The Civilisation series is a fascinating thing. Each new update takes the place of the older game on Steam’s top 100 most played games list and just sits there as other games come and go. I’ve never known a series to be quite so consistent like that. Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is there right now. It’s always been there. And it always will be.

People play for life. They while away evenings raising empires, maybe even not knowing that there are tweaks for the UI, bigger maps, and more in-depth city planning waiting to be installed. For a game with the long, long tail of Civ, grabbing moments back with mods can be a huge boon, which is what a few do here – but this group of best mods includes some fabulous add ons too. Ask yourself: can I afford to miss out?

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Between Persona 4 Golden, Catherine Classic, and Yakuza 0, Sega’s recent PC ports have been such a success that they have decided to keep them coming, and are planning to factor the PC into their future releases from the start.

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Fall Guys is a brilliant game which frequently makes you feel angry with yourself, and murderous towards the rest of humanity. But with our expert Fall Guys tips covering each of the 24 different games in this minigame-fuelled battle royale, you’ll learn how to wield the human condition like a weapon, and outlive countless other Fall Guys to become the champion of Ultimate Knockout.

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Free-to-play mech ’em up Hawken shut down its PC servers in early 2018. Alas, even the solo modes were lost to PC players as well when it was removed from Steam. Hawken didn’t have the most inspiring run on PC. It spent five years in early access, changed developers multiple times, and wound up with uninspiring concurrent player counts for a multiplayer game. Still there are some fans who aren’t willing to let the mechs stay dormant. They’ve managed to get a couple singleplayer game modes working again.

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The Fnatic React is a great all-round gaming headset, but its launch price of £70 made it a slightly tough sell compared to some of my other top gaming headset recommendations. Happily, it’s currently on sale for just £60 over at Amazon UK right now, making it a lot more tempting if you’re after something a bit more upmarket than the similarly-priced Logitech G432.

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Blueprints

are one of the most genius systems at work in Factorio, and it’s a crime that many players don’t know how to make proper use of Blueprints to save time and effort when building their factories. Our Factorio Blueprints guide will not only walk you through how to get started using and creating blueprints, but also invite you to use RPS’s very own Factorio Blueprint Book (along with a few other community-made blueprints) to help kickstart your factory!

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Nvidia haven’t formally announced their next-gen RTX 3000 graphics cards yet, but ever since they unveiled their new Ampere GPU architecture back in May, the internet has been rife with rumours about the release date, specs and price of Nvidia’s upcoming GPUs. Thankfully, it would appear we might be finally getting some proper, concrete information about Nvidia’s hotly anticipated RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti and maybe even RTX 3090 cards, as their GeForce Twitter account suggests something big is going down on August 31st.

To help you prepare for the big announcement and to help you separate fact from fiction, I’ve gathered up all the information I can find about Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs to try and make sense of the current online rumours. I will, of course, be updating this article on a regular basis as and when more information about Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs gets announced, so watch this space for more details on the RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090’s release date, price and specs. For now, though, here’s everything we know so far.

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The next generation of [cms-block] RTX 3000 graphics cards could be revealed on August 31st if a new cryptic tweet from the GPU maker is anything to go by, as they’ve just started the #UltimateCountdown to something big in 21 days time. The tweet itself contains nothing but an ellipsis, the aforementioned hashtag and a short clip of a ‘Big Bang’ style explosion, but Nvidia’s new Twitter header image for their GeForce account adds the phrase “21 days, 21 years,” harking back to the original announcement date of their very first GeForce GPU – the GeForce 256 – on August 31st 1999.

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Fall Guys came out last week and took the world by freak jelly storm. Over two million people have played it on Steam alone, which strikes me as an appropriately silly number for a game where 60 beans must complete ridiculous obstacle courses. As I just said in my Fall Guys review, the first few hours are a treat.

Sadly, I’m nearly ready to stop Falling. The handful of maps and mini-games quickly get repetitive, and I make a big deal about how much a level editor could stave off bean-nui. Good news! The devs have been chatting about adding one. Bad news! It’s a “huge undertaking” that doesn’t seem likely to appear anytime soon.

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The first stream of Crusader Kings 3 started with a classic moment last week. It managed to surprise the developers by revealing their sister as their lover which, hearteningly, shocks them. Any game that can make the creator do a double-take is good by me. The whole 47 minutes is a surprisingly breezy look at the regicide and intrigue at the heart of their upcoming grand strategy sim. Even when they killed their brother with a duck.

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