Fast and messy Wolfenstein-ish retro FPS Project Warlock is out now. First from Buckshot Software and a temporary GOG exclusive, this is an old-school FPS that takes inspiration from a lot of genre peers, but primarily Doom. Big swarms of expendable monsters, a booming double-barrel shotgun and maze-like levels packed with secret areas. Set across five shareware-inspired worlds with a new look and set of enemies in each, it’s pleasantly nostalgic but backed up with some nice modern-day lighting and particle effects. Below, the launch trailer.

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Monarchic decide ’em up Reigns was always close in spirit to Game Of Thrones. Thanks to a cross-promotion deal that I’m certain someone sold their soul for, they’re now one and the same, and out today. Reigns: Game Of Thrones combines the Tinder-inspired UI of Nerial’s series with the multiple perspectives and familiar world of HBO’s wildly successful TV novel adaptation. The game lets players control multiple characters and bodge their way through their own custom timeline in a way that would sound like fan-fiction if it weren’t an official game. Below, the launch trailer.

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It’s a terrible thing to admit, but ever since I got my first PC, I’ve never really given much thought to what kind of gaming mouse I’ve had on my desk. Bog standard mice have always been more than enough for me over the years, but I’ve since realised that having a few extra buttons and a greater variety of sensitivity speeds can not only make games feel a lot more responsive, but also more fun to play – which is why I’ve gathered up all the best gaming mice I’ve tested over the last year to bring you my top recommendations for the best gaming mouse money can buy.

Of course, as someone who spent probably the better part of a decade just using a bog-standard Dell mouse, I’m conscious that not everybody wants to spend 50 / $50+ on a gaming mouse. As such, I’ve structured my recommendations into rough price categories, giving you a range of options that (hopefully) cover a variety of different budgets. I’ve also got recommendations for left-handed gaming mice as well as wireless ones.

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One of the biggest complaints often levied at wireless gaming mice is that they’re simply too slow and heavy compared to their wired rivals. Despite being free of snagging cables that somehow manage to get in the way of everything at all times, that liberty often comes at the cost of latency and reliability, with the extra disadvantage that they’ve now got to carry a battery round as well as all their various bits of wireless gubbins.

Strides have been made to rectify these challenges, of course. Razer’s Mamba + Firefly Hyperflux combo managed to get round the latter problem with its featherlight 96g wireless mouse that magically charged itself just by sitting on its mouse mat, but it also cost an arm and a leg. The ambidextrous Logitech G Pro Wireless on test today, however, goes several steps further – it not only weighs an almost impossibly light 80g, but Logitech’s Lightspeed Wireless tech claims it has a lag-free, 1ms report rate connection. And it’s quite possibly the best gaming mouse I’ve ever used.

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Much as Black Lab have improved on their strategic Battlestar Galactica Deadlock with patches and expansions, until today’s DLC – Anabasis – it lacked the TV show’s sense of looming dread. While the new addon also expands the game’s main strategic campaign, its most exciting feature is a new survival mode inspired by the TV series. An isolated fleet retreats back to Caprica from deep space, pursued constantly by Cylon forces across a random series of losing encounters. Below, a launch trailer fresh enough to make me forget for a moment that the show is 14 years old.

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Thronebreaker has been taking me for a ride. Fighting monsters and blackclad horsemen in this card-game-sorta-RPG is a bit like being on a bumpy mine cart. You re going up and down and swiping lots of gold along the way, the ride is smooth then boring then exciting then dull. Sometimes it could use a diesel engine. Or something more environmentally friendly? I don t know, this metaphor is breaking down. There s been a cave in, the mine s closed, everyone go home. What I’m trying to say is: Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales has a few problems with pacing and a dry story in places, but otherwise it’s a decent singleplayer spin-off of Gwent and the cards are worth a shuffle.

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For a developer who can’t seem to get enough of wizards and weird physics puzzles, you might be surprised that Frozenbyte’s first game wasn’t anything of the sort. Indeed, the Finnish studio best known for puzzler series Trine and more recent fantasy co-op shenanigans Nine Parchments cut their teeth on a sci-fi, top-down shooter called Shadowgrounds. They even made a sequel! Shadowgrounds: Survivor, they called it, because one game about blasting aliens in dark military hangars simply wasn’t enough.

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Listen up, Molyneux, because Epic Games know how to do a cube. Kevin (I don’t know who first named the cube Kevin) is pulsating.

Kevin first showed up in season five of Fortnite Battle Royale, when it took to romping about stamping glyphs all over the map. Then it rose up underneath Loot Lake, creating a floating island with a vortex underneath that you can do cool tornado murders in.

Kevin’s spent the past couple of weeks revisiting the scenes of its past graffiti-based crimes, and yesterday it started pulsating. The house on that island is also getting increasingly cubified, so my guess is that we’re about to see more of the map follow suit. (more…)

When two stag or hen parties chance upon each other down Espionage and merge, the ground trembles at the might of their combined banter and windows the length of Victoria Street rattle to their roars. I cannot begin to imagine the consequences if twelve parties should join forces. We’ll find out this weekend in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, as the stag & hen battle royale will tonight launches its first 50v50 event mode. God help the people of Yasnaya Polyana. You can buy some new threads too, as the devs are whopping a wad of Plunbucks in apology for that recent server-sorting screw-up.

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Back in the day, when we first started RPS, a lot of my day was spent searching through GameTrailers (sniff, thanks> GameTrailers) to find interesting-looking videos to write snark underneath. Now we force Dominic to do that, by means too criminal to describe, because there are only so many years you can do it for before you need to kill again. But I can’t stop myself from posting the new Accounting+ trailer from Crows Crows Crows, early in the morning before the rest of RPS has crawled out of the communal treehouse hammock, because it’s the best thing I’ve seen in over two hundred years.

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