Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — of course —
Month: December 2021
There has always been something about animatronic cartoon characters that I have found… creepy. As a kid, I cried the whole way through It’s a Small World when I was fortunate enough to visit Disneyworld. But it was the Five Nights at Freddy’s games that rekindled this fear of mine. But – occasional night terrors
Nintendo has lifted the lid on what’s next for the popular Mario Kart Tour for iOS and Android devices. The Penguin Tour is in the process of wrapping up right now and the next tour will be the New Year’s 2022 Tour which is bound to feature a number of surprises. Nintendo has revealed that
Every year our clone forms degrade, and Katharine spends the winter break copying each consciousness into a new body. Don’t worry: we can’t feel a thing! Since our new forms are still coming online from their time spent in the primordial flesh soup vat of the RPS Treehouse, we can’t post over Christmas, so we’ve
During the New Life Festival (now live and running until Tuesday, January 4 at 10 a.m. EST) you can earn unique in-game rewards and enjoy a bonus to XP gains by travelling to the festival tent just south of the city of Windhelm. There, you can acquire unique event-specific quests to help spread cheer to
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The Book of Boba Fett arrives on Disney+ on December 29, but you don’t have to wait that long to play as the feared bounty hunter in Fortnite. He was added to the store today, sporting his new look from the forthcoming streaming series. If you purchase just the Boba skin, you’ll also get his
CNN reports that Tesla has opted to give up on allowing drivers to play video games while driving Tesla cars after a federal safety probe showed what should have been obvious from the start: Playing video games while driving is unsafe. Dubbed “Passenger Play”, the feature allowed passengers to interface with the touchscreen and play
IGN reported that the latest patch notes for Final Fantasy 14 included a technical improvement that will make many very sad. In Patch 6.01, many quality-of-life improvements were made, but the most noteworthy one is in changing the infamous low-poly grapes found in expansion Endwalker. Initially found in the early days of the expansion’s release,
Kotaku reports that SWAT-inspired tactical first-person shooter Ready or Not from Void Interactive is parting ways with its publisher, Team17. The separation comes after a controversial response from the team to a Reddit post asking whether Void would be putting in a school shooting level in a future update. The response was “you better believe
Kadokawa Games and Clouded Leopard Entertainment have made good on their promise to release their mecha strategy RPG, Relayer, simultaneously worldwide. The companies announced that the game will be available in Japan as well as the rest of the world on March 24, 2022 for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The standard edition will
NEO: The World Ends With You may not have met Square Enix’s sales expectations, but if enough fans voice their support for a sequel, we may get another entry. That’s according to producer Tomohiko Hirano, who told Nintendo Life that Square Enix has made no decisions about the IP and its future, but there is plenty
Playing and reviewing nearly EVERY game that comes out in a year, give or take a few, gives us the unique opportunity to do some exhaustive ranking. And if there was a wilderness that needed a bit of navigating, it’s those Xbox kids’ games. Dozens get released in a year – some of them inappropriate,
Guerrilla Games has revealed that it has deployed a new crowd system in the upcoming Horizon Forbidden West, which makes its civilians and settlements feel more authentic and realistic. In the latest issue of the Game Informer magazine (via Wccftech), Director Ben McCaw promised better animations and better audio to go along with the upgrades, making
Nintendo of America has announced a special Indie World Holiday Sale which has started now on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The sale, which has up to 75% on select digital games, software bundles, and DLC will end on 31st December at 11:59 p.m. PT. There’s a number of high profile indie games available at a
Mark “Sully” Wahlberg’s mustache has spurred numerous headlines since the Uncharted movie’s second trailer went live yesterday, but we’re here to point out that the rest of the trailer actually looks pretty promising, too. It kind of feels surreal saying that Sony Pictures Entertainment released a new trailer for Uncharted, which many of us thought
Welcome to the 2021 RPS Advent Calender! We’re revealing one of our favourite games of the year each day in the run up to Christmas. Check back at the Calendar post to see the games behind other doors. It’s the last day of the RPS Advent Calendar. This is it. It’s all been leading up
It’s time to announce the January Games with Gold lineup! On Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, destroy robots to a sick beat in NeuroVoider and help humanity get back to the stars in Aground. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, revisit a legendary arcade shooter in Radiant Silvergun and play a reimagined
Image: Nintendo Nintendo of America has launched a sale featuring 30 indie titles, including discounts on such critical darlings as Hades, Oxenfree, Streets of Rage 4, and a whole bunch more. The sale ends on December 31st at 11:59 pm PT, so you’ve got some time to peruse the titles available and decide how to
It’s always awesome when you can see your favorite pokémon tagging alongside you in the well-loved RPG. But now, some fans can recreate that feeling in real life with the new Pokémon Collection from Secretlab. The gaming chair company has given its Titan Evo 2022 Series the very best makeover, with the ergonomic seats sporting two of the franchise’s
The Xbox-published title that aims to simulate life on the high seas has sailed past another milestone and is giving away a special gift to mark the occasion. Sea of Thieves has sold five million copies on Steam, and it’s heading into the holiday season full of festive cheer, as well as a little bit
Rumors of a Gaming brand of LEGO have gathered steam this week after a German retailer posted a listing for a Horizon Zero Dawn Tallneck set. As spotted by Instagram user brick_clicker, the now-removed listing on Wagner’s toy store website placed the set under the LEGO Gaming banner. A picture of the 76989 Horizon Zero Dawn
With the year drawing to a close, now is the time for studios to look back on the year gone by and look ahead to the future. New studio Deviation Games, who have partnered with Sony to develop their first title, is no different as they’ve revealed their 2022 plans. The “groundbreaking AAA new IP”
New year, new Games with Gold lineup, and this upcoming month’s titles all seem to have a theme. We are looking forward and backward with a slew of games that run the gamut from ultra-futuristic to retro-futuristic. Come January, Xbox owners with Xbox Live Gold membership or that subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will be
Halo Infinite made waves in the gaming community as the first Halo game in over 6 years. It hinged on promises from devs to both bring back and reinvent the Halo experience to please long-time fans and attract newcomers. Thankfully, it delivered — along with attractive promotional items for Halo fans.
Activision has issued another wave of bans for Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard, banning over 48,000 cheaters thanks to the new RICOCHET Anti-Cheat software. This follows a similar wave of bans earlier this year after RICOCHET officially launched last month. While the kernel-level software is only required on PC, Activision has already reported that it has banned
Probably the best thing we can say about Guazu: The Rescue is that it taught us what a Guará Wolf was. Second best is that we found its main character to be adorable, if lacking a few frames of animation. Third best? Honestly, we struggle to think of more than two positive things to say
Neo: The Worlds Ends with You producer Tomohiko Hirano has recently spoken in an interview talking about the series and its future. While Neo: The World Ends With You didn’t break any sales records, Mr. Hirano says that the team have ideas for another instalment, if it ever happens. He said that there are still many
A recent round of BIOS updates for Dell and Alienware systems has turned out to be something of a bad batch. As first spotted by Bleeding Computer, multiple owners of Dell-made PCs – including the Alienware Aurora R8 and Inspiron 5680 gaming desktops, as well as the Latitude 5320 and 5520 business laptops – started
Another week, another chance for the best of the footballing world to come together in FIFA 22, forming the latest edition of Team of the Week (TOTW). As of now, a new set of in-form players are available in packs and on the transfer market for Ultimate Team players to add to their squads. And
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