The purrfect action RPG for kids I keep an eye out for games I can use to introduce my young son to new genres.Cat Questfit the bill last year. It’s a straightforward action RPG with cute, clean art about a cat slicing up a world of hedgehogs, foxes and, of course, dogs. It’s currently free to keep from the Epic Games Store. Head over to itsstore pagebefore 4pm GMT tomorrow and you can add it to your Epic account forever....

A list of the bestest games we’ve plonked a sticker on this year So yeah, I’d encourage you to have a flick through the list below and see if there’s anything you can add to the wishlist. Even as the person with “Reviews” in their job title, I can confirm I literally have loads of these Bestest Bests in my backlog. I will endeavour to play a handful over this Christmas break on my Steam Deck, maybe combining the experience with a nibble on a mince pie....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #200 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....

This year’s Game Awards ceremony garnereda lot of justified criticismfor the way it rushed winning developers off stage in favour of adverts, rambling conversations with Hideo Kojima, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Timothée Chalamet. Obsidian’s Josh Sawyer was right when he called it an “embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power”. Yet I still can’t help but also see the Game Awards as something else: a sign of progress....

Being good seems to lead to more sales There are also filters to view just early access, VR or Steam Deck games. Each category has its own set of caveats for what data is used, which you can view at the bottom of each page. Probably, if someone was so inclined, it would be possible to cross-reference the listings with publicly available financial information to ballpark how much money a “platinum” game makes....

A bunch of unusual indie stuff Kowloon’s Curse: Lost Report I have some issues with how Kowloon’s Curse: Lost Report - and by extension the Japanese adventure games that inspired it - use Kowloon for window dressing. Kowloon Walled City was a very real place where Hongkongers lived very real lives, and this game, which was primarily made by a dev from the Netherlands, somewhat appropriates elements of the city for what amounts to an aesthetic that’s part cyberpunk, part vaporwave, and occasionally more reminiscent of Japan than Hong Kong....

I’m directly calling out Ollie for this one Promise you won’t tell the other children, but the RPS staff are actually complex magical spells cast by the Sugar Plum Fairy, as part of an age old pact with the ents of the forest where the RPS treehouse was built hundreds of years ago. Each year the Sugar Plum Fairy has to collect more wishes to power the spells every year (you can help to make the spells more powerful by joiningthe RPS supporter program)....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 28? 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?...

Swing and a miss or a hole in one? Head over toits store pagebetween now and 4pm GMT tomorrow, December 28th, and you can add it to your account for free. It’s part of Epic’s holiday season giveaways, where they’re revealing a new mystery freebie each day. Cursed To Golf takes place in golf purgatory, where you have to chip and putt your way through 2D sidescrolling levels of fans, spikes, teleporters and supernatural obstacles....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #199 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....

There are a lot Sin, who writes our Scout Report supporter series and our strategy-gaming focused The Rally Point, is very good, and you should read all her articles, but I really enjoyed this, from the start of the year, assessing whereDwarf Fortressin its new context after its second release. It was always a pleasure to edit Liam (RPS in peace)’s work whenever he wasn’t doing a video, and I loved his assessment of the Ishimura as a place that people lived and worked in rather than a video game level....

The malware was designed to steal passwords Slay The Spiremod Downfall suffered a “security breach” on Christmas day which allowed hackers to distribute malware through Steam, the developers of the mod say. The malware attempts to steal users' passwords from their internet browser, as well as passwords for messaging services Telegram and Discord. Affected users would have seen a “Unity library installer popup” upon launching Downfall during the hijack. The hack was reversed as of around 1:40pm ET (6:40pm GMT) on December 25th,according to the announcement....

This joke is what you’d call “a long walk to the diner, only to find out it’s closed” Promise you won’t tell the other children, but the RPS staff are actually complex magical spells cast by the Sugar Plum Fairy, as part of an age old pact with the ents of the forest where the RPS treehouse was built hundreds of years ago. Each year the Sugar Plum Fairy has to collect more wishes to power the spells every year (you can help to make the spells more powerful by joiningthe RPS supporter program)....