Staring at a screen for 20+ years tends to make things blurry. My solution is to completely ignore the ravages of time on my eyes and to hope that things will work out anyway. And they did! EA have been working on a Command & Conquer remaster that sharpens the original sprites and deblurs the destruction, so I can more easily make out the Nod’s bikes for a few more years. The first teaser is here, so let’s shuffle our chairs a bit closer to the screen and take a look, eh?

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The latest patch for Teamfight Tactics didn’t change a lot, but there is a bit of a resurgence of the Yordles Shapeshifters comp. So to that end, we thought we’d start again with the TFT best comps list for the current patch – 9.21.

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Champions did get a small tweak in the latest patch for Teamfight Tactics. It seems that Kai’Sa hasn’t had the desired effect on the meta and as such needed a bit of a boost. We’ve got the lowdown on all the updates to the TFT tier list in patch 9.20.

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Since the revamped items arrived, they’ve shaken up the entire landscape of Teamfight Tactics. Some TFT items are now gone (RIP Sword of the Divine)> while a whole host of new items and altered recipes mean that every, single TFT cheat sheet needs an update. We’ve updated our TFT cheat sheets to match the items as they appear in the game.

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Noita is a big firework show, where the fireworks are heaps of gunpowder, exploding barrels of acid. The acid turns into steam in the heat of the blast and rises to condense on the cold cave roof, eventually falling back down as acid rain. Argh. This is a very dangerous firework show.

In this roguelike spellslinger where you play as a flying witch, every pixel is simulated, and can interact with every other pixel that ends up near it. Usually, these interactions result in spectacular death. They are, each of them, a tiny square of potential horror, and you help them along the road to disaster with spells that conjure many and varied effects. The game recently got experimental mod support, but I play the vanilla version and I am very bad at it. I’ve never even gotten past the fourth area. But Noita is so well designed that it’s mad fun even when you’re abjectly, embarrassingly awful at it. Here are some gifs to support that.

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The Underlords of Dota Underlords are no longer a naming flourish, today becoming actual units leading our armies with handy perks and abilities. Valve name today’s update The Big Update because, well, it is. Along with the first two Underlords, it adds new heroes from Dota 2 and new Alliances with new bonuses. A Duos mode has arrived too, with teams who can play on separate boards but can give heroes and gold – and share a life total. Things. Lots of things. A big update. The Big Update.

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Once again, Black Friday is almost upon us. When is Black Friday, I hear you cry? Well, this year, Black Friday takes place on November 29th, but as per usual, all the best Black Friday deals will be starting well before that. In previous years, there’s usually been at least a whole week of Black Friday deals leading up to the big day, if not two. Indeed, some people have started referring to it as ‘Grey November’, which is pretty apt if you ask me.

Still, regardless of how you feel about the whole thing, Black Friday can be a great time to nab some good hardware deals – particularly if you’re thinking about building a new PC soon. To help you make the most of this fabled day/week/month o’ discounts, your trusted deals herald has put together everything you need to know right here, including what deals to look out for, where to shop, and whether that shiny new peripheral you’ve got your eye on is actually as much of a deal as it makes out to be.

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Ubisoft’s lawyers have loaded their lawguns and stacked up to breach and clear the coffers of a team who make and sell cheats for Rainbow 6 Siege. They believe a Dutch teenager is a key figure in MizuSoft, whose cheat includes the usual wallhack and recoil-cancelling and such, and his mother is helping process its subscription payments. Ubisoft say they spend a whole lot of time and money trying to stamp out cheats, so they’ve filed suit to make them knock it off and pay a big stack of cash in damages. Curiously, the main cheatmaker seems to be someone who talked about his creation on the BBC.

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I was homeless when I discovered Minecraft — not homeless in the street-sleeping sense, thankfully. Only in the sofa-surfing sense. I had a bed, even. The creaking cabin bed of two friends who took pity on me and let me crash for a few months in their house, while I sullied my fingertips with sambuca in a dank Yorkshire nightclub for part-time pound coins. My chin-scratching uni days had just ended, but I stubbornly refused to go back to my family house in Northern Ireland. I could do this, I reasoned, I just needed time.

Then my friend showed me how to punch a tree, and I found a new home.

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With SSD prices getting lower and lower, there’s never been a better time to upgrade your old hard drive with one of today’s super fast SSDs – and to help you on your quest to find the best SSD for gaming on your PC, I’ve put together a list of all my top recommendations across a wide range of prices and form factors. You’ll find everything here from the best NVMe SSDs to the best SATA SSDs, as well as the best external SSD for when you want to take your games out and about or when you hop between different systems.

SSDs are much faster than your typical hard drives, and are pretty much an essential part of any modern gaming PC. They not only let you get to your desktop in double-quick time when you first turn on your PC, but everything from copying files to loading up games will also feel significantly quicker, allowing you to get more stuff done and spend less time waiting around. You needn’t spend a fortune on one of our best SSD for gaming picks, either, as I’ve got a best gaming SSD recommendation for every price bracket across a range of different size capacities. Whether you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful SATA SSD or a brand-spanking new M.2 NVMe SSD, we’ve got you covered.

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