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Feature: It's the system
I'm still drip feeding on the endless treasures from The Bundle. It's healthier than bingeing, and you get more out of it that way. And that's how I stumbled across Syscrusher, a tiny game about shooting robots. I've installed and wearily deleted a dozen shooters in the last 8 months or so. I wish I could replace all their million unnecessary gigabytes with more of…
Feature: Pipemania
How Satisfactory’s developers lied to their players, and why the players loved it
Satisfactory’s Update 3 is one of gaming’s great bait and switches. For months, developer Coffee Stain had been denying that its first-person factory-building game would ever have pipes. Why would they? You could already transport liquids on conveyors, so what was the point? And then in February, the studio presented a magnificently overblown trailer which confirmed the opposite of what they’d been claiming for all…
Feature: Here comes the fun
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Feature: BigCity, more like
The first thing that tends to strike everyone about NewCity, is how massive its cities are. They make Cities: Skylines metropolises look poky, and cities from 2013's SimCity look like quaint little villages. There's no doubt about it: NewCity is all about urban sprawl, and actually comes close to being able to replicate the terrifyingly massive size of actual, real world cities. Indeed, in the…
Feature: The extended mess of coming out is the perennial queer experience
Spring Leaves No Flowers shows why games need more characters to come out
My earliest experience with trying to find out whether a character in a video game was homosexual was stalking the BioWare forums in 2008 or 2009. I was looking for information about which romance options in the upcoming, exciting new RPG Dragon Age: Origins were going to allow for a women-loving women option. Of course they weren’t really lesbians back then; characters in the BioWare…
Feature: Race up for the stars
Race For The Galaxy was the first game I played that forced me to use my plans as currency. What a concept!
Feature: How much better than Diamond are the new Netherite tools and armor?
Minecraft Netherite: how to get the new best tools and armor in Minecraft
Netherite is a new material in Minecraft, added in 1.16 (the Nether Update). Netherite is tricky to get your hands on, but once you've smelted some Netherite Ingots you can make tools and armor that are even stronger than diamond. Read our below Minecraft Netherite guide to find out where to get Netherite, how to craft with it, and how much better Netherite tools are…
Feature: The best 1TB SSD just got even better
Samsung 870 Qvo review: the best that SATA SSDs have to offer
When Samsung launched their 860 Qvo SSD back at the end of 2018, it finally brought high capacity SSDs down to a more affordable price. Why was the 860 Qvo suddenly so much cheaper than the 860 Evo? Well, it was mostly down to the type of storage tech Samsung used inside the Qvo - what's known as 4-bit MLC (multi-level cell) V-NAND technology, as…
Feature: From Villages to Bamboo Jungles to Large Biomes and more!
The best Minecraft seeds for 1.16.1 create fantastic worlds that capture your imagination from the first moment you set foot in them. And if you're looking for a good seed to help kickstart your latest Minecraft adventure, you've come to the right place. Below you'll find no fewer than 30 of the most amazing Minecraft seeds for 1.16.1 and 1.15.2. Whether you're after Villages, Bamboo…
Feature: Virtual reality check
Best VR headset 2020: the best virtual reality headsets for PC
VR has been going from strength to strength in recent months, and with many of us continuing to be stuck at home, we've put together this list of our best VR headset recommendations to help you decide which VR headset is right for you. With the recent launch of Half-Life: Alyx and more heading up our best VR games, there's never been a better time…
Feature: When life gives you no dragons, make a dragon
Modders are making ambitious things in Bannerlord, even without modding tools
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord has only been around for a few months, but that’s plenty of time for modders to have a good tinker. We’ve already been blessed with a bounty of minor Bannerlord mods: there are hundreds of ways to tweak, alter and optimise your experience, and the option to turn your character into a sword-swinging, death-dealing toddler is not to be sniffed…
Feature: A 60% keyboard that's great for games but not much else
How small is too small for a gaming keyboard? Personally, I think my lower limit stops at tenkeyless jobs like the Logitech G915 TKL or my current best gaming keyboard champion, the Fnatic miniStreak. Losing a keyboard's number pad has never been an issue for me, but I can't say the same thing about losing my beloved arrow keys, which is the main thing that…
Feature: Cock Of The Walk
Bulletstorm is best when it’s being offensively stupid, not stupidly offensive
2011's Bulletstorm feels like such an oasis of violence and childishness in these current times of nu-puritanism. As someone who was there at the era it harked back to, reviewing games in the late '90s, early 2000s, it feels odd to now be almost nostalgic for those days of wanton unpleasantness, when being rude had yet to be classified as a war crime under the…
Feature: Improve your spelling
Every pixel is simulated in Noita. That means it can be dull or deadly, and react like its real-world counterpart (or, you know, its unreal-world counterpart). Throw in the OTT spells of your wizard, and the burning, electrified, or weird counter-spells of the enemies, and you have a perfect platform for mods.
Feature: Steel horse
Hope you like chipped paint textures, and the colour grey. Because you'll be seeing a lot of them in Deadliest Catch: The Game. Oh, and crabs. Hundreds and hundreds of near-identical crabs, which you must sort by hand, examining each one in turn before either throwing it back in the sea, or condemning it to an icy hold to await its demise on the plate…
Feature: Read more
Sundays are for more slacklining, baby. Here's the best writing about videogames from the past week.Renata Price blogged about their experiences with both Valorant and gender transitioning, and how they intersected.
Feature: Woah, that's the flamingo off Doom!
Steam Points are better kept in your pocket than spent on Steam summer sale stickers
"It'll be easy," I thought to myself, when it was suggested someone do a nice, timely little post on the new-ish Steam Points system, and the various new goodies on offer through it. "Sure, no problem," I said, when Matt refused to write it because he thought Steam Points were "pointless", and I was the only other writer on the call with Graham. Matt was…
Feature: Cheap games, graphics cards, SSDs and more
Well, would you look at that. Someone's invoked the Steam Summer Sale ritual and caused all game prices to come crashing down around our heads. Thanks, deals summoner, your deals herald is most pleased. It also means that putting together this week's best PC gaming deals may include a teensy bit of overlap with those aforementioned Steam deals today, but I've done my best to…
Feature: Dealsdealsdealsdealsdeals
Steam's Summer Sale is well and truly underway. Running until July 9th, there are hundreds and thousands of great games on sale. Too many, if you ask us, but hey, everyone loves a good deal, right? To help you navigate this latest deluge of games going cheap, the RPS Treehouse has put their collective, socially distanced heads together to bring you our top Steam Summer…
Feature: Where the wild things are
Biomutant sounds like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but furrier
The Biomutant reveal feels like a lifetime ago. Announced at Gamescom in 2017, the kung fu... cat/panda/bear-thing captured the imagination of everyone with that first trailer. And, despite some delays, the excitement for Experiment 101's open world RPG has been growing ever since. No wonder, I suppose. You are a kung fu cat/panda/bear-thing, after all.
