You wimps. So what if there’s a terrifying eldritch beast spooking about the ocean: you’re still Vikings, aren’t you? A Norseman without a longship is laughable. Though I have to admit your replacement fisheries look rad. And the kraken does seem nasty.

RTS Northgard has added the Clan of the Kraken as paid DLC. They’re a motley non-crew of squid-worshipping, Valkyrie-training spellcasters. I’ve spent too long away from Northgard’s shores, and whacking a kraken right next to them is a promising way to tempt me back.

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To fully defox the following enlargeable geofoxer, identify all thirteen locations plus the theme that links them.

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While the inhabitants of High Ashton, Wiltshire have their annual hedgehog rolling competition, the residents of Balybridge, Cumbria their nettle wrestling day, and the people of Temple Habberjam, Dorset their combination cider festival/Papist hunt, the highlight of the year in the parish of Flare Path is a communal game of top-notch tactical war-em-up Combat Mission. Having relied on first generation Combat Mission titles for the last three outings, it only seems right that this year’s event utilizes something a little more modern. For the next three weeks, via comments posted below daily SITREP posts, a staff of volunteer Comment Commanders you are very welcome to join will be doing its darndest to ensure a hotchpotch of Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 peacekeepers escapes a fictional/fractious Gulf state alive.

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Teamfight Tactics had its latest update not too long ago and 9.14b has dramatically changed how Critical Strike damage works. As a result, the meta has fully changed to the point where new team comps have been doing well and one or two older builds are coming back into relevance. Getting into TFT for newer players though is quite difficult, mainly due to a lack of tutorial and practice options. Rest assured, our set of guides will teach you the ropes, giving you a fighting chance.

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After a decade of waiting, a delay of another three months for MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is but a blink of the eye. Wait! Don’t blink just ye- aw for. Now you’ve done it. You’ve blinked a fly into your eye and now its six legs are tickling your sclera and its wings buzzing against your eyelid. You’ll be fine once it’s out, I’m sure, but that’s an irksome surprise to have while waiting for MechWarrior 5. A bit like how the delay announcement also came with word that developers Piranha Games have signed the game up to the Epic Games Store as another of those exclusives.

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Every time you find a new gun in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, B.J. Blazkowicz’s twin daughters gush about how their daddy killed a bunch of Nazis with it. “Cor”, Jess will say, “remember when Dad told us about all those Nazis he vaporised?”. “Yeah”, Soph will respond, “that was tubular.”

When I think about how best to sum up Wolfenstein 2‘s co-op semi-sequel, tubular is not the first word that comes to mind.

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Who was the gladdest gladiator?

HERC-U-LES!>

Who had a licensed Disney platformer?

HERC-U-LES!>

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It’s twenty years after Blaskowicz’s last big bash. When a night-out goes wrong on a foreign business trip, BJ’s gone and done a runner in Paris (it’s lovely this time of year). This summer, Twin kids Jess and Soph are on the case in Wolfenstein: Youngblood. The Blazkowicz sisters are about to take on a Nazi-slashing road trip from hell across the city of lights. C’est la vie!

We’ll have a full review up on the site tomorrow, once our reviewer’s worked out how many dead Nazis is enough dead Nazis.

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When AMD said they were going to get serious about sticking more of their 3rd Gen Ryzen 3000 H mobile CPU chips into proper gaming laptops this year, they really weren’t kidding. Take the Asus ROG Zephyrus G, the ever so slightly fatter cousin of the ultra slim Asus ROG Zephyrus S I reviewed earlier in the year. It’s not an outright AMD machine – it’s still got one of Nvidia’s new GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics chips inside it, after all – but its processor is AMD’s top-end Ryzen 7 3750H, a quad-core, eight-thread CPU that has a base clock speed of 2.3GHz and a max boost clock speed of 4.0GHz. Does it really have what it takes to take on Intel’s incumbent Core i7-8750H, though? Here’s wot I think.

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Pros: A bright makeover; ruin porn aplenty.Cons: Risk of revolution; mayor is creepy voyeur.In brief: Get back amongst it like you never left.Rating: >

While cheap air fares have opened up far-flung places like Mexico and Thailand to stag & hen parties, there’s a lot to say for celebrating your last weekend of freedom somewhere familiar. After larging it in Miramar, Sanhok, and Vikendi, we found ourselves reminiscing about favourite spots on Erangel, old banter-related accidents, and one particularly rowdy night out round Rozhok. It was decided: we would return to the traditional hen heaven of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds to see how it’s changed over the years.

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