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Hello! VidBud Liam here. You may recognise me from those videos that autoplay on every page. Or not. It depends on how quickly you scroll past, I suppose. I joined team Arpus all the way back in February, and to say the last 11 months have been a whirlwind is a bit of an understatement.

In today’s installment of New Gameplay Today, hosts Wesley LeBlanc and Marcus Stewart discuss Clive ‘N’ Wrench, an upcoming 3D platformer inspired by games like Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon, and more. You can watch roughly 15 minutes of gameplay alongside their discussion, including exploration in one of the game’s multiple themed worlds and a fight

Guides work is a very strange beast, and one that we don’t talk about as often as we maybe should. By its nature, we here in guidestown can feel a bit isolated from the rest of RPS. Our guides aren’t very visible to our regular readers. No one hops onto a website like this and

A little known fact is that all of the RPS staff are complex clockwork automata, designed and built by a little gnome with the kind of inch-thick glasses that make your eyes look comically large. We’re each powered by a spell that lasts but 12 months, so every Christmas we fall over like sad marionettes.

Welcome to the RPS Advent Calender 2022! Every day we open a new door and reveal one of our favourite games this year. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. We’ve reached the very last day of our RPS Advent Calendar for this year! That means that behind this door is our

Dasher the reindeer has found a side gig in 20 Minutes Till Dawn, a neat survive ’em up that’s like Vampire Survivors but with guns you have to aim. She’s been added as a human woman in a festive coat who intermittently turns into an invulnerable deer that can charge about the screen, plunging into

Sports Story is available now, Nintendo and developer SideBar Games announced during a special Inside the House of Indies holiday video. The surprise launch comes a month and a half after the developer gave us a December 2022 release window for the long-awaited follow up to its 2017 smash hit, Golf Story. Golf Story provided

The Gran Turismo series has long been a favorite of sim-racing enthusiasts, and today marks a special milestone for the franchise. Gran Turismo: The Real Driving Simulator was released on PlayStation in Japan on December 23, 1997, meaning that the series has officially crossed the quarter-century mark. To celebrate 25 years of Gran Turismo, PlayStation released

Ubisoft stopped releasing their games via Steam back in 2019, starting with The Division 2. The Tom Clancy shoot-to-looter was instead released via Ubisoft’s own digital storefront and via the Epic Games Store. It’ll finally arrive on Steam next month on January 12th, as part of Ubisoft’s broader shift back to Valve’s storefront.

Publisher Dotemu and developer Tribute Games are bringing a custom arcade mode, new filters, and more to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.  This news comes by way of a Steam blog post for the game that reveals this new update is available to download right now. It includes a new custom arcade mode, CRT

Santa Monica Studio has announced that God of War Ragnarök, which hit PlayStation consoles last month, is getting a New Game Plus mode in spring.  This news comes by way of a short and sweet tweet posted today by the studio that says Spring 2023 is when fans can expect the feature to hit Ragnarök. As

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection just got its first big update, and it brings a host of fan-requested features. Most notably, TMNT IV: Turtles in Time for Super Nintendo now supports online multiplayer. The patch also improves online modes across the board, adds new tips to some strategy guides, customizable button mapping, and

Underwater citybuilder Aquatico will submerge players on January 12th, 2023. This new release date comes a little more than a month after its release was set for January 19th, but I won’t look a gift seahorse in the mouth. There’s also a new trailer below which breaks down how you’ll build your very own Rapture

2013’s Risk of Rain is getting an enhanced remake, and it’s coming next year to celebrate its 10th birthday. Titled Risk of Rain Returns, it spruces up the original with improved art, new survivors, and more. Announced during Nintendo’s House of Indies: Holiday Event Day 2 today, Risk of Rain Returns expands upon the first game

If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now learn all about Dead Island 2. Following the cover reveal, our digital issue is now live to subscribers on web browsers, iPad/iPhone, and Android devices. Individual issues will be available for purchase this afternoon. You can download the apps to view the

If ‘Satisfactory but underground and with destructible terrain’ sounds appealing, you might want to stop reading this and start downloading Techtonica‘s demo – then come back and finish reading this, so I still feel useful. It’s a first-person factory-building game set in an alien cavern complex with pretty bioluminescent plants. I am excited to lose

The year is coming to a close, which means it’s time to lock ourselves in a room and decide, unequivocally, what the best games of 2022 were and crown one ultimate champion. Will it be Elden Ring? Or maybe God of War Ragnarök? What about the impressive indie underdog, Neon White? We also liked Tunic

Welcome to the RPS Advent Calender 2022! Every day we open a new door and reveal one of our favourite games this year. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone. A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone

The Knight Witch deserves more attention than it’s getting. It’s a Metroidvania shmup in which you fly about, blast enemies with guns, and cast spells from a deck of cards. For all the bang and zip of the combat, it’s also deeply cosy, with lush 2D art and sweet character relationships in an underground post-apocalyptic

Valve have announced that the Steam Winter Sale will begin next week on December 22nd. I can already see myself standing in front of my mirror, chanting “I do not need more games” before sitting back down at my desk and splurging on everything I missed from this year’s RPS advent calendar. Valve have given

After 25 years, the latest season of the Pokémon anime saw protagonist Ash Ketchum finally achieve his dream of becoming Pokémon World Champion. Now that he’s reached the top of the mountain, the series is giving the perpetually young hero his last hurrah before kicking off a fresh adventure starring a new cast of characters.

Fortnite is crossing over with another big anime. This time, the saviors of My Hero Academia join the fight. Beginning today, you can rack up victory royales as characters from the hit series, compete in a new game mode, and earn rewards by completing special challenges.  [embedded content] You can purchase outfits for Izuka Midoriya,

Hack ‘n’ Slash took the puzzle-programming subgenre further than most of its peers by letting you edit actual LUA scripts in-game. By doing so you could increase your Link-like character’s movement speed, change the behaviour of enemies, or – in the case of a puzzle that has taken 8 years to crack – discover secret

PlayStation has revealed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will hit PlayStation 5 sometime next fall.  This news comes after leaks from earlier this week indicating the game would be hitting the console in the fall of 2023. It seems those leaks were correct. While we do have this fall 2023 release window, PlayStation did not reveal

Amazon Games will publish the next Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider game, which was announced earlier this year.  In April, Crystal Dynamics revealed that it was developing the next Tomb Raider game in its series that began with a reboot back in 2013. They did so during the State of Unreal 2022 presentation, revealing that this

Someone hexed The Witcher 3‘s next-gen update for PC, with players reporting widespread framerate issues along with crashes and weirder problems involving the HUD. Resident RPS hardwaresman James struggled with performance, too. Developers CD Projekt Red now say they’re “actively investigating” the problems, and will update us on what they find “as soon as possible”.

PlayStation has revealed the December 2022 PlayStation Plus game catalog lineup, and it’s quite a collection of games, especially if you’re a fan of the Yakuza series or the Far Cry franchise.  This lineup hits PlayStation Plus alongside this month’s three free PlayStation Plus titles – Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Divine Knockout, and Biomutant –

The WD Black SN770 is a rather lovely PCIe 4.0 SSD, offering sequential speeds up to 5150MB/s at a surprisingly low price. The drive was dubbed ‘just short of SSD greatness‘ on its debut earlier this year, but price drops have brought it increasingly into contention. Today, for example, you can pick up the 1TB

Platinum Games vice president Hideki Kamiya doesn’t see the Bayonetta series ever ending.  He told IGN Japan this during a new interview, which touches on the creator’s post-Bayonetta 3 thoughts, possible spin-off games, and a brand new game with the codename Project G.G. When asked if there’s a chance players get a Bayonetta 4 or even

Teamgroup’s T-Force Vulcan Z SSD isn’t the most well-known drive, but it offers some pretty solid value for money – especially when the capacious 2TB model is reduced to a shade over $100 at Amazon US. That’s a nice $69 reduction from its MSRP and an excellent value for a drive of this size and