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Rise of Kingdoms (ROK) is a popular mobile strategy game that has captivated millions of players worldwide with its immersive gameplay and rich historical setting. However, the game’s journey didn’t stop at the mobile platform. In response to the overwhelming demand from fans, Lilith Games decided to expand the ROK experience to the PC platform, … Read more

  Image credit: Capcom As part of its Tokyo Game Showcase, Capcom has shared nine minutes of new Dragon’s Dogma 2 gameplay footage, this time focusing on vocations – basically the series’ version of classes – as well as offering a little look at some of the major locations in its world. At the game’s … Read more

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Game Devs of Colour Expo sale on now. Valve has released the dates for the first Steam sales planned for next year. Yes, as Valve gently reminds us in its announcement post (even if I … Read more

Cyberpunk 2077‘s triumph was that it offered a sprawling story, dozens of hours long, which cohered around just a small number of themes. Or maybe even a single thesis: that the cynical, defensive, self-centred voice in your head – personified by ancient, soul-trapped, anarcho-rockstar Johnny Silverhand – offered only a literal dead-end, and that real … Read more

At a time when gaming has tried to pursue high cinema and prestige, it’s funny to think of a game inspired by the seminal 1995 Michael Mann crime caper film Heat as anything but prestige. But that’s kind of the charm of the PAYDAY series, paying visual homage to such a film classic while still … Read more

Nearly five years since their last major game and nearly eight since their last big single-player RPG, Starfield is finally here from the folks at Bethesda. The game has been touted for years as “Skyrim in space”, but what is it exactly? How much of Bethesda’s RPG pedigree is in Starfield, and how much of … Read more

I dunno if you’ve heard of this game Starfield, but there’s a lot of talk about it at the moment. It is a roleplaying experience where the role you play is not “Viking-ish warrior who can shout with the power of a million metal frontmen” or “wasteland wanderer downing cans of irradiated coke” but “person … Read more

  Image credit: Activision / Eurogamer Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will include scenes reminiscent of the franchise’s infamous No Russian mission, where armed terrorists murder scores of people in a civilian setting. A description of the game’s most violent moments has now been published by the ESRB, the US ratings board, which has … Read more

  Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/CD Projekt Red The Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty expansion releases next week, but before that, we have Cyberpunk 2077‘s 2.0 update, a free rework that adds vehicle combat, smarter cops and new skill trees and perks, including the ability to play a sort of Wild Magic hacker and a skillset … Read more

Starfield is finally here. The game launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC (with Game Pass) today – and we at Xbox Wire have been lucky enough to play it early. This is an enormous game, full of overlapping systems, mysteries, and mechanics. We’re sure you want to know more and, in the spirit of … Read more

Starfield – you don’t want to hold your breath for a PS5 port (Picture: Bethesda) It’s the biggest Xbox exclusive for a decade but if you’ve only got a PS5 what are the Starfield alternatives? Despite some loud complaints and the occasional petition, Starfield is never going to arrive on PlayStation 5. Not unless Microsoft … Read more

Prior to joining RPS and coming into a possession of an Actual Contemporary Gaming PC, I did all my gaming on a plucky Erazer laptop from circa 2014. The old warhorse has certainly had some adventures, to the point that it isn’t really a laptop anymore but a hovering debris cloud of plastic and metal, … Read more