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HomeNews Darksiders, Darksiders II, and Steep are free for a week on the Epic Game StoreNot very steep at all Not very steep at all It never ends. First there are the Xmas sales, full of gaming turkey for me to fill up on. Then my aunt showed up with Lee Carvallo’s Modern Warfare. And now, post-New Year, the Epic Game Store has just thrustDarksiders Warmastered Edition,Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition, andSteepinto my arms....

HomeNews F-Stop, the secret mechanic of Valve’s unreleased Portal prequel, has finally been revealedAbout effing time About effing time Just afterPortal 2was released, Valve and Geoff Keighley also releasedThe Final Hours of Portal 2, an interactive book about the making of 2011’s best potato-based puzzle game. The most revealing story in the book was about how Valve had spent some time making a game that was Portal’s follow-up in name only....

HomeNewsHytale Hytale will have undead chickensWipe away a tier Wipe away a tier Though it’s hidden away at the bum-end of the latestHytaleupdate, I felt compelled to call out the zombie chicken.Hytale’s NPCs will have multiple-tiers as you pass through the game’s adventure mode. Cursed with undeath, this chook will be one of a number of creatures for you to encounter. I hope it’s friendly, because it looks like there’s going to be plenty of enemies to swipe at....

HomeNewsMiniLAW: Ministry of Law Robocopy crimefighter MiniLAW: Ministry of Law is out nowMake sure he doesn’t get any doughnuts Make sure he doesn’t get any doughnuts It’s been several years since I first playedMiniLAW: Ministry of Law, the side scrolling shooter/fighter/screamer based on being a hybrid of Robocop and Judge Dredd. In that time it’s come a long way, adding more structure, story and flavour to its already colourful crime-stomping action....

HomeNewsMicrosoft Flight Simulator The Earth freezes over in the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator trailerSpecial snowflakes Special snowflakes Our plane-spotters have tracked a fair bit of the taxiingMicrosoft Flight Simulator, though I’m still not sure what we’re looking at isn’t a cleverly constructed ARG for the real-world. Microsoft’s impossible-looking return to the Flight Sim series has shown off skies, cities, water, and clouds, but it’s all been vaguely summerish, without a hint of alternative seasons....

HomeFeatures The twelfth RPS Christmas crackerMatthew said some of these jokes would make him stick a fork in his eye Matthew said some of these jokes would make him stick a fork in his eye Every year we are put in a cardboard box full of straw and carefully packed away in the treehouse attic, until Graham wakes up on January 3rd and chains us to our desks again. It’s a cosy little break for us, but we don’t want you to feel alone....

HomeFeatures The 10 best visual novels on PCRecommended reading Recommended reading For those of us who love gamingandreading, visual novels represent the best of both worlds, which is why we’ve put together this list of the 10 best visual novels you can play on PC right now. The term “visual novel” is a broad church. You can tell almost any story in this medium, which means most visual novels are a lot like regular novels in that sense....

HomeFeatures The best platform games on PCThey say jump, we ask how high they rank They say jump, we ask how high they rank The biggest names in platforming used to live only on console, but it’s on PC now that the genre is thriving. Indies have taken the simple ingredients and spun them off in umpteen directions (but still normally from left to right). Below you’ll find a collection of the very best platform games on PC - including puzzle platformers, physics platformers, platformers with roguelike elements, and platformers about absolutely nothing but pixel-perfect jumping....

HomeFeatures The 10 best games like Dark SoulsIn honour of His Souliness In honour of His Souliness Sorry, definition nerds. ‘Soulslike’ is a word now. Disgusting, I know, but this is how genres are made. Along comes a giant likeDark Soulsthat everybody won’t stop bleating about and soon it has copycats. Before you know it, a swarm of games likeDark Soulswith sparse checkpoints and lethal attacks are scuttling around, leaving slime trails and biting your ankles for surprisingly massive damage....

HomeFeatures How to pitch an article to Rock Paper ShotgunA thing you should definitely do A thing you should definitely do Hello! We regularly receive pitches from freelance writers. Many of these pitches are excellent, many of them are bad, and many more forget to include the article idea and just yell at us at length for stopping them from ad blocking on the site. Where to send your pitch Please send your pitch to:...

HomeGuidesCounter-Strike: Global Offensive How to open the CSGO consoleHere’s how to get started with the command console in CS:GO Here’s how to get started with the command console in CS:GO Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Valve Follow this quick guide below to learn how to get started with the command console in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. We’ll walk you through how to enable the console for the first time, how to input commands, and how to rebind your console hotkey to help you use it more easily....

HomeGuidesFallout 76 How does multiplayer work in Fallout 76Everything you need to know about PvP and teaming up with friends Everything you need to know about PvP and teaming up with friends How does multiplayer work in Fallout 76?Fallout 76’s unique selling point is that this is a multiplayerFalloutgame, though really it’s more than that. You have plenty of stuff that you can do on your own, but there are a few tasks that may be a ton easier with other people....

HomeGuides Skyrim console commands and cheats: the most useful on PCFus Ro Dah what you want Fus Ro Dah what you want Want to know which console commands you can use in Skyrim?After a decade,The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimcontinues to endure for many reasons. Whether you love the world, the characters, the pure meme potential, or thehuge modding communitythat strives to deliver endless content, it’s easy to sink hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into theRPGbeast....