Sci-fi adventure Sable is the latest Epic Games Store free game

Thats today, if youve not checked your advent calendar yet. John Lennon would be chuffed. Sable is the latest in 15 days worth offreebiesfrom the Epic Games Store over the festive holiday period. Each new game is a mystery, and only revealed after the previous days free game expires. Sable is a game that doesn’t want to hold your hand, she said. ‘It gives you a hoverbike and an open skyline and says: “There you go....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 146 words · Ryan Russell

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: cute frogfishing, handcrafted horrors, and cryptid photography

Come admire these interesting and attractive indie games! Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. Twitter is still alive, against all odds, so let’s admire more indie games. A much-needed feature has been added to the game. But if you make a mess, you better clean it up. it’s in your hands! That was a pain to implement....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 74 words · Amy Rodriguez

Skeal reflects the power, pleasure, and pain of all our Christmasses

No matter how slight or daft the thing is, what really matters is that we do it together. Skeal is a downhill skiing game. The moon is big and bright, snow is falling, and the slopes are calling. It’s short, it’s fun, and it’s free. And you agree not to keep reading downwards, because you trust me? Oh, I did not expect to be crying by the end of that....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 205 words · Kevin Mitchell

Sonic Frontiers is popular, but it's a boring Sonic game'm bitter about it

Do I seem embittered? Im happy for Sonic, honestly. A Metacritic in the 70s! He may as well have been kissed on the nips by Jesus Christ himself. Sonic looks east, he looks west. And he sees grind rails. Hes free, you see. And so am I. Free from giving the slightest toss about this stupid, rubbish series for undemanding children. No, Im not bitter. Oh, for Gods sake, of course I’m bitter....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 222 words · Sonya Suarez

The PC gaming hardware year in review, 2022 edition

The tech, and Deck, that defined this year How was your year for PC hardware, reader? Pick up anything nice, or got any old favourite gear still going strong? Thats just me, though. Weve had it all: long overdue launches, bitter disappointments, and genuinely impactful performance innovations. Also, Valve made a handheld PC. Starting with one that needs no introduction, as Ive already been banging on about it since February....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 363 words · Corey Collier DDS

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 19th

Sadly, he doesn’t speak the same language as me. It’s the little Zelda-like fox who could,Tunic! And that, dear readers, is its wonderfully craftedinstruction booklet. Importantly, though, it’s not as ridiculously hard asElden Ringand its oeuvre of Soulslikes. I mean, how can it, when you’re accompanied by such a chill,dreamy soundtrack? Or, more accurately, it was when I actually found the bloody pages. Eventually, though, I reached a conundrum that I simply couldnt crack....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 161 words · Adam Miller

Them's Fightin' Herds trots out as today's Epic Christmas freebie

One name change and a $586,000 IndieGoGo fundraiser later, they launched on Steam in 2015. It’s nice when cease and desists don’t entirely desist the thing they’re ceasing. There’s a story mode, as well as local and online multiplayer. It’s still getting updates, with new DLC character Texas the bulljust added today in version 4.0. You will need to pay for either the Season 1 Pass or his individual Character Pack, though....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 80 words · Robert Garcia

Tootle around Techtonica's demo, an upcoming underground automate 'em up

It’s a first-person factory-building game set in an alien cavern complex with pretty bioluminescent plants. I am excited to lose dozens or hundreds of hours to it when it launches on early access. I do like the creepy planet vibes, which Satisfactory hovers over but so far hasn’t leaned into. The writing in this has already made me laugh out loud, too. As much as I likeFactorio, first-person factory-making is always going to trump a top-down view for me....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 88 words · Jeffery Johnson

Wielding a Buster Sword controller for Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a workout

Hes also playedElden Ringwith Nintendos Ring Fit, aGuitar Herocontroller, and, erm,a banana. HowlongtobeatreckonFinal Fantasy 7Remake takes 33 hours to finish, and thats just the main story. With side shenanigans, that goes up to 41.5 hours, and a complete run is 86.5 hours. It’s done,#FF7Ris now fully playable with an actual BUSTER SWORD! Buster sword is models own.

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 57 words · Jack Roberts

Wordle answer (Monday 19 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #548 and hints

Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! In modern times, slate is something people can do that involves criticizing something a a lot. Hold it in until midnight, when a new puzzle will appear to test us all. 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....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 252 words · Theresa Beard

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 18th

The line’s dead On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone. A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone has disappeared. Lot of dead people clogging up the lines inGhostwire: Tokyo! Ghostwire: Tokyo, however, has been a shining exception. And by shining, I of course mean eerie and rain-soaked. I could spend hours poking around its glowing streets, strewn with the clothes of its vanished citizens....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 122 words · Dr. Amanda Bowen

John Carmack says Meta "constantly self-sabotage" their own VR efforts

“This is the end of my decade in VR. I have mixed feelings,” Carmack begins. “We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. “It has been a struggle for me. Carmack’s departure from Meta has been foreshadowed for a long time. Earlier this year, his AGI startup Keen Technologiesraised $20 million in funding(around 16.4 million). Carmack had more recently only been devoting “about 20%” of his time on Meta....

December 17, 2022 · 1 min · 86 words · Cody Lee

Relax with these five hour-long soothing scenes in Minecraft

It turns out the standalone expansion I needed was a son. Exploring, building, andthe vibesare all as wonderful as I remember. Perfect timing: Mojang have just released a series of Minecraft “Soothing Scenes”. Personally, it’s a welcome balm after wrangling with Microsoft accounts for half the day. I’ve embedded all five below so you’ve got the option to take your pick.

December 17, 2022 · 1 min · 61 words · Aaron Cole