Limit breakcore You’re dead at the start of rhythm-combatRPGNocturne, just arrived in some sort of afterlife waiting room after the apparent extinction of humanity. You get your bearings, and you soon meet up with another, only slightly irritating, small child. His name is Kimothy, which sounds like something you’d only say as a joke to annoy friends named Kim, and then only once because it would be stupid to say it again....

That’s still a lot of pixels, though CinematicplatformerBionic Bayopens on a scene of a very large egg doing very bad things - easily my third favourite genre of speculative fiction. You awake to a world of tree trunks that twist like viscera and corroded contraptions powered by luminous goop that’s stored in the balls, uh, big glass orbs. A beam of light soon fills your character with newfound vigour, which is a nice moment of triumph in what otherwise feels like a deeply oppressive rust pit, all unsteady platforms and jagged pipes....

Home in a thousand strange places Okay, listen. The Roads To Power expansion coming toCrusader Kings IIIis focusing on the Byzantine Empire. But forget that. Because today developers Paradox revealed the ins and outs of another feature from the DLC that is way more exciting than some fusty old Greeks. It’s called “landless adventurers” and it’ll let you play as disgraced dirtbag travelling the world in a sort of medieval gig economy....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #422 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

What’s the clock speed of a Machine God anyway In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only War, unless you don’t have a 64-bit PC with an Intel Core i5-8600K equivalent and at least eight gigs of RAM, in which case you’ll have to, I don’t know, live in everlasting peace, or something. I’m pretty sure not having eight gigs of RAM is heretical, but never fear, you can probably compensate by taking a leaf from the God-Emperor’s book and arrange for a host of dying psykers to pour their brain energy into your motherboard....

The best genre In hisVampire Survivorsreview, Matt Cox described the game as something he could play with “one hand in a packet of crisps”. I think about this quite often, actually, as someone whose largely offline friends (or Fortnite/FIFA pals) ask me to recommend them a game that’s good or interesting. Show them something popular likeElden Ringand, despite its grandeur, it might prove too much in all facets. But Vampire Survivors?...

It must be Fate This week sees the release of a new Steam edition of Type-Moon and Kinoko Nasu’s dark fantasy visual novel and dating sim Fate Stay/Night. I randomly watched one of Stay/Night’s many anime spin-offs, Fate Zero, during the pandemic lockdowns. It triggered a short-lived obsession with the Fate series - I even dipped a toe in the long-lived mobile gacha game Fate/Grand Order. As such, I think I’m the nearest thing RPS has to a Fate “expert”....

Ah vegetation, the original boss As the wait lengthens forHollow Knight: Silksong, other Soulsy creature features are scurrying to fill the breach. We hadDeviatorlast week - now, it’s time for a bumper helping of the heebie-jeebies in the shape ofPerennial Order. The title makes it sound like an eBay delivery of potted geraniums. The game festering beneath is actually a “plant horror” boss rusher with twin stick melee controls, unlockable “Instinct” abilities and one-hit deaths....

I definitely know who these people are Star Wars Outlawsis out relatively soon and looks relatively exciting, if you’re into Ubisoft open worlds and pseudo-Uncharted mechanics with pewpews and dribbly aliens. And if you’re excited, prepare to get more excited-er - or more exhausted-er - as Ubi have just unveiled Outlaws' DLC plans for season pass holders. Those DLCs will let you meet “notorious gambler” Lando Calrissian and “veteran pirate” Hondo Ohnaka, who I am definitely familiar with....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 6? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

All you need to know about Smithing Templates and customising armor in Minecraft Want to find all the Smithing Templates in Minecraft?Smithing Templates are unique items that allow you to change the looks of your armor inMinecraft. And one of them is extremely important if you plan onupgrading your gear with Netherite ingots. You won’t simply find these lying around on the ground though, so in this guide we’ll walk you through how they work, and how to find them, and how to duplicate them....

Free Keys! Maybe you’re playingBorderlands 3for the first time ready for the movie, or doing a Borderlands marathon just to remind yourself what’s what and who’s who in the world of Pandora. Either way, you’re going to want some SHiFT codes to make the most of looter shooter chaos. In ourBorderlands 3 shift codesguide, we’ve rounded up all the working shift codes (spoiler: they all give you free in-game stuff) and how to redeem them, so you can get kitted out with some of the best guns out there....

“We’re not trying to convert rules from 50 years ago into something new," says Larian CEO Flippin’ heck, what a journey it’s been forBaldur’s Gate 3, eh? It seems just yesterday I was getting very jealous at Matthew Castle (RPS in peace) forgetting to previewthe sequel to my beloved Shadows Of Amn. Fast forward several turns, Larian’sRPGbanger is officially one year old since release, and there’s now a much higher chance that strangers at pubs will understand why my failed romance with Jaheira as a youth was such a deeply heartbreaking experience....