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We’ve seen our PlayStation 2022 Wrap-Up, and our Nintendo Year-in-Reviews. Now, it’s time for PC gamers and Steam Deck aficionados to take to the stage with their gaming feats and achievements, as the Steam Replay 2022 has now finally arrived.Valve made another daft trailer to accompany the Steam Replay 2022 announcement. Watch it here.As you

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Though AMD’s all-new Radeon 7900 series cards have been relatively well received by the gaming public, all the news about them post-launch has been surprisingly negative. Reports have already surfaced of broken shader prefetch hardware in some cards using early

Image: Emile Holba While there are often discussions around the merits of gaming as an artform, we perhaps talk less about examples of games helping to inspire other contemporary art. Yet as years pass it’s an inevitability, as the role of games in the lives of millions has transformed since the mid- to late-’80s. We’re

Nintendo has partnered with clothing manufacturer Editmode to create real clothing based on the in-game clothes which Inklings and Octolings wear in the popular Splatoon 3 video game. The first item is the Manatee Swag Sweater, which looks excellent in-game, with the real life version of the cute grey sweatshirt retailing for 14,850 Yen. They

If you put half of the Sega Mega Drive back catalogue into a blender, you’d get Roar of Revenge. There’s some Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Onslaught, Ghouls’N Ghosts and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in there, all chopped up to make a retro smoothie.  SEEP and Ratalaika Games have really leaned into the

The Gran Turismo series has been a Sony staple since the original game launched on PS1 in 1997. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi discussed his history with the series and shared the Gran Turismo sales numbers over the last quarter century. Gran Turismo total sales reach over 90 million

As the reindeer are now out of the yard and it is public knowledge that Skábma – Snowfall will be launched on PS4 and PS5 soon, I would like to take this opportunity to explain what our game is really about. Play Video What is Skábma? Skábma – Snowfall is an adventure game set in

Welcome to the RPS Advent Calender 2022! Every day we open a new door and reveal one of our favourite games this year. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. We’ve reached the very last day of our RPS Advent Calendar for this year! That means that behind this door is our

Sports Story is available now, Nintendo and developer SideBar Games announced during a special Inside the House of Indies holiday video. The surprise launch comes a month and a half after the developer gave us a December 2022 release window for the long-awaited follow up to its 2017 smash hit, Golf Story. Golf Story provided

There is no denying that Elden Ring is the best game of 2022. That’s my pick, by the way. I actually think anybody who picks anything else needs to give their head a wobble (though I respect their opinion, of course, and suggest aspirin for the bumped head). Alex on why Elden Ring is a

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The CES trade show takes place in a few weeks, and AMD’s CEO will be delivering the opening keynote. Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage in Vegas, and is expected to deliver the company’s vision for the future. That

Image: Nintendo Yo-ho-ho! Following on from Nintendo’s final House of Indies, where Sports Story finally launched, the Big N is slashing prices on some of the console’s best indie titles. From now until 1st January 2023, you can get up to 50% (or more) off of some of the best independently-developed games. Or just add

Stranger Things actor, Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin Henderson in the popular Netflix show, has spoken to Variety about his plans for the Christmas period and for 2023. Henderson who is a big fan of Nintendo and has told the entertainment site that he has teamed up with the Kyoto-based company to “talk about a

It is finally here, the game I have waited what seems like a lifetime for – Alphadia Neo from KEMCO.  Normally I would bang on about how this is another retro-styled JRPG, from the kings of retro-styled JRPG’s and so on and so forth, but because of one little addition, this is now the greatest

Santa Monica Studio has announced the much-requested God of War Ragnarok New Game Plus mode will be coming to the game in 2023. While details on the mode are yet to be revealed, players are hoping for the addition of more armor and equipment, including the fur cloak. When will the God of War Ragnarok

Have you ever wanted to start your own potion shop and take on the role of a medieval alchemist? Well, now you’ll have that opportunity when Potion Craft comes to PlayStation in 2023! Play Video What is Potion Craft? Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you play as an aspiring alchemist, physically interacting with

Super quick, very good card battler Marvel Snap rolls out a new location every week, then boosts it with a 40% likelihood to appear for 48 hours. New, temporarily common locations are a clever way of mixing things up, imposing restraints or possibilities depending on how much you tinker with your decks. The latest location,

2013’s Risk of Rain is getting an enhanced remake, and it’s coming next year to celebrate its 10th birthday. Titled Risk of Rain Returns, it spruces up the original with improved art, new survivors, and more. Announced during Nintendo’s House of Indies: Holiday Event Day 2 today, Risk of Rain Returns expands upon the first game

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has just been released for the seventeenth time and I think it’s time that society at large accepted that it’s just not a particularly good open world RPG. Admittedly, it’s a fairly impressive flow diagram of branching story choices and decisions – it would make a great choose-your-own-adventure book or

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: Erik Mclean/Unsplash)(Image: IGDB)Epic Games, the developer and distributor best known for Fortnite, has found itself in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) bad graces. The consumer protection agency has charged Epic $520M for multiple privacy violations and for “tricking” users

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life There are a variety of ways that you can get footage from a Game Boy game up onto a big screen. An emulator can easily step in to do the job or a modern-day variant like the Analogue Pocket might be more up your street with its HDMI output.

When Nintendo normally releases an update to the Nintendo Switch‘s firmware, it results in a version number change and, at the very least, a handful of changes that had been made. For these updates to finish, the console is required to reboot itself. Every once in a while, however, the company will release an update

Coming from developers MAYO Games is a new entry into the puzzle/exploration genre of games; a genre which isn’t noticeably over-stocked with games. That game is Megalan 11 and despite the odd name (at first, I really thought it was a misspelling of Megaman), can something new be brought to the table. Well, the developers

Have you ever wanted to start your own potion shop and take on the role of a medieval alchemist? Well, now you’ll have that opportunity since Potion Craft is available on Xbox! [TRAILER] What is Potion Craft? Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you play as an aspiring alchemist, physically interacting with your tools

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to calls to boycott Hogwarts Legacy over her comments regarding the transgender community, saying that those who refuse to play the upcoming game should also refuse to read the Harry Potter books and watch the movies. JK Rowling tweets about Hogwarts Legacy boycott plan Rowling responded to writer

Last week, we asked you to head back to the Nine Realms and share epic God of War Ragnarök moments using the game’s newly released Photo Mode. After sifting through the action-packed shares tagged with  #PSshare #PSBlog, here are this week’s highlights:  DotPone shares Kratos yelling while holding an ice charged Leviathan Axe. crossedvisions shares

Welcome to the RPS Advent Calender 2022! Every day we open a new door and reveal one of our favourite games this year. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone. A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone

After 25 years, the latest season of the Pokémon anime saw protagonist Ash Ketchum finally achieve his dream of becoming Pokémon World Champion. Now that he’s reached the top of the mountain, the series is giving the perpetually young hero his last hurrah before kicking off a fresh adventure starring a new cast of characters.

It’s that time of year again, when we all tell you which of the games that came out over the past 12 months we like the best. It’s my turn, and I hope you weren’t expecting some out-of-left-field pick; an artsy indie game you never heard of that I’ll try to convince you is 2022’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD’s long-awaited RDNA3 GPUs launched on Dec. 13, and although they didn’t score a knockout victory over their rivals in early tests, they’re clearly worthy competitors. Their main flaw, reviewers noted, was lackluster ray tracing performance, to the surprise of