The game stars an orphaned lad called Elvis, who is neither the one from the upcoming Baz Luhrmann film or the wacky big-headed alien from Perfect Dark. Instead, he reminds me a lot of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s genero-Jedi Cal Kestis more than anything else. Must be the hair… Elvis also has an older robot brother in Miasma Chronicles, what with it being the future and everything, although it’s not yet clear whether their relationship is a kind of Full Metal Alchemist type deal, or something more benign....

It’s good then that Netflix have developed an interactive timeline for us, that describes a whole heap of events throughout The Witcher’s history that are alluded to in the show. Just being able to see exactly when “The Creation of the First Witcher” took place is useful to start with. We know vaguely from the show so far that Witchers are made, not born, and the map helps pinpoint exactly where and when that was....

Here’s the announcement on Twitter: “Whenever a server is full, the server will be greyed out with the messaging ‘Character Creation temporarily disabled on this server to prevent overpopulation’. This does not affect any characters already created on the server and you will be able to log in as usual,” reads the message. You can check whether a server is full before attempting to join via the game’s server status page....

Bleeding Edge is a third-person shooter/brawler that will have you fighting in an arena in some sort of underground bloodsport. You play as one of its weird and wonderful characters, working together with your team to use your many abilities to get the jump on your enemies. Judging from the launch trailer it looks like we could be in for a little bit of story as well (for those of us into that sorta thing), talking about this illegal sport and giving a bit of personality to the characters who fight in it....

Boy did it make me feel alive, though. And with Nioh 2: Complete Edition arriving on Steam in February, I thought it would be good to remind everyone that while, yes, it is full of scary monsters, it is full of very nice and cute monsters, too. Nioh 2 is set in 1555, so we’re talking samurai wearing traditional wooden flip-flops called Geta, ninjas darting around on rooftops brandishing shuriken, and a world that’s overrun by yokai - supernatural monsters and spirits from Japanese folklore....

So, baddies. Some systems have fallen to outlaws, with no Sentinel interceptors left to defend them and new outlaw authorities moved in with their own merchants, missions, and contraband runners. You can buy buy contraband goods from outlaw stations and smuggle them into regulated systems for potential mega-profits, though authorities scanning cargo will send deploy interceptors after you unless you have a Cargo Probe Deflector installed. Or you can just rob people, as piracy is now profitable....

Joan’s recreation of Guildford was featured in a Twitch stream by LordFrobozz, who also tweeted a clip at Hello Games today. The company’s Discord replied to say they thought what Joan built was “beautiful”, and it even managed to catch Hello Games founder Sean Murray’s attention. I’ve never been to Guildford myself, but I feel like I ought to now. When I chatted with Joan earlier, they said they’d never been to Guildford either....

As there’s no Nvidia Founders Edition of the RTX 3060, I’ve been testing MSI’s GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio for the purposes of this review, which is one of the largest and fastest versions of this particular card. Whereas Nvidia’s reference spec for the RTX 3060 has a boost clock speed of 1.78GHz, for example, MSI have overclocked this to an even nippier 1.85GHz. As such, my benchmark figures below are likely to be more of a best case scenario for RTX 3060 GPUs, and may be a touch faster than other kinds of cards out there....

Called The Explorer, this rabbit is not only super cute - his little brown booties are adorable, as is his helmet which has holes so his massive fluffy ears can poke through - but a bonafide badass in magic casting. This rabbit can majorly throw down. Each one of the six characters in Dungeon Drafters has its own playstyle. There’s the muscley dude Brawler who is great at close range, the Shinobi who dominates the field with rapid quick-fire spells, and there’s even a pixie bard who can summon a horde of minions....

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 includes tennis, table tennis, 100 meter hurdles, basketball, boxing, and more. You can just complete locally against your pals if you like or in global leaderboards, which is in fact the entire point of the Olympics right? Oh, and there’s also a story about Sonic saving Tokyo—and the Olympics—from Dr. Eggman. Sure, why not? Here’s the trailer with all that sporting, featuring human athletes just trying to do their best next to folks dressed as astronauts and such....

Halloo, gentle reader. Since we’re half way through the entire year of 2020 (yet somehow it is also still March?), we decided to run down, lasso and tie up some of our favourite games from the last six months, and force them into a nice list for you. 2020 still has plenty of new PC games to come, of course, but these are the ones closest to our little hearts so far....

There are always more games coming out than we have fingers to write about them, but the 2022 games we’ve listed below are the ones the RPS team are personally most looking forward to playing. We’ve got games big and small here, and they’re all listed in alphabetical order. After all, release dates are increasingly slippery beasts these days. Think we’ve missed something? Why not take to the comments below and tell us all about it....

The first monthly Outriders broadcast aired earlier today, giving us a lengthy dive into the gory loot-shooter coming later this year. Outriders may still awkwardly come across as Destiny’s space-knights by way of a Gears Of War bro-fest in its visual language. But this week’s clip does help bring clarity to how Outriders will actually play. Thankfully, it seems a suitably brutal affair for the folks wot made gruesome murder-juggler Bulletstorm - roadie-running at mutants / bandits / alien beasties and making them explode with bass-boosted shotguns....

We now have some idea of which heroes are being targeted for rebalancing in Season 2. First up is newbie Sojourn, who’s been dominating in competitive. She’ll see her railgun nerfed to encourage players to get closer in for combat. Doomfist is also high on Blizzard’s list of rebalances, which should improve his front-line performance. Blizzard also singled out Ana, Bastion (he exists!), Junker Queen, Kiriko, Mercy, and Symmetra for some fine-tuning....

Overwatch tweeted the news on Friday, with a little blurb giving a story suggestion for the change: Blizzard previously said that this would be folded into a narrative arc that we’ll see at some point this year. From this little paragraph, it sounds like they’re treating “McCree” as an outlaw name the cowboy is ditching. “Running from his past meant running from himself, and each passing year only widened the divide between who he had been and what he had become....

Paper Trail’s world is a 2D one of separate pieces of paper. You’re able to “see the other side”, and can fold each sheet in from its sides or corners to make new paths or reveal secrets. It is firstly very lovely to look at, and secondly very tactile to play - you can almost feel the paper slipping as you pull at the world. It is thirdly pretty blood difficult, actually - at least, way more so than you’d expect from the nice colours and round little people of the world....

Following Stray’s launch on the 19th, it peaked at a concurrent player count of 62,963 according to SteamDB. They aren’t the huge figures seen for 2022’s other smash games such as Elden Ring, V Rising or Lost Ark, but Annapurna’s other games haven’t garnered that many players on launch before. As industry pundit BenjiSales tweeted, this June’s excellent speedrunning card-shooter Neon White garnered a peak player count of 3,277, while 2019’s space time-loop adventure Outer Wilds saw just 7,936 at its peak....

Eight years after its Japanese debut, Phantasy Online Star 2 launched on PC in North America on May 27. Three weeks on, Sega say they “are still working closely with Microsoft to solve the issues” that are stopping some from downloading or installing the game. Yup, that Microsoft Store sure can be a nuisance. Sega don’t name the other PC platforms (plural) PSO2 is headed to but odds are good that at least one is better....

To get this reduced price, you’ll need to use the code SPEND15 at Ebay. This knocks £21 off the price, moving it from £140 to £119. Get the WD SN550 2TB for £118.98 w/ code SPEND15 (was £140) For more information on the SN550, check out Katharine’s review of the drive from its debut in 2020. She called the drive ‘disgustingly good value’ then, and that was for a drive that cost £125 for a 1TB model - clearly, things have improved substantially since then!...

Get the Samsung Odyssey G7 32-in 1440p 240Hz for £499 (was £599) So: why is this monitor so good? For me, it’s all about the panel: you get a 32-inch curved VA QLED panel, big enough that you feel suitably immersed without running into the compatibility issues endemic to ultrawide aspect ratios and with excellent contrast, so dark scenes look properly black instead of grey. Combined with a potent 600 nits of peak brightness and a wide colour gamut, that translates into properly meaningful HDR - a rarity for a gaming monitor....