“There are probably as many levels on the cutting room floor as actually ended up in the final game,” says Mark Brown “A lot of puzzle games can leave you staring at the same static screen for ages, but here, I’m always pushing you forward,” says Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit. For a decade now, Brown has been releasing accessible deep dives on game design for his popularYouTube channel, like “How Game DesignersProtect Players From Themselves” and “The Two Typesof Random in Game Design....

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A lighter shade of Deck TheSteam Deck OLED– which is like aSteam Deckbut better in almost every way – is getting a new, if potentially more smudge-susceptible Limited Edition. A successor to thetranslucent versionthat only went on sale in the US and Canada last year, the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White offers both a snowy look and, for those of us outside North America, the chance to actually buy one....

And every one worth playing today Update: You might note that the format has changed this year. Instead of a long article to scroll through, the list is presented as a sortable, filterable list of game covers, and you can click on each cover to read the RPS team’s evangelism for that game. We hope that it’s a pleasant browsing experience. Favouring games that are great to play today means that we’ve paid no mind to importance or influence, but it doesn’t mean we’ve ignored older games, and you’ll find plenty of older classics on the list....

Stuck on the Wordle word for November 11? 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 a tricky test of word acumen. Luckily, we’ve got all the hints you could ever need. 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?...

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read-only My brain is still thawing for the comment freeze, and thus there is sadly no cool industry person to talk to us about books this week. I’m currently reading Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection. Jia Tolentinowrote about itfor the New Yorker. Jia Tolentino also writes very good books. But enough about books, tell me about books! One’s you’ve read, preferably, but I will also accept books you’ve formed opinions on based on their covers, as is good and proper....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 10? 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 a tricky test of word acumen. Luckily, we’ve got all the hints you could ever need. 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?...

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Opening a new case The Rise Of The Golden Idolwill crack its new case wide open on November 12th, but the detective sequel is just the beginning. Color Gray Games are planning another tranche of DLC akin to that received by the first game,The Case Of The Golden Idol: four standalone mysteries that introduce more mysteries to solve. “There are a ton of additional standalone stories we want to tell set in the Golden Idol universe, and we found that the best way to tell these stories is through four self-contained DLC chapters - called Investigations,” saysthe announcement....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for November 9? 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 a tricky test of word acumen. Luckily, we’ve got all the hints you could ever need. 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?...

Plays gone by Nostalgia, when you think about it, is bollocks. There has never been a better time than right this second – averaged out, and despite repeated attempts to the contrary, humanity has never been healthier, freer, or more enlightened by knowledge. It’s true of games too. For every by-committee platter of passionless map markers, there are thousands of more personal, more creative, more interesting works, all adding to the decades' worth of great stuff we can still play today....

Let the live service begin Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6has been out for a little while already, what with me giving its multiplayer largely athumbs up. Still, it’s an ever-evolving thing and Activision have announced the game’s first seasonal drop. It’s a hefty one with a lot of additions, so I’ll try my best to break down the good stuff. TLDR: there’s some new maps for multiplayer and zombies, new modes, and a few extra bits....