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HomeFeatures The first RPS 2021 Christmas CrackerQuite pleased with this one Quite pleased with this one Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve prepared some Christmas Cracker jokes instead!...

HomeNewsDracula Cha Cha Christmas Eve is the time to play Dracula Cha ChaIt’s specdracula! It’s specdracula! Midnight, one more night without sleepingWatching ‘til that morning comes creepingGreen Door, what’s that secret your keeping? Jim Lowe’s Green Door might not be a Christmas song, but it sure can feel like one—especially inside the festive action ofDracula Cha Cha. That’s right, it’s Christmas Eve, which means one more night without sleeping, and time to play Dracula Cha Cha....

HomeReviews Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker review: a stellar expansion that will leave fans over the moonTales of loss and fire and grapes Tales of loss and fire and grapes Right nowFinal Fantasy XIV: Endwalkeris so popularyou can’t buy itanymore. To prevent overcrowding and crashing servers, Square Enix have had to halt free trials and new sales to keep the game stable after an unprecedented surge in popularity this summer. Between that and the global shortage of materials to add more servers, it may be quite some time until new players are able to experience it....

HomeNewsPathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Kingmaker is free to keep on Epic right nowFree for 24 hours in their 15 days of giveaways Free for 24 hours in their 15 days of giveaways If you like your RPG adventures to contain dungeons and dragons, and be as complex as Dungeons & Dragons, perhaps you might fancy the latest game being given away free in the Epic Games Store’s festive sale. For 24 hours, Epic are handing outPathfinder: Kingmakerfree for keepsies....

HomeNews RPS is out for the holidays. See you in 2022!We’re back on January 4th We’re back on January 4th All right, folks, we’re now officially done and dusted for the year. 2021 is being brought to a close, and RPS is entering its annual hibernation period. We wish you a merry Christmas, a happy holiday, and a general Festivus for the rest of yous as we scuttle out of the RPS Treehouse for a couple of weeks and have a nice big sleep in our mountain of sweet wrappers....

HomeHardwareNews Dell and Alienware BIOS updates break PCs, get recalledAlienware and Inspiron desktop owners beware Alienware and Inspiron desktop owners beware One Aurora R8 owner, for instance, reportedlygot stuck in an infinite crash loopafter what initially appeared to be a routine BIOS update. At least one Inspiron 5680 alsofailed to boot correctlyalmost immediately after the update was downloaded. Yikes. Year In Review | Mystery Steam Reviews (2021 Video Games)Watch on YouTube...

HomeFeatures The Rally Point: End 2021 y/n?What’s in store for strategy lovers in 2022? What’s in store for strategy lovers in 2022? It’s been a busy, kind of mixed year for strategy games. Ever a broad church, 2021’s seen enough releases to keep ten of me busy, from the easy-goingLegion Warto the month-consumingShadow Empire. I don’t know about you, but my personal “to play” list is out of control. And yet, while we’ve had plenty to enjoy this year, it’s felt like a period of build-up to something bigger....

HomeNews Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster is set to arrive in February 2022The final (heh) release of the bunch The final (heh) release of the bunch Square Enix have drip-fed usFinal Fantasy Pixel Remastersover the past year, with the first five having launched already. And now we know the remastered version ofFinal Fantasy VI, aka, the final dribble, arrives in February 2022. FINAL FANTASY PIXEL REMASTER | Promotional TrailerWatch on YouTube...

HomeNews Final Fantasy XIV players enter mourning as Patch 6.01 smooths out blocky grapesRemember them Remember them Final FantasyXIV players haven’t had it easy these last few weeks. The sheer success of its Endwalker expansion resulted inlengthy login queues and server errors. It’s become so popular that Square Enix havetemporarily stopped selling the game, taking its Starter and Complete Editions off sale. All the while, some low-poly grapes stayed static in the breeze....

HomeNews Steam’s Winter Sale has begun with another avalanche of game dealsDash, dance and prance over to those glorious discounts Dash, dance and prance over to those glorious discounts Everyone knows there are two conditions that must be met before Christmas can officially begin. The first isplaying Skeal. The second is the arrival of Steam’s Winter Sale. Blissfully, we can now tick both of these objectives off our to-do list, as Valve have finally unleashed their flurry of seasonal deals....

HomeFeatures The RPS Advent Calendar 2021, December 22ndNo adventure is the same twice No adventure is the same twice Welcome to the2021 RPS Advent Calender! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year each day in the run up to Christmas. Check back at the Calendar post to see the games behind other doors.Gather round, readers, and I’ll tell you the tale of the time I opened the 22nd door on the RPS Advent Calendar....

HomeNewsBook of Travels Tiny MMO Book Of Travels developers lay off staff after difficult launch"In order to stay alive, we have been forced to cut down our team from around 35 people to 10 people" “In order to stay alive, we have been forced to cut down our team from around 35 people to 10 people” Book Of Travelsis what developers Might And Delight call a TMORPG - a “tiny” multiplayer online role playing game, as opposed to a “massive” one....

HomeGuidesCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Best Double Barrel loadout and class setup in Warzone PacificDiscover the best Double Barrel loadout in Warzone Pacific Discover the best Double Barrel loadout in Warzone Pacific Looking for the best Double Barrel loadout in Warzone Pacific?The Double Barrel is an iconicShotgunand packs one heck of a punch. With the right attachments, it can rip through armour and down enemies in a quick, destructive burst.This guide covers everything you need to know to make the best Double Barrel loadout inWarzone Pacific, so that you can obliterate your enemies and get some easy wins....