It’s yer deals herald back again with another hot deals tip this morning, this time on a Dell Inspiron Gaming desktop bundle for 999. That’s over 450 off its usual price, but hurry, as this mega deal won’t last long. At time of writing, it’s already been 56% claimed.
Last night, Valve sounded the deals horn with their Steam Autumn Sale, but look a bit further and you’ll find lots of games are actually cheaper elsewhere. And who better to cut through the Black Friday noise than your trusted deals herald? I’ve been scouring the web for all the best game deals, taking in the sights of places like Green Man Gaming, Humble, Fanatical and GamesPlanet to bring you the best and lowest prices I can find. Of course, there are loads more games on sale than I can possibly hope to fit in a single article, but hopefully I’ve included most of the highlights, as well as a couple of hidden gems to spice things up a bit. To the deals!
Humble unveiled a brand-new game bundle last night and it’s absolutely rammed with Sonic games. There are 12 in total, ranging from the blue blur’s early forays into marathon running and chilli-dog eating with Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD all the way through to his more recent revivals in games such as Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania.
Last time I wrote an update on my town in Foundation, a very sweet medieval city builder, I had described said update as “biannual”. I am upgrading that to “quarterly”, having checked in on it again today and found that I need to reassess several things I claimed in aforementioned previous update. I claimed, will what I now view as ill-deserved confidence, that “once you get your head around it your town will just thrive.”
“Much like the desk plant I recently got,” I, a stupidhead, went on stupidly, “neglect will not destroy my town in Foundation.” That is technically accurate. But I made food and water available to my desk plant, and it has absorbed the nutrients I provided and has sprouted a new shoot. The population of my town in Foundation, meanwhile, is growing furious and leaving for pastures new because they are starving. And they are starving because they won’t eat any of the mountains of bread available.
Well, this is awkward. On the same day I discovered nobody had written a Have You Played for Diablo, I discovered another end-of-the-90s banger that, somehow, remained unreminisced-upon. That game was Age Of Empires 2 (the Age of Kings!), and I felt like a vulture who d just found a wheelbarrow full of burgers at the heart of a lifeless desert. So many classics to feast on, and all to myself!
And AoE2 was a proper> wheelbarrow full of burgers, so it was. Unfortunately, Microsoft, well aware of this fact, managed not only to announce a definitive remaster of the game and its ocean of expansions while I was putting off writing this, but released the damned thing as well. In fact, I reviewed it. So, you ll forgive me if I don t repeat all the nostalgia I flooded my system with for that article, and instead tell you a quick, silly story about a game of AoE2 I played once.
A lizard-riding auntie with a shotgun and an incarnation of aether today arrived in Dota 2 and Dota Underlords in matching Outlanders Updates. Snapfire and Void Spirit are the two new heroes announced at The International in August, and here they are in both games now. They’re accompanied by big updates for each, with Dota 2 adding new buildings and dozens of new items and Underlords adding a new quick-paced mode plus the other Spirit heroes. These patch notes sure are a lot to take in. Damn, Dota.
Light the fire and gather round, young’uns. Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has stumbled in on this cold November’s eve, bearing gifts to improve the coming year’s harvest. Stardew Valley‘s long-anticipated 1.4 update is finally here, a massive free renovation touching every last plank, grain and villager in the valley. We’ve been teasing out details for ages, so let’s take a complete look at the update that brings “a whole new level of polish” to the cosy crop grower today.
Now close that door, you’re letting the heat out.
Are y’all ready for some deals? With Black Friday almost upon us and only a few weeks since the last big Steam sale, of course it’s time for some deals. Steam’s Autumn Sale kicked off today, dealing out discounts and delights until the shutters close next Tuesday. You can check out the full list of discounted games on Steam here. Blimey, there’s a few of them. Over 13,000 of them.
Tell you what, I’ll give you a couple of recommendations to get started.
Last week, I asked you what’s your favourite gaming mouse? Hundreds of mice came squeaking at our doors, but only five were strong enough to break into our voting arena. All of them hailed from the ranks of Razer and Logitech, and now, after a weekend of duking it out inside our specially prepared battle royale cage, one has emerged victorious. That mouse is the Logitech G502 Proteus Spectum!
Who remembers the 90s? Princess Diana alive and well and driving around London in her open-topped Bentley, throwing fistfuls of rare Pogs to her adoring public. Tony Blair flying around the sky in his personalised Concorde, throwing hundreds of rare Pogs down to his adoring public. Bill Clinton, unimpeached and still full of beans, kicking back in the Oval Office, proudly showing off his collection of rare Pogs to any foreign leader who will indulge him. The most popular new baby name is Ross From Friends , and everywhere, everywhere>, is ankle-deep in a layer of nerf darts covering the entire surface of the planet.