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HomeNews Destiny 2’s Guardian Games aim to prove, once and for all, which class is bestDon’t call it a class war Don’t call it a class war It’s about time we worked out whichDestiny 2class is the good one. Next week, Bungie’s space-wizards, stellar warriors and, uh, moon hunters are taking part in the Guardian Games, a limited-time event that has each class battling out for new gear, snazzy guns, and the chance to win bragging rights over their Guardian compatriots....

HomeGuidesFallout 76 Fallout 76 ally: how to recruit all the alliesHow to make allies appear at the CAMP How to make allies appear at the CAMP New toFallout 76with the Wastelanders update are human NPCs that roam the land. Some of them are allies that can be used to defend your CAMP and complete quests for them. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Fallout 76 ally guide ThisFallout 76 allyguide will show you how to recruit allies and what they do once you have them....

HomeNews RPS Asks: you to please take our 2020 readership surveyPretty please? Pretty please? Every year we come to you with a question: will you fill in theRPS Readership Survey, please? It should only take around 5-10 minutes of your time, and it will be a big help to us. It doesn’t take long to fill in, and it’s all anonymous, too. Plus, you can skip any questions you don’t fancy answering....

HomeFeaturesMount & Blade II: Bannerlord The 6 best things about Mount & Blade 2: BannerlordLet me mount the blades Let me mount the blades I’ve beenfairly criticalofMount & Blade II: Bannerlord. I even went far enough to say I couldn’t yet recommend it outright, but maybe I haven’t made it clear that there are a lot of things about it I love. For example… The towns Seonon is a blend of a proud stronghold and a ruined craphole....

HomeFeatures Why artists are selling their rude, weird, and wonderful comics on a videogame marketplaceAnd why are so many about Yuri on Ice? And why are so many about Yuri on Ice? Itch.iois a lovely indie games marketplace, where you can find everything from the latest indie darlings to the weirdest game jam experiments. It might surprise you to find out, though, that Itch’s selection is not only limited to games: the website also offers a wide range of tabletop games, books, music, game assets and — guess what — comics....

HomeNewsValorant All Valorant streamers can now give you access to the closed betaAny streamer playing Valorant can activate drops Any streamer playing Valorant can activate drops Riot have changed up the beta key dropping process for their upcoming tactical shooter,Valorant, making it so anyone who streams the game on Twitch can enable drops for their viewers. For those of you still trying to get access to the coveted closed beta, it basically means you don’t have to watch the same handful of official streams to get one....

HomeFeaturesBeyond a Steel Sky Beyond A Steel Sky needs work, but it already has really great puzzlesMake robots, not war Make robots, not war I’m not a big one for early previews myself, but having played the demo forBeyond A Steel Sky, the new pointy-clicky 3D adventure game from Revolution Games, I will concede that it was an hour and a half of my time well spent on puzzles and robots and hacking....

HomeNews FPS roguelike Receiver 2 lets you panic over fiddly guns todayYou could cut the tension with a gun You could cut the tension with a gun Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube There’s a bit in that trailer where the player legs it into a cupboard, only to turn around and hear their gun click emptily at a pursuing buzzer drone. That’s Receiver. It’s about dealing with the agonising, dread-inducing foibles of realistically-modelled weaponry, where every safety and hammer and slide rail and feed ramp spells potential disaster....

HomeFeaturesNeverwinter-Nights-2 Have you played… Neverwinter Nights 2?Two is the magic number, right? Two is the magic number, right? The firstNeverwinter Nightsgets a lot of attention, and rightly so because it is one of the best games ever. But you know what’s a really bloody decent game?Neverwinter Nights 2. This serves as a really nice comparison to how grim things get when ancient enemies turn up, loads of townsfolk get bad murdered, and you end up forming a party with a chirping tiefling and a grumpy dwarf to kick the shit out of a Necromancer initially, and many things in general thereafter....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch’s newest hero, Echo, is now live, now live, now live…I meta new friend I meta new friend The damage-dealing hero Echo has arrived inOverwatch. Like a Mercy who has ripped up her Hippocratic Oath, she glides around the map blasting away with her robot gunhands. Or maybe she’s more like a Pharah that’s way more manoeuvrable? Oh no, she just turned into a Roadhog. What have you done, Blizzard?...

HomeNewsRed Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar’s crunch culture is changing, developers sayChanging for the better Changing for the better Remember whenRed Dead Redemption 2first launched andeveryone was abuzzas Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser proudly proclaimed 100-hour work weeks a necessary evil? Ah, too many horrific things have happened since then and you’d forgotten, hadn’t you? Well here’s a less awful thing then. According to current Rockstar developers, it seems that the company’s crunch culture is changing....

HomeNewsSea of Thieves Soon you’ll be able to revive your mates in Sea Of ThievesLend your mates a hook Lend your mates a hook The winds are always changing, which is especially true inSea Of Thieveswhere they always seem to be blowing right into your face instead of the direction you’re attempting to sail. Rare have posted a video explaining some new pirate features coming later this month in greater detail....

HomeGuidesHearthstone Big Druid deck list guide - Ashes of Outland - Hearthstone (April 2020)Our updated guide to playing Big Druid in the Ashes of Outland meta. Our updated guide to playing Big Druid in the Ashes of Outland meta. Big Druid is a ramp-based deck, designed to get expensive minions out onto the board as quickly as possible. This means you’re taking advantage of the fantastic new cards in the Druid class that take this into account....