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HomeNewsCommand & Conquer Remastered Collection Command & Conquer Remastered Collection’s first patch eases up Hard Mode and adds private lobbiesEase up, commander Ease up, commander According to RPS’sCommand & Conquer Remastered Collectionreview, the revitalized classic RTS is “both precisely as good and exactly as dated as it’s supposed to be.” Even so, Petroglyph have found a few places to improve and have released the first round of bug fixes and additions....

HomeFeaturesDeus Ex Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC gameFrom studio conflict to creating a classic From studio conflict to creating a classic For those who played it 20 years ago, Deus Ex set expectations for how malleable game worlds could be, and new standards for reactivity that the rest of the industry failed to match in the decade that followed. Deus Ex was ultimately so influential that, as one of our interviewees points out, its innovations now seem normal....

HomeNews FDA approves marketing a videogame as medicine for the first timeIt’s for children with ADHD It’s for children with ADHD In a historic first, the US Food And Drug Administration have approved the use of a videogame as medicine. It’s for a specific, “prescription-only game-based device, called EndeavorRx”, which is intended to help children with ADHD.Kidshave to fly a sci-fi plane around alien environments, in theory helping them learn how to keep their attention focused....

HomeNewsHaunted Garage Haunted Garage is part-adventure game, part-musical instrumentAnd all-intriguing And all-intriguing Curious explore-o-adventure gameHaunted Garagecaught my eye and ear during today’s Day Of The Devs showcase livestream. It has a striking presentation: your character moves around in a diddy box in a corner of the screen, then the rest is used for dioramas to poke at and an increasingly daft number of weird musical instruments and gadgets you can play....

HomeGuides How to check and track your stats in WarzoneTrack your stats. Track your stats. There are a couple of ways to get your stats in Warzone. Warning: You might find out more than you want to know about your ability compared to the rest of the playerbase. How to check and track your stats in Warzone Here’s how to check your kills, deaths, scores, and wins within the Warzone game:...

HomeNewsSpinch Psychedelic platformer Spinch will launch in SeptemberEat your Spinch Eat your Spinch “Our heroSpinchcan dash, dodge, jump off walls, and shoot his own children as ammunition,” say Queen Bee Games. “Platform your way through side-scrolling levels collecting items to give you the upperhand while searching for your missing babies.” Queen Bee queued up a new trailer during Day Of The Devs today showing off all that dodging and hopping and, oh yes the horrifying rainbow sphere snake....

HomeFeaturesXenosis: Alien Infection Xenosis: Alien Infection’s demo still gives me the creepsWatch this (dead) space Watch this (dead) space Xenosis puts you in the boots of a deep space salvage hunter who stumbles on the remains of a long-lost government starship that was thought to have been destroyed around 50 years ago on a terraforming mission. Enterprising young salvager that you are, you decide to retrieve the ship’s AI so you can sell it on for a fortune and hang up your space boots for a life of luxury....

HomeNews Civilization VI battle royale Red Death adds aliens, zombies and Sean Bean next weekThe rotten and the alien The rotten and the alien Posted this week, Civ 6’s latest update video certainly buries the lead - running through a laundry list of balance changes and exploit fixes before even mentioning the rotting and the extraterrestrial. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Unfortunately, you’re not going to be zappingCatherinede' Medici of France with alien rayguns....

HomeNewsThe Lord of the Rings Online The Lord Of The Rings Online mourns the loss of Bilbo Baggins actor Sir Ian HolmMemorials, minstrels and fireworks Memorials, minstrels and fireworks Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube Elsewhere in Middle Earth,Redditor Ch_Mellclaims roughly 300 adventurers on Evernight banded together for an impromptu march to Rivendell. Once again, a Minstrel performed the song “Misty Mountains” from the game’s soundtrack, as the group gathered around the Bilbo Baggins NPC at the Hall of Fire (pictured in header)....

HomeNews An emulator that converts NES games into full 3D is now on Steam Emulators have finally arrived on Steam - and they’ve landed on Valve’s storefront with a bang. This week, developers Geod Studios brought their long-running NES emulator3DSen PCto Steam. The twist? This virtual console turns old-school pixel pushers - whether they’re modern homebrew throwbacks or legitimately-acquired Marios - into adorable, fully-playable 3D dioramas. It’ll work well enough for a demonstration, but 3DSen’s store page reckons the following trailer “doesn’t do it justice”....

HomeFeatures Hey there, Priceless Pals. A melancholy day! This will be my last Priceless Play and the last Free Games Roundup here on RPS. Woe! I have had the undeniable pleasure of writing about the weird niche corners of free games for just shy of two years now, and I have loved every minute of it. Even though I won’t be here to tell you what the best free games of the week are in the future, there will continue to be free games....

HomeNewsAssassin’s Creed Origins Assassin’s Creed Origins is free to play for the weekendFree to creed Free to creed Put yer sand shoes on, folks. We’re going to Egypt.Assassin’s Creed Originsis free to play this weekend. Start downloading now if you happened to miss this particular chapter of stealth, stabbing, and wall climbing. If you’ve lost count of Creed games, this is the one from 2017. You know, before our summer vacation in Greece but after London....

HomeReviewsDisintegration Disintegration reviewFirst-person shooting meets light strategy First-person shooting meets light strategy If only there was as much personality to be found in every other aspect of this hybrid of first-person shooting and light strategy. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Your crew follows Romer across the map, attacking enemies as they appear, but you can choose to issue priority target orders, meaning all units aggressively pursue your selected foe until they’re defeated....