Gamesplanet are currently in their first week of Xmas Deals, which started yesterday and runs until November 29th. It’s a pretty strong contender for some of the best Black Friday games deals, too. A chonking 70% off of Doom Eternal is the biggest discount I’ve seen on the game so far - it’s a whole 3% extra than Humble Bundle’s Fall Sale, which currently has it at 67% off. It’s not all about the ripping and the tearing, though....

Get the Dell S2721DGFA for £299 with codes VCLOUD8 and UKMONSAVE50 First, the Dell model as this is the one that most people will prefer, I think. (Both monitors use the same LG Fast IPS panel and offer great performance, but the Dell has a marginal refresh rate advantage, 165Hz to 144Hz, and has a better stand.) This is currently selling for £380 on Dell’s UK site, but if you use two codes you can bring it down to £300 - or, if you’re lucky, even lower....

This is a great price for this mid-range GPU, and it’s especially rare to see features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS image reconstruction at this price point. Pick up this Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 12GB for £279 with code BANK15 The RTX 3060 got a fairly positive review from erstwhile hardware editor Katharine, who rated it highly as a drop-in replacement for folks with GTX 1060 and RX 580 graphics cards....

Something was being tipped for MultiVersus earlier this week by game director Tony Huynh, which unfortunately wasn’t precisely your favourite Warner Bros. intellectual property being added to the roster. Unless, of course, you really love Gizmo: Player First have clarified that Gizmo and Stripe are two distinct fighters. Still no word on when Stripe will show up in the roster yet though. What is coming soon, along with Gizmo, is a significant patch....

As it stands, the 500GB model is now cheapest there, at £49.99, while the 1TB model is cheapest at Scan with a price of £94.98. Both of them are within a few quid of the best prices we’ve ever seen for these drives. Get the Samsung 980 SSD (500GB) for £49.99 Get the Samsung 980 SSD (1TB) for £94.98 So why is the 980 SSD worth considering? Well, Katharine got into the nitty gritty details in her 980 SSD review, but the long and short of it is that this drive outperforms 2....

This guide will break down how many chapters there are in Guardians Of The Galaxy, and explain how long it will take to beat the game. How many chapters are there in Guardians Of The Galaxy? There are 16 chapters in Guardians Of The Galaxy. Here’s a full list of every chapter, so that you can find out roughly where you are in the story: Chapter 1: A Risky Gamble Chapter 2: Busted Chapter 3: The Cost of Freedom Chapter 4: The Monster Queen Chapter 5: Due or Die Chapter 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Chapter 7: Canine Confusion Chapter 8: The Matriarch Chapter 9: Desperate Times Chapter 10: Test of Faith Chapter 11: Mind Over Matter Chapter 12: Knowhere To Run Chapter 13: Against All Odds Chapter 14: Into The Fire Chapter 15: Broken Promises Chapter 16: Magus...

While its worlds may look like they were hand-painted by artisans in an isolated retreat, but it turns out there’s actually a good deal of design work behind the underworld’s dungeons. At least, that’s according to Supergiant designer Ed Gorinstein, who posted some early peeks at Hades’ level design process in a thread this week. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings To kick this off, check out this Elysium chamber timelapse showing my design pass through @_joannetran’s art pass....

Redux’s latest chapter will chuck Gordon Freeman into some of City 17’s nasty canals, and re-envisions the creepy Ravenholm. It’s a different spin on Half-Life 2, and one that I find quite intriguing. The project has a more traditionally American sci-fi flavour to it than Half-Life 2 proper, and I approve of Alyx’s almost Rocketeer-style goggles and jacket. You might’ve noticed, too, that Eli Vance is now Eli Maxwell, and isn’t Alyx’s dad in this version of the story....

The co-op test is available to players who own the game or who play via Xbox Game Pass, as well as to those who own the game via Steam. It’ll run through until August 1st. Progress made while in co-op will also count as progress in your singleplayer campaign, according to 343 Industries post on the test. Collectibles, such as Data Pads and Skulls, will show up in-game if any single member of a co-op party hasn’t collected them yet, whereas unlocked equipment and upgrades will be available to use in co-op sessions even if all players have not unlocked them yet....

Hardspace: Shipbreaker launched into early access in June 2020. At the time, Steve Hogarty’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker early access review called it a “brilliant and therapeutic space simulation”, saying it “speaks to the part of your brain that, when sufficiently bored, wants to very carefully take something apart until every bit is laid out neatly in front of you”. Sin Vega had a lot of praise too. The big content blast of the version 1....

But to uncover the truth behind this spooky kid, you have to contend with a large number of cloned supersoldiers. Luckily enough, you happen to a particularly athletic supersoldier yourself. One that’s capable of moving so blisteringly fast, it’s as if time slows around you. And F.E.A.R.’s slow-mo effect is ridiculously fun to use. Pair it with the nailgun and you’ve got yourself a devilish combination. It’s sort of sickeningly delightful, the way you can observe a soldier tumbling in the air with a nail through his skull, before they’re pinned to the wall with a snap....

Fire doesn’t just remain static and slowly disappear in Far Cry 2. It sweeps through the brush and follows the direction of the wind, spreading rapidly up trees and scorching the dry ground. It’s fast, ferocious, and fascinating to watch. Far Cry 2’s fire probably has useful strategic implementations that you could use to your advantage too. Chuck a molotov and hope the spreading fire pushes enemies out of cover....

Armadillo Run is great. It’s a sandbox-ish construction game, of the “make a thing out of a library of components in order to solve a series of puzzles” variety. The things you build might be rocket sleds, or giant Rube Goldberg assemblies, depending on your appetite. I dunno if you remember my Have You Played… Castle Crashers?, where I talked about getting really depressed in Melbourne and hiding in a deserted indie game gallery for two days, but Armadillo Run occupied me for the entirety of the second of those days....

As a kid, we would refer to it simply as “The Banana Game”. I had to rely on my Dad to play it, as only he was able to access an unfathomable portal called “DOS”, summoning it out of the inky void using long strings of seemingly random letters; an incantation that gave it a sort of mystical allure. The game itself is simple. Two hairy beasts are plonked opposite one another on the rooftops of a randomly generated cityscape....

It came to mind when we recorded this podcast on what makes a classic “7/10” game. I thought of RoN because I was wracking my brain for games I hadn’t thought of in years, and because that’s usually the trench into which solid but unremarkable games sink. But when I really reflected on it, immersing myself in memories of the summer I spent thrashing my cousins with stealth bombers in LAN games, I realised it wasn’t a 7/10 at all....

Ironically, it was taking away Shantae’s genie powers that made Pirate’s Curse click for me. Now just a regular human, Shantae needs to rely on pirate-themed swag to traverse the islands. They’re rather unorthodox in their usage as well, like a pirate hat as a parachute, or a cannon that blasts downwards acting like a quadruple jump. It means you don’t ever have to stand still and dance to transform into an animal, which improves the pacing dramatically....

This is Virtual Virtual Reality, a virtual reality game in which you put on virtual reality headsets (in the game) to perform strange jobs for AI. Your second client is a city, who describes to you in poetic detail the transcendental pleasures of having a parade march through her streets. Your third client is a pin wheel. The game is reminiscent of Portal, as you talk to shiny white robots, crazed AI, and eventually break free of the restrictions they’re placing upon you....

So, quite definitively: Dead Cells is one slick goddamn game. Unfortunately, I am decidedly not slick. I mean, I might be slightly grungy because I’m still in my dressing gown and haven’t showered yet today. But no, what I mean is that whenever I play Dead Cells, I feel like I’m never living up to the game. If only I could have perfectly timed that dodge, I’d have felt like such a backstabbing badass....

When my family first had a PC, I was 11. It wasn’t a great PC, and games were expensive, so I didn’t get new ones that often. It was, somehow, actually possible to run out of games. So I played everything I could get my hands on. Demo discs from magazines. Chip’s Challenge. Fucken Encarta. But the real bonanza, however, came during the school summer holidays, when mum (who was a teacher) would bring home a grab-bag assortment of janky educational titles for me to beast my way through over the break....

I realised quite quickly into my playthrough of Before Your Eyes that I’d forgotten to administer the holy water. And in a game where time skips forward as you blink in real life, I thought I’d royally messed things up. But it turns out that having an allergy actually enhanced the experience. If you’ve got a webcam, Before Your Eyes actually detects if you blink in real life. And it’s tracking is super accurate, which really adds to the immersion....