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More sun for your money I just played the neon bathroom graffiti on magic mushrooms stylings ofpuzzlegameChildren Of The Sunfor the first time last night, and it is very much my thing. It’s glowy! It’s violent! It’s thinky! You canbeabullet,andthenyou can beanother bullet! Mental! (It’s technically the same bullet, but still!) The basic idea is you take out stages of dudes, but you lose if you ever shoot without killing something....

Lock, stock and a trip to the archives It’s often claimed by liars and fools that our website’s title is a clever reference to the ancient Chinese game of shoushiling - or “rock paper scissors”, as it’s known overseas. The orthodox interpretation is that “Rock Paper Shotgun” is a folksy regional variation on this, with a “shotgun” instead of the “scissors”. But friends, this is patently absurd. Think about it: a game that pits a shotgun against a rock or piece of paper would be incredibly one-sided....

Race ya System requirements are on the rise, and a glut of recent PC facepunchers has left some of the RPS treehouse wondering if it’s time for agraphics cardupgrade. Being a helpful colleague and a handsome friend, I dutifully informed them that the highly capableNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Superis currently getting theBlack Fridayprice cut treatment, with Zotac’s Twin Edge model dropping especially low in both the UK and US. Still, dear readers, if you feel like punishing us for that comment system switch, you could always head over to Amazon and buy up all the stock yourself....

Tubular Half-Life 2just got a small update, mostly to fix a long-running music bug. But hiding in the patch notes is an apology of sorts, a nod to that most tenacious of bunnyhopper: the Half-Life 2 speedrunner. It seemsthe recent 20th anniversary updatefor the classic first-person shooter messed with some beginner speedrun strategies by introducing an invisible wall to a big sewer pipe. Valve have now corrected that, removing the offending blocker and restoring order to the universe....

Stuck on the Wordle word for November 27? 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?We have you covered with a list of hints to help you maintain that precious streak. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

“Funding shortfall” to blame A studio led by formerMass Effectdirector Casey Hudson have shut down before being able to show the sci-fi narrative adventure they were working on. Humanoid Origin posted the announcement of the studio’s closureon LinkedIn yesterday, saying that a “shortfall of funding” was responsible for the decision. They had been making a “multi-platform AAA game, focusing on character-driven narrative in an all-new science-fiction universe”, according to the studio’s website....

I just want my old life back And if I can’t remember how it got here, how can I make it go away? For what is all horror if not, in some small way, a creepy story about a guy? “Immerse yourself in the dark adventure of a guy who suffers from depression and feels guilty. He never takes off his hood and always keeps his hands in his pockets,” it continues....

Advance the story by arming the NPCs Video games in general have a surplus of weapons. It’s gotten to the point that if I had any freelance budget, I’d commission somebody to count them up. Just give me an approximate running total for the industry at large, so that whenever next a shiny-eyed producer regales me with the prospect of enchanted lazurite rapiers at a preview event, I can quietly ask how many enchanted lazurite rapiers we’re talking about, then open my laptop and generate a scrolling image akin to thosecomparison pages for stars and planets- a cosmic mountain of points and pommels, with the new game’s armoury forming a pixel-wide foothill in the bottom left corner....

Dolphindie gaming If you’re playing a “PS1-style” game these days, odds are it’s a horror game. Sometimes, I worry that the association of PS1 with moody, Silent Hillian dankness has gotten to the point that younger players no longer perceive the original PS1 as a video game console at all. Going by Itch.io’s Halloween output, the PS1 was just a rusty bucket of rot and gore in which the faithful might periodically hallucinate the face of Spyro the Dragon....

Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #533. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 26th November?We’ve scoured today’s Connections for a group of clues to help you out. Connectionsis a word puzzle game published every day by the New York Times (NYT), the hosts of the endlessly popularWordlepuzzle....

Plus the series' 100th legendary lord Here are some orc names I quite like. Haters will tell you these “aren’t real orcs”, but those fools are forever trapped in a stifling prison forged from the failures of their own imaginations. Suck it, haters: An orc that even these despicable haters are forced to admit is real, however, is Gorbad Ironclaw. If you look very carefully, you may spot him below, in the new trailer for Omens Of Destruction - the next expansion forstrategygameTotal War: Warhammer 3....

That’s the cheapest this fast PCIe 4.0 drive has been in ages Recently, PC games have been gorging themselves silly on our storage space. 160GB forS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2? 190GB forGod of War Ragnarok? If these games were people they’d stand waiting at the Pizza Hut buffet and nab ten of the twelve slices of Pepperoni Feast as soon as they’re slid under the heatlamps. What to do? For our part, there’s little wecando except upgrade capacity, and there are few better ways to do that on a budget than with the WD Blue SN580....

Witchercraft! Just when you thought you’d played all theRPGs- maxed every last stat, drained the XP of every last creature, tap-danced your way along every branching questline - CD Projekt have announced thatThe Witcher 4is in “full-scale production”. “I’m pleased to announce that several weeks ago it moved on to full-scale production,” chief financial officer Piotr Nielubowicz said of the game, currently codenamed Polaris, during the company’slatest quarterly earnings presentationto investors (thanks,VGC)....