Yesterday, I reported that Audi driver Daniel Abt had been suspended from his Formula E team, after getting someone else to race for him in a charity esports event. Well, now he’s been straight up fired by Audi because of the incident. Last night, he posted a 14-minute video explaining the situation. Abt said that the reason he got pro sim racer, Lorenz Hoerzing, to drive for him was because they wanted to “create a funny story for the fans.”

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I am not a very good Stardew Valley farmer. Really experienced players, who take their farming seriously, they know what’s up. They make their own almanacs, they intensively farm pumpkins or sunflowers to get the best yeilds, and they know how to place sprinklers for peak watering efficiency. I do not know any of those things.

My cruel predicament in Stardew is that really I would prefer not to be a farmer at all. Inasmuch as there can ever be a wrong way to play a game, I play Stardew Valley wrong, because I strive not for economic efficiency (thank god you don’t have to do crop rotation) but efficiency of activity. To whit: I cannot be bothered to keep tilling and planting and so on. I haven’t specialised my farm towards anything. You’d think I’d have given up on the farming dream by this point, wouldn’t you? But last night I had an epiphany. A chicken based epiphany.

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The Fallout 76 clown car continued its strange journey this week, as the recently semi-redeemed MMO stumbled over another technical hitch.

The popular in-game event Fasnacht Day was expected to start on Monday, but was quickly stalled by a bug. Players reacted with great frustration as the event was taken down, depriving everyone of an hourly semi-charming, semi-creepy masked robot march. Bethesda report that all is now well, and the event restarts today.

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I’ve seen complicated skill systems in the past, but I’ve never seen anything quite like Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord. It took a while, but I think I’ve managed to decipher just what you need to do to upgrade your character’s abilities and make them a force to be reckoned with.

Every skill has a bunch of perks that you can choose from and there are an awful lot of perks available. We’ll be listing the whole lot here.

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The game event cancellations are pushing even deeper into the year now, as Blizzard have announced BlizzCon 2020 is a no-go. The event usually takes right at the beginning of November, but due to ongoing concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic they’ve made the decision to cancel it.

“We’ve talked about different paths we could take, and how each one could be complicated by fluctuations in national and local health guidelines in the months ahead,” they said. “Ultimately, after considering our options, we’ve come to the very difficult decision to not have BlizzCon this year.”

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While the Silent Hill series still seems basically dead, and maybe that’s for the best, parts will return in Dead By Daylight. The 1v4 multiplayer horrorshow’s next DLC pack will introduce Silent Hill, with Cheryl Mason as a playable survivor, Pyramid Head as a killer, and the school as a new map. DBD has long had guest characters out horror films, from Halloween to Scream, so this is fairly natural. Hell, it’s better than Konami tend to treat Silent Hill.

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Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord does allow you to develop settlements into money making machines, but in order to get the most gold flowing through your town, you need to ensure that you have the right infrastructure in place. Setting up workshops is key to doing this and there are some workshops that are better for your specific towns than others.

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We all have our own favourite gaming mouse, which is why it can be such a pain to replace when it finally bites the dust. Thankfully, there are loads of great gaming mice around today that will (hopefully) fill that mouse-shaped hole in your life, and I’ve rounded up all my best gaming mouse recommendations below. Tried and tested here at RPS, every gaming mouse on this list has been subjected to hours of use, so I know exactly what it’s like to use on a daily basis. I’ve got a recommendation for all types of mouse user, too, from the best ambidextrous gaming mice to the best gaming mouse for big and small hands. Whatever you’re looking for, I guarantee there’s a best gaming mouse pick waiting for you below.

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Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord can have cheats enabled by altering certain files on your computer, but there are also ways to modify the game to enable console commands. These can be useful for those looking to create mods. While the cheats and console commands do have limitations, clever use of them can help with testing that their mod is working properly. (more…)

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You’ll find a range of size capacities and form factors in our SSD deals hub below, as there are great deals to be found across all sorts of SSDs if you know where to look – which is more than can be said for the week’s cheapest [cms-block] and [cms-block]. Whether you’re looking for the best SATA SSD deals or the biggest savings on today’s super fast NVMe SSDs and portable SSDs, here are the cheapest SSD deals of the week.

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