Sundays are for trying to find and exile the giant house spider that ran under my bed yesterday. I slept with the lights on and wrote most of this round-up standing on a stool. If any part of my body touches any other part of my body I assume it's the spider, and hit myself with a dustpan. I may have to dispose of any shoes I'm not currently wearing.

Let's take our minds off the spiders with some writing about gooners. I've lobbed that word around in articles as though it's just a synonym for lonely guys who want to jack off. I gather there's more to gooning than that. Here's a rich brew of thoughts from Sam Bodrojan.

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It's been a funny old week for us at RPS, but the games will continue. The games must> continue. Or else, what was this all for?

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If you’re looking for a new PC that’s packing a recently-released NVIDIA 5070 GPU, then Lenovo’s new ‘Doorbuster’ deal might be just the thing.

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Dell’s back-to-school deals have a whole host of laptop savings, but look a little deeper and there’s another Alienware deal.

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Dell’s back-to-school deals are here, and they’re pretty great if you’re looking for a 2025 laptop.

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Graham is gone. The longest-running editor of Rock Paper Shotgun worked his last day on the website earlier this week, and has leapt quietly into the mysterious realm of the games industry proper. The emotional fallout of this departure is roughly the same as any other time RPS has watched a writer swan-dive out of the RPS treehouse and into the mist far below. There is sadness tinged with hope. "There goes another one," you think, smiling through a single tear and imagining their future life far from these branches.

Only this time, well, it's Graham.

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Battlefield 6 releases on October 10th with the unenviable task of being both a quality combined arms FPS, and a successful apology letter to those burned by the series’ previous missteps. To try out its multiplayer ahead of yesterday’s big reveal event, I had to pass through two separate metal detectors at the venue’s doors, which I can only assume were there to prevent infiltration by disgruntled Battlefield 2042 players armed with tins of orange paint.

Still, try it out I did, with most signs pointing towards BF6 being genuine about its promised return to Battlefield staples. The classic four classes instead of specialists. Destruction that has a point beyond spectacle. And most importantly, large-scale multivehicular warfare that isn’t nearly as organised and cinematic as the choreographed trailer.

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