Borderlands is certainly a more generous ten-year-old than I ever was. While I was off doing laser tag with some nerds, Borderlands 3 is celebrating a decade of existence by giving away heaps of loot, legendaries and cold hard cash on a weekly basis. Show Me The Eridium, the third weekly birthday event, is dropping cash fast and hard. With prices slashed across sharp outfits and sharper weaponry, it’s time for an interstellar shopping spree.

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The day has finally come. RPS has been immortalised in t-shirt form, and you will be able to buy one and wear it exclusively at EGX 2019 later this week. For more details on how to be somewhat less naked, read on.

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Larian today announced that Divinity: Fallen Heroes, the combat-focused spin-off from Divinity: Original Sin 2, is on indefinite hold. First announced in March and due to launch this November, it just needs more time and resources than anyone has right now. It sounds like they do plan to return and pick it back up at some point, but don’t hold your breath. Or do hold your breath if you want to, I guess, because even if you do manage to make yourself pass out your body will automatically resume breathing so sure, why not, what else do you have to do right now? Not playing Fallen Heroes, that’s for sure.

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The Disco Elysium Thought Cabinet is one of the game’s defining features. And that’s saying something, considering the many different ways in which ZA/UM have deviated from the traditional RPG structure. In Disco Elysium, it’s not just tools and clothes that you can equip but also Thoughts that you can mull over and adopt, almost always with both positive and negative results.

Our Disco Elysium Thoughts guide will explain the Thought Cabinet as clearly as possible, from how you gain access to different Thoughts to how you can use them, and how they change the game for you in return. It’s a bit of a head-scratcher at first, but stick with it and you’ll come to realise the benefits of this novel system.

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Grab the bug spray, we’ve got another infestation on our hands. A mere 3 months since the last insect invasion hit our shores, Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain invades Steam today. It’s another one of those, absolutely, with plenty of opportunities to turn thousands of insects, robots and monsters into juicy yellow smears on the side of a mountain. But this time around, EDF wants to be taken a little bit more seriously, painting a more contemporary picture of an extraterrestrial invasion – for better and for worse.

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After being swallowed by a black hole, Fortnite has now returned as Fortnite Chapter 2. Month. That’s a month, Epic. Month takes the battle royale action to a whole new island, one which (so far) doesn’t bear the scars of two years of mystical and cataclysmic events. Month even adds fishing, which now makes Fortnite officially an RPG (sorry, I don’t make the rules).

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After years of being a crashy pain in the arse, Saints Row 2 is finally getting fixed up to play nicely on modern PCs. Developers Volition announced last night that they’ve found the source code to their cheery open-world murder simulator after years of wanting, so they can give it much-needed love. 2008’s game is probably my favourite Saints Row, a wacky take on GTA coming just as GTA IV went all tediously self-serious, though of course I recognise Saints Row 4 is the best superhero game. It’s a right mess at the moment, mind, needing fan-made fixes and mods to run even half-decently. Bring on the updates!

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Your gaming monitor is an essential part of your PC, so finding the best gaming monitor for you and your budget is absolutely vital. It can be difficult when there are so many to choose from, too, but our best gaming monitor guide is here to help. I’ve tested hundreds of gaming monitors over the years, and the ones I’ve picked out below are the absolute cream of the crop. You’ll find gaming monitors across a range of different screen sizes, prices and resolutions as well, including the best budget gaming monitors, all the way up to the best ultrawide monitors with Nvidia G-Sync support, plus all the best 4K monitors for gaming as well. After all, there’s no point buying a fancy graphics card when your gaming monitor can’t do it justice.

You don’t even have to spend very much to get a really great monitor for gaming these days, either, as some of the best gaming monitor recommendations I’ve picked out can be found for less than two hundred quid. Whatever screen size or resolution you’re looking for, these are the best gaming monitors you can buy today.

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Have you played the visual novel Eliza yet? If not, stop what you re doing and play it pronto. This almost sci-fi visual novel was recently awarded an RPS Bestest Best by Sin, who said, in her review, “if I start talking about how much this game has spoken to me, I don t know if I ll be able to stop.” It’s a fascinating, thought provoking game where you play as Evenlyn, a “proxy” for the titular counselling service software. It measures heart rate and key words and things like that, and then generates a counselling script for Evelyn to read. You can get it from Steam(and it just came out on Switch, but that’s of no concern to us here).

Matthew Seiji Burns was the writer and director on Eliza. Burns is a Seattle-based writer and musician, and in addition to creating Eliza, he also contributes narrative and music to developer Zachtronics’ other games. He’s worked in game development for many years in different roles. You may have played, for example, The Writer Will Do Something. But I had the pleasure of asking him about Eliza.

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When I first saw HP’s Omen X 2S dual-screen gaming laptop a couple of months ago, I thought they were having a laugh. After all, what could you possibly do with such a tiny secondary display above the main keyboard when you’re playing games? It screamed ‘gimmick’ at the time, but after visiting Intel’s Open House event last week (in between getting enslaved by the Acer Thronos mega chair), it would appear that lots of other laptop makers are following suit. It is becoming ‘a thing’, as they say, with some sticking even bigger screens above the keyboard, while others are cramming it into the laptop’s touchpad.

It’s madness, pure and simple, but with a new version of Windows 10 on the way that’s also been designed with dual-screen devices in mind (Windows 10X), could there actually be some vague kind of logic to it? Join me as I examine the good, the bad and the ugly of tomorrow’s dual-screen laptops.

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