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HomeNews What are your video gaming ambitions for 2023?Let’s make resolutions we fail to live up to Let’s make resolutions we fail to live up to 2022 is ready to drop from the calendar, revealing the unblemished pages of 2023 beneath. There’s a small chance you’re spending the next several hours at a bacchanalian rager, but I’d bet that you’re not. You’re more likely enjoying a few hours of peace and quiet after a week with family and wishing Jools would hurry the whole thing along....

HomeHardwareDeals Fast and cheap: Sabrent’s 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD hits £78 at Amazon UKA great deal for a high-end NVMe SSD. A great deal for a high-end NVMe SSD. Sabrent’s Rocket PCIe 4.0 SSD is one of best cheap PCIe 4.0 SSDs that doesn’t cut corners in terms of NAND type (it’s TLC, rather than the cheaper QLC) and cache (it’s got a DRAM cache). This makes it a good performer even in sustained write scenarios, as you might encounter in video editing and the like, while its good random read/write speeds are good for gaming....

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: Katharine’s bonus games of the year 2022More personal picks that didn’t make the RPS Advent Calendar More personal picks that didn’t make the RPS Advent Calendar It’s awell-documentedfacthere at RPS that I love a good spreadsheet. Specifically, my spreadsheet that lists all the lovely games I manage to play each year. I’ve been looking at that spreadsheet a lot in recent weeks, and I’m pleased to report that most of my top game picks from this year have successfully made their way into theRPS Advent Calendar....

HomeHardwareDeals The best value Steam Deck memory card is down to £37 for 512GBA great piece of RPS-approved kit at a discount. A great piece of RPS-approved kit at a discount. SanDisk’s capacious 512GB Ultra drive is down to £36.99 at their UK web store, offering nearly a 50% savings off its RRP. This is a great pickup for Steam Deck or Switch owners, but of course this memory card would also work in phones, tablets, action cams and so on too - there’s even a full-size SD card adapter included....

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: Rachel’s bonus games of the year 2022A cute-but-creepy mystery, a queer sci-fi RPG , and a cosmic survival horror game A cute-but-creepy mystery, a queer sci-fi RPG , and a cosmic survival horror game Beacon Pines Beacon Pines - Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube Beacon Pines - Launch Trailer WhenBeacon Pinesfirst released, I was juggling a few other games at the time and had planned to save it for some cosy Christmas holiday gaming....

HomeDeals AMD’s Ryzen 5 7600X is down to £249 on AmazonThat’s £100 below its UK RRP. That’s £100 below its UK RRP. Image credit:Will Judd, Digital Foundry Image credit:Will Judd, Digital Foundry In late Novemberwe saw incredible priceson the Ryzen 7000 series, and now we’re getting even better deals on many of these processors. The one I’m highlighting today is the Ryzen 5 7600X, which is down to £249 at Amazon - significantly below its £350 RRP and £21 cheaper than it was for Black Friday....

HomeNewsMr. Saitou Rakuen followup Mr. Saitou coming March 2023New game, same universe New game, same universe Back in 2017,Rakuenwas a pixel art, combat-free RPG which mixed serious themes with cute, fantasy characters and songs. We adored it. Now its developer Laura Shigihara has announced a new game,Mr. Saitou, which she describes as “the next installment in the Rakuen universe.” You can find the announcement trailer below. Mr. Saitou Official Trailer (a new Rakuen game)Watch on YouTube...

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: James’s bonus games of the year 2022This is a place of honour, actually This is a place of honour, actually Don’t look at me, I’m justthe hardware guy. But I do recommend looking at these, my favourite also-ran games that weren’t quite team-impressing enough to win a spot on theRPS Advent Calendar 2022. Out of everything I played this year, these are the avatars of adequacy, the sultans of satisfactory....

HomeDeals This advanced Samsung USB-C 128GB flash drive is a great deal at £12High speed, low price. High speed, low price. Portable SSDs are a brilliant way to ferry files around, but often they’re a bit overkill if you’re just copying a game directory to another PC, bringing a video file to watch on TV or backing up your schoolwork.In this case, a fast USB-C flash drive can be just the thing, with the newfangled connection allowing use on a wide range of devices like phones, tablets and games consoles too....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle answer (Tuesday 27 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #556 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle #556 Hints and the answer to Wordle #556 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun In this guide, we’ve got three clues that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re just looking for the answer to maintain a streak, then scroll a little further down....

HomeFeatures The games that defined 2022 for the RPS guides teamHey, we done did some dang good guides this year Hey, we done did some dang good guides this year Because we operate so much behind the scenes, it’s easy to miss some of the amazing stuff that the team did in guidestown this year. It ain’t easy, writing a walkthrough or how-to that’s useful for the reader while simultaneously appeasing those nebulous and mercurial SEO gods....

HomeFeatures The RPS Selection Box: Ed’s bonus games of the year 2022Give these a look Give these a look Maybe I hadn’t looked hard enough, but I played a lot of games this year which ended up being a bit naff or totally fine. All of my top picks made it into theAdvent Calendar, so that’s good! But otherwise, I didn’t have to think too hard as to what I’d shout out here....

HomeDeals Get a SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ wireless headset for PC and PS5 for £79That’s £50 cheaper than Amazon’s price. That’s £50 cheaper than Amazon’s price. The SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ is a top wireless headset for PC, PS5, PS4 and Switch, and today it’s down to £79 at Ebay with a discount code - the lowest price we’ve ever recorded for this model. To get this price, use the codeBOXING-20at the checkout....