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From Ryujin Industries to the Crimson Fleet, we’ve joined them all Trying to figure out which faction you should join in Starfield?Remember the good old days when you only had to choose between Stormcloaks and Imperials? And then along cameStarfieldwith its five different major factions and oodles of minor factions, and you’re just expected to make an informed decision about which faction you should join up with? We forgive you for being a little overwhelmed with the options....

Learn how to change your appearance after character creation Want to change your appearance in Starfield?One of the most impressive systems in Bethesda’s gargantuan newRPGStarfieldis thecharacter creator, which allows you to use the same tool that the developers themselves used to create every NPC in the game. But if you’re not quite happy with how your character’s appearance turned out, worry not! You can still change it at any point duringyour playthrough....

Get your hands on a Boost Pack as soon as possible in Starfield Want to get the Boost Pack as early as possible in Starfield?There’s an expansive universe to explore inStarfield, and combing over dozens of planets can be slow going if you don’t have the right equipment to help. The very first item you’ll want to unlock is the Boost Pack, a little jetpack that lets you rocket around environments....

Come join us from 4pm BST It’s high time for anotherRPS Game Clubchat! This month we’ve been ponderingAperture Desk Job: a “playable short” Valve created as aSteam Deck accompaniment, yet still manages to squeeze in somedeliciously ironic character beatsand at least onemantis-based tragedy. We’ll be discussing it in the liveblog below from 4pm BST, and we want to know your thoughts too. Liked it? Loathed it? Have design feedback for the toilet turrets?...

If you haven’t played any of it, there’s now a new demo that lets you play the first three cases in your browser for free. In order to try the demo,simply head hereand it’ll run in your browser. You canread our original reviewif you want to hear more about how it echoes Obra Dinn before you commit the time to it, but honestly you should just give it a go yourself....

Polish to spare It’s a stormy night. The lights are off. The doors are locked. Somewhere, a woman is singing. Somewhere else, a phone is ringing. The sinks are full of gunk and there are children hiding in the cupboards. Oh, and the darker stretches of floor are covered with writhing tentacles. This isHolstin, a Polish survival horror experience in which you merrily rove an isolated town that, based on 14 minutes of fumbling around in exactly one very unwelcoming house, already seems a match for Silent Hill in terms of existential squalor....

How long is Starfield? You’d better set aside more than just a weekend to play the game How long is Starfield?Starfieldtakes players on an out-of-this-world adventure full of interlocking storylines, quests, discovery, and exploration. While it’s certainly possible to speedrun it, most players are going to want to take in everything this massive game has to offer as they dive into the main story. But even if you’re laser-focused on beating Bethesda’s brand-new space adventure as quickly as possible, you’re going to need to set aside more than a casual afternoon to do it....

Discover all 10 Earth landmarks in Starfield Looking for Earth landmarks in Starfield?While Earth is mostly a barren desert inStarfield, there are actually 10 landmarks that you can find scattered across the surface. These landmarks represent significant architecture from across the world, featuring buildings and structures that will be immediately recognisable to everyone. In this guide, we’ll break down all 10StarfieldEarth landmarks and how to find them. We’ll also explain what happened to Earth, uncovering the mystery surrounding the events that led to its collapse in Starfield, and also cover how to reach Earth so that you can visit it for yourself....

Starfield’s lockpicking minigame explained How does the Starfield lockpicking minigame work, and how can you pick locks more easily?Like previous Bethesda games,Starfieldhas a lockpicking minigame which you’ll need to master if you want to unlock all those tantalisingly locked doors and containers throughout the Settled Systems. But unlikeSkyrimorFallout, where picking locks was all about finding the “sweet spot”, inStarfieldit’s much more like a mini puzzle which tests your spatial perception as you try to fit the right shapes into the lock’s holes....

Properly cosmic Brought to you by the teeming brains behindSnake CaveandEat Shit With Divine,Starfieldis an experience of almost bewildering scale that defies easy summary, but I will do my best. In this much-anticipated sci-fi action epic, you step into the spaceboots of Prince Starfield, a fully customisable, unvoiced protagonist who must battle a cosmic menace in the course of a familiar, but thrillingly woven narrative with unabashed political dimensions. Not to be confused with NickTitle’srather more contemplative game of the same name, to say nothing of Kenneth Nietfeld’s swashbuckling romanceRick Starfield: Hero of Space and Time, or indeedStarfield from Graek Tarmikos, an avant garde reinterpretation of Breakout, joeAmerica Gayms’Starfieldis a straightforward but engrossing blend of action and customisation elements....

The question isn’t where, but when? I don’t remember this at the time, but there were complaints aboutSkyrim’s map when it came out, because it was just an extreme zoom out on the world. It wasn’t dense with information; the map markers were often kind of an “it’s in this area” guideline that were even less helpful if what you needed was in a barrow or otherwise underground.Starfieldraises the bar by taking the bold step of having a map that is almost not a map....

Learn how to pickpocket in Starfield Want to know how to pickpocket in Starfield?If you’ve played past Bethesda games, then you’ll know that there are few things more satisfying than stealing a key directly from an enemy’s pocket. Of course, you can pickpocket inStarfield, but it isn’t as simple as you might expect. If you’re trying to pickpocket an NPC but can’t quite seem to figure out how, then you’re in the right place!...

Dominate the Settled Systems with the very best Starfield builds What are the best Starfield builds you can possibly make?Starfieldfeatures a lot of interlocking parts and systems which make up a character’s build. Beginning from the first moments of character creation, you’ll be asked to make choices which could end up affecting your entire playthrough. Now thatStarfieldhas finally released, we’re excited to present you with our list of the very best Starfield builds that we’ve discovered so far....