The perfect cover Ah, Mandalorians. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. The 7.2: Showdown On Ruhnuk update to saber-swinging MMOStar Wars: The Old Republichas you hunting down a rogue member of that pesky warrior clan, landing/crashing you on a new planet with fresh daily missions and a story questline. There’s a big PvP revamp, too, along with substantial changes to how gear works. Planet Ruhnuk is the beigest entity I’ve ever seen, but you’re not there for your holidays, are you....

You can sometimes go back Two weeks are down on the RPS Advent Calendar this year, and you’ve started to feel the call to adventure again. You thought that you’d rolled up your treasure map for good, and swabbed your last deck, but it seems like the wind is here to fill your sales once more… Relive your piratey dreams in sweet nostalgia-festReturn To Monkey Island! It was extra exciting because this time some of the original creators were back on (almost literal) board....

Update: Hotfix deployed, no longer a downgrade Update:CDPR have released a PC hotfix thatreturns non-ray traced performance to its previous levels, with RT performance getting a boost as well. Hooray! Though it’s still quite stuttery and it appears AMD FSR is causing crashes. Less hooray! The original article, based on test results taken before the hotfix, continues below: Earlier today we brought news thatThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update – a seemingly juicy serving of new ray tracing,DLSS/FSRupscaling, and assorted quality of life features – had in fact arrived ina bit of a mess....

Go back to Witcher 3 “Classic” with its final PC patch 1.32 Today is the dayThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s much touted free next-gen update arrives on PC and consoles, but it’s not been going so well for a lot of us folk on PC. People have already taken toTwitter,Reddit, andSteamwith their tales of performance woe since the update landed, with Steam reviews claiming it’s caused everything from reduced frame rates to issues with the HUD....

Big up telekinetic space witch Barbara Warhammer 40,000: Darktideis not for the squeamish. Fatshark’s spiritual follow-up to Vermintide andVermintide 2is ferocious, violent, and involves a whole lotta gore. It’s a grislyco-opmultiplayer where instead of brawling your way through torrents of gross rat humanoids, you and your rag-tag team are now up against hordes of scabby zombies all in favour of a Imperial fascist overlord. Several of the RPS Treehouse folk have jumped into the fray, carving their way through Darktide’s industrial world ofGothicfactories and towering cathedrals....

Vote now! Last time, you decided thatsaving everyone is better than randomised item starts and perksby an overwhelming majority. I’m glad that is settled. May all video games learn from this. Please, I beg you, learn from this. This week, I ask you to choose between a beefy build and a beefy wodge of paper. What’s better: becoming overpowered, or a chunky manual? It is nice when a game remains challenging throughtout by always escalating difficulty to match my own scaling, whether that’s because I’m gearing up or simply mastering systems....

Too fast = too furious Devil Daggerswas fantastic,Hyper Demonis better. The sequel to Sorath’s exquisite wave survivalFPSflips a slow-building, protracted struggle into a hyperdense spurt of action that escalates in lockstep with your abilities, thanks to enemies that spawn the moment you’ve dispatched their chums and a score that ticks down with every second you spend not actively murdering. That structure is also a trap. It’s an invitation to devise an opening dance that dispatches those first few waves as quickly as possible, yet following that dance too rigidly will crash you headfirst into a bonespire....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you came here in search of clues to today’s Wordle solution, you’re in the right place, as I’ve put together a trio of them for you below. Or, if you just want to view today’s answer, you’re still in luck, since you can scroll down below the video to see the definition in full. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December!...

Five more heroes might be getting rebalanced this week using it Overwatch 2struggled to quickly apply fixes for issues with its heroes during Season 1, but Blizzard say they’ve managed to sort all that out for the recently minted hero shooter. A hotfixing tool that was used for the first time today means there shouldn’t be any need for more weeks-long absences such asBastionandMei’s in Season 1. According to aTwitter threadby Overwatch 2’s commercial lead Jon Spector, the hotfix tool also lets Blizzard apply hero rebalances much more quickly....

Or on boredom Games get delayed so often that it’s always a pleasure when a release date is instead moved earlier.Chop Goblinsmaybe takes it to an extra extreme. The 30-minute retro shooter from the developer of Dusk was due for release on January 2nd, but it’s out now after being released several weeks earlier. “I was bored,” explained the developer on Twitter. I was bored so Chop Goblins is OUT NOW!...

Zack it off It’s with FF7 Remake in mind, though, that many of you will probably be wondering where this swanky new remaster of FF7’s PSP prequel fits into the increasingly up for grabs timeline of Squeenix’s ongoing Remake trilogy. And just as the original Crisis Core was almost impossible to talk about without entering major spoiler territory for the main game of Final Fantasy VII, so it goes forCrisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - Reunion....

The design includes arrow keys and a numpad, yet is the size of a TKL board. I’m a big fan of mechanical keyboards, so when I saw this unusual keyboard discounted on Amazon, I needed to write it up for RPS. The idea here is that it’s more or less a 60% size mechanical keyboard, but with two useful additions: arrow keys and a numpad. This makes it about the same size as a tenkeyless keyboard, but without the (lesser-used) navigation keys....

A favourite Christmas song from Hypnospace Outlaw As I lay in bed at 6am today, crying, I knew: it’s time. They say Christmas is a season for cheer and goodwill towards all but that’s not an observation, it’s an imploration. Christmas can be difficult for so many reasons, and that is why we must offer people cheer and goodwill. So truly, genuinely I find great comfort and joy in Christmas Pain In Christmas Town, a novelty Christmas song by a fictional washed-up musician from 90s infobahn detective gameHypnospace Outlaw....