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Beta headed to Repentance expansion 12 years later,The Binding of Isaacremains my go-to roguelite. There have been some incredible Rogue-inspired games since, but nothing has quite stuck its disgusting, fly and poop-covered hooks in me like Edmund McMillen’s tale of a crying child fighting his murderous mother using the power of his tears. Yes, I’m in therapy, why do you ask? Part of Isaac’s appeal - for me, at least - is its delightful local co-op, which lets a player jump in and join the multi-floor descent into a procedurally generated basement/hell/heaven/womb....

Mary Read vs the laws of physics Oh god, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m trying to fix it. Oh, hello everybody! Welcome to the fourth chapter of the greatStarfieldno-planets run, in which my character, rancid astro-buccaneer Mary Read, tries to play the entirety of Bethesda’s so-big-it’s-small RPG in space. When last we caught up with this galloping galactic nuisance, Mary wasbeginning to lose momentum. She had grown weary of happy-slapping freighter after freighter, though there’s one particular wandering geologist she’d like to settle the score with....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for September 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak....

One final fade out Sad tidings, folks. Today is vid bud Liam Richardson’s last day at RPS. After a glorious eighteen months of photoshopping creepy smiles onto thumbnails and making astaggering 125 videosabout our beloved PC games, Liam is returning to the world from whence he came: the wild frontiers of software design. It’s been a pleasure having him, even if but for a brief window of time, and I invite you all to come and bid him a fond farewell below....

The Simpsons: Hit & Run was the show’s 22nd game adaptation, but it’s the one that lasted Yet Hit & Run’s sustained relevance is, on its surface, a bit of an enigma. You’d be hard-pressed to find the game included in any critical canons or best-of lists, and there’s hardly been a shortage of T-rated open-world games since its release. But for many, the game isn’t just a source of nostalgia today; it was an introduction to a wholly new form of in-game self-expression....

Pour one out for PF Magic As achild of the early internet, games likeHypnospace Outlawcan’t help but resonate quite deeply with me. This was the internet as I remembered it, goddamnit, and the fact it mixed in a compelling corporate conspiracy story in between its pages was just the icing on an already fine cake (in GIF form, naturally, with a MIDI tune of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons blaring out from your internet browser for good measure)....

Silky smooth Cocoonis a puzzler where worlds are contained within orbs, and it’s your job to unpick puzzles with your ability to hop in and out of them, as well as carry them on your back. While it might sound complex, the worlds these orbs contain steer you carefully towards a clear goal every time: solve the problem, then grab your orb on the way out. Before you know it, you’re carrying orbs within orbs and you’re unravelling a cosmic mystery where the floor might be a biomechanical stingray or the path forward a spinal cord composed of ferns....

Mac support, Arms Race and left hand mode all AWOL Counter-Strike 2 released last nightand has duly taken over fromCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveas Steam’s most-played game at the time of writing, but individual player reactions are a bit mixed. Valve’s new/revamped free-to-playFPSsports a range of exotic features and fixtures, from swirlier, reactive smoke to new server architecture, but it has launched without many of the modes, maps and functions Global Offensive diehards are accustomed to, after a decade of updates....

Or curator recommendations At the time of writing,Counter-Strike 2has 7.5 million reviews on Steam, 88% of which are positive. That’s pretty good going for a game that released less than 24 hours ago. Except, of course, that the vast majority of those reviews are forCounter-Strike: Global Offensive, a game that is no longer playable. If you filter the reviews to just yesterday and today, you’ll find that there have been 3450 of them, just 59% of which are positive, which would giveCounter-Strike 2a rating of “Mixed”....

Give yourself the advantage with our ultimate CS2 settings guide What are the very best Counter-Strike 2 settings?Fine-tuning your settings is a lengthy process in any competitive game, and withCounter-Strike 2now released and free-to-play, tens of thousands of players are now busy trawling through the game’s settings menus trying to make sense of every last option in the game. We’re here to make the job easy with our ultimate guide to thebest CS2 settings....

Fish out of water There’s been a certain amount of confusion and alarm over the announcement ofNakwon: Last Paradise, a dingy third-person zombiesurvivaladventure with a big emphasis on stealth, from the creators ofDave the Diver,a bright, breezy uramaki roll of a gamethat mixes restaurant management with side-on undersea exploration. Is this kind of like when Prince of Persia went all edgelord with Warrior Within? Do I need to call Mintrocket’s parents and ask for an intervention?...

Brilliant 2.0 bookshelf speakers you can use wired with your PC and via Bluetooth with your phone. Beijing-based audio brand Edifier makes some of the best value speakers in the business, often offering significantly better performance, functionality and aesthetics than more well-known Western brands. I’ve reviewed a half-dozen of their speakers over the years, and each one has been impressive. I’m currently recommending Edifier’s R2000DB and S3000PRO speakers over at Eurogamer, but today an even more affordable model is on sale at Amazon US: the R1700BTs....

“For a while now, we’ve been spending way more money than we earn”, concedes CEO Unreal Engine and Fortnite publisher Epic Games are making an absolutely enormous round of job cuts. As announced by billionaire founder and CEOTim Sweeneyin an email to staff today, the company will lay off approximately 830 people, totalling “around 16%” of their workforce, in order to achieve “financial sustainability” following a period of heavy investment and lower-than-hoped returns fromFortnite....