The next game from the director of the video watching ’em ups Telling Lies and Her Story is teasing his next game but, ah, a few details are missing. Or redacted, rather. Sam Barlow’s next narrative thing has emerged with a store page full of blacked-out text, including it’s name. It didn’t take folks to dig up that part, at least. Its name (or at least code name) is Project Ambrosio and will be out in, well, this millennium.

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There are so many different gaming keyboards to choose from these days, but the good news is that we’ve done the hard work for you and put together our very own list of all the best gaming keyboards you can buy today. We’ve tested dozens of gaming keyboards to compile this list of our best gaming keyboard recommendations, and below you’ll find all of our top picks for the best mechanical gaming keyboards, the best membrane gaming keyboards and the best wireless gaming keyboards, plus a couple of extras that were too good not to include.

We’d be happy with any one of these gaming keyboards on our desk, so whatever type of gaming keyboard you’re looking for, these are the best gaming keyboards you can buy right now.

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Hades

is a roguelike dungeon crawler that sees you fight your way through ever shifting levels of the underworld, from wispy shades of the undead to foes of Greek legend, on frantic battlegrounds that can send you to your death in an instant. As a disabled player, oftentimes I don’t have access to kinds of games like Hades.

I have a connective tissue disorder that means all of my joints naturally extend beyond their normal range due to… something funky with my collagen. It’s great for party tricks – I can unhinge my jaw like a snake to fit an inhuman amount of cheese in my mouth – but I also can’t opt out of hyperextending, which means every time I move a joint without being intentional about what I’m doing, I can risk a sprain or dislocation. I both have to be careful to not over-strain my joints, and also deal with just an inordinate amount of muscle fatigue from normal activity.

This hasn’t stopped me playing video games, but it does limit how> I play them. Greg Kasavin, the creative director for Supergiant Games, was kind enough to provide some insight about the design process for weapons like the Twin Fists, and the introduction of accessible design throughout Hades.

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Hades

has been in early access for over a year now, though you’d hardly know it—what with being on RPS’s list of best action games already. Supergiant Games have now pushed out what they say is the last update standing between the hellish roguelike and an escape from early access. The Blood Price update is out now and the next big release will be version 1.0. (more…)

As more and more of us head online to play games with our mates, having a great gaming headset is absolutely vital if you want top notch audio and crystal clear voice chat, so we’ve put together our list of the best gaming headsets you can buy right now to help you find the right one for you and your budget. The best gaming headsets not only have fantastic audio quality, but they’re also comfortable to wear for long periods of time and have great microphones, and I’ve tested dozes of wired and wireless gaming headsets to bring you the cream of the best gaming headset crop.

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While Cyberpunk 2077 was recently delayed yet again, CD Projekt Red have settled on only one delay for Night City Wire. Their livestreamed notE3 presentation was pushed back two weeks to Thursday the 25th, and will be at 6pm CEST (that’s 5pm here in the UK, 9am Pacific). It’ll be 25 minutes long, show some new gameplay from the RPG, and chat with devs about digital dreams. To occupy your cyberhands until then, they’ve bundled up 4GB of concept art, posters, screenshots, and more for your persual. Too bad they slapped the game’s logo on everything, the rats.

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Best Buy have knocked $100 off the price of Samsung’s ludicrously wide CHG90 gaming monitor as part of their latest PC Gaming sale at the moment, bringing this once $1000 gaming screen down to $900. That’s still a sizeable chunk of change, of course, but this is the cheapest this monitor’s been since mid-March, making it a good time to pick up this jumbo gaming display. Plus, there are loads of mice, keyboards and headsets on sale, too, to complete your PC upgrade. Read on below for our top highlights.

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Back in the noughties, video game publishers Acclaim were masters of the scandalous PR stunt. For Shadow Man 2, they offered to pay funeral costs to put ads on tombstones. They offered to pay speeding fines on Burnout 2’s launch day. They wanted bus shelter posters leaking fake blood. They claimed they had pigeons spraypainted with Virtua Tennis 2 logos to fly around Wimbledon. In a bit of pointless investigative journalism of the very best kind, Connor Makar on VG247 has probed their 2002 stunt of promoting Turok 4 by offering £500 if you legally changed your name to ‘Turok’. Go read it, yeah?

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Riot intended to add a ranked “Competetive Mode” to Valorant, but they found a last-minute bug and so they’re holding it back – probably “for a day or two”. That’s OK. Numberwang can wait, because yesterday’s patch also added a surrender option. That’s a big deal, and I for one welcome it. It does mean you’ll sometimes wind up with unpleasant teammates who insist on giving up on games that can still be won, but it also means you don’t have to sit around allowing unpleasant teammates to make you miserable.

Riot have also tweaked the maps a bit, changed lots of abilities, and adjusted the slowing effect when you get shot “in part to up your chances of escape if you’re near cover”. It’s a big old patch, even without ranked.

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I am still very much riding the Monster Train. When you write a review as positive as the one I did for Shiny Shoe’s stupendous Slay The Spire-like, you do end up doubting yourself. Oh God, you think, what if it isn’t all that great, actually? What if this was one of those times where a game really specifically catered to my preferences, and my enthusiasm was overblown? What if I stop playing this in a few days, rather than the years (or at least months!) I anticipated. What if I’m bad, actually.

Yeah well forget that, because Monster Train is still ace. I want to talk more about why, and how other games can learn from it. There are loads of lessons I could choose from, but let’s start with clan combos. I think you could apply the principles here to almost any roguelike.

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