RPS is on our winter holidays now, please don't email us until 2024

There’s still a bunch of stuff for you to read, though Seriously. I have had new emailstodayfrom PRs. What are you doing? But yes, Rock Paper Shotgun is closing up the treehouse for our Christmas break. It’s far too cold to sit in a treehouse at this time of year! In the meantime, we will not leave you completely bereft! Because we love you, we’ve got some hashtag content scheduled for you while we’re gone....

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 162 words · Michael Macias

Sorry Mac users, Death Stranding won’t arrive in time for the holidays as release window slides to early 2024

The good news is that its early 2024, so hopefully it wont be too long. A Mac release forDeath Strandingwasconfirmed over the summerand was originally due to arrive before the end of 2023. Its iPhone and iPad release was similarly delayed.

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 41 words · Shaun Lewis

The Black Parade is a Thief mod from a team including a dev at Arkane and an original Thief designer

This month marked the 25th birthday ofThief: The Dark Project. Notable: After a quarter-century, stealth fans were gifted a new, 10-mission Thief campaign calledThe Black Parade. Holy gaming ouroboros, Batman! How ever did we arrive at this glorious glut of sneaky goodness? These mods, called fan missions (or FMs), nownumber in the many hundreds. So theres an entire mythos that has been built by fan mission authors. It’s like a new canon within the canon, so to speak....

December 22, 2023 · 3 min · 458 words · Barbara Morrison

The Day Before ends its strange, sad tale by shutting down its servers next month, refunding all Steam players

The effective end to the game will accompany refunds for anyone who brought it on Steam. Being an online-only game, the move will effectively make The Day Before unplayable. We extend our gratitude for the communitys support throughout the projects life, the publishers wrote. Unfortunately, without a development team, we had no alternative choice but to officially terminate the project.

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 60 words · James Johnson

The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 22nd

Real Boy Simulator 2023 Welcome to door 22 of the RPS Advent Calendar. To enter, you must prove your identity by answering a simple question. A human… or a puppet? It’s been a great year for Soulslikes, butLies Of Ptops them all! Ollie:Lies Of P is easily the most accomplished non-FromSoftware soulslike I’ve played. It’s a well-told story with a couple of good surprises hidden up its tailored sleeves. Let’s start with combat, which feels like a carefully curated mix of Souls, Bloodborne, andSekiro....

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 142 words · Nathaniel Cooper

This Intel Arc A770 16GB OC graphics card is down to £266 at Amazon UK versus £320 elsewhere

A great price for a strong graphics card for 1080p gaming. Similarly, people that play mostly older games may want to give the A770 a miss.

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 26 words · Jennifer Gonzalez

Wordle hints and answer (#916): How to solve the Friday December 22 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for December 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers....

December 22, 2023 · 2 min · 399 words · Robert Kelly

(the) Gnorp Apologue makes town building into a glorious spectacle

I think it’s now the reason I want to play the oddly named(the) Gnorp Apologue. It’s an incremental town builder about… gnorps. Gnorps want to get rich. To help in their goal, they have a rock. “What is the rock? Irrelevant question,” says theSteam page. I’m more interested in the colourful pixels flying around the screen in the trailer. It’s not available in theSteam winter sale, but it is only 5....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 77 words · Jamie Osborne

NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, December 21)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #193 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 134 words · Wesley Petersen

Starfield will get updates every six weeks beginning in February 2024

The announcement also refers to this as the “launch of Creations”.

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 11 words · Mark Miles

Steam now lets you mark games as private

“Steam has long supported multiple levels of privacy for your Steam profile and your entire games list. That includes: your ownership, in-game status, playtime, and activity in that game. Steam uses more ellipses than a visual novel protagonist. The same beta update also brings some additional shopping cart features. Those all seem useful just in time for theSteam winter sale. To opt-in to the beta, head to your Steam configs and then look under “Interface”....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 75 words · Ashley Medina

Steam's 2023 winter sale is now underway

50% seems like a decent discount for a relatively recent game like Star War Wars Jedi: Survivor. 50% off Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth makes an already life-consuming game even better value. That recent, apparently-good RoboCop shooter, Rogue City, is 30% off. And so on and so onfor thousands of other games. You canvote in the Steam Awards here.

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 58 words · Jane Williams

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S2 Episode Christmas: the end of year special!

What a year its been It’s the most wonderful time of the year i.e. share our favourite games of 2023, and talk about the games we’re playing right now. It appears Nate is quite unfamiliar with time travel films. Plus, Nate does a thrilling end of year quiz with a question for each month. It goes about as well as you’d expect. you’re able to listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 120 words · Michael Johnson