Plus a new-ish mode Age Of Empires 4is the first RTS I’ve taken seriously. I’ve practised build orders, memorised specific civ counters, watched pro matches and agonised over key bindings. I have gone down into the nitty gritty of sheep micro, just to shear off microseconds from early villager gathering times, but I’ve never seen a good reason to build half of the landmarks in the game. It’s a blessed relief, therefore, to see “landmark improvements” onthe roadmap for Season 4, alongside a new mode and a funky purple-looking biome....

It’s 10 minutes, tops It’s that time of year again, folks, where we come to you, cap in hand, to ask: “Please, dear reader, can you fill out our RPS Readership Survey for us?” The whole thing should only take between 5-10 minutes of your time, and it will be a big help to both us and our corporate siblings in the wider Reedpop multiverse going forward. Thank you in advance!...

Samsung’s latest PCIe 4.0 SSD ain’t cheap, but cuts load times to shreds On paper, the 990 Pro happily makes bigger claims than those of its closest rival, the Black SN850X. That maximum read speed? 7450MB/s for Samsung, 7300MB/s for WD. Write speeds also appear to favour the 990 Pro, with a claimed 6900MB/s to the Black SN850X’s 6300MB/s. Samsung are asking a lot with their drive’s pricing, starting at£160/$170for the 1TB model, but then it’s potentially exploring new heights of what a PCIe 4....

Steampunk wizards aplenty from the Tower Of Time devs Fantasy doesn’t really do guns very often, preferring to stick to the ol’ sharp pointy metal things that don’t fire bullets instead. I do enjoy when the odd boomstick appears in magical realms though, so I’ve got one eye trained on tactical CRPGDark Envoy. Putting you in the gunpowder-loving shoes of a refugee adventurer exploring the fantasy world of Jäan while total war rages, you can also bring a pal along in a similar way toDivinity: Original Sin’s campaign co-op....

Big savings on two top-tier wireless keyboards Sometimes you just gotta play the hits, which Amazon are very much doing with theirearly Black Friday keyboard deals. TheLogitech G915 Lightspeed Wirelessis an enduringly comfortable, responsive, and strikingly slim gaming keyboard that’s a regular feature of sales events likeBlack Fridayand Prime Day, and once again it’s on sale now – both in the UK and in the US. This time, it’s also being joined by its tenkeyless little brother, the G915 TKL Lightspeed Wireless....

The gorgeous game gets gorgeouser We just got our first look atThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s much-delayed free “next gen” update, by which they mean current gen, and which yep, looks like a looker. Vanilla Witcher 3 still looks gorgeous for a nearly seven year old game, but the upcoming update will add ray-tracing options, ultra+ settings and a suite of other visual and quality of life updates. It’s not out ‘til December 14th, but you can peek at it below while the devs natter in the background....

Kudos to the OG Vampire Survivorsis a game where you control a little pixellated person who auto-attacks periodically. Your aim is to survive for as long as possible as hordes of slime and bats close in around you, and it’s an excellent time. So excellent, in fact, that it’s already seen a few spin-offs. And having sampled a couple of Vampire Survivor-likes, it’s made me appreciative of the game’s visual clarity....

Vote now as we continuing deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided thatdynamic music is better than hex grids. Heart won over mind, and honestly I myself would struggle to know which to follow. Given that hexes aren’t going anywhere and dynamic music is scarce, sure, let’s celebrate dynamic music and hope for more. This week, I ask you to decide between two very different types of attack....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word If you’re here in search of clues to help you out with today’s answer, you’re in the right place, as a trio of hints can be viewed just below. Or if you’ve given up entirely and just want to know what the answer is already, scroll down below the video to see that spoiler (plus the answer’s definition)! Wordle November 23 hints...

Monomi Park co-founder Nick Popovich talks the farming-sim smash and its wildly successful sequel When Nick Popovich was a kid, his parents ran the Sprague Road Tavern in North Royalton, Ohio. “Everything was a dive bar,” Popovich, now co-founder and CEO of Monomi Park, says of the drinking scene in the Cleveland suburb. “It was all working-class, like dive-bar kinda thing. Which is basically what this place was.” His mum and dad wanted to do up the joint, make it into something resembling what today would be called a sports bar....

Can someone please tell me what’s going on? Baba Is Youdev Hempuli has taken that game’s puzzle transforming mechanics and translated them into a form of Solitaire. DubbedBabataire EX– nice – the game bases its suits on four of the endearing little creatures from Baba Is You. There’s good ol’ Baba, of course, joined by Keke, Fofo and Jiji. Hempuli only seems to have begun the project earlier this month, but you can already have a go for free on itch....

A big, fast IPS panel for the 4K equivalent of pocket change RPS supporters, who are very generous and probably smell fantastic, might recall a post last week in which I gushed about anElectriq eiQ-32M4K144FSthat I’d bought secondhand. What this4K gaming monitorlacks in brand recognition, it makes up for in smooth performance, despite being absolutely dirt cheap – and you can pick one up for yourself, brand new, in theearly Black Friday sales....

“Over the weekend old tweets I wrote from before my time at Crystal resurfaced and I apologize and take full accountability for the hurt they caused to my followers, the community, and those I work with,” Waggoner said in astatementposted to his Twitter account. “Since that time, I have learned and grown and the content I posted doesn’t reflect who I am today. I understand if you cannot accept my apology because of the pain I have caused....