The RPS Selection Box: Alice0's bonus games of the year 2022

made it onto the calendar, and ultimatelycame down on the side of Lila. Both deserve to be there. I am excited for the next game,Echostasis, coming in 2023. It’s not that it’s not fun. Like Vermintide before it, Darktide is basicallyLeft 4 Deadrebuilt in a world of Warhammer. A joy to commit this megamurder. The chunky revolver which pops heads with ease then takes ages to reload. The chainsword, oh the chainsword!...

December 30, 2022 · 2 min · 292 words · Brandon Russell

The seventh RPS Christmas Cracker 2022

Time to enjoy your lovely joke!

December 30, 2022 · 1 min · 6 words · Janet Goodwin

Wordle answer (Friday 30 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #559 and hints

2023 has breached the perimeter, and is closing in on our position fast. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Wordle December 30 hints The Wordle answer today is hard in more ways than one. But don’t let that grind you down. The word is… MOLAR. A molar is a grinding tooth found at the back of a mammal’s mouth. The word derives from the Latinmolaris dens, which literally means “grinding tooth”....

December 30, 2022 · 2 min · 350 words · Taylor Lyons

New S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 trailer shows combat and grumpy chats in the Zone

2was delayed until this monthback in January, before thewar understandably delayed the game further into 2023. Like the hugely ambitious (and also much delayed) original, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is an open-world survival game set within the nuclear exclusion zone formed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 45 words · Kyle Pacheco

Our favourite RPS features from 2022

Then I looked at my list and said “Oh, no! “, because it was extremely long. They’re by both the RPS treehousers and freelancers who climbed up the ropeladder to help out. If you feel the call to adventure yourself, why notdrop me a linenext year? Engaging with the extended treehouse metaphor is not a requirement. Here’s to more profound strangeness in 2023. Both funny and well considered. (That’s the only Walking Dead joke I know)....

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 204 words · Patricia Porter

Outpath: First Journey is a free demo that's like Forager in first-person

As of right now, it has an “overwhelmingly positive” rating on Steam and over 700 reviews. In idle games, you gradually accrue resources which you spend to make it accrue future resources more swiftly. Outpath: First Journey smooshes these two things together. That’s not a bad thing, given how much time I put into Forager. Or, it is a bad thing,given how much time I put into Forager. These sorts of games are deadly time sinks....

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 87 words · Joshua Armstrong

The RPS Selection Box: Katharine's bonus games of the year 2022

Specifically, my spreadsheet that lists all the lovely games I manage to play each year. (Do still go and check out those other games, though. They’re all absolutely rad). You’re very welcome. Enough behind the scenes chat. Foretales Another card game with turn-based strategy elements? And what places you’ll go during your adventures with Volepain and his motley crew of anthropormorphic animal buds.

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 63 words · John Smith

The RPS Selection Box: Rebecca's bonus games of the year 2022

Tis the season of goodwill, after all. Truth is, I just really liked Monster Prom 3. Personally, Roadtrip has overtaken the first game to become my favourite in the series. There’s more puzzle solving and free-roaming exploration, alongside a wider variety of button-mashing activities at intense moments. RIP Kate, sorry I failed so hard at “protecting you at all costs”. Do it without screen-cheating and it’s a satisfying couple of hours of good communication and cooperative puzzle solving....

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 78 words · Ashley Vaughn

The Ryzen 5600 is much better value than the 5600X

138 for a six-core 12-thread AMD Ryzen CPU that launched at 220.

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 12 words · Megan Manning

The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2022

Time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: What’s Gabe Newell’s favourite carol? A:Steam Deck The Halls

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 16 words · Amber Johnson

Wordle answer (Thursday 29 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #558 and hints

Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! The word is… HAVOC. Originating in the Middle Ages, it derives from the Old French word for pillaginghavot. How to play Wordle Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted....

December 29, 2022 · 2 min · 290 words · Teresa Gregory

Yet another Activision Blizzard studio has formed a union

Recently acquired Proleteriat are third studio this year Staff at another Activision Blizzard studio have formed a union. Activision Blizzard are facing fights on other fronts. Activision Blizzard had previously expressed their intent to fight any challenge to the deal. Before being bought by Activision Blizzard, Proletariat were best known for developing mage royale Spellbreak. Spellbreak is due to shut down early next year.

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 64 words · Sheri Acevedo

Plug in all the things with this 12-gang power tower

Down to 15 on Amazon UK. This particular model normally costs 18, but today has been reduced to 14.99. There’s a green light that lets you know when this protection is active. Of course, there are some downsides to the form factor as well.

December 28, 2022 · 1 min · 44 words · Cathy Dillon