“We knew whatever we wanted to do next was going to be even better” That latter point is perhaps most relevant toSystem Shock, which is both Nightdive’s most ambitious project so far, and the most divergent from the company’s other work. It’s designed by a different team from the KEX Engine remasters, and uses different technology, namely Unreal Engine 4. Of everything Nightdive released this year, System Shock’s success or failure seemed to have the biggest implications for the studio’s future....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #186 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....

Pretty please? Once again, we have reached that point in the year where we come to you with a warm grin and outstretched hands, saying: “Please, dear reader, will youfill out the RPS readership survey? It’s very quick, and will only take 5-10 minutes of your time, so please consider filling it out if you find yourself at a loose end. It will be a big help for us in the year ahead....

The show must go on, until it doesn’t This week, the Electronic Wireless Showpodcastremembers therecently deceasedE3 games show. Unfortunately, all that we can really recall is the occasional watch party, and maybe Keanu Reeves was there at one point? Was mostly just trailers, let’s be honest. Thus we also consider the events that replace it (with a side-chat on this year’sGame Awards), and how we’d design our own glittering showcase o' games....

Walled in We’re over halfway through this year’s RPS Advent Calendar now, and spoilers, but you can’t leave now without seeing it through to the end. We’ve walled up the Treehouse and everything so you can’t escape. But wait, maybe there is a way out, just like in our next entry,Babbdi! Alice0:Babbdi is a great example of a type of game I adore: here’s a strange place, now go explore and figure out what this game is and how its parts work and what you can even do, then wrap up and be done inside an hour....

An excellent price for a TLC drive with DRAM at this capacity. TeamGroup makes some of the best value RAM and SSDs on the market, and today we’re looking at the latter - the MP34, a PCIe 3.0 SSD available in a massive 4TB size for just $151.99 at Newegg - down from a usual price of $199.99. This is an outstanding value for a high-speed NVMe drive that is perfect for huge game and media collections....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 14? 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?If you’re on your last guesses for the day, don’t fear! We have you sorted with a list of hints as well as the answer itself to help you along the way....

Here are the best armor options in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandor to increase health Wondering what’s the best armor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora?Armor inAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandorais split up into five different gear slots. As you progress through the game you’ll gain access to more armor and crafting specs. As such, it can be difficult to know which to prioritise and where to even start. Below we’ve listed the best armor in Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora for both early and late-game areas....

Here’s a real high-class bout! Take the Fleischer-style cartoons behindCuphead’s stunning visuals, slam them together with a classicfirst-person shooterin the vein ofDoomand you’d likely end up with something that looks like Mouse, an upcoming FPS with a hell of a stylish look. Indie developers Fumi Games cite the “rubber hose” animation of the 1930s as inspiring Mouse’s incredible presentation, which sees the player running down anthropomorphic gangster mice armed with tommy guns with their own inventory of revolvers, machine guns, shotguns, sniper rifles and what appears to be just their gloved hand making the motion of a gun....

“I’M A 12.0 ON THE 10.0 SCALE OF BADNESS!” “Consider yourself warned! This book contains scenes of graphic violence!” These are the words that adorn theDoomcomic book, which was originally released for promotional purposes during 1996’s E3 by GT Interactive and Marvel Comics. “Knee-deep in the dead!” is the next bit of text below the logo, referencing the name of the first shareware Doom episode and beautifully describing the blood-soaked cover illustration by Tom Grindberg, who was apparently tickled enough at the thought of drawing this monstrosity to take time away from working on 2000 AD....

Update featuring 4K features and bug fixes was announced last October Fallout 4’s “next-gen update”, announced just over a year ago as part of the series’ 25th anniversary celebrations, has seen its release date pushed back into next year - meaning it will arrive close to a decade after the last major entry in the franchise. Obviously some of those updates are more likely to be focused on the game’s PlayStation and Xbox releases, given the fixed nature of console games, but the free update is still set to bring its relevant features to PC....

“No reason to believe that any other SIE or Sony divisions have been impacted.” Spider-Man 2studio Insomniac Games have reportedly been hacked by ransomware group Rhysida, which has led to the release of docs and screenshots purporting to be of the Sony-owned developer’s mysterious Wolverine game. Sony are “investigating” these reports and say that “they have no reason to believe that any other SIE or Sony divisions have been impacted”, which reads to me like an acknowledgement that the leaks are legit....

“There’s honestly a billion little considerations.” Legendary-tier monster cards on the table time: I do not like video game loot. I think that the popularity of “looting”, an English word itself looted from Hindi during the time of theEast India Company, is one of the worst aspects of the modern games industry and especially of the blockbuster live service game, which strives to keep its audience coming back by means of fresh loot injections at regular intervals....