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HomeNewsThe Sims 4 The Sims 4 Tiny Living pack will force you to build a house with only 100 tilesHoney, I shrunk the house Honey, I shrunk the house Later this month you’ll be able to build tiny houses inThe Sims 4. Well, you’ve always been able to build tiny houses but now you’ll be able to do so with fashionable tiny house items like a bookshelf which also has a TV on it and Murphy beds—which I’ve just learned is the proper name for those beds that pop out of walls....

HomeNewsFallout 76 Yes, I know.Fallout 76is not exactly a beloved game what with the wholeFallout 1stsubscription launching at the same time the free Wastelanders update was delayed. Before that was the game’s initial, buggy launch. There are still players out there whodoseem to love it and continue to make delightfully silly creations all over irradiated West Virginia. This now-notorious player, for instance, has made a maths school that will literally kill you....

HomeNewsWargroove Wargroove’s free co-op DLC arrives in FebruaryFree and groovy Free and groovy The pixely dog warrior tactics gameWargrooveis getting a free DLC next month centered around a new co-op focused campaign. The Double Trouble DLC is dropping on February 6th. Just in time, I suppose, for the day that co-op life partners celebrate together. Double Trouble also adds new commanders, units, and arcade missions. Although Double Trouble’s campaign is designed for co-op, you don’t actually have to play together....

HomeHardwareNews AMD want their Ryzen 4000 CPUs to be “the best laptop processors ever built"AMD’s first crop of 7nm laptop CPUs are here AMD’s first crop of 7nm laptop CPUs are here AMD kicked off theirCES 2020press conference with some big promises last night. Not only are they calling their upcomingRadeon RX 5600 XTGPU the “ultimate 1080p graphics card”, but they’re also hoping their new set of 3rd Gen Ryzen 4000 mobileCPUswill be “the best laptop processors ever built”....

HomeHardwareNews AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT takes aim at Nvidia’s GTX 1660 TiThe ultimate 1080p graphics card, according to AMD The ultimate 1080p graphics card, according to AMD AMD announced the latest graphics cards in their newBig Navifamily last night, the RX 5600 and RX 5600 XT. Much like theirRX 5500andRX 5500 XTcousins, the regular RX 5600 will only be available in pre-configured systems you buy from PC builders. The RX 5600 XT, on the other hand, is going to be the one you buy separately to stick in your PC yourself, and it’s going to cost $279 when it launches on January 21st 2020....

HomeNews American trade union launches campaign for games industry unionisationIf bosses won’t fix the industry’s problems… If bosses won’t fix the industry’s problems… It’s no secret that the video games industry is plagued with workplace issues fromabusive cultureandlong hours of ‘crunch’to cyclical layoffs even at huge –and hugely profitable– companies. Interest has been growing in unionisation to help shift the balance of power in the industry and start changing it for the better, and today the movement got a fair boost....

HomeFeaturesPlanet Zoo How Planet Zoo narrowed 2 million animals down to 76And why tapirs are the best And why tapirs are the best There are, after all, very very many types of animal in the world. Species totals between one and two million get chucked around all the time, but these come with a big caveat: however you choose to slice things, a big chunk of these totals will always comprise beetles that only an expert could distinguish from other, very similar beetles....

HomeGuidesMonster Hunter: World Monster Hunter World guideLet the hunt begin Let the hunt begin With the expansion to Monster Hunter World finally being released on PC, there’s no better time to jump into the vast world of Monster Hunter World than right now! Even if you’re delving into the main game without looking at the new expansion - Iceborne - there is plenty to do in this complicated game. Monster Hunter World guide If you are looking for specificallyMonster Hunter World Iceborne guides, then we have created a separate guide hub for just expansion stuff....

HomeReviewsLumberjack Simulator Premature Evaluation: Lumberjack SimulatorMourning wood Mourning wood Developer:Exponential GamesPublisher:Exponential GamesRelease:Out now (early access)On:WindowsFrom:SteamFor:£15.49/$20/€18 January. Hell month. My powerful brain – usually a throbbing, high-performance organ capable of doing several sums per minute – has atrophied to a wet walnut, a sodden grey scrap of cauterised flesh that ricochets around inside my skull like a horrible slug. The excesses of the holiday season have left my wretched body brittle and hollow....

HomeNewsITTA Sads will shoot bads in boss rush bullet hell IttaDislike a boss Dislike a boss Itta is a top-down bullet hell shooter about a vengeful young girl fighting a series of cosmic monsters with a revolver, and a ghost cat. It’s due out later this year, and below is a taste of its rather expressive style. Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube I did chuckle a bit when she whipped out that revolver....

HomeNews Ten minutes of soothing grappling is exactly what you need right nowTransporting Transporting Watch on YouTube Watch on YouTube For all its merits, grappling is normally a frantic affair. Stepping away from combat means soaring into unchallenged air, with the patience and the freedom to make hurtling through the skies look gentle. He fires one shot in the whole thing, and it’s fittingly lackadaisical. There’s a bit where he lands perfectly on a crane that I found myself nodding at, like a gentleman in a posh club....

HomeNews Worms developers Team17 acquire Yippee EntertainmentA bit of business to start the year A bit of business to start the year Team 17, the mob who make Worms as well as publishing games like Yooka-Laylee andOvercooked, have bought games studio Yippee Entertainment in a £1.4 million deal. If you haven’t heard of Yippee before, they predominantly work on licensed games for companies like Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and the BBC. They’ve also made a platformer series of their own, Chimpact, which is mostly for mobile but has jumped on PC too....

HomeFeatures 40 of the best: RPS' finest reads from 2019For it is a human number; it is 40 For it is a human number; it is 40 ding, ding Oh gosh, look at the time! Here comes the Content Ogre now, giving us a merry wink as he rings his bicycle bell. Come on then - let’s hop on board, and see what he keeps in that big, stained canvas bag of his....