The RPS Selection Box: Ollie’s bonus games of the year 2025
It was an interesting Advent Calendar this year, from my perspective. My top four games - Arc Raiders, Silksong, Clair Obscur, and Hades 2 - were all highly ranked. And…
The fourth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. O, reader of wonder, loved the most,…
Hades 2 is our favourite game of 2025 or: why we didn’t give Supergiant’s roguelike a bestest best review
For the past month we have been shouting about the games we consider to be the best games of 2025. As is tradition, our choices for the RPS Advent Calendar…
007 First Light has been delayed, so Hitman devs IO can further buff the Bondage
(Strokes cat) Good eeeeeevening, Mr Bond. You thought you could escape 2025 without your game, 007: First Light, catching a delay? For shame, Mr Bond. It has, and will now…
The third RPS Christmas Cracker 2025
We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. O, reader of wonder, loved the most,…
“Horrible”, “boring”, and “cheap”: Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
This year, generative AI seeped into mainstream gaming. Though it didn't so much shimmer, as smear. It mispronounced lines in Arc Raiders, "drew" a smudgy loading screen in Anno 117,…