Your gaming monitor is one of the most important parts in your entire PC, but finding the best gaming monitor for you and your budget can be difficult when there are so many different models to choose from. After all, it’s no good spending loads of money upgrading your PC with a fancy graphics card and CPU if you don’t have a good-looking gaming monitor to show off your favourite games on.

Thankfully, you don’t need to spend hundreds and hundreds to get a really good gaming screen, as the one of the best gaming monitors I’ve tested here at RPS doesn’t even break the £200 / $200 mark. Indeed, in my list of best gaming monitors for 2020, I’ve included everything from the best budget gaming monitors, the best gaming monitors with high refresh rates, as well as my top picks for all the best 4K and ultrawide gaming monitors out there. Whatever screen size or resolution you’re looking for, I’ve got a best gaming monitor recommendations for you.

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The simulated traffic of American Truck Simulator is now packing some satisfying upgrades under the bonnet, with a new sound engine helping make the world feel more real. Other vehicles sound more present as they trundle past, and I feel the wind whipping in my hair when I use another new feature: the ability to wind your windows down. It’s nice, all this.

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Valve have been drip-feeding us details about the return of Artifact, but now they’ve opened the flood gates. The latest blog post about their card ’em up digs into all sorts of nuances, from revamped mana curves to fiddly initiative rules. They’re also muttering about a ranked progression system similar to Dota Underlords‘, and a singleplayer campaign that will continue the story from the Call To Arms comic.

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Valve have been drip-feeding us details about the return of Artifact, but now they’ve opened the flood gates. The latest blog post about their card ’em up digs into all sorts of nuances, from revamped mana curves to fiddly initiative rules. They’re also muttering about a ranked progression system similar to Dota Underlords‘, and a singleplayer campaign that will continue the story from the Call To Arms comic.

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Good news for VR fans this morning, as the Oculus Quest is finally back in stock over on Oculus’ website. The standalone VR headset doesn’t technically require a PC in order to play VR games, but thanks to the recent launch of Oculus Link which is currently in beta for the Quest, you can indeed now play Oculus Rift games on the Quest as long as you don’t mind connecting it to your PC via a high-speed USB-C cable. Here’s where you can get one.

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When my brother and I were young, we would often harass my parents to spare a few quid for the arcades. Coins in sticky hands, we would immediately run-up to the first Time Crisis machine we saw and proceed to blow away terrorists to our hearts’ content. It was amazing just how much power those little blue and pink plastic guns made us feel.

I have always had a deep affinity for games with excellent guns. From modern military shooters to fantastical sci-fi space operas, if there is a gun to be shooting, I am all in. And clearly, I am not alone. But of course, in the real world, guns aren’t as simple as holding right-click and spamming left. Real guns come with responsibility, unreliability and enormous consequences (which of course may all be reasons why we enjoy the fake ones). Enter: Disco Elysium.

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Logitech have announced a new addition to their G series of gaming mice today, the G203 Lightsync. Aimed at the budget end of the gaming mouse spectrum, this £35 / $40 mouse will be going up against the Steelseries Rival 3 and excellent HyperX Pulsefire Core when it hits shop shelves next month, but does it have what it takes to break into my best gaming mouse rankings? Here’s what to expect.

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The enormous stick of butter pictured above is your client. He’s hired you to join him in a virtual reality simulation, and he wants you to cover him in slices of toast. Get to work.

This is Virtual Virtual Reality, a virtual reality game in which you put on virtual reality headsets (in the game) to perform strange jobs for AI.

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Twice-annual online game jam event Ludum Dare is wrapping up this evening so let’s check out some of the nifty things that have been submitted so far, shall we? These are all games made from scratch over the course of the weekend, so there are plenty of odd bits and bobs built to Ludum Dare 46’s theme “keep it alive.” Among them are a time-based line puzzle, a coal and heart-powered train ride, and a horrifying lovecraftian Katamari-like thing.

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If you didn’t know that Facebook have their own game streaming network, don’t worry. Neither did I. Facebook Gaming is the blue giant’s gaming-only spin on Twitch, YouTube, and Mixer. It’s existed on browsers for a while, but is now available as a standalone mobile app that launched on the Google Play Store today. An iPhone version is still “in the works.” (more…)