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I just saved loads of PC gaming gear while upgrading my set up, here’s the best deals I could find today Power up your rig or deck without draining your wallet. Image credit:Dell and Capcom Today’s lineup has something for every kind of setup. Alienware prebuild discounts headline the list, offering some hefty savings across a range of configurations. That does for solid 1440p performance with a RTX 5070 Ti build or securing a 4K futureproof rig with a 5090....

I’ve found the best PC gaming deals in the 2025 Memorial Day sales Here’s every major sale that’s relevant for PC gamers this weekend Image credit:RPS Photo Composite Memorial Day weekend is here and the sales seem to be spilling out even for PC gamers . To be fair, these sales are typically a great time to find a reasonable discount on the latest gaming PCs, laptops, and everything else. While it’s not as dramatic as, say, Black Friday or Prime Day, there are still some proper savings to be had if you know where to look....

If you’re waiting on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, get prepped with Cyber Monday savings on compatible DDR5 RAM The upgrade your upgrade deserves Anyone with the need for a new CPU and even the slightest inclination towards tech envy is currently waiting for new stock of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D , the unbeatably powerful new chip that our boffin friends at Digital Foundry are calling the fastest gaming CPU ever....

In acid-bright office shooter Gossamer Matrix you have to reload while managing a deskful of junk Cleanliness is next to CODliness Image credit:catmilk If I’m interpreting the press materials for Gossamer Matrix correctly, this is an FPS in which you might accidentally stuff a chocolate bar into your AK47 while trying to reload. The result will not be a fusillade of chocodrops. Instead, you will be gunned down like the miserable office slob you absolutely are....

In Blight: Survival you roam a decaying medieval world putting the sword to fungal zombies Haenir’s action-horror now taking sign-ups for early testing Image credit:Behaviour Interactive For years now I have watched Haenir’s putrid action- horror game Blight: Survival like a miasmatic knight errant squinting through the bushes at a peasant-shaped mushroom. I reached out to the devs for an interview a while ago, and received no reply. I wasn’t hugely surprised by their silence: Blight began life as a two-person project, and is a long way from release....

In Full Bloom isn’t just about being a planet-devouring Sarlacc’s babysitter, it’s my brain on games showcase There is only one way Image credit:obleak games I drop the house into the great maw (not that one ). It screams as it falls away from the clutches of my mouse clicker. It disappears from view, but there’s a sickeningly wet crunching that betrays its fate. Oh and the fact that the entity’s jaws immediately flare open once more, teeth and tongue dripping with anguish to cram vegetation, trees, towerblocks into its gullet....

Inside Snap Tap, the new hotness keyboard feature outlawed by Valve Genius innovation or unfair advantage? For most of us, it may be neither Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun The gaming keyboard market is currently tripping over itself, trying to equip everything with the technology most commonly known as Snap Tap: a feature that promises hyperfast inputs of two alternating keypresses, making you an unkillable side-strafing blur in your FPS of choice....

Iris Of Grace locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree All Iris Of Grace locations and how to use the item Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for an Iris Of Grace in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? There are two different types of Iris in Shadow Of The Erdtree , the magnificently enormous DLC for Elden Ring . Those two items are: the Iris Of Grace, and the Iris Of Occultation ....

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Alchemy guide: All Potion recipes The full recipes for all potions, poisons, and perfumes in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Looking for all the Potion recipes in the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Alchemy system? If you’re here, you’ve probably already discovered just how many delightful little intricate minigames are packed into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 . From pickpocketing to Dice , from blacksmithing to lockpicking, there’s a huge amount to learn with these simulations....

Latest Ninja Legends 2 codes: Free Shards and Coins Redeem these codes for free shards and coins in Ninja Legends 2 Looking for the latest Ninja Legends 2 codes? Ninja Legends 2 is a ninjitsu training game on Roblox , an updated and improved sequel to the original Ninja Legends experience. The core objective is even subtly different: instead of training directly in ninjitsu, you’ll instead need to train your character’s element for success, although the overall goal of becoming more powerful than your opponents remains the same....

Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu retains said status by explaining why AI music doesn’t work “I’ve never used AI and probably never will” Image credit:Nobuo Uematsu Though I deeply wish for it to not be the case, unfortunately the reality you and I find ourselves in is one where AI is being forced into every single crevice the worst corporations you know can fit it in to. It hasn’t completely dominated any of the arts just yet, but its usage is becoming more and more common....

Life is Strange devs Deck Nine accused of crunch, sexism and abusive behaviour amid allegedly toxic culture Nazi references and racist memes reportedly found in upcoming game left unaddressed for months Deck Nine, currently responsible for heading up the Life is Strange series having handled spin-off True Colours and remasters of the first two games , have been accused of fostering a toxic workplace home to sexism, mismanagement, crunch and abusive treatment of staff left to linger by the studio’s higher-ups....

Mallard mystery-solver is taking on a new case in Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping Alt: Mallard malady mender Image credit:Happy Broccoli Games Duck Detective’s first case was The Secret Salami, which paired its cosy mystery about stolen lunches with a protagonist whose divorce and destitution were played entirely straight despite his being a duck. The results were seemingly delightful, and here comes a sequel. Duck Detective: The Ghost Of Glamping will offer a further 2-3 hours of mystery-solving and is aiming for release in 2025....

Mass layoffs at Days Gone studio Sony Bend after Sony pull the plug on live service game Sony Bend now reportedly making something New Image credit:Sony Sony have confirmed the cancellation of a live service project amid mass layoffs at Sony Bend, the team behind open world zombie biker Days Gone . Earlier in the week, Bloomberg reported that Sony Bend were doing away with about 40 people, following the nuking of an unannounced live service game earlier in the year....

Mechabellum Season 2 brings a square-jawed Sergeant specialist who’s definitely seen things no man should see You weren’t there, man Image credit:Game River/Rock Paper Shotgun How would a younger me react to the concept of game seasons? “Leave me alone, please. I’m busy replaying The Suffering 2 for the sixth time to see a new 15 second cutscene that recognises which combination of morally aligned beginnings and endings I’ve picked. It reads your save from the first game and everything!...

Meet Willem Dafoe and other animals in 100 tiny free worlds created by brilliant game developers You can never have too many cooks Image credit:Soup Rooms / Rock Paper Shotgun The Soulslike is dead. The age of the Souplike has begun. Indie developer Kite Line has just published Soup Rooms - a sequel of sorts to dong yarhalla’s videogame concept album from 2007, in which you visit small square rooms with feverdream aesthetics and a peculiar entity in the middle....

Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs Roughly 9,100 workers across the company are affected by today’s cuts, claim sources Image credit:Microsoft Microsoft have reportedly set in motion the wave of layoffs the company were said to be gearing up for last week - the fourth round of major job cuts to hit Xbox in 18 months. IGN claim that MS have begun informing staff of the cuts today, June 2nd, with workers based in Europe seemingly the first to learn their fates....

MindsEye’s first hotfix plugs up its memory leak, and pledges to pop up PC hardware-related crash warnings Following a not good launch Image credit:Build A Rocket Boy Good news, people who’re still interested in giving MindsEye a go for reasons that don’t involve gleefully watching as a poor NPC undergoes a sudden glitchy elongation. Developers Build A Rocket Boy have just pushed out the first in a series of updates designed to swat a bunch of the performance and crash-related issues that’ve plagued the game’s launch....

Minishoot’ Adventures review: a deceptively simple blend of 2D Zelda and shoot ’em up action Don’t miss it like we did Image credit:SoulGame Studio Developer: SoulGame Studio Publisher: SoulGame Studio Release: April 2nd, 2024 On: Windows, MacOS From: Steam Price: £12.79/€15/$15 Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 10 I’ve been on a journey. About an hour into Minishoot’ Adventures , I was ready to call this straightforward mix of 2D shmup and 2D Zelda mediocre....

Misery devs claim they’ve resolved “misunderstanding” with Stalker studio GSC Game World, as shooter returns to Steam A helicopter, guitar tunes, and easter eggs have been removed from Misery upon request, according to developers Platypus Entertainment Image credit:Platypus Entertainment Post-apocalyptic survival shooter Misery’s Steam page is back online, with developers Platypus Entertainment claiming that they’ve resolved a “misunderstanding” which led to an alleged DMCA takedown from Stalker creators GSC Game World....