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Black Friday can help you save a bundle on Alienware desktops with RTX 5080 GPUs - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-30T01:00:00.000Z

With manufacturers looking to raise prices to fuel the AI age we’re sleepwalking blindly towards, Black Friday weekend might offer the last chance to save on PC hardware for a while.

Save $250 on the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS this Black Friday weekend - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T23:30:00.000Z

Black Friday weekend may not offer the same deals it once did, but that’s not to say there aren’t savings to be had.

Become a wolfgirl with a fliphone and explore brutalist, liminal dreamscapes in nophenia - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T22:50:58.000Z

I understand why walking sims aren't really a thing any more. Some of the earliest big names like Gone Home, Dear Esther, and arguably The Stanley Parable all came at a time where indie games were growing in popularity, but were still predominantly 2D. Something simple like a walking sim is obviously quite resourceful compared to contemporary AAA games, but now the indie scene has blown up to the point where mechanics-first genres like roguelikes are dominating. Except I like walking sims! So when a game like nophenia, a walking sim where you're a wolfgirl with a flip phone exploring different dream worlds, shows up, I'm going to pay attention.

The Long Dark: Wintermute's final episode catches a delay but nabs a concrete release date to make up for it - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T21:30:03.000Z

Crikey, it's been a long time coming, but it looks like The Long Dark is finally coming to a close… next year. Up until earlier this week, the fifth and final episode of The Long Dark's Wintermute DLC was due to be released by the end of the year. As you've probably gathered, the end of the year is very close now, so as a result, episode five has been delayed, but it is a delay that at least comes with a concrete release date.

Into the Fire mixes fire and rescue, mysterious folklore, and a volcanic island in what might be yet another Divine Comedy adaptation - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T19:00:55.000Z

When I first caught a very quick glimpse at Into the Fire, the kind of glimpse where you more just see a character design amidst a bunch of fire, I thought it was a new simulation game. A fireman sim, that kind of thing, the kind of game I'm sure exists already without needing to Google it. Into the Fire is not that at all. There is fire, and there is rescue, but there are also ancient mysteries amongst natural disasters, fiery, destructive jellyfish-esque spirits, and a tantalizing mix of science-fiction, folklore, and the supernatural.

A new Dead Rising is reportedly on the way, and one that might come with a familiar face - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T18:06:54.000Z

All that trouble going on with Monster Hunter Wilds aside, for a good long while now Capcom has been doing quite well for itself. Multiple quite well liked Resident Evil games, fresh new bits like Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess and the upcoming Pragmata, and even a few remasters, namely for the Ace Attorney games (throw a dog a bone and give us a new one of those, though Capcom), but also for series like Dead Rising that also haven't had a new entry in a while. Well, for now at least, as a new report suggests a new Dead Rising might be in our future.

However a non-Hollow Knight game from Team Cherry might look, there's a particular through line you can still expect - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T17:09:50.000Z

Right now, Team Cherry's future is pretty unclear. There is some kind of Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC that'll be coming somewhere along the line, but understandably the developer is keeping their cards close to their chest in terms of what's actually next. They certainly do have some ideas on how they would expand Hollow Knight, i.e. by not making any direct sequels, much like how Silksong isn't one. But in a recent interview, Team Cherry spoke (ever so slightly) more openly about their own future and how the thing that might get in their way most is, well, death.

Emacs: Compile TypeScript File 📜 - Xah Emacs Blog

2025-11-29T17:03:43.000Z

2025-11-29

Emacs: Compile TypeScript File 📜

Bending Emacs 6: Overlays - Irreal

2025-11-29T14:51:07.000Z

Álvaro Ramírez has another video in his Bending Emacs series out. It’s about something that we see all the time but may not even be aware is happening or how it works. The subject of the video is overlays.

Overlays are a way of decorating, changing, or hiding text. A nice feature of them is that the underlying text is not changed. Rather the changes are simply overlayed on top of it and when the overlay is removed, the underlying text in the buffer is revealed again.

Although it may sound complicated or obscure, it’s actually pretty simple: you simply specify the beginning and end of the text you wish to overlay and make a simple call insert the overlay. Ramírez has a bit of code that shows several different type of overlays and invokes them one by one in the video. It’s a nice demonstration because you get to see many of the things overlays can do.

After those demonstrations, Ramírez shows some “experiments” he’s done with overlays. One of them completely change the look of the text by adding images and looking up and adding additional data on the fly. Another takes a regular expression and “redacts” anything it matches by replacing the text with x’s.

The video is 11 minutes, 57 seconds so plan accordingly but it is, believe me, worth a few minutes of your time to explore what’s possible with overlays.

Save $500 on this iBuyPower RTX 5070 Rig for Black Friday - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T14:30:31.000Z

Black Friday weekend has arrived, and Walmart has a great PC build for newcomers to PC gaming at a steep discount.

What are we all playing this weekend? - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-29T09:26:28.000Z

After forgetting to change my alarm for the weekend, my Saturday has started far too early. I clearly don't respond well to surprise free time, as I spent the morning writing my will. Disappointingly, Co-op don't let you set challenges and riddles for bequestees. This oversight has dashed the mental image of my brother and sister duelling over my gaming PC, armed with those Gladiators-style padded polearms that look like oversized cotton wool buds.

After six hours of tweaker gunslinging and trench warfare, I'm sold on Darktide's imminent Hive Scum update - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T18:00:04.000Z

I was precisely whelmed when Fatshark revealed the mohawked, chem-huffing Hive Scum as Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s next class; most of the existing player characters being unwashed crims as it is. Turns out, however, they make good company when it counts. Having played about six hours of Hive Scum, ahead of launch on December 2nd, I’m convinced the class offers something new – and even those who don’t drop the requisite $12 on it will still, on the same day, get a rollicking new mission type that delves into properly muddy 40K ground warfare.

With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T17:20:08.000Z

I never bought a Lenovo Legion Go S, or even slotted it into our best handheld PCs list, though it’s funny how much a fat Black Friday price cut can massage the desirability gland. And it helps that these savings cover not just the budget Ryzen Z2 Go model I originally reviewed, but the top-of-the-line Z1 Extreme version with an upgraded 32GB of RAM – and the same SteamOS, instead of fiddly Windows. That extra memory’s probably worth about four billion quid by itself, though while it lasts, the primo Legion Go S is going for £599 in the UK (a £100 saving) and $650 in the US (a $250 saving).

Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T17:15:41.000Z

Of steel is my spirit, of thunder my bones. I am the hawk's justice, the quadrapedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged. BEHOLD, ye strategy simulation enthusiasts. Behold my unabashed phallic symbolism menacing the gates of heaven, while my hissing hydraulics uncipher the coordinates of my prey.

Many are my supplicants, strangers from near and far who seek to beguile me and aim my blessed ordnance, but mine is the judgement, and mine the tactile gratifications of levers and gears and dials. You were getting bored of turrets in war games? Fools! You have never experienced one from the inside. Come, surrender yourself to the dieselpunk folds and surprisingly jaunty background music of my ironclad majesty. (Here's a trailer.)

Hytale arrives in Early Access in January 2026 after being revived - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T16:52:47.000Z

After being cancelled by Riot Games and revived as an indie game again, Hytale is now set for an Early Access launch in January 2026.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has another patch for Steam Deck and to improve performance for all - GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

2025-11-28T16:32:59.000Z

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault from Digital Sun and 11 bit studios should run a whole lot smoother for everyone now, and feel better on Valve's Steam Deck.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Hytale's early access release date set in stone for January 2026, but its devs admit "the first impression will be rough" - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T16:26:25.000Z

Still fresh off of being bought from Riot and revived by a team lead by Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme, Hytale now has an early access release date. The Minecrafty sandbox emerges from the cave it's spent years exploring early next year, with pre-orders kicking off next month.

Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T16:01:17.000Z

If you've been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch.io, and just released on Steam, it casts you as a reporter researching a book on serial killers.

The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T15:55:31.000Z

Convention tells us that to be a PC gamepad, the gamepad in question must follow the layout – or, at least, match the button glyphs – of the Xbox controller’s ABXY design. Even the new Steam Controller is doing it. To convention, though, I say: appreciate you’re an important component of usability design but also get lost. One of the best PC controllers right now is the PS5-pattern DualSense, which today's Black Friday deals have brought down to its lowest price in months.

Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will - Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed

2025-11-28T15:40:29.000Z

Prime Video's Fallout TV series has been followed around by a buzzing swarm of canon chatter hornets since the moment its first series emerged from the vault. Such a thing's natural and healthy - people care enough about the games to have thoughts about how this adaptation portrays the world in which they take place. It goes double when when you head to locations which have played host to entries especially beloved for how much say they let the player have in how their stories play out.

Enter Fallout season two, debuting next month and set in (clears throat) NEW VEGAS. Will it set one of Fallout: NEW VEGAS's endings in stone as the canon option?