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A ten-sided shape appears in your hands. It's this week's podcast! And it's all about puzzle games. John enjoys number puzzles like Hexcells and Globesweeper. Matt enjoys the Jindosh box of Dishonored 2. And Brendan likes being a pretend hacker in Zachlikes. But we’ve also played non-puzzle games. Apex Legends has been keeping Matt happy with its bullets and crows. While John is liking the unserio...

This week: the best guns. The pod squad are stocking a chest full of videogame firearms. Matthew is stocking a laser pointer from Gears of War, Alice wants the exploding teddy gun from Sunset Overdrive, and Brendan is taking Symmetra's energy gun from Overwatch. But we've also been playing games! Come hear our thoughts on post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus and Inkle's upcoming translate 'em up...

Oh, grow up. Booby traps as in “dangerous mechanisms that kill over-confident explorers”. Be they in temples, tombs or tunnels - traps can be anywhere (so long as it begins with a “T”). Katharine celebrates the hungry foxes of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. Brendan is fond of the jail cells of the Resident Evil 2 remake. And Alice B appreciates Half-Life 2’s barnacles. We also play a little "death tra...

Videogames! That’s the topic this week. Okay, you got us, we couldn’t be arsed to do a theme. But we've been playing a lot of games. Graham comes on to discuss the teeny-weeny strategies of Wargroove. And John has been enjoying the company of penguins in Subnautica: Below Zero. Meanwhile, Brendan has been running away in Resident Evil 2, trying to escape a big man in a hat. Links: Brendan’s Wargro...

Battle royales. The RPS treehouse is unable to comprehend these destructive influences on society. Well, this week we’ve got a young person to help us decipher them. Ollie, one of our guides writers and freshest recruit, plays Fortnite for the fun of it. So he has been drafted in to chat to Alice B and Brendan about the ultra-deathmatch, among others. Links: Fortnite’s trap towers: https://www.you...

In this episode, we’ll take a look at accessibility in gaming. We talk to the studios making specialist hardware, the people that use it, and the activists and advocates who are trying to do even more to bring gaming to those who aren't able to put two hands on a keyboard or a gamepad. To read a transcript of this episode, please go here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/141PFfT-DInmZGn4NxIcjEtW...

New year, old friends. The RPS podcast have not been reborn, they have no resolutions, no goal to learn German or eat more spinach. They just want to play more games. Alice B is looking forward to zipping about in a big metal space tuxedo in Anthem. And Brendan is keen to let loose his inner ninja in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. But there are many, many more. Links: The most anticipated games of 201...

Sometimes we get emails from people who think we create the videogames we're writing about. They report bugs, complain about crashes, demand refunds, or gush enthusiastically while asking for DLC. In lieu of a real episode this week, please enjoy some of these emails. Happy Christmas from RPS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year 2018 is going down in a storm. Hundreds of games will perish. But there’s one tiny lifeboat, and enough room for three games. It falls on the sorry shoulders of the RPS podcast crew to decide which games survive. Listen to find out what survives this terrible fate. Alice B is vouching for a well-known blockbuster. Brendan is sticking with the nautical theme. And Alice L is saving some sli...

There were too many games in November. So we're running through as many newly released games as we can, from Hitman 2 to Darksiders 3 to Just Cause 4 to… well, lots more. Links: Hitman 2 review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/08/hitman-2-review/ Hitman is about killing your boss: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/07/19/hitman-and-the-joy-of-killing-your-boss/ Mutant Year Zero: Road T...

This week, three of the boyz chat about their early impressions of card game Artifact. Matt quite likes the nitty gritty complexity of it all, but Dave says it needs to be streamlined, and Brendan is simply too stupid to understand all the moving pieces. There there, Brendan. There there. Links: Artifact is out now: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/11/28/cards-on-the-table-artifact-is-out/ Da...

The world is ending, so here's the team screaming about the best post-apocalyptic games. Brendan enjoys the dark tunnels of the Metro shooters, and Alice B likes the river navigation of The Flame in the Flood. Meanwhile, John enjoys The Long Dark but also yearns for a game where the apocalypse is one of abundance and zoo animals. Links: We celebrated Apocalypse Day this week: https://www.rockpaper...

It's a real mystery this week. Matthew has been solving murders in Return of the Obra Dinn and indulging his detective skills. Meanwhile, Alice has fond memories of a creepy Watson, and Brendan scratches his head over an alien language. Links: Matthew’s Return of the Obra Dinn review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/10/26/return-of-the-obra-dinn-review/ How a book binds the Return of the Obr...

We're talking kings and queens this week. Brendan likes the off-hand lieges of Mount & Blade, while Alice B pitied the downfall of the Lich King of Warcraft. And Katharine appreciates the wholesome rule of child king Evan from Ni No Kuni II. But these are just some of the rulers we chat about. We’ve also been playing Reigns: Game of Thrones and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales. It’s a very royal e...

This week we are talking: panic. Matt describes the panic he felt in Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, but also an unnerving encounter in the terrible land of DayZ. Meanwhile, Brendan praises the panic of Duskers and how it makes you type useless commands. But we also talk a bit more about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and there’s a fun quiz featuring the support emails we often get sent in error. Links: D...

From the powerful hoof of Kassandra in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey to the zombie-launching boot of Dying Light, we are chatting about the most forceful feet in games. Alice likes the rapid kicks of Street Fighter’s Chun-Li, while Brendan enjoys the stumbling hoofs of Miguel in Tekken 7. But it’s not all toepokes. Alice has been delivering olives and flirting with Greeks in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. A...

We went to EGX, the games show in Birmingham, England. And there were TOO MANY GAMES. Alice Bell, Matthew, Katharine and Graham gathered together live on stage and spoke about the best games at the show. They all enjoyed otherworldly detective RPG Disco Elysium, but there's also chat about 90s net surfing game Hypnospace Outlaw, and crazy putt game What The Golf. Learn more about your ad choices....

John drafts in his three-year-old son Toby to describe the games in this week's Steam Charts. Kingdom Come Deliverance becomes a horrible fighting game called 'Meanies', SCUM becomes 'The Horrible Story', and the sad beasts of Monster Hunter World become the joyous dinosaurs of 'Pterodactyl Spinners'. To see the Steam Charts, just head here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/09/24/steam-charts...

We're talking about funny bugs. Alice Liguori of the video squad joins us to say hello, and to celebrate the twitchy bodies of the Sims. Meanwhile, Alice Bell tells us about a rude Wyvern who keeps interrupting a romance scene in Dragon Age: Inquisition. And Brendan tests our bug knowledge with a patch notes quiz. We've also been playing Two Point Hospital, Spy Party and Unavowed. We're so very ve...

Onimusha is back, so let's talk about our dream remakes. Dave wants the turn-based tactics of Shining Force to make a comeback, and Brendan is angry that Capcom have said nothing about Dino Crisis. There are other suggestions. A remake of Croc made by From Software? Why not. Gone Home redesigned from the ground up by Ubisoft? Uh, no thanks. Links: All our Gamescom coverage from this year: https://...

We're in Cologne! It's Gamescom, the yearly games show, where we've been looking at Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus, Biomutant, Dying Light 2, Ape Out, Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot and many more. We recorded this after the first day of the show, in an echoey hotel room, so apologies for the sound quality. We’ve since played Sekiro, Anthem, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Battlefield V, and lots more. So kee...

Good end, bad end, noncommittal end. But what are the worst endings of all time? Matt reckons the big ol’ fart noise at the end of Mass Effect 3’s deserves a mention. And Noa thinks Dragon Age: Inquisition’s final moments were rubbish. Meanwhile, Brendan doesn’t like the ending of Tacoma. What? Shut up, Brendan. But we’ve also been polishing memories in Finding Paradise, hacking chocolate bars in...

Then the bus EXPLODED. Hello, we're talking about the best game openings this week. Cold opens or slow burns, we love a good first impression. Matthew and Brendan are both boring, however, and pick all the usual suspects, from BioShock to Half-Life 2. But there are some unexpected loves too. We’ve also been playing No Man’s Sky and Dead Cells. And there's a game opening quiz too. Hooray! Links: Bi...

We’re talking about our dream games - games we want but don't exist so far. John wants a Robinson Crusoe style survival game that isn’t so punishing to those who can’t reach the good coconuts. Brendan wants an open world talk ‘em up with obscene amounts of detail. Speaking of dream games, John has also been playing No Man’s Sky again, following the recent update. He hasn’t tried multiplayer yet, b...

We're talking about music in games this week, and what makes a good soundtrack. The bleeps and bloops of Pac Man, or the orchestras of Oblivion? We’ve also done a music quiz! Can you guess the game based on a few seconds of music? Alice likes the music from the Fallout series, while Brendan is more into the chiptune of VVVVVV. Katharine is a devourer of music and even goes to concerts for Final Fa...