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HomeNewsAgainst The Storm Against The Storm is the next free game for RPS premium supporters!In time for a cool new update In time for a cool new update As every good munchkin knows,premium supportersof RPS get free game key giveaways, and this week we’re excited to have a blast of first-come, first-served freebies dark fantasy citybuilderAgainst The Storm. On a somewhat desperate mission to reclaim the wilderness for a kind of demanding queen, Against The Storm charges you with not only building a prosperous settlement, but linking it with multiple others in a vast network of prosperity and civilisation....

HomeNews Say hello to Zijin Wang, RPS’s latest work experience palUp and coming upper Up and coming upper Our commitment to finding cool people and giving them a leg up continues, and this time I’m thrilled to welcome the lovely and talented Zijin Wang as our work experience bestie for the next few weeks. You’ll already have seen a few news articles from Zijin popping up, after her first few days with us, and you’ll see more over the next while....

HomeNewsStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s final gameplay trailer promises a battle against the odds, like usualChiselled Cal, rideable mounts, and dark times Chiselled Cal, rideable mounts, and dark times Big big sequelStar Wars Jedi: Survivoris due to release later this month (April 28th), and EA have shared the “final gameplay trailer” in anticipation. The new look debuted at this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration - both well-timed fate and a clever bit of corporate brand synergy....

HomeHardwareDeals The 2TB Samsung 990 Pro is down to £152.99 at Ebuyer in the UKThat’s £134 below RRP and a great price for the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD. That’s £134 below RRP and a great price for the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD. The Samsung 990 Pro is a blazing-fast PCIe 4.0 SSD, offering incredible speeds of up to 7450MB/s reads and 6900MB/s writes - right up against the limits of the PCIe 4....

HomeNews You can play Half-Life: Alyx without VR glasses using a handy new modBut is VR vital for the proper Alyx experience? But is VR vital for the proper Alyx experience? Image credit:Valve Image credit:Valve Right from the start, modders tried to make Valve’s virtual reality shooterHalf-Life: Alyxwork without needing VR glasses. Now another such mod has reached the point of Alyx being fully playable from start to finish on a regular monitor with keyboard and mouse....

HomeNews You can play the PS1-style Dead Space Demake right now, for free2023’s other Dead Space remake, kinda 2023’s other Dead Space remake, kinda We have the dingy corridors ofDead Space(2008), we also have the pretty corridors ofDead Space remake(2023), and now, we can enter the Ishimura a third time with Dead Space Demake (2023, but it looks like 1996.) The fan-made Dead Space Demake takes the horror classic’s oppressive environment and brutal aliens, and recreates them in a PS1-style polygonal aesthetic....

HomeNewsAmerican McGee’s Alice He’s stepping away from game development McGee says that Electronic Arts have decided to pass on the project. As such, McGee says he has “reached an endpoint with ‘Alice’ and with game production in general.” 4K Alice Asylum Design Bible V1 Launch & Developer Announcement (14 Feb 2023)Watch on YouTube 4K Alice Asylum Design Bible V1 Launch & Developer Announcement (14 Feb 2023) McGee had pitched to Electronic Arts to secure the “funding and/or licensing” required to make Alice: Asylum....

HomeNewsThe Last of Us Part I The Last Of Us: Part 1 has another new patch with a set of performance improvementsAnd crash bug fixes And crash bug fixes The Last Of Us Part 1launched on PC a little over a week ago in a less than adequate state. It has beenheavily criticisedfor bugs, crashes and performance issues in the days since, despiteseveralpatches. Now there’s another new patch, 1.0.2.0, which Naughty Dog say “addresses some crashes, improves performance in some areas, and fixes several gameplay and UI issues including some animation, texture, and lighting bugs....

HomeNewsMr Sun’s Hatbox Mr. Sun’s Hatbox is a slapstick roguelike with a heavy dose of Metal Gear Solid 5Build a Mother Base and retrieve a lost delivery this month Build a Mother Base and retrieve a lost delivery this month Have you ever been waiting for a delivery, only to have it never arrive? Ever wondered where it went? How does the courier even begin to track a lost item?Mr. Sun’s Hatboxanswers all of those questions (very seriously) in a genre-blending comedy....

HomeFeaturesThe Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Extra bite The Walking Dead: Saints And Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution inhales In any case, I disregarded this advice. “I don’t need an instruction manual for post-apocalyptic survival,” I thought. I’ve rummaged through this particular abandoned house countless times, after all: InDayZ, inDead Island, in State Of Decay, inDays Gone. I even reviewed the first Saints And Sinners back in February 2020. I know my way around a zombie’s cranium better than anyone....

HomeNews Resident Evil 4 remake adds free Mercenaries mode and curious microtransactionsWong and Wesker, where? Wong and Wesker, where? Capcom have added the Mercenaries mode toResident Evil 4’s remakeas a free bit of DLC, alongside some curious microtransactions to the base game. Just like the original Resi4, Mercenaries puts you up against a timer as you race to roundhouse kick foes and chase high scores.Resident Evil 4 - The Mercenaries TrailerWatch on YouTubeAs a series staple mode, Mercenaries is a free download for all owners ofResident Evil 4’s remake....

HomeNews You can grab Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for free this weekendFree to keep, pay for more Free to keep, pay for more The long-running sci-fi seriesBattlestar Galacticareceived a turn-based strategy spin-off a couple years ago. Focusing on the epic space battles alone,Battlestar Galactica Deadlockwas generally well-reviewed at its launch in 2017, and it’s become increasingly popular in the years since, thanks to hefty post-launch support and a lack of other BSG-related things going on....

HomeFeatures Ask RPS: when did you know you wanted to write about games for a living?Bloodyhell Asks RPS Bloodyhell Asks RPS Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Ask RPSreturns today with a question that takes us right back to the beginning of how we all got here. Not in the scientific, evolutionary sense of all of human history, I should add, but rather how we, the RPS Treehouse, ended up writing about video games for a living....