Its Steam Next Fest demo feels like a proper interactive Saturday morning cartoon Lots of games purport to feel like playable cartoons, but I really do mean it when I say that Happy Juice Games' delightful point and click adventureLost In Playfeels like a playable cartoon. While the full game isn’t due out until the summer, I can confirm that its 30-minuteSteam Next Festdemo is an absolute joy from start to finish....

Impeccable taste Big Tones was having none of it. He applauded Hagerty’s celebration of Olive Garden as a genuine expression of widespread American food culture, calling her detractors ‘snarkologists’, and then published a book of her reviews. A class act, no doubt. And it’s this championing of the everyman gourmand, this deep passion for non-exclusionary, unpretentious foodie culture, that powersTotal War: Warhammer 3’s most joyfully silly campaign experience. Pictured below is Greasus Goldtooth, formally known as Tradelord Greasus Tribestealer Drakecrush Gatecrasher Hoardmaster Goldtooth the Shockingly Obese, in a winning example of Warhammer’s trademark restraint....

But fully fixing issues will take longer Performance problemsmarred the launch ofTotal War: Warhammer 3last week, which is a shame because the fantasy strategy game is otherwise pretty great. The developers, Creative Assembly say they’re working on fixing it. Yesterday they laid out their plans for improving performance, stability, and a few other issues, expecting to launch the first ‘hotfix’ patch this week. But some issues have many causes, so they warn it’ll take time and multiple patches to really fix the game....

Check yourself before you Deck yourself Time for anotherSteam Deckcompatibilityupdatefrom your Steam Deckcompatibilitycorrespondent. This time, Valve have launched a new tool that lets you check your entire Steam library for Deck readiness at once, sorting them into categories based on the results their ongoing compatibility testing programme. SteamDB have been keeping unofficial trackof which games have earned Verified (fully functioning), Playable (sufficiently functioning), or Unsupported (not functioning) status from this review process; thecurrent combined countof Verified and Playable games has now ticked over 760....

Come and head up our growing reviews section The RPS team is growing once again. This time, we’re on the look out for a new Section Editor: someone who can come in and take the reins of our growing reviews section and use their expert editing skills to make sure all of our posts, whether that’s news, reviews, features or previews, are all in tip-top condition before publication. It’s a pretty experienced role, but if you’re a staff writer looking to take the next step in your career, or an existing section editor looking to shift into the wonderful world of PC gaming, we want to hear from you - and you canapply right here....

Pottery in motion What truths await us all inside the enigma that isElden Ring’s Pot Boy? Fermented veg, most likely. Not my hypothesis, but that of Adam Sutton, Iron Age and Roman Pottery Specialist at theMuseum of London Archaeology. Do you hear me, Miyazaki? I simply will not stand for any more of your delightfully obtuse world-building, and so I’ve enlisted expert help to illuminate the shrouded past of the internet’s favourite boy whomst is also a pot (pictured aboveattending The Game Awards live and in person)....

Waltz around the battlefield with this Wardancer build Need the best Lost Ark Wardancer build?The Wardancer plays foil to theStrikerclass, sharing an identity gauge and the bulk of their skills. However, don’t get the two twisted. Awakening skills, Engravings, and more differentiate the two classes and push them into fundamentally different playstyles. If you’re torn between the two or have already started with the Wardancer and need build advice, thisLost ArkWardancer build guide can help....

Come April, you’ll be able to migrate Bethesda.net games to Steam After six years, Bethesda Bethesda today announced they’re scrapping their Bethesda Launcher, closing it down in May. I imagine it’s because not a single person in the world uses the client doodad by choice, only because they were railroaded by a Bethnet exclusive. Bethesda are instead re-embracing Steam, letting people who own games on the Launcher transfer them to a Steam account....

Patch notes are up, too Destiny 2’s latest expansion,The Witch Queen, is live now. It brings the arrival of Savathûn, the Hive god of cunning and lies, who has blessed her followers with the same power as Guardians. It’s also bringing queues, because it’s a big new live service game. Bungie’s dedicated supporter Twitter account tweeteda couple of hours agoto say that, “due to hig player volume, players logging intot he game will be placed in a queue....

In the UK, we’ll get to play at 11pm on Thursday Bandai Namco have finally confirmed PC launch timings forElden Ring, and they are different to console timing. While the console versions will have staggered launches around the world at midnight local time (mostly), on PC it’s a simultaneous global launch. Depending on where you live, this could mean you get to start playing on PC hours before your consolable chums—or you could be waiting hours....

You can watch it now, if you want? WhileElden Ringdoesn’t launch for another few days, the launch trailer launched today. Like many people, I’m trying to avoid the new grim adventure from the makers ofDark Soulsas much as possible, because I want to go in innocent, wide-eyed, full of surprise, and wholly unwarned of the many deaths awaiting me. So I’ll share the launch trailer with you but I won’t watch it myself....

Plus plans for visual upgrades Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalkerbrought a close to some of the long-running MMO’s story arcs, but it’s far from the end for a game that proved so popular Square Enix briefly removed it from sale. In a live broadcast earlier this week, producer and director Naoki Yoshida outlined future ambitions, including making it possible to play all “main scenario dungeons of A Realm Reborn” with NPC pals instead of other players....

An ecological tale with a truly bananas moveset When Broken Rules announced their colourful 2D swingathonGibbon: Beyond The Treesat the beginning of February, I was immediately on board. Finally, I could live out my dream of sliding down tree branches like Disney’s Tarzan, all while playing another gorgeous adventure from the makers ofOld Man’s Journeyand Secrets Of Raetikon. Admittedly, I was surprised when I saw it was going to be part of this week’sSteam Next Fest....