Join us for some call and response at 4pm BST So ends another month of theRPS Game Club, which means another chance to gather together and swap video game opinions like scary stories ‘round the campfire. The topic, comedy rockRPG/door-kicking simDeathbulge: Battle of the Bands, was picked by a sadly absent Alice B, but you know what they say when beloved colleagues become ensnared in the kind of Kafkaesque employment limbo that only a corporate acquisition can engineer: the show must go on....

The gods may be merciful, the children keep invading my personal space This piece is being written on a train as I trundle towards our very first staff meeting withRock Paper Shotgun’s new overlords. The morning is cloudy but bright and calm, the north London suburbs are a blissful checkerboard of red roofs and flourishing lawns, hope glistens faintly in the gutters and ditches beside the tube. How unlike the innards ofCentum, a point-and-clickhorrorgame (Steam page here) that begins with a dreary retro desktop interface on which there are curious text files, curioser decryption tools and most curious of all, an ....

The premier pants-making series is back, baby Capcom’s upcoming entry in the lizard pants-making sim,Monster Hunter Wilds, got a new trailer atlast night’s State Of Play. It showed off more of how its lovely desert environments morph to fit the weather and how its inhabitants largely don’t get on. We also got a look at some cursed lions, an armoured frog with an unsettling tongue and a rideable Chocobo-esque mount that lets you ping arrows on the fly....

All the games that are fit to mod My PC has a big white case, and sometimes, I sit and think: “big white box good!” But other times, I glance over to my PS5 and think: “other big white box also good!” Then I start getting fanciful and imagine a lovely future where they can both combine into one. Keeping track of two big white boxes is hard! Luckily, I only have to write about one of those big white boxes for RPS the vast majority of the time....

“If you want to make evil statements…you aren’t welcome here” Riot games have committed to a series of new measures to curtail harassment and hate-speech in theValorantcommunity. In avideo entitled‘Keeping Our Community Healthy // Dev Updates,” studio head Anna Donlon took to Xitter to outline the new measures for the competitiveFPS. Below is a graphic detailing the changes, which include new penalties such as hardware bans for offenders, and an expanded role for the game’s Voice Evaluation tech, which monitors chat for bad behaviour....

Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #355 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....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #356 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....

Freegunner keep an eye on it? Concord was announced a year ago, and is the work of Washington-based Firewalk. They were originally part of ProbablyMonsters, and were already working on Concord before Sony acquired them fully. The game is very much trying to be one of those sociable moshpit affairs where a brace of different tactics and readily role-playable hero characterisations give rise to a rich spread of watercooler anecdotes. Even as I type these words, I realise that I have never offered or heard a watercooler anecdote....

I’m going to need those TPS reports attached to a haunted monitor Between this, my supporter post later, and the fact I decided to watch Office Space again this week, I’d like to make it clear to any colleagues or management reading that I value and love them all dearly, and am 110% committed to the eternal grind machine of covering videogames online. Workday malaise is universal, however, whether or not you’re lucky enough to enjoy your job as much as I do....

“So many people worked so hard to make this patch a reality” Arkane Austin’s ailing vampire shooterRedfallhas received its final update, as the developers themselves are purged by parent company Microsoft.Announced a few weeks back, Redfall game update 4 introduces a much-requested offline mode and single-player pausing, together with some new progression features and activities: a Community Standing bar whereby Support currency can be spent on rewards from the Safehouse Skill tree, and Elder Nests, aka vampire nests with specially modified vampire bosses....

Landing in hot water Skald is terrific. I’ve tried to come up with a clever angle on its journey, but they all wind up saying the same thing: For all its retro stylings (right down to party portraits taking up an unnecessary quarter of the screen at all times), it’s an accessible, charming treat, and the best modernisation of 80sRPGsthat I’ve ever played. WhileUltimaseems its clearest influence, Skald mostly eschews its philosophical high camp, and gives us a shipwrecking on an archipelago beset by madness-inducing horror....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for June 1? 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?...

Que Rico Destructive third-personaction gameJust Causeis getting made into a movie, produced by the men behindThe FallGuy and Nobody, according tothe Hollywood Reporter. This isn’t the first time the over-the-top explode ‘em up has been in line to get the big screen treatment. Another version spent years in development hell until the rights lapsed. But it’s been picked up again by Universal, who are no strangers to turning video games into box office burger bucks (they did The Super Mario Bros....