The Black Friday graphics card deals just keep on coming, this time in the form of Ebuyer’s rather intriguing Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 bundle. For 540, you get the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming Z graphics card, a free copy of Battlefield V and (rather bizarrely for a UK website) a $40 Steam voucher, which is really quite a lot of free stuff when you think about it.
Having poked around at the earliest stages of Underworld Ascendant, I’ve reached the conclusion that it’s just not in a fit state to be released, and as such, not in a fit state to be reviewed. Announced in 2014, this spiritual sequel to the seminal Ultima Underworld games of the early 90s was Kickstarted $860,000 in early 2015, with a ridiculously optimistic release date of November 2016. Two years after that, the product I backed at the time is here. And it feels like it needs at least another two years before it’s close to ready.
The endless open-world war of PlanetSide 2 will add a fourth faction who switch sides, mercenaries who will fight for whichever proper faction has the fewest active players on the battlefield. The robotic Nanite Systems Operatives sound a neat idea, keeping the war lively while also reducing faction queue times and giving lone wolf players an option to always play on their back foot and fight fight fight. You’ll need to pay the MMOFPS’s optional subscription service to play as a mechanical man, mind.
Official Mac and Linux ports of Total War: Warhammer II are out now, and folks who already got it for Windows have those now for free too. As is the way with Total War, the ports are handled by long-running portpeeps Feral Interactive. While running Windows games on Macs and Linux b0x0rs is easier than it once was, especially with Valve working on Steam’s new built-in Linux trickery, it’s still nice to have formal support.
Today was the day that Steam finally added support for the Australian dollar, and also the day that a number of games stopped being sold to folks down under. Steam requires publishers to explicitly set prices in regional currency for a game’s to be sold there, see, and some folks just haven’t done that yet. Which is a problem if you currently want to buy such games as Vermintide 2, Factorio, Ori And The Blind Forest, Return Of The Obra Dinn, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth… some good stuff. I imagine oversights will soon corrected but it’s an awkward teething problem. A bit of a sticky wicket.
Despite it being only Wednesday, the Black Friday deals jamboree is well and truly under way. With more deals than you can shake a stick of RAM at, now is the time to get some tasty PC gaming deals on the cheap, especially if you’re after some nice new hardware. To help you make sense of all the deals madness, I’m here to help, as I’ve gone and gathered up all the best PC gaming Black Friday deals I can find, including deals on graphics cards, gaming monitors, SSDs, laptops and more. Yes, my soul is now nothing more than a withered husk, but at least it saves you the trouble of trawling through the internet yourself in search of the best savings. On that note, let’s get down to the business of all them deals, shall we? Here are the best Black Friday deals the internet has to offer.
It can be hard to justify buying a gaming laptop when they’re usually so much more expensive than their equivalent PC spec, but if you’re determined to get one for playing games on the go, Black Friday is probably one of the better times to do it, as there are plenty of good deals about on some of this year’s best models.
To that end, I have down all the hard work for you and gathered this year’s best Black Friday gaming laptop deals into one handy list, with bonus comments on how they compare to everything else (because I’m nice like that, not so it would prevent the layout from breaking, no sir). It’s not just super expensive gaming laptops I’ve got here either, as the cheapest one starts at just 599 / $699. To the deals, we go.
Ubisoft have decided to keep skull imagery, blood splats, gambling machines, and a neon breast in Rainbow Six Siege, three weeks after announcing plans to remove them to sanitise the game for launch in new Asian markets. Not everywhere is so keen on such things, y’know. Many players were unhappy with these cosmetic changes in maps and UI icons, I’m sure you can imagine. Ubisoft had planned to keep the game the same globally to save themselves development time, hence the removal, but following the outcry have announced they’ll maintain separate versions; our skullz and tity will stay.
Update: Hello Games have announced the Vision update will land this Thursday, the 22nd. You can read the (exceedingly pretty) patch notes here.>
Hang on, I’m getting a vision of something. I see… I see a more varied No Man’s Sky, with properly alien aliens and five new planetary biomes. I see cool derelict spaceships, ancient buried skeletons and launchable fireworks. I see double rainbows, all the way across the sky.
I see the new trailer for Visions, an upcoming update that seems to have leaked from Hello Games.
Yes, I know it’s only Wednesday, but Black Friday is in full swing right now, with graphics card deals galore taking place across the UK and US. We’ve already had some real belters this week, including a bucket load of offers on AMD graphics cards that just keep getting better and better with every passing day, but there are plenty more to be had over in Camp Nvidia as well. If you’ve been waiting to pick up one of today’s [cms-block]s on the cheap, now’s the time to do it. Here are all the best Black Friday graphics card deals available right now.