📰 Latest Gaming News

No description available.

Early Access Release: Survival-Game Windrose startet schon nächste Woche

No description available.

Im Test vor 15 Jahren: SilverStones Temjin TJ11 für hohe Ansprüche ab 560 Euro

No description available.

Intel Arc Pro B70: Big Battlemage zeigt sich im Teardown der Grafikkarte

No description available.

Keychron K3 Max SE QMK: Flachtastatur bekommt Holzelemente und neue Taster

No description available.

Crimson Desert Devs Are Giving Fans Everything They Want With A Promising New Roadmap

Wait, could Crimson Desert actually…be good now?

Epic Is Reportedly Making A Disney-Themed Extraction Shooter

The company behind Unreal and Fortnite is hoping its partnership with Disney can help it overcome some recent struggles

Ex-Bethesda Exec Says The Elder Scrolls 6 Maker Isn’t Part Of Something ‘Genuine’ Or ‘Authentic’ At Microsoft

Pete Hines is retired but still had harsh words for Microsoft

Rockstar Games Reportedly Hacked, Team Behind It Threaten A Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom

Well known hacking group, ShinyHunters, claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers

YouTuber Who Lost Lawsuit To Donkey Kong High Score Contender Billy Mitchell Is Now Suing Him For ‘Emotional Distress’

YouTuber Karl Jobst filed the lawsuit with the Southern District of Florida as a 'Pro Se Plaintiff,' which means he won't be represented by a lawyer

25 years ago, MTG's Seventh Edition set quietly changed the game forever

Across 350 cards, Magic: The Gathering's Seventh Edition set shifted toward more modern design changes

3 best new horror books to read in April

Need a scary book worthy of Stephen King? We have three must-read books to appeal to BookTok and horror movie fans alike.

Danny McBride was an unlikely hero in this underrated fantasy comedy

It seems like a spoof, but Your Highness is more of an irreverent tribute to ’80s fantasy, the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves of its era.

Sol Cesto, Steam's most exciting new roguelike, is one of 2026's best

Sol Cesto is a visually dazzling roguelike that boils the risky thrills of dungeon crawlers down to their essence.

Tombwater is a 2D Soulslike Bloodborne fans won’t want to miss

Bloodborne fans starved for more cosmic horror and bloody bosses will want to the check out Tombwater, a 2D Zeldalike inspired by FromSoftware's hit.

Crimson Desert has more endgame busywork coming with boss rematches and enemy reinforcements, plus Pearl Abyss are making Pywel's distant towers even sexier

If you've been demanding more red pudding, then I bring good news. Crimson Desert developers Pearl Abyss have revealed a bunch of additions and changes they plan to make going forwards, as part of their continued efforts to sand off bits of their big creation which folks haven't vibed with. Boss rematches, resetting enemy camps, and new difficulty options are the headliners. The game's towers are also getting a glow up. Read more

Rust 2 isn't in development, Facepunch boss confirms after suspicious Steam page sparks speculation

Facepunch founder Garry Newman has denied that a sequel to survival/naked bloke battle royale game Rust is currently in the works, after a Rust 2 Steam listing ignited online chatter along those lines. Read more

Swashbuckling co-op survivor Windrose sets sail into early access next week, which means it's time to battle Blackbeard and a big flower

Yo ho, me hearties. Windrose, the co-op pirate survival game which lured plenty of folks aboard its demo decks in the Steam Next Fest earlier this year, is set to launch into early access next week. Better start practicing those shanties and, er, preparing to stab a giant flower once you've fought weird plague creatures. Read more

What are we all playing this weekend?

After months of pleading for the sun to show its face, I'm actually feeling quite warm now. Potentially, I'd go so far as to say I'm too toasty. I'm not saying I'm looking forward to winter. But I'm not not saying it. Read more

While it plays its roguelike autobattling safe, Skull Horde does put a smile on my flaming skeleton head

Skull Horde, the dungeon-crawling, minion-raising autobattler from Bore Blasters devs 8BitSkull, is out today. I like, it, mostly – maybe not as much as Alice B (RPS in peace) appreciated its predecessor’s helicopter-mining, but then there’s enough meat on Skull Horde’s magic bones to distinguish it as more than just another Vampire Survivors reanimation. Read more

Beyond Words is Scrabble meets Balatro, and it's left me feeling like I've gone ten rounds with a dictionary

Aiming to do for Scrabble what Balatro did for poker, Beyond Words gives you the same framework of a rack of tiles and a board upon which to make words, and also a set of ridiculous power cards that see your scores explode with each passing turn. As someone who has survived more than three decades of family holidays dominated by word games, I thought I would be more than ready to take on Beyond Words. I was sorely mistaken. Read more

Epomaker HE68 Lite gaming keyboard review: a properly cheap mechanical board with premium tricks

Maybe it was the past few months of RAMnarök hacking away at my optimism, but my first thoughts upon handling the fifty-buck Epomaker HE68 Lite fixated on how it might not just be cheap in the good way. Surrounded by a bezel of hollow, slightly scratchy plastic, it certainly lacks the reassuringly brick-like heft that most mech boards have over their membraned cousins, to an extent that’s only partially accounted for by its compact 65% form factor. Read more

From the C: to the /Mnt/s, Linux is better than ever for PC gaming – and easier to switch to from Windows

A few months ago, I did something radical. For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 had just been bugging me too much. On top of Microsoft's forced AI implementation growing ever more obscene, I was starting to get unexplained slowdown; something that would usually just prompt a Windows reinstall, as I've done countless times all the way back to Windows Vista. However, prompted by my good friend (and writer at cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer) Joshua Wolens deciding to boldly try out Linux, this time, I would not-so-boldly join him. What I've found is a genuinely fantastic OS: a real, viable alternative to Windows, and one that's far more accessible than it was just a few years ago. Read more

RPS Verdict: In its best moments, Samson is like a goon-battering GTA 4 roleplay mod, but in its worst it's horribly broken

While Rockstar continue to delay GTA 6, there's at least one developer out there with the guts to release their open-world crime 'em up. In Samson you slip into the well-worn getaway driver shoes of the eponymous hero as he takes illicit jobs to earn off a debt to the crime family holding his sister hostage. Made by a team led by Just Cause and Mad Max lead Christofer Sundberg, does Samson capture the explosive magic of Avalanche's games? Julian and Mark have been tearing up the streets of Tyndalston to find out. Read more

According To This Study, Video Games Are For Coping, Not Escapism

Some use games to escape, but plenty use them simply as a coping mechanism

Crimson Desert Might Have One Of The Worst Video Game Characters Of All Time

The character writing in Crimson Desert isn't its best feature, to say the least.

Dragon's Dogma Walked So Crimson Desert Could Run

Both Dragon's Dogma 2 and Crimson Desert are absolutely one-of-a-kind.

Is Age Of Sigmar Better Than Warhammer 40k Now?

As Warhammer 40k stagnates, its fantasy sibling is thriving. Will Games Workshop throw all that away?

State Of Decay 3 Proves That Getting Excited For Modern Video Games Is Pointless

Undead Labs is finally delving deep into the production of State of Decay 3.

Feature: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites

...and YouTube channels, and podcasts, and physical magazines... I'm sure it hasn't escaped your attention that the internet is in a pretty grim spot at present. Media sites are either getting gobbled up by massive conglomerates or closed down (or both), GenAI is filling the web with clanker-made slop, and social media is literally addicting people to doom-scrolling. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Feature: Learning From The End Of i-mode, The "Life Infrastructure" That Revolutionised Japanese 'Keitai' Gaming

The service gets switched off today. Today – March 31st, 2026 – marks the official end of an era with the decommissioning of Japan’s 3G FOMA antennas. The decline of the i-mode was a slow burn: NTT DoCoMo stopped accepting new subscribers (users had to pay a monthly subscription to access the service) from September 30th, 2019, and by November 30th, 2021, the i-mode website service, which hosted video game storefronts, had already gone dark. In reality, purchasing new titles has been impossible for years. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Feature: The DNA Of Hideo Kojima, Video Gaming's Greatest Auteur

"So much can be offered only through the medium of games". There are few game developers as influential, internationally well-known, or renowned as Hideo Kojima. He transcends regional boundaries, languages, hardware platforms, and has a portfolio dating back nearly 40 years. Online, you will find innumerable interviews and thousands of deeply analytical op-ed essays. In fact, there are even books about Kojima written by Kojima himself. The question becomes: what else can be said about such a mythical figure? Read the full article on timeextension.com

Retro Recap: All The Classic Gaming News From The Past Week (April 5th 2026)

Ninja Gaiden! Evercade Nexus! Lego PSP! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com

The Making Of: The Wizard - "I Couldn't Get A Job For 7 Months After That" - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut

"It's really wonderful that it has the meaning it does for people". To mark the arrival of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, we thought it would be fun to dig into the archives for a look at the first time Nintendo went to the movies... Nintendo may have struck gold with its recent efforts to crack Hollywood, but back in the late '80s, the notion of fusing the worlds of video games with movies was a totally alien one, as evidenced by notable box office bombs such as 1993's Super Mario Bros. and 1994's Double Dragon. Read the full article on timeextension.com

Captain of the Ship

Unwinnable

I have a confession to make. Not everybody in my world of Flotsam made it. The post Captain of the Ship appeared first on Unwinnable.

How Creature Kitchen Blends Creepy and Cozy

Unwinnable

Creature Kitchen primes the player for horror that never comes. The post How Creature Kitchen Blends Creepy and Cozy appeared first on Unwinnable.

Maslow’s Power Fantasy: Sometimes You Need A Win

Unwinnable

A power fantasy about creating peace and mutualism between communities. The post Maslow’s Power Fantasy: Sometimes You Need A Win appeared first on Unwinnable.

How Women Saved Rune Factory

Farming, fantasy, and finding romance are at the heart of Rune Factory, a farming simulation

Metaphor: ReFantazio is Painfully CisHet and We Need to Talk About It

Far and wide, Metaphor: ReFantazio is celebrated as the latest, and potentially greatest, role-playing game

Slay the Princess and the Multiversal Language of Love

“You’re on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is

Solace State and the Return of Bio-awareness in Cyberpunk

“The Sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

The Shortness of Horror Game Demos Makes Them All the Sweeter