The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 8th

Reload them fists and investigate the bright streets of Tokyo inJudgment! Ed: Judgment is an action-adventure game from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the folks behind the Yakuza games. But first, you must meet his compatriot:The Panty Professor. And it’s all a hilarious reprieve from the seriousness of the main story. Why, everything you could possibly imagine. Seriously, it’s a treat hanging with every one of your pals in the game....

December 8, 2022 · 1 min · 82 words · Christopher Reyes

Valorant and League Of Legends join Game Pass next week with all characters unlocked

Other games will have other perks on Game Pass, including Riot’s mobile gamesa novelty for Game Pass. Sadly this offering does not include Riot’s paid games, like the League spin-off RPG Ruined King. Read on for more details on what Riot are bringing to Game Pass. Riot first announced Game Pass plansin June, and today they detailed ‘em.

December 8, 2022 · 1 min · 58 words · John Parker

Wordle answer (Thursday 8 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #537 and hints

Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! The word is… INFER. You may have done just that to find the Wordle answer today after looking at the clues above! 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 8, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Amy Miller

Wordle outright won Google this year

Who would have guessed? It also took home gold in the UK, leaving the World Cup to slum it in second place. Im actually mildly impressed with my country for that. Cricket still won out in India, however. Like a lot of people, apparently, Ive been playing it fairly religiously for months now. Its IRATE, if you were wondering. Listen to public readio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak....

December 8, 2022 · 1 min · 105 words · Jennifer Barker

Ixion review: an intricate management sim wrapped in a stirring space opera

Homeworld Bound Ixionstarts by asking the question “What ifHomeworldwas a management sim?”. Also like Homeworld, it’s a darned stylish thing. Welcome to the Tiqqun, Administrator. Your long journey starts here. Naturally, when you turn the key in the ignition, something goes wrong. From here, you have two basic goals. In play, Ixion is split into three separate, yet interconnected layers. This is where Ixion most closely resembles a standard management sim....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 310 words · Craig Stafford

TF2's community Smissmas update hands out stockings and new maps

Have you been a good mercenary this year? Christmas is, somehow, just over two weeks away. I imagine Frostcliff has a big frosty cliff. I like the hat that sticks the Soldierin a broken christmas bulb. Valvealso brought Vscript supportto TF2 last month, allowing modders to patch inTitanfall 2style wallrunning. Hopefully we’ll see more Vscript-based surprises in the months to come. It’s one ofthe best FPS gamesever, don’t you know....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 77 words · Timothy Owens

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 7th

Small but mighty A week of Advent Calendar posts already! It’s Honey-I-Shrunk-The-Kids-‘em upGrounded! Hayden:Survival games tend to feel very similar. Eat, drink, sleep, repeat. But the rest of the game doesnt merely focus on gating off those goods to impose added difficulty. The most obvious example is the mega-spiders who stamp around with style. They make their presence known at all times by shaking the very ground you walk on....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 121 words · Andrew Williams

Valheim's Mistlands update now lets you wield magic in the fog

it’s possible for you to raise chickens now! They’ll give you eggs, which give you more chickens. There’s the real magic. Those patch notes do consider the breedable chickens a spoiler, so sorry about that. Do go readEd’s previewfor more, including suggestions on how to steal from the new NPCs. Developers Iron Gate Games have also commissionedanother swish animated trailer. Valheim is currently 30% offon Steam, putting it at 11/$14/14.

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 70 words · Nicholas Jackson

What's better: randomised item stats or saving everyone?

Last time, you decided thatmantling is better than cool swearing, and by a considerable ‘flipping’ margin. I can’t say I disagree but ooh, hark at you, aren’t you practical. You’d be lost in cool conversations behind the school bike sheds. We must move on. What’s better: randomised item stats and perks, or saving everyone? At first, my concern was good loot. Maybe a unique item or two would be cool....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 253 words · Brian Larson V

Wordle answer (Wednesday 7 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #536 and hints

I mean, there surely aren’t that many five-letter words, right? Apparently there are, and Wordle just keeps chugging through them. Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! The word is… JOUST. Jousting used to sound so cool as a kid. We did a castle week at school, and learning about this medieval pasttime made it seem fun. Knights would charge at each other on horseback, using a lance to knock their opponent to the ground....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 316 words · Terri Cunningham

QA workers at ZeniMax are also organising a union

If successful, it would become the largest games industry union in the US Around 300 workers at ZeniMax, Bethesda’s former parent company before both were acquired by Microsoft, are in the process of forming a union,GI.Biz reports. The effort by ZeniMax workers comes in collaboration with CODE-CWA, the same organisation which assisted in the creation of the recently formed Activision Blizzard unions. In apost on Twitter, the union, which goes by the name ZeniMax Workers United, said: “Today we, a majority of QA workers at ZeniMax, are proud to announce the launch of our union,” adding “We are empowered to advocate for ourselves & build a future where we can thrive alongside the company....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 327 words · Ryan Rich

Satisfactory now lets you create blueprints and play in peaceful mode

This will save a massive amount of time for some players. Game modes are likewise a relatively small feature with a huge impact. There are two new modes added in Update 7: Passive and Retaliating. There are other new additions as outlined in thefull patch notes over on Steam. Update 6 broughtrevamped exploration and combatin September though, so they’ve not slowed down much. Satisfactory is also currently40% off on Steam.

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 70 words · Jesse Miller

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 6th

How’s your handwriting? Good, is it? Can you read Latin? What else could it be butPentiment! Absolutely no thank you. If theres a stonking good story that unfolds alongside it, thats a bonus. Pentiment is very much that, and also nabs that bonus for an enthralling story, too. Wanting to clear his friends name, our artist sets out to find the real killer. What I love most about Pentiment is its use of setting....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Marcus Matthews