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

If you’re looking for a list of all the confirmed Nvidia G-Sync Compatible monitors, then you’re in the right place. Below, you’ll find every AMD Freesync monitor that’s been officially certified by Nvidia as meeting their G-Sync Compatible standard so far, and we also tell you everything you need to know about how to enable G-Sync on any Freesync monitor as well.

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Knee Deep - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

Two men and a Labrador sit in a convertible car. One, Robert Woodstep, is telling the other he should

All the world’s a stage, as some idiot once said. This is literally true in Knee Deep, an adventure-slash-mystery game set in weirdo small town Cypress Knee, but that plays out on a large theatre stage. The locations are all bits of set. They rotate in and out. The walls drop away. It’s fun.

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

A screenshot from Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis, showing Indy flat on his back after falling over. Speech above him reads, "Oof".

Earlier today publisher Bethesda Softowrks announced that MachineGames, the developers of the recent Wolfenstein games, were working on a new Indiana Jones game. There’s not much more known about the game other than that it is quite a ways off, and so I am here to beg the developers now: please let Indy fall down a lot.

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Rec Room - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Pals sharing some pizza round a table in VR game Rec Room.Rec Room

is sort of like Roblox: a place where people can make their own games and easily chat and play with friends. Where it most differs from Roblox is its early focus on supporting virtual reality, and its developers now report that the game has “over 1 million monthly active VR users”. That’s a lot.

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The Sims™ 4 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

A frame from the trailer for The Sims 4 Paranormal Stuff pack, in which Bonehilda - a skeleton maid - is visible in the background.The Sims 4

appeals to me because it lets me build the kind of Pinterest-worthy homes I’ll never live in in real-life, so I’m often more excited about the game’s Stuff packs than its game-changing expansions. This time is no different: the Paranormal stuff pack arrives later this month and as well as adding a new career and bringing back Bonehilda, it also adds some sweet looking desks.

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Farthest Frontier - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

A screenshot of Farthest Frontier, a citybuilding game, showing a snowy city filled with ramshackle wooden houses.

It’s January, which means it’s almost time for YouTube to start serving me nothing but list videos about the most exciting citybuilders of 2021. It does this because I watch every one it recommends, every year. I’m betting Farthest Frontier will be high placed on some of those videos: it’s a middle ages-ish citybuilder about leading your people to survive harsh winters and miserable diseases, and it’s from the makers of well-liked action RPG Grim Dawn.

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

A first-person screenshot of Grapple Hoops., depicting an outstretched arm preparing to dunk a ball in a basket.

Grapple hooks: the confirmed best thing in videogames. Grapple Hoops: a first-person game in which you grapple hook across an obstacle course, smash and kick through doors and windows, and then explosively dunk a basketball into a hoop. There’s a pre-alpha demo you can play right now, but at the very least you owe it to yourself to watch the video.

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

An image of the white and black versions of Razer's Project Hazel face mask.

Back at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer began converting some of their manufacturing facilities to make face masks for frontline workers. So far, they’ve donated over a million face masks worldwide to hospitals, governments and other healthcare organisations, but now Razer are putting their own spin on this now vital part of our lives with their Project Hazel concept. Dubbed the world’s smartest face mask, Project Hazel has a clear, transparent design with a built-in voice amplifier to make it easier to talk to people around you, and it will also clean and disinfect itself via UV lights inside its special charging box. Why does a face mask need a charging box, I hear you ask? Well, it’s got Razer Chroma RGBs built into it, doesn’t it?

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

A concept image of Razer's unfolding gaming chair known as Project Brooklyn.

CES has brought us some some bonkers bits of gaming tech in years gone by. Last year, it was Dell’s Alienware UFO Switch-alike. The year before that, it was Razer’s HyperSense prototype, a complete haptic feedback system designed to put you right in the centre of your gaming experience. This year, Razer have gone one step further and created what they’re hoping is going to be the ultimate gaming chair. Currently codenamed Project Brooklyn, this mad thing has a fold-out 60in OLED display that wraps around your head, and transformable arm rests that double-up as a keyboard tray. And, of course, it has Razer Chroma LEDs aplenty in the seat and base to light up your room with the same colours as what’s onscreen.

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

A collection of Nvidia RTX 30 gaming laptops

Nvidia have just announced their RTX 30 GPUs are coming to laptops, and that can only mean one thing. We’re about to get inundated with dozens and dozens of newly refreshed gaming laptops, all with beefed up innards and even higher resolutions and refresh rate displays to make the most of Nvidia’s latest crop of mobile RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 chips. While many laptops are familiar riffs on what we’ve seen before, there are a couple of new ones on the horizon that look set to offer even more ways to play when we’re away from our PCs. Here are the most exciting gaming laptops to watch out for in 2021.

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