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An on-going lawsuit against Valve about Steam's "anti-competitive" practices and especially, its infamous 30% per-game revenue cut, has ta...

All that writing about gaming earbuds yesterday has reignited my appreciation for the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless, the PC headset I’ve been...

The Alienware Black Friday sale is well underway, and you can get your hands on some very tasty gaming PCs for a huge discount this year. O...

We’re now just one day out from Black Friday, so the savings are starting to seriously ramp up. You can grab our favourite Steam Deck dock...

The Cabin Factory is described as a horror game but it's sort of about deciding whether you are, in fact, playing a horror game. There is...

Picking things up. Putting the things in boxes. Setting prices. Managing employees. Wiping the sweat from your creased brow and knowing, ev...

Let's face it, nothing important happens in December. I'm scheduling 24 advent calendar posts this week and then spending the rest of the y...

Slipways was the best grand strategy game I'd played in years, because it tossed out all the genre's micromanagement in favour of a strateg...

System requirements are on the rise, and a glut of recent PC facepunchers has left some of the RPS treehouse wondering if it’s time for a g...

It's often claimed by liars and fools that our website's title is a clever reference to the ancient Chinese game of shoushiling - or "rock...

In hindsight, it’s surprising that it took so long for hardware manufacturers to start making "gaming" earbuds. If the likes of chairs, gla...

Half-Life 2 just got a small update, mostly to fix a long-running music bug. But hiding in the patch notes is an apology of sorts, a nod to...

I just played the neon bathroom graffiti on magic mushrooms stylings of puzzle game Children Of The Sun for the first time last night, and...

Just when you thought you'd played all the RPGs - maxed every last stat, drained the XP of every last creature, tap-danced your way along...

Whereas some bits of games kit are in and out of the sales like they keep forgetting their keys there, The PlayStation 5 DualSense controll...

If you're playing a "PS1-style" game these days, odds are it's a horror game. Sometimes, I worry that the association of PS1 with moody, Si...

Recently, PC games have been gorging themselves silly on our storage space. 160GB for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2? 190GB for God of War Ragnarok? If t...

Here are some orc names I quite like. Haters will tell you these “aren’t real orcs”, but those fools are forever trapped in a stifling pris...

Video games in general have a surplus of weapons. It's gotten to the point that if I had any freelance budget, I'd commission somebody to c...

Sometimes a home only becomes a home when you leave. I recently moved out from a London flat I'd rented for over a decade, for instance, a...

When and where did the Steam demo for horror game New Life first find its way to me? When did its non-descript, black hooded protagonist fi...

A studio led by former Mass Effect director Casey Hudson have shut down before being able to show the sci-fi narrative adventure they were...

Many are the horror games that involve you going down. Down is where much of the Badness in the world is traditionally located, after al...

I’ve always liked the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro mouse, a lightweight wireless version of the equally comfortable and responsive Basilisk V3. Ye...

"James, please don’t just make half your Black Friday deal posts about Steam Deck stuff again", warns a steely-eyed Graham. "I won’t", I re...