Impressive as Path Of Exile 2 looks, it’s probably not going to land for another year. In the meantime, fans of the grisly action-RPG still have plenty to look forward to. Announced alongside the new game at ExileCon, they’re doubling up on free expansions for this December. Launching on December 13th is a new time-limited quarterly update; Metamorph, asking players to build their own bespoke boss fights out of slime and monster guts. Landing alongside it is Conquerors Of The Atlas, a more permanent overhaul to Path Of Exile’s massive Atlas Of Worlds endgame.

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When is an update not an update? When it’s a whole new game, patched in entirely free on top of one that you already play. Announced at ExileCon today – Path Of Exile‘s first fan convention – Path Of Exile 2 was the ace up Grinding Gear Games’s sleeve. Path of Exile 2 is an all new story set decades after the original action RPG, pitting a new set of characters (albeit in mostly-familiar classes) up against a fresh hell’s worth of grim and gothic ghouls and gribblies. Check out the debut trailer plus fourteen minutes of footage and new systems breakdowns below.

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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is Respawn’s heartfelt answer to the age-old question: what if someone actually did lightsaber combat properly? Players are given a simply staggering variety of lightsaber customisation options and significant upgrades that will allow you to change up your playstyle completely throughout the game’s extensive campaign. Our Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order lightsaber guide will walk you through everything you can do with your lightsaber, from unlocking all of the colour options to gaining the ability to wield a double-bladed lightsaber – or even to dual-wield two lightsabers at once!

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As the year nears its end, we’re considering the games to celebrate in our advent calendar. For me, this means realising that as much as I thought I’d played some great games this year, there are so many more I’ve not even touched yet. Which is: 1) exciting; 2) alarming; 3) a lot of games going on my list to play real soon.

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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Even Purgatory needs cops, apparently. West Of Dead, a tense twin-stick shooter about keeping the dead where they belong, was announced at last night’s XO19 show, and it looks a right stunner. Hellboy (the good one) himself Ron Perlman lends his gravel-filled throat to a protagonist who’s part supernatural sheriff and part Marvel’s Ghost Rider. Y’see, sometimes the dead just don’t stay dead, end up in a cursed land forgotten by gods and demons alike – Wyoming.

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Relic used to make some absolute corkers, huh? They’ve finally found their way back in the spotlight with Age Of Empires VI, but if you were kicking about the RTS space in the 00s, they were akin to gods. Between Homeworld’s space opera spectacle and Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War’s grimdark bombast, they somehow found time to make a little series of down-to-earth tactics games about the greatest tragedy in modern history. Company Of Heroes 2, the high point of their World War 2 operations, is free to download this weekend. Likewise, the rest of the wartime franchise has been cut to a quarter of the cost ’til Sunday evening.

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There are still a couple of weeks to go before this year’s Black Friday bonanza, but some retailers have already started getting in on the sales frenzy action. Technically, Black Friday itself is November 29th this year, but as has now become tradition in the world of Black Friday deals, any time between now and the day itself is pretty much fair game as far as sales go, so you’ll likely start seeing more and more Black Friday PC gaming deals cropping up over the coming weeks and days.

Never fear, though, because I’m here to help you navigate these choppy Black Friday waters to find the best PC hardware deals around, which you’ll definitely want to keep an eye on if you’re thinking about building a new PC soon. So 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 all the Black Friday PC gaming deals around right now, 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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Change is scary, I get it. Over Halloween, Valve put a bullet in the old Steam library and brought in a flashy new look, filled with visual flair and more customisation for your categories. But what if you liked things barren? What if you just want a big flat list of all your stuff to pick from? While the old library is dead and gone, Valve have conceded that some folk might want that simplicity back. In service of this, “Small Mode” has been brought back from the grave.

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We’re finally halfway through the big old month o’ deals that is Grey/Black/wallet-emptying November. It’s been hard-going at times, what with all the big games coming out and bleeding us dry over the last couple of weeks. But hang in there, deals hunters, because there is light at the end of the tunnel. Your deals herald can see it, I promise, although maybe that’s just the blinding LED-infused presence of Cyber Monday beaming away at the beginning of December. It’s hard to tell. What I do know, though, is that there are still plenty of tasty deals to help take the edge off those big game purchases at the beginning of the month, including discounts on Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds, Football Manager 2020 and more. So let us go once more unto the deals breach, dear friends. The deals game’s afoot!

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“Well, this looks delightful” I foolishly thought, watching the trailer for Drake Hollow, the next game from The Flame In The Flood developers The Molasses Flood. “Far less depressing than their last outing, innit?” Oh, what a rube I seemed when the shadow beasts attacked. There’s the dread we were missing.

Announced at XO19 last night, Drake Hollow appears to a multiplayer horde ’em up blending Slime Rancher with Fortnite: Save The World in a forest packed with spooks and mooks.

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