Hello folks. A new feature arrives on RPS today, which should help to make it easier to keep up with the games and topics that matter the most to you. We've always had tag pages at RPS, but now you can follow those tag pages, and we'll send you a notification when we publish something new about it. Here's how it works.
This is a new feature that's going live across RPS and our all our sister sites, including Eurogamer, VG247, Dicebreaker and Popverse, starting from today. You can use it to follow individual games, such as Starfield or Counter-Strike 2, for example, or specific genres, such as strategy or certain developers and publishers. Heck, if you're really into ultra specific things like isometric games, or just want to know when we publish a new developer interview, you can follow those sorts of things, too.
There are hundreds of different topics you can choose to follow on RPS. Our tech team tell me there are 70,000 of them in the database right now, so there's bound to be at least one that might take your fancy.
If it's a game you want to follow, you'll now see a "+ Follow X" button at the top of an article, like so (see right):
Other tags you might want to follow, meanwhile, can be found at the end of an article, just like before. Only they've been tidied up a bit now into an expandable list, so you can select which tags you'd like to keep up to date with. There's also the option to follow every tag used in an article, if you prefer.
I should note, following a topic on RPS will also sign you up for notifications from all of our sister sites as well by default, which (quite understandably) you may not want. Thankfully, you can manage your notification preferences and set them so you only receive emails about
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