A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Every four weeks or so I hang up a streamer of industrial strength fly paper in The Flare Path dunny and see what wargame and simulation news stories adhere to it. Below is this month’s bag – 25 bite-size stories involving virtual vehicles and surrogate slaughter. If you wince when someone calls a locomotive a train, and can put these three battles – Trenton, Turnham Green, Trafalgar – in chronological order, you should probably click where it says… (more…)

To fully defox the following enlargeable geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them. (more…)

Like most horror flicks, The Dark Pictures Anthology – Man Of Medan is better with friends. Starting this week, Medan owners are getting a new Friend’s Pass, letting you invite one special friend onto the virtual couch to share the scares together over the next two months. It’s a one-time-use key, so you’ll have to pick your partner carefully, but what better way could there be to plunge into Medan with a mate online?

Wait, doesn’t Medan support Remote Play Together anyway?

(more…)

As much as your deals herald loves a good Black Friday SSD deal, those of you who are after buckets of storage for as little money as possible may want to check out these Black Friday deals on the recently-released WD Black GameDrive external HDDs, where the 5TB P10 GameDrive is currently going for just under 100 and comes with two free months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to boot.

(more…)

Gather round, descendants of unwelcome occupiers. It is time to celebrate turkeys again. Now, I don t have any comically large birds to slaughter, but I do recognise the emotional benefit of reflection, which is what this questionable holiday is all about. Being thankful. There are many small things we videosgamers take for granted, the stuff you don t even think about. But tiny quality of life things still deserve a grateful thumbs-up. Here are 17 things to be thankful for in games.

(more…)

Well, technically, it’s the newer version of your favourite gaming mouse, the Logitech G502 Hero, that’s on sale right now, but still, a Black Friday deal of just 28 in the UK and $35 in the US is a pretty sweet price for what’s normally a 60 / $60+ gaming mouse.

(more…)

Apex Legends has failed to adequately expand its repertoire of bird-based disasters. That’s got nothing to do with the news, which is that they’re about to start throwing more Apex Packs at everyone. I’m just annoyed and astonished that my calls to action have gone ignored, apart from the addition of a fabulous skydiving emote that I’ll never own because there’s still no way I’m forking out for the Season 3 Battle Pass.

An update due on December 3rd will raise the level cap, increase levelling speed at lower levels, and up the rate at which Apex Packs drop. The change is retroactive, so if you log on you might have a stash waiting for you. It will not have enough birds in it.

(more…)

If you’ve been holding out for a really great Black Friday SSD deal this week, then your patience is about to pay off. For the next 14-odd hours, the 1TB Samsung 860 Evo is down to a record-low 95 in the UK, which is a saving of around 40 compared to its price for the last six months.

(more…)

If Half-Life: Alyx has got you wondering whether you should finally take the plunge on a VR headset, have I got some Black Friday VR headset deals for you. Finally, there are some decent VR deals in the UK now, with big discounts on the HTC Vive, Vive Cosmos and Oculus Rift S. So, 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. Whether you’re after a top of the line HTC Vive Pro, an Oculus Quest or a cheap Windows Mixed Reality headset, here are the best Black Friday VR headset deals available right now.

(more…)

Two weeks ago Auckland, New Zealand was the home of ExileCon, the first of possibly many conventions celebrating the increasingly popular action RPG Path Of Exile. While the mood was obviously buoyed by a trio of well-received announcements (a mobile spinoff, a pair of expansions, and Path Of Exile 2), what I found on the other side of the planet was a community and studio united in their love of the genre and the game Grinding Gear is making.

That, and a trading card game that threatened to take over everything.

(more…)