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New planetary missions, reworked expeditions and more Hello Games describeNo Man’s Sky’s latest Omega update as being geared towards newcomers and “lapsed players looking for a way back in”. Hey, they’re talking about me! I haven’t played the wide-eyedspace gamesince before the pandemic, partly because I only own the PS4 version and now that I’m RPS news editor, I’m not allowed to touch consoles any more. Seriously, they burn my skin on contact....

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #249 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

I’m saying this as a Pal If you told me at the start of the year thatPalworldwouldbreak Steam records, I would’ve done a hearty “no no” chuckle. But here we are, with thesurvival gameexceeding19 million playersand Pocketpair probably wondering how they managed such a feat. With its success has come the inevitable slew of impatient people saying the game’s dead because it’s not received updates fast enough, or folks saying it’s lost a hefty percentage of its player base, and others saying its viewership numbers over on streaming services have plummeted....

“Payday 3’s sales and player activity are currently at significantly lower levels than we would like,” writes the company CEO in theiryear-end report. “Our biggest focus and absolute priority, both during and after the quarter, are the efforts needed to ensure that the game lives up to expectations. We are working closely with our co-publishing partner Plaion to identify the changes that we will implement, in both the short- and long-term, that add the most value to the gaming experience....

A self-described “spiritual successor to Freelancer” I respect a game with wild ambition. Declaring your game “the spiritual successor toFreelancer” is bold and ambitious, considering how the spaceship sim is still so beloved after 20 years that our readers voted ityour 16th favourite space game of all time. This ambition is wild when the tiny development team is led by someone best known forreplacing Skyrim’s dragons with Thomas The Tank Engine....

Yo ho ho and a bottle of live service It’s happening! Why I playedSkull & Bonesback when it wasn’t even a live service game. But now it is, and it’s out this weekend. We talk a bit about how long it has been coming out, why it’s been in development this long, and why they didn’t just release the sucker the two or three previous times they got close to doing so....

“Unavoidable Bumbling Idiocy” sounds about right If you’ve been enjoying the excellentCobalt Coreas part of this month’sRPS Game Club, you may well have stumbled into Soggins the frog along your travels. Running into this hapless buffoon is always a delight in Cobalt Core, as he’s one of the few special characters who doesn’t instantly attack you on sight. Rather, the task here is always to try and save him from his own idiocy - namely, his malfunctioning ship that keeps firing his missiles right back toward him....

Complete with a one-year warranty. Corsair’s Shift series of power supplies are one of my go-to recommendations, thanks to their reliable power delivery and convenient side-mounted connectors, and now you can pick up a factory refurbished 850W 80+ Gold unit for just £84 from Scan, versus£145 for the very same PSU new at Amazonor£150 at Scan. That’s a huge, nearly 50% saving, and well worth it - even for a factory refurb unit with a 12-month warranty....

They simply aren’t fit for purpose Readers, consider this is a public service announcement for (deep breath)Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Trilogy Starring Lara Croft. Do not, for the love of all that’s ancient and holy, play this game with its newly-added modern control scheme. The original tank controls are by far and away the best (and only real) option for going back and experiencing Lara’s OG adventures from the late 90s, and I’m not just saying that out of nostalgia....

Vampire diary V Risingremains on track to reach 1.0 in the second quarter of this year, in what finance people call Q2 but I like to call Aprilmayjune. The latest developer blog post goes into detail on some of the new features coming for the full release and in particular its changes to PvP, higher tier weapon and armour, and vampire fashion. V Rising is about building both the strength of your individual vampire and of your home castle....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 15? 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?Buckle up for a selection of clues to help you keep your streak intact. Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

The best autoshooter without “Vampire” in the name Deep Rock Galactic: Survivoris a delicious piece of mad science: what if you spliced the ale-sodden DNA ofDeep Rock Galactic’s dwarven miners with tissue samples from aVampire Survivors-like autoshooter? It shouldn’t work, surely. Itwouldbe easy to look at this spin-off and question why it takes the co-op out of one of thebest co-op gameson PC, or to shovel it aside as a cynical attempt at latching onto the popularity of autoshooters/Survivors-likes/bullet heavens (delete as preferred)....

Stormgate, Pacific Drive, Homeworld 3 and Backpack Battles round out the top five February’sSteam Next Festdemo bonanza officially concluded on Monday, and Valve have now revealed the 50 most played games you all tucked into across the week-long event. Ordered by the number of unique players that spent time with them during Next Fest proper (meaning all those early demo plays from earlier in the month haven’t been counted), the most popular game of the lot was one that was only formally announced right at the end of January....