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- Itch.io's Queer Games Bundle is back, offering hundreds of games for Pride month
- The Electronic Wireless Show episode 189: the best thing from a game you want in real life
- The Steam Deck's docking station has been delayed
- V Rising dev talks success, surprises, and future plans
- Wadjet Eye announce time travelling adventure Old Skies
- Sonic Frontiers shows off seven minutes of open world gameplay
- A Jubilee street party in Minecraft is the least worst version of the actual Jubilee, I guess
- What are we all playing this long weekend?
- Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is a tough yet accessible expansion
- All Elden Ring locations, ranked
- Everything shown at the Warhammer Skulls showcase, including three new games
- Get a 6600MB/s Crucial P5 Plus SSD for £81, nearly £20 cheaper than it was last week
- The 10 best games coming to PC in June
- Pick up an Intel 12th-gen B660 motherboard for £86 (£110 off)
- Speedy Eggbert's level editor made it the best game to ever score 4%
| Itch.io's Queer Games Bundle is back, offering hundreds of games for Pride month Posted: 02 Jun 2022 09:01 AM PDT  A very merry Pride month to all, and what better way to celebrate than by putting some money in queer developers' pockets and getting more than 500 games (and zines and other such goodies) in return? There's a bit of everything in here, from a bird-run grocery store to a meditation on the decay and connection both inherent to today's internet. |
| The Electronic Wireless Show episode 189: the best thing from a game you want in real life Posted: 02 Jun 2022 08:00 AM PDT  This week on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast we clear up an initial misunderstanding but eventually get in sync and talk about the game things we'd want in real life: health packs, tetris, inventory management. By their powers combined we manage to create an absolutely nightmarish dystopian society where people live forever but cannot put more than four of the same thing in a line. It's bleak. Games should stay in games. Matthew continues the Wolfe Carlton saga, Nate is making a crayfish into a mini-model, and I have a cold. A regular cold! No funny business. Matthew also does a very hard Cavern Of Lies this week that honestly nearly has us. |
| The Steam Deck's docking station has been delayed Posted: 02 Jun 2022 07:21 AM PDT  The Steam Deck's docking station has been delayed, says Valve. Unfortunately, there's currently no way to tell when the issue might be resolved. |
| V Rising dev talks success, surprises, and future plans Posted: 02 Jun 2022 06:46 AM PDT |
| Wadjet Eye announce time travelling adventure Old Skies Posted: 02 Jun 2022 03:21 AM PDT |
| Sonic Frontiers shows off seven minutes of open world gameplay Posted: 02 Jun 2022 02:27 AM PDT  Sega have released a look at the world and exploration of Sonic Frontiers, giving us a glimpse of just what it might be like to go fast, open world style. |
| A Jubilee street party in Minecraft is the least worst version of the actual Jubilee, I guess Posted: 02 Jun 2022 01:00 AM PDT  Because I now live in a country that isn't the UK, I get different bank holidays to staff in the UK, which it turns out is almost everyone else. This means I'm at work today and Friday. For other people outside the UK who don't know, this weekend it is celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. She's the first UK monarch to manage 70 years on the throne, most of the other ones having killed each other or somesuch. The country, specifically England, has responded to this by going absolutely off the boil, represented even in digi-form with a virtual street party map in Minecraft. I wouldn't normally write about it, but it gives me an excuse to republican-post on main when nobody is looking. |
| What are we all playing this long weekend? Posted: 02 Jun 2022 01:00 AM PDT  The benefits of monarchy are few and far between, but you do sometimes get a bonus public holiday to 'celebrate' them clinging onto the cushy job their dad gave them. Here in the UK, the four-day Platinum Jubilee weekend has just begun, meaning we here at RPS will be mostly quiet from Thursday until Monday. What are you playing this long weekend? Here's what we're clicking on! |
| Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak is a tough yet accessible expansion Posted: 02 Jun 2022 12:00 AM PDT  Seregios can get stuffed. I recently faced off against the massive golden dragon during a hands-on session for Sunbreak, the upcoming expansion pack for Monster Hunter Rise, and it battered me repeatedly for the best part of an hour. It has become the flying white whale to my dual blade wielding Ahab, and I left the preview event determined to chop it to bits when the DLC finally arrives later this month. Sunbreak’s new master rank quests aren’t messing around, basically. It seems Capcom have taken criticisms that the base version of Monster Hunter Rise didn’t provide challenging enough end-game content to heart, and have loaded the expansion with some truly agonising encounters purpose-built for returning veterans. |
| All Elden Ring locations, ranked Posted: 01 Jun 2022 11:15 AM PDT  Ever have an idea that you regret the instant you commit to realising it? That's how I feel about my decision to rank all of Elden Ring's major locations. It turns out that, not only are there a lot of locations in Elden Ring, but the definition of a distinct location is largely up for debate. The opening area of Limgrave, for example, could be as many as four separate regions (East Limgrave, West Limgrave, Stormhill and Weeping Peninsula) depending on how you interpret it. That's not to mention all of the dungeons, caves, chapels, and other landmarks scattered throughout the Lands Between. Yet like a newly minted Wretch squaring up to Margit the Fell Omen for the first time, I am prepared to plough on despite the pain that awaits. Below you'll find a comprehensive ranking of Elden Ring's major regions and legacy dungeons, based on the admittedly woolly criteria of how fun and interesting each location is to explore. So grab your map, put on your boots, and update your life insurance policy as we embark upon a grand tour of From Software's magnificent fantasy realm. |
| Everything shown at the Warhammer Skulls showcase, including three new games Posted: 01 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT  The week-long Warhammer Skulls event has kicked off with an avalanche of announcements. Leading the pack are three new games: CRPG Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, digital card game Warhammer 40,000: Warpforge, and retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef, the 2D action platformer, also got a release date. It’ll be out on the 20th of October. |
| Get a 6600MB/s Crucial P5 Plus SSD for £81, nearly £20 cheaper than it was last week Posted: 01 Jun 2022 10:11 AM PDT  The Crucial P5 Plus is one of my favourite SSDs, as you might know from me writing about it last week. . Then, I was happy to announce that this rapid 1TB PCIe 4.0 drive had made it to £100 - a price it's gotten near a few times before but not stayed at with any regularity. You can imagine my surprise, therefore, when I discovered that Crucial are now selling the same drive at their site for £80.69 - a genuine bargain and the lowest price we've ever seen by some margin. |
| The 10 best games coming to PC in June Posted: 01 Jun 2022 09:56 AM PDT  It’s officially summer, although you wouldn’t think it based on the amount of rain we’ve had up here in Newcastle this week. Still, that vague hint of warmth that lingers between the raindrops has got me dreaming of all those lovely things that make summer so appealing. Al fresco dining, excluding that bit where a wasp crawls into your glass of Fanta, which seems to happen to me a lot. Music festivals, minus the part where you queue for half an hour to have a wee. Oh, and obviously spending time on a beach somewhere hot, purposefully ignoring that horrible bit where you try to get your socks back on after taking a dip in the ocean and the sand scrapes against your skin. OK, so maybe summer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Why do we even bother leaving the house, when we can stay indoors and play video games on PC instead? June is a little sparse when it comes to new releases (as is so often the case during these warmer seasons) but there’s still plenty on the horizon to keep you occupied. |
| Pick up an Intel 12th-gen B660 motherboard for £86 (£110 off) Posted: 01 Jun 2022 09:17 AM PDT  Intel's 12th-gen motherboards are getting cheaper, which is handy if you're planning a new build around one of Intel's excellent 12100, 12400F or 12600F CPUs for gaming. One of the best deals we've spotted is for the Asus Prime B660M-A WiFi D4, which launched at £197 and is now down to £86 at CCL in the UK. This motherboard uses better value DDR4 memory, two M.2 PCIe 4.0 slots and WiFi 6 on board, so it ticks a lot of boxes in terms of the essentials. You're missing some things from higher-end Z690 boards - like PCIe 5.0, USB-C ports and 2.5-gig networking - but nothing that affects gaming performance, at least in the here and now. |
| Speedy Eggbert's level editor made it the best game to ever score 4% Posted: 01 Jun 2022 07:00 AM PDT  I used to draw Abe’s Oddysee levels. Then Abe’s Exoddus, when that came out. Also, before them, every other platform game I ever got my hands on. Take a sheet of plain paper, turn it horizontal, draw two long lines across it, dividing it into three strips. That’s a level; that’s a side-scrolling environment. That’s what I’d do, basically all the time, basically every day. You could call me a budding game designer, only I had no knowledge of how to transfer my genius creations into digital form. I’d tried before, with Doom, but the editor was incomprehensible. Sectors? Vectors? Call me a particularly stupid child, but I just wanted to draw two long lines on a piece of paper. Enter Speedy Eggbert, a budget-priced platform game that scored “the world’s first generous 4% review” in PC Gamer magazine. But I wasn’t aware of that yet. I was, though, aware of its big, shiny box on the shelves of Game, with its gorgeously embossed Eggbert and a reverse emblazoned with screenshots and features, including the most enticing few words I’d ever seen – “MAKE YOUR OWN LEVELS!” |
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