T’is the season A very merry Pride month to all, and what better way to celebrate than by putting some money in queer developers' pockets and getting more than 500 games (and zines and other such goodies) in return? There’s a bit of everything in here, from a bird-run grocery store to a meditation on the decay and connection both inherent to today’s internet. For the second year in a row, queer developers have come together on itch....

Frankenstein’s Monster Hunter Seregios can get stuffed. I recently faced off against the massive golden dragon during a hands-on session for Sunbreak, the upcoming expansion pack forMonster Hunter Rise, and it battered me repeatedly for the best part of an hour. It has become the flying white whale to my dual blade wielding Ahab, and I left the preview event determined to chop it to bits when the DLC finally arrives later this month....

A big world for a fast hedgehog Sega have released a look at the world and exploration ofSonic Frontiers, giving us a glimpse of just what it might be like to go fast, open world style. The video from IGN shows Sonic ascending to the top of some ruins before heading out into Frontiers' open world, which has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Breath of the Wild. Although, as Graham noted after yesterday’s much brieferteaser, it’s all a bit washed out and grey?...

Or: how to make the world an endless nightmare This week on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast we clear up an initial misunderstanding but eventually get in sync and talk about the gamethingswe’d want in real life: health packs, tetris, inventory management. By their powers combined we manage to create an absolutely nightmarish dystopian society where people live forever but cannot put more than four of the same thing in a line....

It shouldn’t affect the production schedule of the Steam Deck in general TheSteam Deck’s docking station has been delayed, says Valve. Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to tell when the issue might be resolved. According to the announcementposted to Steam, the delay of the Steam Deck dock (try saying that three times fast) is “due to parts shortages and COVID closures at our manufacturing facilities.” It shouldn’t affect production of the Steam Deck itself, as those are made with different parts in different factories....

The game as it exists now is a “fairly basic version” of Stunlock Studio’s vision “I haven’t really had time to let it sink in yet, I don’t think,” says Jeremy Fielding, community manager for Stunlock Studios. When we spoke on Tuesday, their early access vampire sim survival gameV Risinghad just passed 1.5 million players, far beyond the team’s wildest expectations. Fielding, who usually works remotely from Florida, flew over to Stunlock’s Sweden office for the game’s early access release last month....

Explore New York City through the ages The trailer introducesFiaQuinn, who is apparently immune to all the kind of mistakes and meddling that could go wrong when time travel is involved. That makes her a useful agent for lending a hand to those who want to go back in time, whether that be to fix their mistakes, investigate a mystery, or just do a bit of intertemporal sightseeing. She’ll be visiting seven snapshots from the history of New York City, and thinking laterally between the different moments will be the key to unlocking the puzzles within....

Well? The benefits of monarchy are few and far between, but you do sometimes get a bonus public holiday to ‘celebrate’ them clinging onto the cushy job their dad gave them. Here in the UK, the four-day Platinum Jubilee weekend has just begun, meaning we here at RPS will be mostly quiet from Thursday until Monday. What are you playing this long weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on! Alice BeeThe 6k jigsaw I’m doing inJigsaw Puzzle Dreamscontinues apace....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word But enough chit-chat: you’re here for one of two things. Either you want some hints for today’sWordleword of the day, or you want the Wordle answer itself. Both are just below, so start scrolling! Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th Decemberinstead! For as long as there are Wordle answers to find, we’ll be around with hints to help you arrive at your destination....

Go outside and touch some grace Ever have an idea that you regret the instant you commit to realising it? That’s how I feel about my decision to rank all ofElden Ring’s major locations. It turns out that, not only are there a lot of locations in Elden Ring, but the definition of a distinct location is largely up for debate. The opening area of Limgrave, for example, could be as many as four separate regions (East Limgrave, West Limgrave, Stormhill and Weeping Peninsula) depending on how you interpret it....

CRPG Rogue Trader, card game Warpforge and retro FPS Boltgun are among the pack The week-long Warhammer Skulls event has kicked off with an avalanche of announcements. Leading the pack are three new games: CRPGWarhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, digital card gameWarhammer 40,000: Warpforge, and retro FPSWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun.Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef, the 2D action platformer, also got a release date. It’ll be out on the 20th of October....

A historic low price for a blazing-fast PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. The Crucial P5 Plus is one of my favourite SSDs, as you might know fromme writing about it last week.. Then, I was happy to announce that this rapid 1TB PCIe 4.0 drive had made it to £100 - a price it’s gotten near a few times before but not stayed at with any regularity. You can imagine my surprise, therefore, when I discovered that Crucial are now selling the same drive at their site for £80....

Becomes third game to welcome AMD’s updated upscaler A surpriseGod of WarPC update has made it one of just three games to supportAMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2.0. This significantly improved upscaling option,introduced a few weeks back in Deathloop(and more recently making it toFarming Simulator 22), completely replaces God of War’s FSR 1.0 setting, giving Radeon GPU owners a performance booster that comes much closer toNvidia DLSSon quality. I’ve snapped a few comparison shots (see below), and when upscaling to 1440p, the difference between FSR 2....