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HomeHardwareFeaturesHalf-Life: Alyx Half-Life: Alyx PC requirements and VR headset specs: How to get your PC VR readyEverything you need to get ready for Half-Life: Alyx Everything you need to get ready for Half-Life: Alyx If you’re looking forward toHalf-Life: Alyxas much as we are here at RPS (it’s one of ourmost exciting games of 2020, don’t you know), then you’ll want to make sure your PC is prepped and ready to play it come its big release day on March 23rd....

HomeFeaturesSekiro: Shadows Die Twice Have you played… Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice?The deadliest dance of all The deadliest dance of all Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Rarely have I felt so powerful as I did the second time I defeated Lady Butterfly inSekiro: Shadows Die Twice. During my first playthrough, Lady Butterfly was the boss that forced me to really learn how to play the game, to spend time internalising all the movements and steps of the intricate dance of metal and death that makes the game what it is....

HomeNewsHumankind Humankind’s cities will evolve and sprawl based on your choices like real metropolisesReal cities are messy Real cities are messy Civ-like strategy gameHumankindhas been big on its tagline of wanting players to create “a civilization that is as unique as you are.” That will extend to your cities too,Amplitudesay during a new developer video. As do real modern metropolises,Humankind’s cities will evolve but carry with them the evidence of what they once were in the form of old architecture and oddly-shaped territories....

HomeNewsNo Man’s Sky Tiny homes are everywhere, even No Man’s SkyDon’t waste space in space Don’t waste space in space You might have thought the tiny home craze had begun to pass but you’d be quite wrong, it seems. Micro living has launched itself off the face of the earth and straight into space thanks toNo Man’s Skyplayers. Folks have now started building tiny cube homes in the space sandbox on collectively-colonized planets....

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Trials Of Osiris PvP starts free for all Destiny 2 players todayThe Trials are back The Trials are back Destiny 2’snewSeason Of The Worthyis now underway and with it comes the triumphant return of the Trials Of Osiris PvP mode. The gauntlet of increasingly difficult matchups challenges players to earn the sickest of loot. The best of the best will get special rewards for completing seven consecutive matches without losing....

HomeNews Watch out: GTA Online’s most reviled griefmobile is cheap this weekThe Oppressor Mk II, coming to a sky near you The Oppressor Mk II, coming to a sky near you On the highways and flyways ofGTA Online, no vehicle more clearly flags a player as a potential dickhead than the Oppressor Mk II. This jet-powered hoverbike can whizz round streets, fly high over the city, and rain homing missiles, making it a top pick for the sort of wrong’un who wants to grief everyone....

HomeNews Blade Runner is getting an Enhanced Edition from NightdiveGive me a hard copy of that Give me a hard copy of that Westwood’sBlade Runneris a good’un, an adventure game running parallel to the film but not based on it, with a whole new rookie Blade Runner asking probing questions, getting chased through alleys, and doing magic on photographs. Certain characters and locations from the film pop up but it is its own separate thing, and certainly better for that....

HomeFeatures Have You Played… Comix Zone?Pack it in Pack it in Have You Played?is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.I’ve written a few times now about my family’s fabled first PC, a 1995 Packard Bell that had the faint air of a sickly Victorian child, resurrected as a sullen robot a century after finally succumbing to an ill-defined but fatal spluttering sickness....

HomeFeaturesMinecraft Minecraft archaeology 2: Thomas The Tank Engine’s bumOff the rails Off the rails Earlier this week, after remembering that I’d populated the RPSMince Raftserver with thirty-odd mates from Twitter and then forgotten about it for four months, I put together an impromptu archaeological expedition, and went in to find out what the hell happened in there after it went dark. InMonday’s post, we poked around the chaotic ruins of the server’s derelict spawn town, where we found a bouncy castle, a giant “mincemas” gift (full of mince), and an underground den we could only deem “the bone room” before leaving in a hurry....

HomeNewsAssemble With Care Monument Valley devs fix up a PC debut for Assemble With CareWarranty void if opened Warranty void if opened After being robbed of two of the best little puzzlers on mobile,Monument Valleydevelopers Ustwo Games are finally making their PC debut withAssemble With Care. Arriving on Steam later this month, Ustwo’s pastel-painted repair ‘em up has you dissecting people’s junk - and their personal problems - before putting it all back together again....

HomeGuidesOri and the Will of the Wisps Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Kwolok: how to beat the frogNo… why? No… why? It’s fair to say that the boss fight with Kwolok is one of the sadder encounters of Ori And The Will Of The Wisps. As a sage-like figure, Kwolok guided Ori in this strange land, but now he’s under the control of a big tentacle monster. It’s not a fun time, but he does have a Spirit that you need to complete the quest and we’ll tell you how to get it....

HomeNewsOverwatch Overwatch revisits and remixes all three co-op Archives missionsThree-in-one Three-in-one Once more, it’s time for the fine folks atOverwatchto put down their guns, stop shooting each other for a moment, pick up their guns again and go blast some robots and armoured goons. It’s Archives time, team. With no new story to plug through this time, all three ofOverwatch’s co-op stories are coming back with wild new variations, alongside the requisite bucket of new skins and cosmetics to unlock after all that carnage....

HomeFeatures POC in Play celebrated its first anniversary with a clutch of cool gamesShock the system Shock the system Founded just over a year ago,POC in Playis an independent organisation that aims to increase the visibility and representation of people of colour working in the video game industry. For the first anniversary, POC in Play held a showcase in London, replete with cute custom cupcakes and, of course, a few games....