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As Ubisoft had planned, Assassin's Creed Valhalla is getting another update this month with more bug fixes and adjustments that they've now announced is dropping tomorrow. There are of course some serious technical fixes being made but there are some goofs too. Everyone loves a good patch notes goof. Title update 1.0.4 is planned for tomorrow, Thursday November 26th.
It's Day 3 of Black Friday 2020 week, and the torrent of PC gaming deals is coming in thick and fast now, from new gaming laptop and SSD bargains to swathes of new gaming monitor deals. Thankfully, we're here to help, as we've scoured the web for all the best Black Friday PC gaming deals going on right now in the UK and the US to create our own curated, RPS-approved list. From graphics cards, monitors and SSDs right through to mice, keyboards, RAM and headsets, we've got you covered for all your Black Friday deals needs.
Today we've refreshed our monitor, SSD, laptop and RAM sections, and adding in more peripherals deals taking place in the US. Don't forget, there's also a great RTX 3070 gaming PC deal happening in the UK right now, and our pals in the US can nab an Xbox Series X controller for $20 less than usual. Of course, there are even more PC gaming deals coming tomorrow and Black Friday itself, so make sure you keep your eyes glued to our regular updates to help you get the best prices. Without further ado, here are the best early Black Friday PC gaming deals you can get right now.
Watch Dogs Legion has been out for nearly a month now, so perhaps some of you have already called it a wrap on the game's main campaign. If you were looking forward to the addition of multiplayer modes and other online London-ing in December, you'll have a bit longer to wait than planned. Ubisoft have announced today that they're pushing back Legion's online modes to early 2021 while they continue to work on technical issues.
The Black Friday gaming laptop deals are finally starting to pour in this week, and there are some great discounts to be had if you've ever wanted to take your gaming on the go or simply want to play games in a different part of your house. To save you the trouble of trawling through every website on the planet, I've rounded up my top Black Friday gaming laptop deals below, including a truly bargain-tastic GTX 1650-powered HP Pavilion laptop for just $450 over at Best Buy, and an RTX 2060 Lenovo Legion 5 for a very tempting £950 over at Ebuyer in the UK. I'll be updating this article as more Black Friday gaming laptop deals go live in the run-up to the big day, too, so make sure you stick it in your bookmarks to stay up to date.
Oh dear, is it that time already? Yes indeed, the Steam Autumn Sale has arrived, bringing the seasonal discounts on thousands of games. Awards season is upon as as well, so they've opened up nominations for the yearly Steam Awards. You can vote and reap the discounts from now until December 1st at 10am PST / 6pm GMT.
After over a decade of work (and nine months after actually releasing the game), the Black Mesa gang are finally just about finished remaking Half-Life. Today they launch a big update they're calling the 'Definitive Edition', with changes including a visual refresh of many areas, performance improvements, extra polishing, and a redo of one level from the bit with all the trains. They... still have a few wee fixes to follow, but it seems they're really, truly, mad, deeply almost done with it.
This year's Black Friday extravaganza is finally here, bringing with it a swathe of new gaming headset deals. Now freshly updated with some of our top headset picks available in the US, you'll find everything here from cheap Razer and Steelseries headsets, and even some welcome discounts on Logitech's brand-new G733 Lightspeed Wireless, too. So, if you're looking to grab a new gaming headset on the cheap before the big rush on November 27th, you're in the right place, as you'll find all the best deals on today's best gaming headsets right here in our curated list.
Last year, Metro Exodus proved that the series could crawl out of the subterranean tunnels of its past and successfully carve out a new home exploring above ground. What's next in this brave new world, then? A lot, apparently. Developers 4A Games have published an update to mark the tenth year since the series began and to say that they've got a whole lot on their plates. They're working on the next Metro series game, tinkering with concepts for multiplayer Metro, and staffing up for a totally new series.
Nvidia's RTX 3070 vanished off the face of the planet almost as soon as it went on sale a couple of weeks ago, making it nigh-on impossible to get hold of for would-be upgraders. If you're prepared to buy a whole new PC to get one, though, then this Black Friday deal from system builder PC Specialist may be the fastest route to getting yourself Nvidia's new 4K monster card - and at £1299, it's probably cheaper completely revamping an old PC, too.
Challenging combat game Unto The End has announced its release date with another look at crossing swords with local monster baddies. It looks quite tough, which 2 Ton Studios have emphasised by saying that fights can be won or lost in just a couple hits, so you'd better make them count. With that in mind, they've actually shared some ways that you can avoid fighting when it launches on December 9th.
Feature: A solid start
It’s that time again where we spin 180 degrees away from Infinity Ward, turn to Treyarch, and see what type of Call Of Duty they’ll slide into our hands. I expected to say “Oh titanic megacorporation, thank you so much for the shooty bang bang”, while stifling a massive yawn, but honestly, I’m buzzed off Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s multiplayer offerings. It’s reawakened my post-dinner excitement to get online with The Boys™ that's lain dormant since we burned ourselves out on Warzone. I just wonder how long this feeling will last.
There have been some great Black Friday gaming laptop deals this week so far, but this new £700 off deal from Ebuyer on one of Razer's Blade Pro 17 laptops arguably tops the lot of them, if only because the sheer number of extra goodies you get with it effectively turns it into a full-on desktop replacement. Indeed, not only are you getting a powerful Core i7 processor and RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics chip to power its fancy 300Hz display, but you also get a mouse, keyboard and headset with it. Heck, they're even throwing in a Razer water bottle, too, presumably so you can continue salivating over how much money you saved long after it's arrived in your home.
Oh yes, the Black Friday SSD deals just keep on coming today, and let’s just say this next one is a treat for folks in the US. Over on Amazon, you can currently bag yourself a brand-new 250GB Samsung 980 Pro for $80, a nice $10 off its usual price of $90. That may not seem like a huge discount, but it’s the first of its kind for this particular PCIe 4.0 drive, and for this reason alone I’d say it’s well worth considering.
Feature: Godfall is impressively dedicated to the look
Godfall came out earlier this month. It is an ARPG looter-shooter, except the combat is almost entirely melee, so its a, uh, hacker-packer? But what it really is, is a game that is more dedicated to the look than any I have ever played. I've been diving in and out of it for the past couple of weeks and it is so beautiful, and so extreme and specific in its beauty, that I am charmed by it.
Godfall is epic, overwrought, sci-fi fantasy, so it's a lame nerd's idea of what is cool, and I love it. It's like the video this guy would make for a DragonForce video if he had unlimited budget. It is Lord Of The Rings via a Monster Hunter fashion Tumblr. It is the "tears in rain" speech from Blade Runner, but as if that was performed by Jareth the Goblin King in his castle of M.C. Escher stairs, twirling a handful of magic crystal balls. Oh my god, oh my god, it is Jupiter Ascending. Did you see that? The movie where Channing Tatum is a literal dog soldier but with wings, and Douglas Booth tries to marry Mila Kunis who is the reincarnation of his dead mum? It's that, it's that it's that.
In celebration of The Secret Of Monkey Island's 30th birthday last month (30!), the Video Game History Foundation held a stream discussing the classic adventure game with boss man Ron Gilbert. That cost $10 to help support their preservation work, but after a few weeks they've made it free for everyone to watch. Seeing as the Foundation are well into the development of games, not just finished products, they also delve into cut content and even give a live demonstration of SCUMM coding. If you fight like a dairy farmer, this is for you.
Black Friday is finally here, and with it reams of fresh Black Friday gaming monitor deals, particularly if you live in the UK. To help you cut through the noise, we've rounded up our top Black Friday monitor picks below, including some great deals on Samsung's 240Hz CRG5 monitor in both the UK and US, and loads of great LG monitor deals as well across all resolutions and refresh rates. That's not all, though. Whether you're after a G-Sync Compatible monitor, an ultrawide display, or a 144Hz or 240Hz gaming monitor deal, we've got you covered.
Like me, a deals maniac, SteelSeries have obviously caught the Black Friday bug a wee bit early, because they've got some great member discounts on some of our favourite gaming mice, keyboards and headset picks - many of which beat the prices you'll find on Amazon this week. They're among some of the best Black Friday mouse and keyboard deals and Black Friday gaming headset deals out there, and since 'member' here means 'person who has signed up to their website for free', you should probably take a look if you're in the market for clicky-clacks or speaky-hears.
There are some not-insignificant reductions on some of SteelSeries' most premium hardware, including £40 off the flashy Apex Pro keyboard. Plus, one of our favourite gaming mice, the Rival 310 is down to a dealstastic £35.
The pandemic has forced many companies to challenge their ideas about how they make games, especially about having everyone together in offices. Final Fantasy makers Square Enix shifted to working from home this year, and it's gone so well that they're choosing to open this up as a permanent option for many. They say this will let them increase flexibility and diversity, help with work-life balance, and ultimately be more creative. They expect 80% of employees will be working from home when this scheme launches next month. It's pretty great to see such a prolific company being open to this.
As Black Friday edges ever closer, another PC game sale emerges from the fold. Fanatical have kicked off their Black Friday offers with some excellent discounts - including 56% off both Death Stranding and the new ultimate edition of Control. Fanatical's sale boasts 5336 deals in total, which is an awful lot. But fear not, I've had a rummage through and picked out a few more highlights so you don't have to go scrounging through them all yourself.
A Monster Hunter movie from the director of Resident Evil could never actually be like Monster Hunter the game... unless Capcom made the game like the movie. Which they are. They've announced a crossover event between Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and the upcoming movie, where we'll get to play as Milla Jovovich's character from the Paul W. S. Anderson flick and earn her armour for keepsies. They've even got Milla to voice her character in these new singleplayer quests.
Merry Black Friday week to all you deals fiends out there, and what a trio of Black Friday SSD deals I have got lined up for you this morning. Over on Amazon UK, the 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB versions of the excellent WD Blue SN550 have been hit with some record-breaking price cuts. The main highlight here is the 1TB model on sale for just £80 - that’s £5 cheaper than Prime Day, making it a new record low price for this capacity.
Feature: Playing with a cat = nourishment for the soul
If ever there were a reason to test the boundaries of what it means to be a "game retrospective", it must surely be that I get to put my cat's adorable mug on the front page of RPS.
This is Kira. Her markings make it look like she's wearing an Incredibles mask.
You'd think it'd be hard to get anywhere early, weighed down by all that power armour. And yet, despite all odds, the Brotherhood Of Steel has marched into Fallout 76 a little earlier than planned. After accidentally gifting Xbox players the gift of technophilic paladins, Bethesda have chosen to just give the update to everyone rather than roll back the update and have folks wait another week. Nice!
Yee-haw, pilots. Lasso the young'uns to their seats, because Microsoft Flight Simulator's next stop is the grand old US of A. The massive aviation sandbox just pushed its second world update, granting a number of states with improved resolutions, laying down some hand-crafted airports and 50 spruced-up points-of-interest to make your stateside tours an absolute treat.
Like any good strategy game, A Total War Saga: Troy is a battle of wits between two seasoned commanders. But 'til now, Creative Assembly's Homeric army-smasher has only let you face the cold, calculating mind of its AI strategists. That changes with the commencement of Troy's multiplayer beta this Thursday, finally letting you bash heads with friends for control of the ancient Greek archipelago - or join them in battle across a co-operative campaign.
With just over two weeks to go until Cyberpunk 2077 hits shelves, CD Projekt have slip another ratty VHS tape of footage under our office doors. Okay, so this one has "PlayStation" written all over it, but let's peel that sticker off and take this latest vid for what it is - a dusty, banged up showcase of the smuggling shenanigans, interrogations, and disorderly driving wot makes up a Nomad V's first steps into Night City.
And this time, the footage didn't fall off the back of a truck.
For those who fancy the rootin' tootin' multiplayer shootin' of Red Dead Online but aren't too interested in the grudgin' trudgin' singleplayer buy-in of the full Red Dead Redemption 2 package, Rockstar have announced a standalone version of RDO. It's launching next week with an introductory price of $5 for several months, which, sure, is a price that'd get my interest. Not least of all because I want to try doing conference calls inside Red Dead Online.
Hack 'n' slash 'n' mine 'n' crafter Minecraft: Dungeons is all kitted out for a winter of mountain climbing. The blocky dungeon-diver's next DLC, Howling Peaks, begins its expedition in just over two weeks - and with new baddies and bosses, it's not just vertigo you'll be watching out for. But Mojang have also stuffed a brand new season-pass into their backpack, for the square-headed adventurer who's already looking beyond the ridgeline for DLC quests yet to come.
Feature: Avoid work with some relaxing simulated work
2020 was a pretty good year for management games, but nothing released in the past 12 months has impressed us enough to squeeze its way into our best management games list. Don't worry, though - it's only because there are already so many classics to choose from. If you're looking for something to sink into over the holidays, check out our picks below.
Feature: Can't wait till someone invents a Rules Lawyer AI
Baldur’s Gate 3 gave me new respect for my real life Dungeon Master
No matter how intelligent a game’s AI is, how immersive the story turns out to be, or how believable the characters are, it can never actually simulate the thing that makes Dungeons & Dragons a great game: human shenanigans.
I’ve adored my time with
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