That’s £100 below its UK RRP. In late Novemberwe saw incredible priceson the Ryzen 7000 series, and now we’re getting even better deals on many of these processors. The one I’m highlighting today is the Ryzen 5 7600X, which is down to £249 at Amazon - significantly below its £350 RRP and £21 cheaper than it was for Black Friday. To use one of these processors, you’ll need two things: a compatible motherboard and DDR5 memory....
Developer of IK+ and Jimmy White’s Snooker Archer Maclean, the developer of several classic games for early home computers, has passed away. Maclean was 60 years old. Maclean’s passing was noted by members of the retro games community. “Shocked and saddened to hear that legendary C64 programmer Archer Maclean passed away yesterday. He produced some of the machine’s greatest games, including International Karate and my all-time favorite shooter on the system, Dropzone....
As voted for by the RPS Treehouse 24. Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters Discovering new games that come in and completely sweep you off your feet continues to be one of the best parts of this job, but I was also taken aback by just how much I dug the whole 40K-ness of it all as well. I’m probably about as far as you can get from a diehard Warhammer head, but if someone had told me it was full of sassy tech priests, big chonky metal lads and ridiculously over the top warlords sniping at each other from opposite ends of the universe, I’d have probably thrown myself into itsGothicspace fortresses a lot earlier!...
11 months of #content distilled into one handy article Hello! VidBud Liam here. You may recognise me from those videos that autoplay on every page. Or not. It depends on how quickly you scroll past, I suppose. I joined team Arpus all the way back in February, and to say the last 11 months have been a whirlwind is a bit of an understatement. In less than a year I’ve made just under 90 videos covering a wide range of topics from major releases to international gaming events and brand-new hardware....
New game, same universe “Mr. Saitou is a short game about an average white-collar worker who struggles to find meaning in a life full of constant overtime and social isolation,” accordingto the Steam page. “After an accident lands him in the hospital, Mr. Saitou is spirited away to a strange fantasy world where an unexpected friend takes him on a life-changing adventure.” Rakuen could take around ten hours to play through if you did everything, but Mr....
Your year in graphs You can check your own Steam Replay byheading hereand signing in with your Steam credentials. All the stats are then offered on a single page, with options to share individual charts or the entire page. It’s nicely formatted and there’s some interesting data in the mix. It’s a neat way to revisit and reflect on your year in PC gaming. I play a lot less than I used to (and most of what I play is on Switch), but I was still surprised I played as much on Steam as I did....
Certified banger A little known fact is that all of the RPS staff are complex clockwork automata, designed and built by a little gnome with the kind of inch-thick glasses that make your eyes look comically large. We’re each powered by a spell that lasts but 12 months, so every Christmas we fall over like sad marionettes. The gnome has to spend a couple of weeks trekking up a mountain to see the fairy who can recast the spells on us....
This is a place of honour, actually I’d probably also tip a hat toWarhammer 40K: Darktide, but Alice0 already nabbed it for her honourable mentions, and frankly there’s enough shootybang stuff here as it is. But, also: toilet build quality testing, pushing Nazis into cement pits, and more than a hint of 70s funk. Check ‘em out. Aperture Desk Job A most unexpected return to the deadpan mad science ofPortal,Aperture Desk Jobcould easily have been constrained by its utilitarian purpose of acting as aSteam Deckcontrols tutorial....
I’ll make my own advent calendar! Listen, I don’t have much time. I enjoyed a lot of games this year, but Alice just told me that if I spend more than 1,500 words on this list then she’s going to murder my whole family*. And that includes some people I like. *I may have embellished the actual threat for dramatic effect. The Cycle: Frontier The Cycle: Frontier is my new favourite game in one of my favourite genres - the ever-stressful PvPvE extraction shooter....
High speed, low price. Portable SSDs are a brilliant way to ferry files around, but often they’re a bit overkill if you’re just copying a game directory to another PC, bringing a video file to watch on TV or backing up your schoolwork. In this case, a fast USB-C flash drive can be just the thing, with the newfangled connection allowing use on a wide range of devices like phones, tablets and games consoles too....
Taking tooting to a new level Trombone Champis a good joke. I played it once, chuckled along with its simulated tooting, and haven’t felt any compulsion to return. I will click on any Trombone Champ video I come across online, however. Armed with some community-made modding tools, creative players have added custom songs to the game, with custom models and backgrounds. At their best, these videos turn a good joke into a complete comedy sketch....
Hints and the answer to Wordle #556 In this guide, we’ve got three clues that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re just looking for the answer to maintain a streak, then scroll a little further down. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Wordle December 27 hints The Wordle answer today is deceptively tricky, one of those uphill battles where you might struggle despite getting a lot of the letters early on....
Hey, we done did some dang good guides this year Guides work is a very strange beast, and one that we don’t talk about as often as we maybe should. By its nature, we here in guidestown can feel a bit isolated from the rest of RPS. Our guides aren’t very visible to our regular readers. No one hops onto a website like this and says to themselves, “Well now! I wonder what guides have been written today that I can spend my time reading through!...
