Dell’s Alienware m15 is hands down one of the best gaming laptops I’ve tested this year, so imagine your deals herald’s excitement when I learned it’s one of the current doorbuster mega deals in the Dell US Black Friday sale. It’s the RTX 2060 model that’s up for grabs right now, and whereas this particular model would normally set you back a cool $2250, you can currently get it for a much sweeter $1400.
Building empires in Crusader Kings 3 is dirty work. You can’t just roll up with an army and start taking farmland willy-nilly – you need friends to fund your battles, lovers to keep your line in check, and even an occasional so-called ally may need to be taken out of the picture. Paradox’s latest Crusader Kings 3 dev diary is all about plotting and scheming, detailing how best to plot against your rivals by taking advantage of their most tantalising secrets.
When half the town was gone, an interloper appeared in an empty house. His name was Whitely and I still don’t know where he came from — he just arrived. Perhaps he saw an advert in the local paper for a house sitting vacant: “Previous tenant spontaneously combusted. Ready for immediate move-in. No questions asked.” He needed to be dealt with.
This is the final instalment of Simento Mori, an exploration into the limits and meaning of death in The Sims by letting a whole neighbourhood waste away into nothingness. This is when it wastes away into nothingness. For those who want a refresher, check out parts one and two.
Black Friday is a great time to bag a big saving on one of today’s [cms-block]s, so your trusted deals herald has been hard at work rounding up all the best Black Friday gaming monitor deals especially for your viewing pleasure. Below, you’ll find all the best deals on 144Hz monitors, G-Sync monitors, FreeSync monitors, ultrawide monitors and your regular budget monitors. Whatever kind of Black Friday monitor deal you’re after, we’ve got you covered.
Gods tend to be a bit on the quiet side. You can leave ’em a voice-mail, but it’s rare enough that they’ll ever answer back. For some of The Blackout Club‘s teen detectives, though, the gods have been quite vocal indeed. Question’s co-op horror has a trick up its sleeve. The supernatural forces of 80s suburbia have been sliding into voice chat, turning spooky multiplayer adventures into a strange sort of participatory theatre.
The Black Friday gaming monitor deals have been a little lacklustre this year, but your deals herald has finally found one worth shouting about. It’s on the AOC C24G1, our best gaming monitor pick for those on a budget, which is now down to a very agreeable 135 / $145 over on Amazon.
On a dinky asteroid orbiting the Earth, two symmetrical ziggurats mark the red base and blue base. Each sniper-lined tower guards a flag, and their confined spaces contrast with the exposed and treacherous bridge between them. It is elegant, simple, stark against a grand sci-fi background. This is Facing Worlds, a level in the once dominant first-person shooter Unreal Tournament. This modest map has created countless memories of squaring off with friends over LAN and modem since it first appeared in 1999.
Before Fortnite and the Epic Games store, there was Unreal Tournament. 20 years have passed since Epic Games and Digital Extremes released their critically-acclaimed sequel to Unreal, and just one since an ambitious crowdsourced reboot was quietly shelved. Still, the original remains a touchstone for twitchy FPS multiplayer, and Facing Worlds, or CTF-Face for “capture the flag”, is a microcosm of everything great about it.
With the release of Half-Life: Alyx lingering on the horizon, many of you (your deals herald included) may be wondering whether, given it’s Black Friday and everything this week, whether you should finally take the plunge pick up a great VR headset deal. Well, to help aid you in your quest for the best Black Friday VR headset deal, I’ve been scouring the web for all the best prices. From HTC Vives to Oculus Quests and even a couple of cheap Windows Mixed Reality headsets, here are the best Black Friday VR headset deals available right now.
The devs behind Minecraft-server-turned-sandbox-RPG Hytale finally reckon they know when it’ll be done. Don’t get your hopes up for jumping in anytime soon, mind. In a development update posted this week, developers Hypixel think the ambitious block ’em up will be done by 2021. To keep you filled in ’til then dropped three additional update posts showing off new sights, new sounds, and our first 36 seconds of gameplay footage. Blimey, aren’t you spoiled?
The Black Friday deals bonanza marches on this week, and there continue to be some pretty good Black Friday SSD deals for those looking to upgrade their PC’s storage banks. Admittedly, most of the best Black Friday SSD deals have, so far at least, largely been limited to just Samsung SSDs. That’s by no means a bad thing, of course, as my best gaming SSD rankings are chock full of the things, making it a great time to pick up some of the fastest and nippiest drives around on the cheap.
Still, deals on other SSDs like those from WD, Adata and Crucial have all been a bit lacking this year, although thankfully that doesn’t seem to be the case in the US, as there are still plenty of nice, tasty SSD deals to be had on non-Samsung drives, particularly on their Black SN750 SSD. Regardless of whether you’re after a deal on the best SATA SSDs or mega discounts on super fast NVMe SSDs and portable SSDs, we’ve got you covered in our Black Friday SSD deals hub.