Forever trying to steal Steam’s limelight, Epic today launched the Epic Games Store Holiday Sale mere hours before the Steam Winter Sale started. Steam may have many more games on sale but the Epic Games Store has all those exclusives – and plenty of freebies. Epic have kicked off twelve days of freebies with the splendid turn-based tactical mech action of Into The Breach, yours to keep. ‘Tis the giving season, I’m told. They’re also handing out plenty of 10-off coupons.

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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales down and Boxing Day ahead, judging by the angle of the sun it must be… yes, that’s it, it’s time for the Steam Winter Sale. Winter may not start for another few days but hell, that doesn’t stop the sale being vast and the games being cheap. Valve have another metagame for people who get into that, with Holiday Quests giving Festivity Tokens to spend in a Holiday Market. But you can also ignore that and just buy cheap games. When the servers stand back up.

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After having spoken to four of Roblox s leading developers, I wanted to understand how Roblox sees itself, how its been changing, and how the company aims to continue developing it. So I got to talk with Craig Donato, Roblox s chief business officer. In charge of developer relations, he s directly responsible for managing the world in which Roblox s creators build.

When we think about our platform, we don t provide tools, he told me. We think about what we need to provide that enables a 15-year-old to produce a game with a billion plays and over 100,000 concurrent users. That s not just a tool to build the game. You need to host it, to moderate it, be able to collect payments in multiple currencies. In other words, Roblox is serious business. (more…)

Inspired by a journey glitching beyond the world boundary of Red Dead Redemption 2, Ian MacLarty (the maker of Action Painting Pro and Catacombs Of Solaris) has created his own weird desert adventure to share with us all. Red Desert Render is a rolling landscape to explore with a few tasks to achieve and glitches to find. It’s pleasant enough as a walking simulator, and I thought it was at first, but it turns out unlikely-sounding objectives like changing outfit are real. Red Desert Render also has an idea every first-person game should copy right now: the ability to curl up into a ball at any time to just roll downhill.

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19 straight days of RPS Advent Calendar! You deserve a break, eventually. But there’s work still to be done, so open up the next door!

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With the last patch in TFT for this year dropping just a few days ago, there are several big changes that have happened since we last updated our TFT comps guide. Eggroll has been nerfed significantly, while other comps have had key champions upgraded to rather insane levels.

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There’s an old saying in gaming monitor circles that once you’ve gone ultrawide, there’s no going back. Indeed, having had the vast Samsung CRG9 hogging my desk for a bit last month, I’m inclined to agree. But what do games actually look like on a screen this wide? It’s one thing looking at lovely wallpapers, but another thing entirely to have a game occupy your entire field of vision.

To find out, and more importantly show you>, I’ve rounded up all the very best ultrawide PC games, complete with pictures of what they actually look like in the flesh, plus oodles of lovely GIFs so you can see how it works in action. If you thought playing Red Dead Redemption 2 in 5120×1440 was impressive, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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It seems Riot just can’t leave TFT alone for a few weeks before dropping a patch! The 9.24b hot-fix patch has tinkered with a couple of items that saw an increased amount of usage and were proving to be a tad too effective. There were bigger changes of course, not least of which the 3-star health stats across each champion, but the updates to Swordbreaker and Hush are important too.

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There is drama within every Mordhau battle, but most of them don’t feature betrayal, family, and boisterous pub goers. All are prominent in the latest work from “Frost The Canadian”, a film maker dedicated to creating in-game epics with stupid sword boys. It’s machinima, except better than usual because you know everyone you see is a real person making use of Mordhau’s daft voice lines and emotes.

Come and watch this tale of sad blue people chopping up sadder red people. May it distract from modern times.

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Everyone loves a good RPG right? Compelling dialogue, interesting choices, the gradual accumulation of power to defeat a big baddie. Problem is proper, deep ones take years to make and are becoming rarer all the time. So what s the solution? Simple: hack other games into being RPGs!

I m not talking about modding, or other feats of technological wizardry. I’m taking about shoe-horning an RPG into existing games in the name of fun, with just your imagination. I recently put this into practise as the Game Master, ODD the robot, on the adventures of the Wastes Of Space. I helped some of RPS’s staffers have some ridiculous space RPG shenanigans, in a sandbox game about physics and engineering. And you can make your own fun just like this! How you may ask? Well, with these five surprisingly detailed steps.

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