Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Based on what we know about biggo sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 so far, you could likely spend a couple hours just sitting around in character creation or wandering the city streets. While you’re out there getting lost like a tourist in the giant, neon city, might as well stop for a photo or two as proper tourists do, right? CD PRojekt Red have published a new video today showing off the many features of the game’s photo mode including some quite familiar poses, another way to likely lose a few hours in Night City.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Lots of bounty hunters including the Mando from Fortnite's new season.

Alright, let me get this straight. Last night, Fortnite was eaten by Marvel villain Galactus, but Iron Man swooped in and put you in a battle bus rigged with explosives so he’d blow up in the process. The Fortnite island exploded as well, but has now magically come back to life, and everyone and his mum is a bounty hunter?

It’s been so long since I’ve played this game. But you know what? Fortnite Season 5 sounds like a party. It added everyone’s favourite bounty-hunting duo, Mando and Baby Yoda, and made a load of changes to its map and lore to boot.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Xbox Game Pass for PC continues to collect some absolute belters, with the likes of Doom Eternal, Va-11 Hall-A, Yes, Your Grace and Call Of The Sea headlining its new additions this month.

There’s loads more coming throughout December, too. Looking down the list we’ve got Greedfall, Unto The End and Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair. Genuinely, if you’ve been looking for a good time to try out the Game Pass for its cheapo £1 / $1 first month deal, I think now might be your chance.

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An image of Horace the endless bear wrapped around a Christmas tree, for the RPS advent calendar 2020.

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As a year, 2020 felt about 25 years long. Maybe that was because of all the world events>, but videogames also had a hand in warping our sense of time. Which of our favourite games lies behind door number two in the advent calendar? Click below to find out.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

A portrait screenshot of Athena in Immortals Fenyx Rising, in her true form, which is that of a giant brunette with blue eyes. She is holding a spear in her right hand, and is wearing a helmet sort of perched on top of her head, presumably so it doesn't ruin her hair.

A while ago I commented on the hugeness, and powerful auras, of the women in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s godly DLC. And their hugeness was only a step up from Kassandra, already a big hench mercenary girl about a foot taller than any other human that dared to look at her.

Then they brought out Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, a Viking epic starring Eivor, who is a blonde giantess with massive boots who kicks over tables and won’t put up with literally anything from literally anybody. And now, there is Immortals Fenyx Rising, which sprung its massive god women on me without any warning. I am starting to suspect that the Anvil engine became sentient in the last few years and if you don’t put a certain number of giant ladies in your game it just stops working and sulks – in which case the Tom Clancy series is about to get really awesome.

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Yakuza: Like a Dragon - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ed Thorn)

Kasuga punches an enemy with a swing that glows blue.Yakuza: Like A Dragon’s

turn-based fights are a turning point for the bat-swinging, crime caper that is the Yakuza series. I thought the game still retained its messy brawls even after the added tactical punch, but according to the latest patch, the game has been missing a key battle feature this whole time: “WEAK”.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Characters from Failbetter Games' new romantic visual novel, Mask Of The Rose.

It’s time to head back to 1862, and date some people who may well be murderers. Failbetter Games have announced Mask Of The Rose, a romantic visual novel set in the Fallen London universe. It’s a prequel to all of Failbetter’s games, including Fallen London itself, as well as Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, and follows a group of lodgers in a boarding house just months after Victorian London has gone underground. Ah, trapped in a creepy underground building together, what better place for love to blossom, eh?

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Apex Legends™ - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Revenant, Rampart and Pathfinder looking nice and Christmassy for Apex Legends' winter event.

A few months ago, Apex Legends cruelly took away the train, the best bit of its World’s Edge map, leaving us with nothing but boring stationary ground to fight on. Man, the train was amazing. Oh how I loved the rush of dropping onto that speedy death tube, wading through the gas of six Caustics in an attempt to find loot. It’s a buzz we’ll all be able to feel again this holiday season, however, because Respawn have brought it back for Apex’s winter event, the Holo-Day Bash.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

A photo of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition

Nvidia’s new RTX 3060 Ti graphics card might have come out of the blue yesterday, but if you’re looking to get hold of one Nvidia’s newly announced ray tracing GPUs, you’re in the right place. Launching at 6am PT / 2pm GMT today, December 2nd, the RTX 3060 Ti is arguably the next-gen RTX card you’ve been waiting for all along – and you can find out exactly why in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti review. Offering RTX 2080 Super-level performance for a fraction of the cost, the RTX 3060 Ti is likely to be in hot demand when pre-orders open later on, so here’s exactly where you can buy one so you don’t miss out.

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Baba Is You - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Law)

Baba Is You

. You control Baba. Cute lil pixely pal Baba. In the first level, you’re given some pretty simple prompts. Baba Is You, Rock is Push, Flag is Win, and Wall is Stop. Thankfully, these all seem intuitive. You can’t pass through the wall, but you can push the rock. Moving around with the arrow keys controls Baba. Touch the flag to win.

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