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HomeDeals Pick up a very tiny 42-in or 48-in LG C2 OLED 4K TV for £150 offEbay code FLASH25 offers best-ever prices on two great gaming displays. Ebay code FLASH25 offers best-ever prices on two great gaming displays. LG’s C2 OLEDs are brilliant gaming displays at any size - and the 42-in and 48-in models are just small enough to fit onto an average to large-sized desk. That technically makes them “cool gaming monitors” and therefore well within my RPS deals duties....

HomeFeatures What’s better: character creation building backstory, or giant fungus?Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Image credit:Microsoft Image credit:Microsoft Character creation building backstory I always like when games use character creation choices to build a little backstory rather than simply throwing numbers about. What in my life made me a rogue? How come I can read these runes?...

HomeNewsCities: Skylines Cities: Skylines is getting financial districts, South Korean-inspired buildings and moreTwo waves of updates before the year is done Two waves of updates before the year is done Cities: Skylinesis getting two tranches of new content before the end of the year. “Tranche” is a fitting word, too, since the largest update of the bunch is a Financial Districts mini-expansion which will let you build a Stock Exchange and invest in markets....

HomeNewsFootball Manager 2023 Football Manager 2023 is out now, and also available via PC Game PassBut I do wish Touch was back on PC But I do wish Touch was back on PC Football Manager 2023is out now. Fully out, that is, after weeks of being available as an early access beta. This also means it’s now available via PC Game Pass, for those who want to stick their hand into management experimentally like a virtual Paul Scholes....

HomeNewsGears of War Gears Of War movie and animated series surface at NetflixFenix rising Fenix rising Get your chainsaw guns, body armour and chin-fluff at the ready, because the unstoppable assault of Netflix video game adaptations has found a new target. The Coalition’sGears Of Warseries of beefy blastermen fending off equally beefy aliens is coming to the red streaming service at some indefinite point in the future, it’s beenrevealed. Netflix say they’re working together with The Coalition on producing both the movie and animation....

HomeNews Mass Effect’s scrambled N7 Day message has been decodedNever underestimate human defiance Never underestimate human defiance If you’re aMass Effectaficionado then you’d definitely have been aware that yesterday was the annual N7 Day celebration of the series. You probably also noticed that BioWaresharedsome concept art of an in-construction mass relay fromMass Effect 5, along with a snippet of jumbled audio for people to download. Enterprising Shepard stans set to work cleaning up the noise to see if anything meaningful was held within and, lo and behold, there was a short message from everyone’s favourite asari scientist Liara T’Soni....

HomeNewsMultiVersus MultiVersus teases competitive play as its ranked mode alpha test beginsLasts a week, launches at a later date Lasts a week, launches at a later date Warner Bros. free to play licensed brawlerMultiVersusis testing its ranked mode for a week starting today, devs Player First Games have announced. Hop into the game from 5pm GMT/6pm CET/9am PT today and you’ll find the ranked tab is accessible for the first time....

HomeNews No more Project Cars games, says EAStaff will move to other projects where possible Staff will move to other projects where possible The Project Cars games were gorgeous, detail-obsessed, and at first partly crowd-sourced. Then in 2019Codemasters bought developers Slightly Mad Studiosand in 2021Electronic Arts bought Codemasters. Now EA have announced internally that they won’t be making any more Project Cars games, and that they will move staff working on the series into “suitable” roles “wherever [they] can....

HomeNewsWordle Wordle’s getting a bossSort of Sort of Eight Great Wordle-likesWe’ve got some suggestions for when you’re all Wordle-d out.Watch on YouTube Eight Great Wordle-likes I’ve been playing Wordle pretty religiously for the whole of 2022 while on daily excursions to the lavatory, so I’m glad to hear it’s getting a bit more active curation behind the word list. Not to sound like a complete smug git or anything, but I’ve been finding Wordle weirdly easy in recent weeks....

HomeNews Battlefield 1 is in Steam’s top ten bestsellers six years after releaseAlmost ten times as many people played it as Battlefield 2042 in the past 24 hours Almost ten times as many people played it as Battlefield 2042 in the past 24 hours There’s a war going on between instalments in the Battlefield series, and it looks likeBattlefield 1is coming out on top for now. The World War One FPS has been spotted nestled in Steam’s top ten best-selling games rankings (thanks,Emopulse), although it’s since slipped out again....

HomeHardwareDeals Beef up an old laptop with this 480GB SSD for less than £25A deeply discounted Integral SSD and a 10% off Ebay code combine to great effect. A deeply discounted Integral SSD and a 10% off Ebay code combine to great effect. That’s a solid £5 below the price of the same drive on Amazon, and well into bargain buy territory for anyone that wants to cheaply and easily add more storage to their desktop or laptop....

HomeNews Free Dead Cells update adds goodies based on Hotline Miami, Slay The Spire and moreComing to PC first, consoles to follow Coming to PC first, consoles to follow Dead Cells: Everyone is Here Vol. II - Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube Dead Cells: Everyone is Here Vol. II - Gameplay Trailer Dead Cells’ Everyone Is Here 2 update lands in the game today, and it’s free. You can find Dead Cells onSteam,GOG, and theEpic Games Store....

HomeDeals Get the Elgato Stream Deck for £50 off today15 LCD macro keys for £90 - so £6 each? 15 LCD macro keys for £90 - so £6 each? If you’re a streamer or a macro fiend, you’ve probably have heard of Elgato’s Stream Deck. This little gadget has a simple premise: fifteen customisable keys, each with a little LCD screen behind it, that can be bound to accomplish a wide range of things from scene switching in OBS and monitoring your computer’s vitals to launching programs or muting your microphone....