Feature: Inscryption is horrifying because it does things games aren't supposed to
"I had a friend who said he had nightmares because of the menace of the person across the table"
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Feature: All I want for spook month is more classic survival horror
What’s the deal with green herbs? [studio applause]
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Can my Darkest Dungeon 2 party please shut up for five minutes
If you don't stop, I'm turning this stagecoach around
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Supporters only: Forget Far Cry 6, the bugs in Hollow Knight can send me snarky emails anytime
I wouldn't mind being bugged
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Feature: It's Halloween Week on RPS, and we've got a load of horror-themed writing to celebrate
Find all our seasonal spooky article delights right here
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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs announced: everything you need to know
Specs, prices, features and all that good stuff
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Feature: Lo-fi horror and the allure of an uncanny Bitsy
Why haunted pixels are sometimes better than spooky polygons
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Feature: Turbo Overkill is the most fun you'll have with a chainsaw leg
"What would happen if you could slide into monsters to kill them?"
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A deep dive into the making of Spiral Circus' debut game
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Valve confirm Steam autumn, winter, and Halloween sale dates
Start saving those pennies
News
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Activision Blizzard CEO commits to waiving forced arbitration, and a temporary paycut
An employee group declare the new plan "a huge win"
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Apex Legends' new hero Ash hunts squads with Titanfall-inspired abilities
She's a bit like Wraith, but much more aggressive
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Apex Legends' new map Stormpoint comes with vicious wildlife and excellent cannons
A new gun, Legend and more are on the way in Escape
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Square Enix announce Star Ocean The Divine Force
The veteran action-RPG series continues
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Can my Darkest Dungeon 2 party please shut up for five minutes
If you don't stop, I'm turning this stagecoach around
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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs announced: everything you need to know
Specs, prices, features and all that good stuff
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Satisfactory adding train signals, train timetables, and train crashes
If you choo-choo-choose the experimental branch
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Shadow Warrior 3 delayed into next year
Because they want more time to make it good
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You can visit New Vegas again in a Fallout 4 mod
But this very much isn't Fallout: New Vegas ported to Fallout 4
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Darkest Dungeon 2 is out now in early access
I hope you're ready for a stressful wagon ride
Supporter funded articles
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Forget Far Cry 6, the bugs in Hollow Knight can send me snarky emails anytime
I wouldn't mind being bugged
Recently, I've heard tales of Far Cry 6 players receiving snarky emails from Ubisoft about how much time they've spent in-game. They're supposed to read as if Anton Castillo, the game's evil dictator, is mocking you for not investing enough of it toppling his regime.
And even if you've spent a lot of time clearing Castillo's map markers, he'll still send you emails anyway. They …
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Step back from the brink in Precipice
Close encounters of the third world
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Please, stop with all the godawful emails about NFT gaming
It will never be a good idea
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My hunger for games like Warcraft 2 is slowly being sated
Discovering new games is great, innit
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Reviews
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Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy review: a blast from the past
My superhero name is Layman, and I really like this game
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Age Of Empires 4 review: a confident and moreish strategy epic
One small step for mankind
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House Of Ashes review: very nearly a fun horror romp
It's still too serious for its own good, but it's going in the right direction
Deals
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Get the brand new SteelSeries Arctis 7P+ gaming headset for 12% off
A good deal for the latest in a line of award-winning line of PC, PS4 and PS5 headsets.
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PNY's great value DDR4 RAM is going cheap in the US
A series of discounts on desktop and laptop RAM.
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WD's insanely big 14TB HDD is down to £222, almost £90 off
1.6p per gigabyte for one of the largest capacity external drives.
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The best PCIe 4.0 SSD we've tested is going cheap at Amazon UK
WD's SN850 has been discounted, in both 1TB and 2TB sizes.
Bestest Bests
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Inscryption review: a sinister and excellently crafted card game with a darkly comic underbelly
I've never meta-fiction I didn't like
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The 50 best strategy games to play on PC in 2021
From tiny robot battles to grand historical warfare
Hardware
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What motherboard do I need for my Intel or AMD Ryzen CPU?
Get ready for Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake...or an AMD upgrade
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Give Intel and AMD chips a new home
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Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs announced: everything you need to know
Specs, prices, features and all that good stuff
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How to enable Auto HDR in Windows 11
Get brighter lights and more vibrant colours in almost any game
From The Archive
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Little Hope spoiler chat: I have some questions
One condition and one term
Alright so I played and finished the second game in The Dark Pictures Anthology, Little Hope, this weekend. I did a spoiler-free review of it, if you are interested. But I would very much like to discuss a lot of very spoiler-heavy things, which is what this post is going to be.
See, like the other interactive horror stories Supermassive have made, Little …
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Let's take a moment to enjoy the post-it notes and graffiti in Back 4 Blood
Don't dead open inside
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I'm a sucker for a good menu noise
It can't only be me
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Monster Hunter Rise might just be my ideal Monster Hunter game
After years of trying (and failing) to make high fashion dino pants, I've finally found a MonHan that clicks
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Man, I'm so looking forward to The BB Boys becoming The BBBB Boys
Buddy Bot's gonna be my new best friend in Death Stranding Director's Cut
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How Hades plays with Greek myths
Hell to pay
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Resident Evil Village's Beneviento house is like the monstrous lovechild of PT and Resi 7
It scared the bejeezus out of me
Indiescovery
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Darkest Dungeon 2 is out now in early access
I hope you're ready for a stressful wagon ride
Darkest Dungeon 2 has launched in early access, inviting us all on a delightfully stressful wagon ride. The sequel to Red Hook Studios' dark roguelike moves away from expeditions in the gloomy Hamlet, and instead sends you on a journey through horrific lands to stop an apocalypse. The devs recently told me about why they're taking their gothic tale on the road, and it has …
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Step back from the brink in Precipice
Close encounters of the third world
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Lo-fi horror and the allure of an uncanny Bitsy
Why haunted pixels are sometimes better than spooky polygons
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How Beatrix Potter and a fear of open water inspired the surreal, Limbo-like horror puzzler Silt
A deep dive into the making of Spiral Circus' debut game
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Into The Pit was inspired by Devil Daggers and a Nicolas Cage film
"It was such a specific vision... how people were trying to emulate that nostalgic feel with modern technology."
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Lo-fi adventure Chasing Static is now out with some classic horror puzzling
Blown fuses? Spooky bunker? You know what to do.
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TFI Friday: three indie puzzle games with slightly melancholy vibe
Feel happy sad with A Juggler's Tale, The Sundew and Night Reveries
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Apex Legends' new hero Ash hunts squads with Titanfall-inspired abilities
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Apex Legends' new map Stormpoint comes with vicious wildlife and excellent cannons
A new gun, Legend and more are on the way in Escape
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All I want for spook month is more classic survival horror
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