC debut for Hideo Kojima’s frog-munching masterpiece, with Snake Eater’s Steam pagefull of negative reviewsabout the barebones port’s restriction to 720p resolution, reported startup crashes and lack of Steam Deck support....

HomeGuides NYT Connections hint and answers (Wednesday, October 25)Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #136 Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #136 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?...

HomeFeaturesEVE Online Project Awakening is born from EVE Online’s fragility - so it’s turning to the blockchainCCP Games' CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson doesn’t want to be forgotten CCP Games' CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson doesn’t want to be forgotten To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings In 2015, Pétursson tells me, a developer at CCP floated “the idea of storing EVE spaceships on the Bitcoin blockchain”....

HomeNewsQuake Quake goes Brutalist again in another free map pack celebrating concreteYou have to see this stunning hub level You have to see this stunning hub level Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Quake Brutalist Jam 2 team Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Quake Brutalist Jam 2 team Commencing concreted violence in Quake’s Brutalist Jam 2 map packPoking around the stunning hub level, trying very hard not to accidentally reveal any of the secrets I’ve found, before commencing a bit of violenceWatch on YouTube...

HomeNewsThe Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival Image credit:RPS/Adamgryu Image credit:RPS/Adamgryu Returning with the much more SEO and annual-tradition appropriate name,The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival(formerly known asMayor Bones Proudly Presents: Ghost Town’s 1001st Annual Pumpkin Festival) is here! Every October it pops up to make your Halloween season orange and flickery with a host of digital carved pumpkins on display in a lovely gallery you can take a calming walk around....

HomeNewsAliens: Fireteam Elite Aliens: Fireteam Elite gets “long-requested quality of life updates” as developer starts work on new projectMatchmaking fixes and AI tweaks Matchmaking fixes and AI tweaks There have been a lot of junky Aliens games in recent years, but 2021’s co-op shooterAliens: Fireteam Eliteis among the better bughunts. A new update released today fixes matchmaking errors, improves companion AI, and comes with news that its developers are working on a new game....

HomeNews Elder Scrolls 6 will keep Skyrim’s approach to levelling and “traces” of its magic, says former Starfield designer"You can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything." “You can’t throw away everything, you can’t keep everything, you can’t update everything.” All that’s froma new interview with MinnMax, in which Nesmith - who started at Bethesda back in 1995, and retired in 2021 to write fantasy novels, including the Loki Redeemed series - reflected on his contributions to Elder Scrolls andFallout, and speculated a little as to the next Elder Scrolls game, which wasannounced back in 2018....

HomeNews Metal Gear Solid - Master Collection Vol 1 is out, bringing MGS3 to PC for the first timeBossing it Bossing it Image credit:Konami Image credit:Konami Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAA - Oh, there you are, Snake. This is just a quick Codec to let you know that Konami’sstealthblockbuster bundleMetal Gear Solid - Master Collection Volume 1is now available to buy. Did you ever play Metal Gear Solid, Snake? It’s this sprawling philosophical epic about war, surveillance, AI, nationalism and anti-heroism, a baroque metafictional saga spanning generations that is also a complex series of videogame design experiments....

HomeNews Please welcome our new guides writers, Kiera Mills and Jeremy BlumThe search is complete The search is complete Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Excellent news today, folks. The RPS guides team is once again back at full strength as we welcome two fresh faces to the Treehouse. Please give a big warm hello and welcome to Kiera Mills and Jeremy Blum. Kiera has previously done lots of guides work at GG Recon, where she covered games such asGenshin Impact,System Shock,Disney Dreamlight Valley, andPaliato name just a few of them....

HomeFeaturesCocoon The (miniature) making of Cocoon: how to make a complex puzzle game feel easyFrom the original prototype to the “loop-free music” From the original prototype to the “loop-free music” Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Annapurna Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Annapurna Interactive The game doesn’t really verbalise any of this: there’s no equivalent for Atreus in God Of War: Ragnarok,ostentatiously nudging you towards each solution. And yet somehow, I find myself flowing through Cocoon like I’m being poured out of a bottle, switching scales and putting together the pieces in a way that feels effortful yet graceful, earned yet… eerily frictionless....

HomeDeals Want a 4TB SSD for $138? This is a 4TB SSD for $138The Team Group T-Force Vulcan Z SATA SSD is incredibly priced. The Team Group T-Force Vulcan Z SATA SSD is incredibly priced. Massive SATA SSDs are getting ever more affordable, and this is the best 4TB deal we’ve ever seen here at RPS. You can get a TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan Z 4TB drive for just $138 at Newegg, down from a previous price of $180....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#857): How to solve the Tuesday October 24 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for October 24? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 24? 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!...