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, reader of wonder, loved the most, Why not subscribe to Supporters posts? January leading, still proceeding, See you once we’ve munched our roasts. But first, time ...
Star Citizen Dev Says Squadron 42 Is Now Fully Playable, Is Over 40 Hours in Length, and Is Still on Track for 2026 Release Date
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has told fans that the Mark Hamill-fronted single-player space adventure Squadron 42 is still on track for a 2026 release date — and not to expect “a long, drawn-out marketing campaign” beforehand.Founder and CEO Chris Roberts wrote in a blog post that CIG is ...
Feature: The Best Hidden Gems And Underrated Switch 1 & 2 Games Of 2025
Celebrating the small(er).2025 has been a bit of a loud, bonkers year for video games. Big title after big title, a brand new console in the Switch 2, and a new GOTY contender almost every other week. It's been breathless, but not without industry struggles, mass layoffs, cancellations, and closures.Which ...
The 10 Best Rockstar Games
Yes, GTA 6 may still be a while away, but that gives us plenty of time to go back and replay all of those Rockstar games we’ve loved from the past, or even check out some that we may have missed. But which parts of the famed Grand Theft Auto ...
‘We Just Started. I Have Nothing’ — Retired Pro Gamer Goes Viral for Relentlessly Killing Casual Arc Raiders Players — but Is It Griefing or Just Fair PvP?
Arc Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure in which players scavenge the remnants of a devastated world. The main threat is Arc’s machines and, as developer Embark Studios puts it, “the unpredictable choices of fellow survivors.” But one Arc Raiders player, hell bent on killing relative newcomers, casuals, and those ...
“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" a smudgy loading screen in Anno 117, voiced a sweary Darth Vader in Fortnite – perhaps its least subtle appearance was in Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed ...
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 completely normal about it. It’s Hollow Knight: Silksong! Read more ...
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds NiGHTS DLC Pack Launches For Free This Week
Get it downloaded.Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fans will have a very Merry Christmas this year, as Sega will be launching the free 'NiGHTS DLC Pack' this week on Christmas Eve – that's 24th December 2025, just to make it crystal clear.The pack will include NiGHTS as a playable character, the Dream ...
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 December 22nd. He was 55 years old. "We're heartbroken by the passing of our founder and dear friend Vince Zampella," Respawn Entertainment said in a statement ...
Censored Dispatch Artwork Spotted On Nintendo’s Digital Storefront
Cover up.When the Switch generation was in full swing, there were stories about games being censored in some way or form, and even blocked from being published on the eShop.With this in mind, it seems fans of the "superhero comedy" Dispatch have spotted a potential cover up on Nintendo's digital ...
