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A plain white mug of black tea or coffee, next to a broadsheet paper on a table, in black and white. It's the header for Sunday Papers!

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The Sunday Papers

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Nov. 1, 2026 Julian Benson

Clearing cards in Forbidden Solitaire

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Horror-steeped card game Forbidden Solitaire shows how a strong theme can elevate even decade-old mechanics

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Oct. 31, 2026 Julian Benson

Two conniving mice doing some plotting

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

Oct. 31, 2026 Julian Benson

A man from Phantom Blade Zero with a poorly edited-in Steam Machine on his left shoulder.

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Wooshy wuxia actioner Phantom Blade Zero is sharp enough on the Steam Machine, if blunted on the Steam Deck

Valve's mini-PC makes the cut

Oct. 30, 2026 James Archer

A sea of repeating RPS logos.

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All the RPS Supporter rewards for October 2026: Hangout game angst, muddy RPGs, and one utterly useless butler

Spooky Month edition (disclaimer: article contains no spookiness)

Oct. 30, 2026 James Archer

Dylan looks concerned in Control Resonant.

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"We didn't want the brooding hero out for revenge": How quiet lulls and a bird-sketching lead make Control Resonant a more introspective kind of action game

Dylan me softly

Oct. 29, 2026 Kaile Hultner

A sword stuck in a plinth in a seaside temple in Queen's Domain.

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Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to fly

I would also have accepted "Prince's Place" or "Baron's Turf"

Oct. 29, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A little girl celebrates their birthday

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Supporters only | Letter from the editor #21: First time round the sun

And to many more perambulations

Oct. 29, 2026 Julian Benson

An aircraft swooping up towards tall flying islands in Atmosfar.

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Atmosfar is a giddy aerial exploration game after the heart of No Man's Sky, but I'm already trying to escape it

Taking flight in early access today

Oct. 29, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad being held up next to its original packaging.

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Can the SideWinder Game Pad, Microsoft's first game controller, work on modern PCs? I bought three of them to find out

The past and fiddly present of the Xbox controller's ancestor

Oct. 29, 2026 Amity Gilmour

A close up of an astronaut in Moon Sweepers

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Part idle game, part automation game, Moon Sweepers exploits the sickness in me that adores both Satisfactory and Cookie Clicker

In space, no one can hear you have an existential crisis

Oct. 28, 2026 Julian Benson

A Ford Crown Victoria parked next to a Road Trip board in American Truck Simulator.

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Supporters only | Road trippin’ in American Truck Simulator, or how I became the most dangerous driver the highways have ever seen

Turbo tourism

Oct. 27, 2026 Mark Warren

The player is initiated into the Greywardens in Dragon Age: Origins

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Dragon Age: Origins may feel like it's set in a world with millennia of history, but it put me off RPGs for a decade

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Oct. 25, 2026 John Walker

A plain white mug of black tea or coffee, next to a broadsheet paper on a table, in black and white. It's the header for Sunday Papers!

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The Sunday Papers

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Oct. 25, 2026 James Archer

Characters looking heroic in Mass Effect 3

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Mass Effect 3 ending discourse ignored the RPG's scale, ambition, and exuberance, including that of its oddly great co-op

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Oct. 24, 2026 James Archer

The player talks to companion HK-47 in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic's morality system was crude, but it could reveal the utter bastard of peer-pressured centrist hiding within

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Oct. 24, 2026 Matt Cox

Men of business survey a bathroom

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

Oct. 24, 2026 Julian Benson

A pipe and an underwater base

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Supporters only | Who in Rapture thought that hacking was anything like plumbing?

Would you kindly, call the plumber

Oct. 23, 2026 Julian Benson

A brooding man seated in a candlelit throne before a crystal ball displaying a woman's face, with swirling ghost faces flying out of it. From art for Baldur's Gate 2.

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Even at their most chaotic and conflicted, BioWare were the heart of the western computer RPG

Vigil

Oct. 22, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A party fighting a dragon in Dragon Age: Origins.

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"It just seemed arbitrary, and not very smart": EA was never a responsible owner for Bioware, but the developer never seemed to learn from their mistakes

"Going around in circles"

Oct. 22, 2026 Julian Benson

An angry Ork in Dawn of War 4

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Dawn of War 4 clearly loves the Warhammer 40K strategy games that came before, but it misses that they loved to reinvent themselves

Retreading hallowed ground

Oct. 21, 2026 Julian Benson

Hotel guests who look like spaghetti noodle figures posing against a purple and pink lobby with a picture of the Mona Lisa on the left.

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Supporters only | Holiday Snaps But For Videogames (Hopefully Not Final Title)

Join me for a browse of my review screenshot folder

Oct. 20, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

A plain white mug of black tea or coffee, next to a broadsheet paper on a table, in black and white. It's the header for Sunday Papers!

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The Sunday Papers

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Oct. 18, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

An illustration revealing how a magician's levitation trick works

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

Oct. 17, 2026 Julian Benson

Slapping a passenger near the front of the bus in Thank You Bus Driver.

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The pleasures of Double Fine's Thank You Bus Driver are not in the destination, nor the journey, but in slapping my disobedient passengers

...I hope they still like me though

Oct. 16, 2026 James Archer