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HomeReviews The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle reviewA lean, mean, greenin' machine A lean, mean, greenin' machine A while back politicians in the UK identified the environment as a key battleground to fight over, and all started riding around on those tiny bikes you can fold up and carry around London to prove they cared about trees. Not to be outdone, EA have, ten years later, released their latest expansion to blockbuster tiny-person life simulation seriesThe Sims 4along a green theme....

HomeDeals Ubisoft’s Summer Sale gets better if you buy Rainbow Six Siege as wellUbi planning on buying anything? Ubi planning on buying anything? It’s only been a couple of weeks since Ubisoft’s US store had their bigLegendary Sale, but now they’ve morphed their mythical season of discounts into an even biggerSummer Salewith savings of up to 80% off – a full 5% improvement on last time. While most of the prices will feel familiar to anyone who dug around last time, there is an interesting new quirk here: if you add Rainbow Six: Siege Gold or Ultimate editions to your cart, you’ll get a further 20% off everything else in your shopping basket....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant Ascent map callouts and tipsLearn the callouts that everyone should know on Valorant’s latest map Learn the callouts that everyone should know on Valorant’s latest map Ascent is the latest addition toValorant’s burgeoning pool of maps. Set in Venice and aiming to ease the transition for FPS players from other games with its familiar layout, there’s still a lot to learn about Ascent and how to play inside its boundaries....

HomeNewsValorant Valorant update 1.01 adds new orbs but it’s still just “shootergame.exe” on the insideMade of the same stuff Made of the same stuff Riot Games say one of the high points of the update is that new mode Spike Rush gets several new ultimate ability orbs to play with. The flashiest among them seems to be the one shot one kill Golden Gun which also increases a player’s speed while in use....

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant: Best GunsHere’s our pick of the best guns in Valorant. Here’s our pick of the best guns in Valorant. Best Guns to buy in Valorant There are four categories of weapons inValorant, each of which have their own tactical advantages and disadvantages. You’ve got Rifles which’ll work nicely in mid to long range fights, Snipers which’ll pick off targets from afar in one hit, SMGs that’ll shred enemies up close, Shotguns to blast opponents away with, and Sidearms for when you’ve run out primary ammo....

HomeNews VR horror game Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife will share Vampire: The Masquerade’s universeDo you believe in life after life? Do you believe in life after life? The amount of punctuation in its name may be horrifying enough, but VR gameWraith: The Oblivion - Afterlifeis planned as a properhorror gameon its own merit. It’s based on the tabletop RPG Wraith: The Oblivion which shares the World Of Darkness universe with similarly punctuated Vampire: The Masquerade....

HomeNews Watch IGN’s first Summer Of Gaming not-E3 stream here todayNotE3 gets rolling NotE3 gets rolling To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The Ian Games Network have givenan outlineof what to expect. They’ll have the announcement of a new game from Funcom and The Outsiders, the folks behind the now-cancelledDarkborn. Merge Games, who published the physical releases of Streets Of Rage 4 andDead Cells, have a “classic revival” to announce....

HomeVideosCall of Duty: Warzone Caldera Come and support Rock Paper Shotgun’s Black Lives Matter charity streamPlease give generously Please give generously As people across the globe gather to protest against systemic racism and police brutality, the RPS Video Team has decided to use its platform to amplify Black voices in the gaming community and raise support for Black communities. This Tuesday we’ve invited Tianna Mercedes to host aCall of Duty: Warzonestream on our YouTube channel....

HomeNews Destiny 2 announces next three expansions, and plans to revive old D1 contentSO MUCH DESTINY NEWS SO MUCH DESTINY NEWS A busy livestream has brought a whole lot ofDestiny 2news today. Bungie announced the next expansion, named Beyond Light, for launch in September. Today they also start the next season, named Season Of Arrivals, and launch a new dungeon. Looking into the far future, they’ve a further announced two expansions for 2021 and 2022....

HomeNews Elite Dangerous fleet carriers are live nowCarry the one Carry the one Fleet carriers have been officially brought over toElite Dangerousproper, following their two beta tests over the last few months. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube I remain doubtful that they’ll make much difference to most players. Which isn’t something I enjoyed sayinglast month. But I also speculated that they were intended partly as groundwork for next year’s big expansion....

HomeHardwareFeatures Every remastered game should have an upgrade sequence like Command & Conquer Remastered CollectionUpgrade complete Upgrade complete You know you’re onto a winner when your heart swells ten times its normal size out of pure excitement from the boot-up sequence for the remaster of a game you never played. I was far too young to even comprehend Command & Conquer when it first came out in 1995, and to my great shame it’s never been something I’ve sought out in the intervening years....

HomeFeaturesCharlie Murder Have You Played… Charlie Murder?Anarchy in the R.P.G. Anarchy in the R.P.G. Despite the occasional highlight that captures the imagination of the masses, beat ‘em ups are sometimes seen as also rans these days. Likewise, punk rock anthems rarely make their way onto the top 40. Ska Studios didn’t let any indifference to either deter them from making three power chord trick video game equivalentCharlie Murder. While I remember it had an awful checkpointing system, and mini-games that more often than not got in the way, Charlie Murder was a modernisation of a genre I hold dear when few were going anywhere near it....

HomeFeaturesOverwatch How esports photographers are using in-game capture in place of live eventsFirst person shooter First person shooter This year was supposed to be theOverwatchLeague’s big leap into local homesteads, and while no one was quite clear how well it would work, they certainly weren’t expecting a global pandemic to move the whole thing back online again. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, but they’ve mostly managed to pull it off....