Rumours continue to swirl of impending trailer A few weeks ago Iwrote aboutGrand Theft Autoplayers describing the movement of planes in random GTA promotional art as evidence of a forthcomingGTA 6reveal, timed to intersect with the waning gibbous moon. I thought that the furore might die down afterGTA 6failed to materialise in accordance with the lunar cycle, but it turns out this rabbit hole has no bottom. Come now, gaze upon the above, just-posted Rockstar promotional image fora new Red Dead Online outfit....

Big pear energy Puzzle gameSuika, or ‘That Watermelon Game’, is currently having a bit of a moment online. It’s been available on Switch for a couple of years now in Japan, but this week it received an English eShop version, and it’s taken off a bit with streamers and Twitch folk. It’s also spawned dozens of clones, including an unofficialfree web browser versionthat I’ve been giving a go over the last couple of lunch times to see what all the fuss is about....

Two voucher codes knock £175 off the price of this brand-new large format monitor. LG’s C2 OLED is my top TV recommendation for PC and console gaming, and the 42-inch and 48-inch versions can even work as PC monitors. Today the 48-inch model has dropped to £824 at Ebay when you use codes BONUS10 and SAVE100OLED, a great price for what is a class-leading 48-inch OLED. For context, this year’s basically identical 48-inch C3 OLED costs £1100, so you’re saving nearly £300....

Bossing it Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAA - Oh, there you are, Snake. This is just a quick Codec to let you know that Konami’sstealthblockbuster bundleMetal Gear Solid - Master Collection Volume 1is now available to buy. Did you ever play Metal Gear Solid, Snake? It’s this sprawling philosophical epic about war, surveillance, AI, nationalism and anti-heroism, a baroque metafictional saga spanning generations that is also a complex series of videogame design experiments....

4K in February The remaster moves Dark Forces over to Nightdive’s own KEX engine, and makes it playable at 4K resolutions at 120fps. There will also be higher resolution textures, remastered cutscenes, gamepad support and more. Dark Forces tells the story of Empire defector and mercenary Kyle Katarn, and features Doom-style shooting and circle-strafing in original trilogy environments. Expect lots of grey corridors and evocative sound effects. It was one of the first games I ever played on PC, although I never loved it like later Katarn adventures in the Jedi Knight series....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #135 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....

The search is complete Excellent news today, folks. The RPS guides team is once again back at full strength as we welcome two fresh faces to the Treehouse. Please give a big warm hello and welcome to Kiera Mills and Jeremy Blum. Kiera has previously done lots of guides work at GG Recon, where she covered games such asGenshin Impact,System Shock,Disney Dreamlight Valley, andPaliato name just a few of them. But she’s also a big fan ofThe Sims 4, cosy games, RPGs and anything horror-related....

Strings cut Delistings are a commonplace occurence in the world of digital games, but I still find it a shame everytime. We need a GOG equivalent that revives games that have fallen off sale not for technological reasons, or because no one knows who owns the IP, but for tedious licensing reasons.

Made in 72 hours, Stretchmancer won the latest Ludum Dare game jam Stretch and compress rooms to make your escape in Stretchmancer, a nice little puzzle-platformer you can play for free. Your heroic gecko is a Stretchmancer, see, able to bend the dimensions of spaces to push walls far away and draw distant objects near. This is handy when trying to defeat an evil space empire. Stretchmancer is in a similar vein to Portal: a first-person puzzle-platformer which uses one neat trick to change how you see the world, and builds on that while a baddie taunts you....

From the original prototype to the “loop-free music” One of the most unnerving things about Geometric Interactive’s lush insect puzzlerCocoonis how intuitive it feels. For my money, anyway. The premise is perfectly brain-bending: each world contains or is contained by another world, and you’re a beetle who can not only leap between them, but pick one world up and use it as a puzzle prop inside another. The game doesn’t really verbalise any of this: there’s no equivalent for Atreus in God Of War: Ragnarok,ostentatiously nudging you towards each solution....

The Team Group T-Force Vulcan Z SATA SSD is incredibly priced. Massive SATA SSDs are getting ever more affordable, and this is the best 4TB deal we’ve ever seen here at RPS. You can get a TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan Z 4TB drive for just $138 at Newegg, down from a previous price of $180. This particular SSD is nothing special, but it ticks all the boxes when it comes to reliability and usability....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 24? 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?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

Sony shedding jobs at support studios, according to staff “Unfortunately, following a wave of layoffs last week was my last at Playstation,” readsa LinkedIn updatefrom senior level designer and Ubisoft alumnus Daniel Bellemare, whose credits include Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. “While this is certainly not news I was hoping for, I’m grateful to have had a chance to work amongst extremely talented colleagues on incredible projects and I’m leaving with good memories of my time there....