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HomeNewsDark Deception: Monsters & Mortals Monster Energy threatens another game with legal action over the word “monsters"Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortal’s devs will fight the trademark dispute Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortal’s devs will fight the trademark dispute Monster Energy strikes again, coming back to claw at games with the word “Monster” in the title. The drinks company and its legal department have now targeted the indie devs behindDark Deception: Monsters & Mortals, a multiplayer game where you control either the titular humans or horrors through a maze....

HomeHardwareDeals One of the fastest SSDs is down to £155 for 2TB at Amazon UKCorsair’s MP600 Pro LPX is a fantastic fit for PC or PS5. Corsair’s MP600 Pro LPX is a fantastic fit for PC or PS5. The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is a great SSD that we’verecommended before, on the back of its excellent performance - and often, great value too. Today it’s cheaper than usual, with the 2TB drive dipping to £154....

HomeNews The RPS Game Club pick for April is Betrayal At Club LowGrab a hot slice Grab a hot slice A new month means it’s time for theRPS Game Clubto pick its next game, and I thought, you know what, let’s doBetrayal At Club Low, the surreal nightclub RPG from Cosmo D Studios. Not only did we give it aBestest Bestwhen it came out in September last year, but just last month it was freshly annointed as the IGF Grand Prizewinner, making it an excellent time to revisit this latest slice of Off-Peak City madness....

HomeNewsTotal War: Warhammer III Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting free DLC alongside the Chaos Dwarfs expansionMirror Of Madness brings a survival mode and a Laboratory-like one Mirror Of Madness brings a survival mode and a Laboratory-like one Total War: WARHAMMER III - Mirror of MadnessWatch on YouTube Total War: WARHAMMER III - Mirror of Madness The first is a wave-based survival mode called The Trials Of Fate, putting you in the shoes of the Daemon Prince of Tzeentch as he relives battles from the past....

HomeDeals Wow - you can get an Lenovo Legion 5 Pro RTX 3060 gaming laptop for £900A great price for a spec that includes a 16-in 2560x1600 165Hz display, Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. A great price for a spec that includes a 16-in 2560x1600 165Hz display, Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. One of my all-time favourite gaming laptops is £300 off at Ebuyer UK today....

HomeNews Activision Blizzard settles lawsuit with US government over esport wage suppressionAnother day, another ActiBlizz lawsuit Another day, another ActiBlizz lawsuit Image credit:Activision Blizzard Image credit:Activision Blizzard Yesterday, the US Department Of Justicefiled a civil suitagainst Activision Blizzard, accusing the publisher’s Competitive Balance Tax of capping esports players’ wages and penalisingOverwatchandCall Of Dutyleague teams if they exceeded the salary cap. The 14 Biggest Games Coming To PC In 2023Watch on YouTube...

HomeHardwareNews Asus’ Steam Deck rival, the ROG Ally, is no jokeThere’s more to this handheld PC than an April Fool’s lark There’s more to this handheld PC than an April Fool’s lark Asus have confirmed that the ROG Ally, aSteam Deck-esque handheld PC announced on April Fool’s Day, is in fact a real device that’s in production right now. There’s no price or release date info as of yet, but it sounds like it will be more of a premium alternative, aiming to beat the Deck on specs like APU power and display performance....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III Crusader Kings 3’s next expansion adds tours, tournaments and grand weddingsFittingly called Tours & Tournaments Fittingly called Tours & Tournaments Crusader Kings 3’s next expansion has been announced. Tours & Tournaments will introduce new events to the medieval grand strategy game including jousting events, grand weddings and the ability to send you ruler on a tour of their domain. All offer an opportunity to impress your subjects and rivals - or, I’d guess, to fall off your horse and die....

HomeReviewsEverspace 2 Everspace 2 review: noughties but niceLooting at lightspeed Looting at lightspeed Image credit:Rockfish/RockPaperShotgun Image credit:Rockfish/RockPaperShotgun Everspace 2is an arcade space shooter with an action-RPG style loot system and a distinctly early 2000s vibe, set entirely within a false memory of a Saturday morning cartoon that never existed, and featuring some obscenely shiny spaceships. I don’t claim to understand whether this has something to do with “ray-tracing” or some manner of “screen space occlusion” or what have you – Digital Foundry, I am available for work – all I know is that there’s an option to crank up the gloss until you’re pretty much zooming around the galaxy in a big angry disco ball....

HomeNews Remastered puzzler Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is launching this monthRewinding to 2010, this time in 3D Rewinding to 2010, this time in 3D Originally released in 2010,Desktop Dungeonsis a top-down puzzler about whacking beasties in the correct order, exploring the map to heal, and retreating to enjoy your hard-earned taxidermy skills.Desktop Dungeons: Rewindis a recently announced remaster of the tile-based roguelike - freshly coated with 3D graphics and a rewind feature - and it’s now fully launching on April 18th....

HomeNews Street Fighter film coming from Dune and Detective Pikachu’s production companyHadoken on the big screen Hadoken on the big screen Street Fighter 6 - Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube Street Fighter 6 - Announce Trailer Legendary are the production company behind recent blockbusters like Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong - both very fun flicks, in wildly different ways. The company have co-developed other video game adaptations too, including both good ones (Detective Pikachu) and bad ones (Dead Rising: Endgame, Warcraft)....

HomeFeaturesThe Invincible The Invincible is way more exciting now I know it “isn’t a 1:1 adaptation” of Stanislaw Lem’s sci-fi thrillerAs all good adaptations should be As all good adaptations should be Image credit:11 Bit Studios Image credit:11 Bit Studios “People tell us, ‘Don’t fuck it up, this guy’s important,'” Dobrowolski continues, and no wonder. During the course of our conversation, Lem is described as both a “national treasure” and “mandatory reading in high school” for Polish students, and his hallowed cultural status is something the team’s “had to deal with” in bringing the book to life....

HomeHardwareFeaturesThe Last of Us Part I The Steam Deck is no way to play The Last of Us Part 1 – for nowPray for performance patches Pray for performance patches Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Update:It’s fixed! Well, fixed enough.The Last of Us Part I is now Steam Deck Verified, following a series of patches. I’ve re-tested it and a combination of Very Low settings and Quality-level FSR 2 upscaling can now hold a comfortable 30fps minimum....