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The eighth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 28 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
Callum's most anticipated games for 2026
If I were the foreman of an game refinery, I might be dabbing my forehead in anticipation right now because there is a lot coming down the pipelin...
Posted on 28 December 2025 | 2:00 pm
The RPS Selection Box: Edwin's bonus games of the year
Readers, you disgust me. How many videogames do you need? I spend all year heaping your plate with digital comestibles, and then you rock up at t...
Posted on 28 December 2025 | 10:00 am
The seventh RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 27 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
The RPS Selection Box: James' bonus games of the year 2025
RPS Advent Calendar voting remains an esoteric and mercurial process, even to those of us who practice in it. If two games get the same amount of ...
Posted on 27 December 2025 | 10:00 am
The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 26 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
Mark's most anticipated PC games for 2026
2025 had video games. 2026 will have video games. GTA 6 might be one of those video games. However, it’s currently only pencilled in for console n...
Posted on 26 December 2025 | 2:00 pm
The RPS 100: Reader Edition (2025) - your favourite games of all time
Welcome to the third ever RPS 100: Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in o...
Posted on 26 December 2025 | 12:00 pm
The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 25 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
The RPS Selection Box: Ollie's bonus games of the year 2025
It was an interesting Advent Calendar this year, from my perspective. My top four games - Arc Raiders, Silksong, Clair Obscur, and Hades 2 - were ...
Posted on 25 December 2025 | 10:00 am
The fourth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 24 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
Hades 2 is our favourite game of 2025 or: why we didn't give Supergiant's roguelike a bestest best review
For the past month we have been shouting about the games we consider to be the best games of 2025. As is tradition, our choices for the RPS Adven...
Posted on 24 December 2025 | 11:59 am
007 First Light has been delayed, so Hitman devs IO can further buff the Bondage
(Strokes cat) Good eeeeeevening, Mr Bond. You thought you could escape 2025 without your game, 007: First Light, catching a delay? For shame, Mr B...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 8:34 pm
The third RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
This year, generative AI seeped into mainstream gaming. Though it didn't so much shimmer, as smear. It mispronounced lines in Arc Raiders, "drew" ...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 1:00 pm
After seven years well spent, Hollow Knight: Silksong is unforgiving, unmissable excellence
We reach the penultimate door, and good cripes has it been a long time coming. When was the last door? Like 2017? Ah well, surely everyone’s been...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 11:59 am
Call of Duty co-creator, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment co-founder, and Battlefield head Vince Zampella dies aged 55
Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, founder of Respawn Entertainment, and head of EA's Battlefield franchise died in a car crash on De...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 10:10 am
The second RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 22 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
Take a tour of Fallout 76's Burning Springs with our recently defrosted Ohioan historian
Greetings traveller, and welcome to Burning Springs! You may know it as the latest location in the newly updated Fallout 76, but to me, a recently...
Posted on 22 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
No roguelite reeks quite like the wonderful Morsels
Here is a list of waste items I can see from my desk, at the time of writing: one piece of mud tracked in from a nearby forest, with a curl of oa...
Posted on 22 December 2025 | 11:59 am
The first RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are,
Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past,
Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered,
After twelve months of graft.
O, read...
Posted on 21 December 2025 | 4:00 pm
What's on your bookshelf: Santa Maw
He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s checking it thrice, he’s checking it four times, he’s checking it five times, he’s checking it ...
Posted on 21 December 2025 | 1:00 pm
Expedition 33 may be a turn-based RPG, but it refuses to behave like one
Clair Obscur gripped me within the first minutes of its dramatic prologue. A turn-based RPG with a Belle Époque, steampunky aesthetic and a bleak...
Posted on 21 December 2025 | 11:59 am
The Sunday Papers
Sundays are for crossing all your fingers and toes that you've not picked up a cold while travelling across the country in a packed train. I will...
Posted on 21 December 2025 | 10:00 am
Everyday Sororicide is a game about women dueling to the death where you can only play once a day
Every game has its limitations, there is only so many actions you can take, narrative threads to unspool, buttons to press. What about a game tha...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 10:57 pm
Amongst all the success, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive aren't interested in expansion
The thing about Big Business these days is that when you get Big Numbers, that normally leads to Bigger Business, right up to the point the well ...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 9:33 pm
The LCD Steam Deck's days are coming to an end, as Valve wind down production of the OG model
The end of a very short era is here! I guess, if you care about the life cycles of tech products made by multi-billion dollar companies. It appea...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 7:01 pm
PowerWash Simulator 2's first bit of DLC takes you to the distant lands of Adventure Time's Ooo
I've always found PowerWash Simulator's Big Brand Collabs slightly odd, if a touch humorous. They don't always make much sense to me, like the Sp...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 6:01 pm
Shock horror, Ark 2 has been delayed, with its story now apparently at the whims of Vin Diesel
I mean, all you can do is laugh, right? You've probably already guessed at what based on the headline, but we'll dig a little deeper into this al...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 4:57 pm
I tried to be heartless in Dispatch, but its characters had too much heart to let me
I went into Dispatch with a goal in mind: Be a hard-ass. Seeing the trailers for Adhoc’s revival of Telltale’s signature cinematic, choice-focuse...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 11:59 am
What are we all playing this weekend?
Saturdays are for waking up early, stretching out, and realising with horror that you left it very late to ask people what they would be playing o...
Posted on 20 December 2025 | 8:00 am
Dave the Diver's next DLC may not stick to sushi, but its underwater croc fights and jungle exploration have my attention
Dave The Diver took over my PC around Christmas in 2023. I found Mintrocket's wonderfully charming restaurant manager/ocean explorer a joy to flip...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 4:43 pm
Crunch returns to Naughty Dog for Xmas as Intergalactic devs work overtime on a demo for Sony, claims report
Sony and Naughty Dog appear to have brought back the festive videogame industry tradition of mandatory overtime. According to reports, the Last Of...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 4:26 pm
I may not achieve the ultimate goose shagging climax by Christmas, because my vomit children aren't earning enough billions
A platoon of Tingi, strange mutant babies that a goose with a very long neck keeps vomiting out, march along in Santa hats. As they crawl, fall, a...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 3:34 pm
Xmas is almost here, so it's time to play Skeal
The nights are heavy, the sun is frail. The mountain moans its hunger. The rivers are frozen scars and the trees are become hard flashes of black ...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 3:04 pm
Rally Point: Tempest Rising is clearly Command & Conquer, but more importantly, it isn't
I wasn't sure if I wanted Command & Conquer to come back. Some things are just gone, a product of their time, your fondness for them tied to ...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 1:43 pm
Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation"
Larian hope to offer "more insight" into their usage of generative AI via an ask me anything session set to take place in the new year. It'll also...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 1:11 pm
I've never felt more at home than in the labyrinths of Blue Prince
You are standing in the Dark Room, pockets full of gems and keys, eyeing up the eastward door. The three silhouetted templates on your drafting ...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 11:59 am
League of Legends is set for a big overhaul in 2027, as Riot lay "the groundwork for League’s next era"
League of Legends is set for some big changes as part of an overhaul targeting a 2027 release, Riot Games have confirmed following a report on the...
Posted on 19 December 2025 | 10:10 am
Mirror's Edge players with a taste for Brutalism should bookmark VHOLUME, the new parkour game from a Babbdi dev
Last year, myself, Brendy and Graham got fearfully excited about Straftat, a bountiful free 1v1 FPS with map designs calibrated to nostalgiafuck...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 5:15 pm
Assetto Corsa Rally's first big update adds in snow, an ice circuit and a majestic 70s stage smasher
Having launched with plenty of tarmac and dirt spaghetti for your car to be violently spit from into a tree or hedge, Assetto Corsa Rally now feat...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 4:59 pm
Minos: Home A-Labyrinth temporarily turns Artificer's Ancient Greek maze-builder into a free Home Alone game
"That's not a minotaur, that's a stand-in for the child star of a classic 90s Christmas movie," I yell while playing Minos' free holiday reskin, M...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 4:01 pm
Horror game Horses sells 18,000 copies despite Steam's ban, but Santa Ragione are still closing down
Santa Ragione have announced that they’ve repaid all the money they borrowed to develop their Surrealist horror game Horses, despite being denied ...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 3:58 pm
A future Silent Hill game could be set in Central or South America, says Konami producer
Silent Hill f is one of the few Silent Hill games set outside Silent Hill itself. It transports players from the eternal doldrums of Maine, North...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 1:22 pm
Arc Raiders is a good shooter, but it's also where I go for a relaxing walk
At 5 pm, most week nights, I've gone out to scavenge among the vestiges of humanity for loose wires and leftover air fresheners. But right after ...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 11:59 am
Bioware veteran heading Mass Effect-like Exodus' studio steps aside, leaving team to "polishing and tuning" ahead of 2027 release
Long-time Bioware creative director and lead designer James Ohlen is stepping away from his role as studio head at Archetype Entertainment, develo...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 11:53 am
Smarter than the Steam Frame: inside the VR mod that’s brought virtual reality to hundreds of games
Valve’s recently announced Steam Frame is promising a unique twist on VR headsets. On top of being a Quest 3-style standalone headset that can bot...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 11:49 am
Hard Void is a chilling 4X strategy game inspired by Stellaris and Master of Orion, where FTL travel risks getting Cthulhu's attention
What music do you expect from a 4X game? As regards historical 4X games, I predict a mixture of triumphal philharmonics and noodly period skits, ...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 11:13 am
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II confirms 2026 release with a new trailer and promises of improvements on the demo
Rude cyborg vs. immortal robot strategy sequel Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II is releasing in Spring 2026, publishers Kasedo Games have announced...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 10:50 am
Alleged Horizon "clone" disappears from Steam and Epic Store, as Sony and Tencent settle their legal tiff
Stand down, great lawyer-machines of the courtly plains. Sony and Tencent's legal scuffle over alleged Horizon "clone" Light of Motiram has ended ...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 10:29 am