It might be only three months since Arcade Edition hit, but Street Fighter V is gearing up for another evolution. Champion Edition was announced this weekend, collecting everything ever released for Capcom’s flagship fighter into one package in the game’s “most robust version” yet. But it wouldn’t be an update without something new. SFV’s next step will be ushered in by an ancient strongman slathered in red-and-blue paint who fights in the buff and occasionally sprouts six angelic wings.

Subtle as ever, Capcom.

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To say that Siege of Centauri is one of the most uninspired games I’ve ever played in my life sounds, well, a little harsh. But as I plopped down tower after tower and eviscerated enemy after enemy, I found myself comparing the game to two dozen others that were almost identical in function. And then I thought back to my favourite tower defence games of all time – Plants vs Zombies, They Are Billions, Protolife – and how each of them took the familiar formula in a very new direction. By comparison, Siege of Centauri is stubbornly, brutally> unoriginal with its unwavering mantra of “place down towers, defeat waves, upgrade towers, defeat waves, congratulations, you’ve won, time to do it all again.”

So why, then, has Siege of Centauri just shot up to join these innovators at the top of my “best tower defence games ever” list?

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Right, time to grab all the salt in your immediately vicinity. Pop to the shops, if you must. Then sit down and read this rumour I don’t quite believe about a VR-only Half-Life game that Valve are supposedly going to announce on December 12th.

According to a Pastebin poster who refers to their source as “the same user” who leaked the existence of Dota Underlords, the VR game is called Half-Life: Alyx. No real further details about this game that might or might not exist are known at this time. This fits Valve’s announcement from 2017 that they were building 3 VR games, but yunno, so would a good hoax. Make your own mind up why not.

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Black Friday doesn’t technically start until the end of next week (November 29), but as is now tradition for the never-ending tide of holiday bargain hunting, the deals just get earlier and earlier with each passing year. Case in point, Amazon are doing some pretty great deals on a bunch of Samsung SSDs today, including all-time low prices on their excellent 970 Evo and 970 Evo Plus NVMe drives, as well as their portable T5 SSD.

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We all have our favourite gaming mice. For me, it’s a toss up between the Logitech G Pro Wireless and the ever so lovely Roccat Kain 120, both of which have been sitting proudly atop my best gaming mouse rankings ever since I tested them earlier in the year.

But chances are that there’s a piece of plastic gripped between your clawed fingers that just feels right to you, and I want to know what it is. There’s always going to be way more great mice out there than I’ll ever be able to review myself, so take to the comments below and explain why your clicker is better than all the others.

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The nicest thing I can say about Terminator: Resistance is that if a Terminator were sent back in time to wipe out its code, the timeline of gaming in general would almost certainly proceed unchanged. Confused by the apparent failure, Skynet would keep on sending Arnies back to delete it, unaware that the job was already done, and that its agents were just piling up awkwardly in the offices of developer Teyon. The killer AI would squander all its resources on needlessly ferrying metal strongmen into the past, spiral into logistical collapse, and leave humanity to be declared the winners by default. Hooray – Terminator: Resistance saved us all.

That’s about it, however. Although I started out with a mind to write a Wot I Think about it, the truth is there s barely any Wot to Think about in Resistance. Everything it does has existed in games since the advent of the mouse, and its particular format was perfected 15 years ago with Half-Life 2. They’re remarkably similar in a lot of ways, but where Half-Life 2 offers everything with pace and precision, Terminator: Resistance is about as lively as that eye-ball Arnie scrapes out of his head in the first movie. As such, this isn’t so much Wot I Think, but Wot Might Have Been: a glimpse into the alternate timelines where Terminator: Resistance was something fresh and fascinating.

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This is, really and truly, the last ever Steam Charts.

Which, I realise, is something I’ve said before. More than once. But this time it’s really true!

Erk, I’m not really sure how to convince anyone of this. I’m the boy who cried last ever Steam Charts.

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The new season in Teamfight Tactics is in full swing and there will be another patch coming very soon. If you’ve not played TFT in a while, there’s a whole bunch of brand new champions and items. Putting them all together in one coherent TFT comp might be a little trickier as you’ve now got to contend with elements, as well as the fact that everything is new again. So with the new beginning, we thought we’d once again bring you the TFT best comps list for the current patch – 9.22.

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Something has… gone wrong with Planet Zoo. I think it’ll be fixed easily enough, possibly even today, and I’m still having fun with it as it is. But, in the game’s franchise mode at least, the promise of “build your own zoo, with whatever you like in it” has quietly been phased out for “in the grim darkness of the international animal trade, there is only warthogs”.

Well, warthogs, ostriches and Indian peafowl, to be precise. Because, for anyone starting a game right now, that’s pretty much all you can expect to see in your zoo for a good, long while. And you’ll be seeing a lot> of them, too, because grinding out millions of them is currently the best hope of you’ve got of getting other animals. It’s very much a case of Go Pig or Go Home, and here’s why.

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Good news for Google Stadia fans this morning, as the number of launch games planned for the cloud gaming service has almost doubled overnight. Originally set to launch with just 12 games tomorrow, Google’s Phil Harrison took to Twitter in the early hours of this morning to announce that Stadia’s launch line-up would now total 22 games instead.

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