Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

It’s the most wonderful time of the year i.e. the last working week for us at the RPS Treehouse, and therefore the last week of the Electronic Wireless Show podcast for 2024. We take a look back at the year that was, in very broad terms – was 2023, in fact, a good year for games? – share our favourite games of 2023, and talk about the games we’re playing right now. It appears Nate is quite unfamiliar with time travel films. We also think up some some resolutions for next year, and you’ve also got our regular recommendations to look forwards to at the end of the show. Plus, Nate does a thrilling end of year quiz with a question for each month. It goes about as well as you’d expect.

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Before you open this door on the Advent Calendar, make sure you have enough batteries for your mega-powered torch. The environment be damned, throw those spent batts on the floor where you stand and open-palm slam the new ones in, because light is the only way you’re getting out of here alive.

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Elden Ring’s very Soulslike OST will be performed live in the UK for the first time next April, as a “Symphonic Adventure” concert based on the game’s score heads to London’s Royal Albert Hall.

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Bloober Team, developers of Layers of Fear, The Medium and the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, have added another notable name to their plans for the next few years. The horror-focused studio is working with the creators of zombie comic book-turned-TV show The Walking Dead on a new video game adaptation.

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Embark Studios have released The Finals update 1.4.0, a mixture of balance tweaks, quality-of-life improvements and crash fixes which is going down like the proverbial lead balloon among fans of the free-to-play shooter‘s Heavy class. I’m definitely here for the crash fixes – I can’t get The Finals to run for longer than five minutes, which is a shame, because as Graham tells it, this is the most exciting new multiplayer FPS in years. Specifically, it sounds like a blend of Battlefield and Rainbow Six: Siege with a smashable toytown aesthetic. But enough about me and my computer’s refusal to let me have fun. What’s going on with those Heavies, then?

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My Steam Wrapped listed Baldur’s Gate 3 and Vampire Survivors as my top two games of 2023. If Epic Games and my Switch were involved, Fortnite and Persona 5 Royal would’ve absolutely been included in the lineup, too. Motivation has lain mostly in co-op capers with friends, hangs with virtual pals, or in the battle royale-verse. Otherwise, nothing has truly given me the itch.

But I think 2024 could be a big one for me. Not only are a number of upcoming RPGs right up my alley, they align with new and existing motivations: hangs with pals and Japanese language learning. For the first time, I’m excited to embrace the grind both in-game and outside of it.

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Last time, in celebration of Doom’s 30th birthday, you decided that Doom 2’s super shotgun is better than Doom’s shotgun (57% vs 43%, statheads). An intellectual brawl between two absolute titans. Whoever won, we’d lose. But whoever won, we won. This week, the calendar also dictates our subject. This being Christmastime, I need to know: what’s better, giving items to other players or throwing grenades back?

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Interesting. This door on the Advent Calendar has an instruction scrawled on it in blood: TURN THE DOOR KNOB. There’s a remote recorder on the floor there, and if you press play a voice, coughing itself to death, says “You have to turn the door knob!”. After a few minutes standing there, you think to yourself, “Maybe I should try turning the door knob?”

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Blizzard have revealed their approximate update plans for the next year of arthouse oddity World Of Warcraft, which if I remember correctly is a “massively multiple-player” experience of some antiquity that involves Orcs – a kind of always-online Baldur’s Gate, if you will, or a strictly fantasy-themed Fortnite with dungeons instead of forts. Seems far-fetched, but let’s roll with it.

As a reminder, WOW now comes in two broad flavours: classic and modern. In modern World Of Warcraft, you can expect three more updates for the existing Dragonflight expansion before the release of World Of Warcraft: The War Within later in the year. This introduces a new subterranean playspace, the Ringing Deeps, and is the first in a trilogy of expansions called The Worldsoul Saga.

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Logitech’s best value FPS mouse, the G Pro Superlight, is down to $60 when you buy it refurbished in the US at the company’s official store. That’s a huge reduction from its launch MSRP of $150 and even the $100 that the refurbished models normally go for.

I love this mouse because it’s extremely comfortable, with a smooth and streamlined symmetric shape that sits easily in the hand, with a lightweight 63g design. This makes it extremely agile for fast-paced games, and this is backed up by bulletproof Lightspeed wireless, a top optical sensor and excellent battery life too. That’s why I ended up with two of them – one in black and one in pink – and I still use them on the regular for Counter-Strike 2, Valorant and Warzone.

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