Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ollie Toms)

Cyberpunk 2077 romance guide: how to romance Judy, Panam, and more

Cyberpunk 2077 is a game all about player choice, and that includes romance options. Aside from one-night stands and hiring prostitutes, there are a handful of more fleshed out characters who you can get to know and, if you play your cards right, you can start a more meaningful relationship with them. Our Cyberpunk 2077 romance guide will walk you through how to romance Judy, Panam, River, Kerry, and Meredith, so you don’t have to worry about whether you’re making any wrong decisions during your journeys.

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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Season 10 of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has arrived with update 10.1 bringing a new map with some brand new enemies. The new Haven map is a small one, dropping in a total of 32 combatants on the map. You’ve got more than 31 enemies though, because some new AI baddies will be guarding the loot this season.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Alright alright, quiet down class. We’ve got a new student in the school of unlikely objects used to control games. Move over, goose costume. Pipe down, theremin. This Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War player is using a recorder. Yes, the thing you never properly learned to play Hot Cross Buns on can be used to (sometimes) score kills in Cold War’s multiplayer.

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Calico - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Cat cafe simulation Calico has come out of the oven right on time. I was starting to fear that it would roll over into the new year without hitting its expected 2020 release window. Never fear though, Calico has scooted out here in the last weeks of the year, so you can jump in to decorate cakes, collect animal friends, and assemble your cafe right now.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Earlier today, the developers of the horror game Devotion announced it would return to sale via GOG on Friday. It’s been unavailable for purchase since early 2019 due to an in-game joke at the expense of Chinese president Xi Jinping. Hours later, GOG have released their own peculiar statement reversing their decision to release it.

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Happy Game - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

A Happy Game screenshot showing spooky figures emerging from inside a head, holding a severed head on a plate plus a knife and some salt.

The makers of joyful adventure games like Chuchel last night announced Happy Game, and it most certainly is not so. They’re going grim ‘n’ gory with this “psychedelic horror adventure” next year, bursting with blood, bone, guts, grinders, guillotines, and even a skellington. But it still looks like an Amanita adventure game, even if you maybe shouldn’t share it with the kids. See for yourself in the trailer below.

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Among Us - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

You can murder friends on mobile and PC with Among Us' crossplay.

Multiplayer imposter-hunting game Among Us now has a Nintendo Switch version, I say on this here PC gaming website. What’s that matter to you lot? Well, it’s got cross-platform multiplayer so you PC-owning folks can play with your Switch-having pals. It’s a nice pre-holiday surprise for those of us wondering what we can pick up to share with our friends while we stay separated through the winter.

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Dec 16, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

A screenshot of V, the female protagonist from Cyberpunk 2077, posing with a weapon amid a wasteland of trash. It may be a visual metaphor of some kind.

I was in an NPC’s car as she drove us across Night City when a thought occurred to me. We were driving at night to perform a risky stealth mission, which required me to break into a compound filled with military security so we could, to put it briefly, hack the planet. On the drive, two cars spawned out of thin air in front of us, blocking the road, but my driver didn’t react. We plowed into one of the cars as if it wasn’t there, sending it twirling into the air like it was stuffed with helium. Our own car wasn’t even slowed down.

The thought: Cyberpunk 2077 has as much in common with early ’00s Eurojank as it does with the Rockstar games it aspires to. I’m OK with this. If it’s a choice between a less polished Grand Theft Auto or a high budget Boiling Point, I’d choose the latter every time.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

A queue of people come to consult an astrologer in an illustration from 'The Evil Eye; or, the Black spectre. A romance. Illustrated with thirteen engravings on wood, from drawings by Edmund Fitzpatrick'.

Reader dear, what do you want for Christmas from RPS? We’ve opened a new survey all about that. While our annual reader survey asks questions about you, this one focuses on us: what do you like about RPS, how well do you think we’re doing, and what more do you want from us? I’m sure I won’t find this experience at all humbling. It also has questions to help us shape the perks of our RPS supporter program.

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

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

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I wouldn’t open the sixteenth door of the RPS Advent Calendar if I were you. Pretty sure there’s someone on the other side ready to punch and/or kick you. Oh, you’re going for it anyway? Okay, well. On your head be it.

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