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Rock Paper Shotgun Oct 15, 2026, 7:30 PM (1 hour ago)

Caves of Qud is a game well liked over here at RPS; Brendan gave it the coveted Bestest Bests badge back when it launched into 1.0 a couple of years ago, and all! It’s a game I still want to reckon with more deeply, and perhaps with the reveal of its first expansion I’ll be more enticed to.

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Monumentally expansive roguelike Caves of Qud is getting even bigger in December with an early access expansion that lets you play as messed up dogs and trees

007 First Light is finally coming to Nintendo Switch 2 next year — ‘The development team will use the coming months to continue refining the game’s optimisation’

YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays

How to beat Sphinx, Devourer of the Unworthy, in Valor Mortis

Asus’ ROG Xbox Ally X20 fixes nearly all my issues with the Xbox Ally X, but you probably shouldn’t buy it

After almost three years of early access, Enshrouded has hit 1.0 with a complete story, bigger map, and way too much more to mention

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