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Get your application in today The RPS team is growing! We’re looking for a News Editor to take our news coverage to the next level, and you canapply right heretoday to join the team. Reporting on games and their communities, both before and after release, has become an increasingly important focus for the way we cover PC games at RPS, and this role will lead that daily and long-form coverage. You’ll be writing multiple news stories per day, conducting your own investigations alongside that, and defining the overall strategy of our news coverage for other writers to follow....

Plus fire-accurate clothing options and more tweaks to Kelvin Sons Of The Forestcontinues its early access journey, but what was once apeaceful woodland strollis turning into a totally rad zooming session, all thanks to the game’s third patch adding in a new vehicle, tweaks to, er, dead bodies, and much more. That new rideable vehicle is called the Knight V (v for five) and is essentially a one-wheeled bike. Or a one-wheeled mechanical skateboard?...

Free to keep, pay for more Simply head to the game’s Steam page, add the game to your account, and ta-da! It’s yours. The offer only includes the base game, although all of its paid DLC packs have been discounted by 50%. These price cuts last until April 10th, so you can use the UK’s long weekend to try out Deadlock and decide if you’d like more. The post-launch DLC might be essential to your enjoyment, though....

Just £159 for a NAS-ready hard drive that also fits easily into gaming PCs. Seagate’s Iron Wolf and Iron Wolf Pro drives are brilliant choices for NAS (networked attached storage) and regular PC use, and now an 8TB model is available for just £159 on Amazon UK. That’s down from an RRP of £225, and the best price we’ve ever seen on this model. These Seagate drives are well respected for their reliability, and with a 6GB/s SATA connection and 7200RPM speed, they’re reasonably speedy for a hard drive too....

Bloodyhell Asks RPS Ask RPSreturns today with a question that takes us right back to the beginning of how we all got here. Not in the scientific, evolutionary sense of all of human history, I should add, but rather how we, the RPS Treehouse, ended up writing about video games for a living. The question comes courtesy of Bloodyhell, who asked:When did you know that you not only wanted to play games, but to write about what you played?...

With Arma’s developers I’m old enough to rememberBattlezone(1998) and Command & Conquer: Renegage and the years since are littered with umpteen games that try to combine RTS commanding with FPS conquering. The latest to try isSilica, fromArma 3developers Bohemia Interactive. You’ll find the announcement trailer and its many crabs below. Silica is set on a “seemingly barren” distant planet humans are attempting to mine for precious resources. Of course, instead of being barren, it’s full of angry, chitinous many-mouthed crabs....

Mini-version on the mini-handheld Playdate owners can headherefor download instructions. If you don’t have the little yellow handheld, and you’d like to play the port regardless, you can download a Playdate simulator on PC. Head to that same link for more instructions. Very important for me to share that the PICO-8 version of Celeste Classic has been ported to Playdate.🍓https://t.co/89jcS6cmlfpic.twitter.com/W0dQaIKwHS If you’re itching for more ways to play the excellent jump-n-dasher, you’re in luck!...

Block-droppin' meats Falling-block puzzle games get a gory makeover inDr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine, a spin-off from Super Meat Boy. Rather than dodging buzzsaws and baddies while platforming, here you’ll be doing that while dropping coloured blobs into grids to match chains of colours and make ‘em vanish. You can see that for yourself, as Mean Meat Machine now has a free demo offering a taste ahead of the game’s launch later this year....

Find out what time Diablo 4 releases in your region. Want to know the Diablo 4 release time?It has been over a decade since the last mainline game in the franchise, butDiablo 4is finally here. This week, the gates of hell will open, welcoming all of us into the demon-slaying frenzy that’s sure to take over much of our lives for the foreseeable future. In this guide, we’ll break down the Diablo 4 release time in your region so that you can start playing straight away at launch....

The zombie parkour ‘em up and excellent expansion Dying Light 2 came out last year, but the polished zombie-parkour sequel didn’t make its predecessor obsolete. If what you’re after is a more freeform, organic open world in which to survive, then the firstDying Lightis arguably the better choice. Good news: its currently free-to-keep from the Epic Games Store alongside its excellent expansion. Head to theDying Light: Enhanced Editionpage on the Epic Games Store from now until April 13th and you can add the game to your account for free....

A good price for a strong 1080p gaming GPU. The RX 6600 is a partially-activated version of the RX 6600 XT with lower clock frequencies, four fewer CUs (compute units) and lower power draw (132W vs 160W). With 8GB of RAM on board, you should be pretty comfy in most AAA games at 1080p, and you might even be able to stretch to 1440p if you’re willing to turn down some settings....

Totally free and very not-sickening The Source VR Mod Team have been faithfully modding theHalf-Lifegames into virtual reality - an excellent way to relive Valve’s classic shooters. The team moddedHalf-Life 2last yearandfollowed it upwith a mod forHalf-Life 2: Episode Onea couple of weeks ago. They’re now back with Half-Life 2: VR Mod - Episode Two, coming toSteamlater today. Gordon Freeman’s whole adventure is now playable in VR, and the mods are completely free....

Should I watch the first hammer? The world of hack-and-slashingHammerwatchreturns this summer with a sequel, developers Crackshell have announced. Just like the first game released ten years ago,Hammerwatch 2is a top-down fantasy ARPG where you’ll be building your own hero, choosing between a series of classes, and battling hordes either alone or in a co-op group of four. The first game was confined to the Castle OfHammerwatchand its dungeons, but the sequel’s open world takes you across the aptly named Hammer Island....