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Many of you are by now bathing in twinkling neon ravelights and swooning into the metal arms of Cyberpunk 2077's humourless unhunks, who stalk the streets of Night City like animatronic pizza restaurant mascots gone feral. That is fine. There are worse places to find oneself in the labyrinthine hell of video games. Places such as these. Here are 9 neighbourhoods you wouldn't want to…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Cities: Skylines, Dark Souls, Disco Elysium, Half-Life 2, Pathologic 2, Stardew Valley, Streets of Rogue, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Yakuza 0.

Now that Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed again until December 10th, what are you to do? You've grown a lurid blue mohawk, your leather jacket is almost worn in, and your prescription mirrorshades are ready for collection at Specsavers - but for what? You might as well use this time to explore all games cyberpunky, from edgy and nihilistic griping about how the future sucks to…

Tagged with Cyberpunk, feature, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, Dog of Dracula 2, Eliza, Else Heart Break, Hypnospace Outlaw, Syndicate, The Red Strings Club, Void & Meddler, Yakuza 0.

Ultrawide gaming monitors are the kind of hardware that might seem too excessive, maybe even a bit too gamer to bother with for playing games on PC, especially when their demanding resolutions often require powerful graphics cards to make the most of them. Once you try one, though, there's no going back. I've been a big fan of ultrawide gaming monitors for years now, mostly…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, Hardware, Monitors, Abzu, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, American Truck Simulator, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Batman: Arkham Knight, BioShock Infinite, Death Stranding, Destiny 2, Dishonored 2, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, Far: Lone Sails, Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, Forza Horizon 4, Gears of War 5, Grow Home, Half-Life 2, Heaven's Vault, Hitman, Hitman 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Metro Exodus, Microsoft Flight Simulator, No Man's Sky, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rez Infinite, Rime, Sea of Thieves, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, The Long Dark, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thumper, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Warframe, Yakuza 0.

Hype can often be a deterrent if you’re late to the party. If you have someone screaming at you to watch The Wire for months on end, then chances are you’ll either bounce straight off it or come out the other end thinking it was lesser than it actually was. During Yakuza’s second go around of capturing the imagination of those in the West, I…

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Sega, Yakuza, Yakuza 0, Yakuza 0.

Everyone’s a cook now, is that it? A few weeks in lockdown and you’re all suddenly artisan bakers and Bon Appétit Kitchen presenters? Sorry, I don’t buy it. Put the chickpeas down, Jeff. We all know what happens when you let things “simmer”. However, there is a world in which your cooking really does impress. Where it comes out of the pot scrumptious and hot…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Fallout 4, Final Fantasy XV, Half-Life: Alyx, Minecraft, Monster Hunter: World, Overcooked, Stardew Valley, Temtem, Yakuza 0.

Everyone loves a good action game. It's the driving force behind so many of our favourite PC games, but only a few can lay claim to being the best action games of all time. That's why we've compiled this list - to sort the pulled punches from the bestest biffs that PC has to offer. Whether it's the joy of pulling off a perfect combo,…

Tagged with Bestest Bests, feature, Ape Out, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Batman: Arkham City, Bayonetta, Binary Domain, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, Control, Dead Cells, Devil May Cry 5, Grand Theft Auto V, Hades, Hotline Miami, Hyper Light Drifter, Katana ZERO, Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne, Monster Hunter: World, NieR: Automata, Nuclear Throne, Red Dead Redemption 2, Resident Evil 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, TowerFall Ascension, Vanquish, Yakuza 0.

Imagine a world without electricity. Horrible. What would we use to blend our smoothies? How would we know when uncle Derek hits the metal bit again in the Sunday game of Operation? Electricity has roughly one dozen uses, and yet it is in the realm of videogames when we see its most fantastical and offensive capabilities brought screaming to life. To celebrate the important role…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Dark Souls III, Dead Rising 4, Hitman, Overwatch, Oxygen Not Included, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Yakuza 0.

It's been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that's happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you, but a day's work for us. Below you'll find our picks for the 50 greatest games released on PC across the past decade.

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Gather round, descendants of unwelcome occupiers. It is time to celebrate turkeys again. Now, I don’t have any comically large birds to slaughter, but I do recognise the emotional benefit of reflection, which is what this questionable holiday is all about. Being thankful. There are many small things we videosgamers take for granted, the stuff you don’t even think about. But tiny “quality of life”…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, Apex Legends, Detroit: Become Human, Elite Dangerous, Life Is Strange 2, Metro Exodus, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Session, The Surge 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, Yakuza 0.

Minigames are the coffee Revel of videogames. They are harmless, infrequent and unpleasant to think about. We accept their presence, yet no one has ever eaten a pack of Revels and wished for more coffee nuggets. Nobody completed Final Fantasy X and thought: “Needs more Blitzball”. That minigames exist as a mild distraction inside the glowing guts of other games is itself ridiculous. Imagine you…

Tagged with feature, One Off The List, BioShock, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Grand Theft Auto V, Mass Effect 2, Mortal Kombat 11, Prey, Red Dead Redemption 2, Shenmue I & II, Shenmue III, Yakuza 0.

Those of you chained to the churning wheel of the internet might have seen this facial recognition algorithm thingo doing the rounds. It's called ImageNet Roulette, and it's basically a website where you feed in a photo of your human face and see what the cybergods of our terrible future make of you. But it's probably not safe to show the neurohive your real face.…

Tagged with feature, neural net, Alien: Isolation, Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, Gears of War 5, Half-Life 2, Hitman 2, Kerbal Space Program, Papers Please, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, The Walking Dead, Yakuza 0.

 To experience this #content, you will need to enable targeting cookies. Yes, we know. Sorry. Manage cookie settings Rural life is disgusting. All those shrubs and trees, how awful. You should pack your checkered pouch and head into the big smoke. The shining cities of videogameland are calling to you, and the team of the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, will be there…

Tagged with feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Else Heart Break, Night Call, Outer Wilds, Resident Evil 2, Streets of Rogue, Tom Clancy's The Division, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Void Bastards, Yakuza 0.