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Fill your boots Return Of The Obra Dinnis, quite rightly, one of thegreatest video games of all time. It’s certainly one of my personal favourites, and as this year’sRPS 100has proven, it’s also greatly beloved by the rest of the RPS Treehouse. A brilliantly conceived murder mystery puzzle box (boat?) that not only has you working out whodunnit, but howdunnit, Obra Dinn is one of those detective games that really thrusts you into the thick of its deduction process....

Oh, I do enjoy being threatened by a Bristolian robot Portal 2is obviously brilliant, in part because each of its chapters possesses a distinct charm. GLaDOS’ return, for instance, is a stretch of pure puzzling with just a dash of dread, while your first steps into the abandoned 1960s Aperture facility interrupt a fairly hopeless tone with an upbeat sense of discovery. For me, though, Portal 2 peaks late. So late that by the time it begins, your journey through the ‘true’ puzzle chambers are essentially over, leaving you as little more than a loose end in the big glowing eye of a former buddy....

Publisher Krafton say it’s in an effort to “realign the studio’s priorities” Striking Distance, the studio behind last year’s alien horror stomp ‘em upThe Callisto Protocol, have suffered layoffs affecting 32 employees in what their publisher calls an effort to “realign the studio’s priorities to better position its current and future projects.” As noted byVGC, several impacted employees began to share the news over social media this week, which included the team’s associate producer Nora Falcon, senior environment artist Matthew Smith, and production coordinator Sebastion Marlow....

For when you want to play D&D but not talk to any other people Guess what? James and I, and a lot of other folk at RPS, are all learning the importance of rolling for initiative this week, because we’re playingBaldur’s Gate 3! Larian’s take on what is essentially the official cRPG version of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition is out of early access today and boy, is it a doozy....

It’s the humidity that’ll get ya It isoncemorethat time of year when the searing heat drives us underground, to subsist on raw snacks, re-readThe Book Of Phoenix, and play this year’s Low-Intensity Strategy Game For When It’s Actually Refreshingly Temperate And Rainy Out But We’re Committed To The Bit Now. Myriads Colon Renaissanceis not quite the break from the 4X that I’d tried to get us, but it is a hybrid....

Seagate’s FireCuda 530 is available at a historic low price. The Seagate FireCuda 530 is one of the best NVMe SSDs for PC and PS5, and today you can pick up the 2TB heatsink model for just £126. That’s an awesome price for one of the very fastest SSDs on the market, one that’s on par with our favouritefavourite PCIe 4.0 SSD for gaming, the Samsung 980 Pro and WD SN850....

I wouldn’t trust these kids with my head transplant Two Point Campus’second major expansion pack is throwing things back to the first daftmanagement gamein the series, Two Point Hospital. Publishers Sega have announced that Two Point Campus: Medical School is coming on August 17th and it’s shipping our students off to learn how to cure diseases, inject butts, and replace heads with lightbulbs. Seriously, check it out below. Two Point Campus: Medical School takes the game to different corners of Two Point County beginning with an idyllic lakeside area, before heading to a (hopefully dormant) volcano level, and then finally ending up with a band of pirates....

Supposedly it’s “drastically different from the base game” Vampire Survivors' snazzy newengine upgradeis coming this month, but developers Poncle seem to be cooking up something even more exciting for their dopamine-fuel bullet heaven shooter. Vampire Survivors: Directer’s Cut is supposedly a major overhaul to the smash hit roguelike, although it unfortunately “may or may not” ever be released. That’s according to former games journalist and now gaming consultant Laura Kate Dale, whotweetedthat she had attended a preview event for the game’s upcoming co-op mode and was then “pulled aside” to see the mysterious special edition....

Stuck on the Wordle word for August 3? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We’re another day closer to the weekend, and that also means we’ve got anotherWordlepuzzle to solve! If you’re feeling a bit tired from the week so far and can’t quite get the answer by yourself, then we’re here to help! 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?...

Mandatory “no one can hear you scream” reference Multiplayer peekaboo gameDead By Daylighthas added countless horror movie icons to its roster of playable villains and survivors in recent months. Behaviour Interactive have already steamrolled through recognisable faces such as Ghostface, Freddy Kreuger, Leatherface, Micheal Myers, and, err,Nic Cage. But the next collaboration takes the scares to outer space since the Xenomorph (the Alien from Alien) is coming to the game. Here’s a brief teaser....

An incredible price for a CPU that debuted at $599. I feel a little bad for the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D. This 12-core 3D V-Cache processor sits in the middle of the 8-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D (that ranks as thefastest gaming processor) and the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D (that combines excellent gaming and content creation performance). However, being overshadowed by your siblings is no bad thing, as the 7900X3D has fallen significantly further in price, bringing it back into contention for users that want a lot of cores for content creation tasks and excellent gaming performance....

“I seduce the door… I’ve got splinters in places you do not wanna know about” Baldur’s Gate 3is right around the corner - comes out tomorrow, August 3rd - and everything we’ve learned about the mammoth RPG makes it sounds like an awfully horny romp. Of course, there’s the recently revealedhot villainessthat had an entire corner of the internet making the same joke: “I can fix her.” There’s the fact that you canseduce a druidwho’s in bear form - as in an actual bear, not the gay slang version of the word....

From the team behind the brilliant Foretales Developers Alkemi Games made quite the impression with their lush card-battlerForetales, but they’re now pivoting into the roguelike action realm withAn Ankou. The game’s explore-a-craft-y-slasher mix gives it some flavour from Hades andV Rising, only this time with a shadowy French-folklore skin attached.An Ankouhits early access on August 17th, and I’m very excited to juggle it alongside the zillion other games dropping this month....