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While others are experiencing life at 35FPS and below I have spent most of my working life looking at efforts to breach the FPS event horizon, and going ‘OMG who cares, they literally all look the same?’. People like ourhardwareeditor James then point and laugh at me, as an objectively wrong person. But according to a small studyhighlighted by the Guardian, I might have been right too! Turns out there’s evidence that we might all see life at different FPS....

But there’s still no “official” collaboration despite 10 years of ESO, says ZeniMax director True, it’s set centuries before The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, The Elder Scrolls 5:Skyrimand therefore presumably The Elder Scrolls 6: ???, to avoid any creative clashes. But as game director Matt Firor told me at GDC, ESO is awash with Easter eggs pointing forward to the events of those games, and Skyrim’s countless rebirths aside, it surely stands as the most obvious source of inspiration for any Elder Scrolls developer today....

Room with a Cthulhu Earlier today Tom Betts - founder of Nullpointer and former lead programmer at The Signal From Tolva developers Big Robot - emailed me about his new gameThe Horror At Highrook. In the space of a single, rollercoaster paragraph, Betts earned my curiosity by describing himself as a fellowSoul Reaverenthusiast, lost it again by criticising Soul Reaver’s camera - such insolence! - and earned it swiftly back by mentioning that he’s from Yorkshire....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, you decided decisively thatthe spell Fireball is better than a button to unlock all unlocks. I should have known because our dear old friend Fireball is always there for us, always readily available, always keen to punch someone in the face, neck, and chest with a lump of solid fire. Thank you, Fireball. I love you. This week, it’s a question of anxiety....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for April 3? 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?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

“After two years in Early Access, five years of development, and significant progress in the game, the price will now be increased to reflect its full value,” say devs Stunlock Vampiresurvival gameV Risinghas been kicking around in early access for a couple of years now, so there’s a good chance you may have already picked it up. If you haven’t but are curious to give it a go, you might want to grab it sooner than later....

Servers live until April 9th RPS was on holiday yesterday, which is fortuitous timing because it was April 1st and it meant we missed all the “jokes” (lies) the games industry likes to spread on that day each year. Credit to Arma developer’s Bohemia Interactive, however. Their April 1st announcement was that the latest update forArma Reforgerwas Tiny Wars, a game mode in which you controlled tiny toy Army Men as they waged war around a proportionally huge home....

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Eternal Strands is due for release next year FormerDragon Agedirector Mike Laidlaw is making a new fantasy game.Eternal Strandsis third-person adventure pitched as a mixture of Shadow Of The Colossus andMonster Hunterwith Tears Of The Kingdom’s physics powers. The trailer, which you’ll find below, certainly has giants you can clamber across and spray with goop. Laidlaw has beenteasing a new fantasy gamefor a while. It’ll be the first release from Yellow Brick Games, the studio Laidlawset up in Quebec with other former BioWare and Ubisoft developers....

Including the delightful Lil Gator Game Here’s the full list of games heading to Game Pass on PC in April: Of these, I’d pay attention toLil Gator Gamemost. I have played and completedA Short Hikethree times, and when I badly needed a new game with similarly good vibes, bucolic art and playful environments, Lil Gator Game hit the spot. It’s a relentlessly good time. I’m guessingSuperhot: Mind Control Deletedoes not have “good vibes”, but I did enjoy bending time and shattering heads in its predecessors....

Arrowhead think you’ve been having too much nice weather recently So, how was everyone’s long weekend? I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I think I may have even sensed the fading ghost of an immeasurably whisper-thin ray of sunshine at one point. Enough! Says a new patch forco-opshooterHelldivers 2. You know who else enjoys basking in the pleasant glow of mildly enjoyable weather when there’s freedoms that need fighting for?...

Hey, do you like going shoulder-to-shoulder with a pal to battle in same-screen local multiplayer games? Follow-up question: do you enjoy deceiving your pal while trying to uncover their own deceit? Last question: do you want to throw knives at your pal’s face? If so, check out Neon Knives, a fun free same-screen game for two players where you must both try to blend into a crowd of NPCs while identifying and assassinating your mate....

In Keepsake’sco-opfour-playerspace gameJump Ship,néeHyperspace, you can scuttle your own vessel by overcooking a pizza. There’s a cooking minigame in your ship’s canteen which grants a health boost if you nail the timing, and sparks off a fire if you don’t. It’s a pretty minor fire, mind you. A combusting deep dish doesn’t place very highly on the list of possible ship emergencies next to, say, your reactor coughing up nuclear rods, or your engines running out of juice because some oaf hooked up too many turrets to the aforesaid reactor....