Fleet carriers have been officially brought over to Elite Dangerous proper, following their two beta tests over the last few months.

Judging by the announcement they’ll work much as they did during the second beta, effectively giving players their own space station to dock up to 16 ships at. They can be moved around the galaxy (though not piloted) by burning expensive tritium fuel, potentially up to 500 light years at a time.

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This year was supposed to be the Overwatch League’s big leap into local homesteads, and while no one was quite clear how well it would work, they certainly weren’t expecting a global pandemic to move the whole thing back online again. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, but they’ve mostly managed to pull it off.

In certain spots, the challenge has actually pushed some fun and creative solutions, like using pets to establish hero pools for the following weeks, or, in freelance esports photographer Robert Paul’s case, switching from real life shots to in-game ones.

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If last week’s chat about Total War Saga: Troy has got you itching to dip into The Creative Assembly’s back catalogue of Total War games, you’re in luck, as Humble are holding an entire week of Total War deals right now. With savings of up to 75% in some cases (plus a very tasty 25% off last year’s excellent Total War: Three Kingdoms), there’s plenty to get excited about. So let’s sharpen those deals swords and dive on in, shall we?

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A new area has opened up in SnowRunner with a free update today, inviting players to get stuck in the Taymyr’s Rift map. Sounds like a great place to take a honking great truck off-roading, Rift does. The publishers have also now picked winners for the first wad of monthly prize money for people making popular SnowRunner mods.

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Spending $1400 on a gaming laptop is a big chunk of money in anyone’s book, but if I told you said laptop normally costs $2250, I think you’d agree that’s a pretty sweet deal all the same. Well, you can do just that over on Dell US at the moment, where their $2250 Alienware M15 R1 gaming laptop can currently be snapped up for $1400 with the voucher code AWM15R102. Just add it to your basket, enter the code at checkout and $850 will magically melt off the cost of it. Yes. Please.

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If you’re in the UK and have been looking for some great [cms-block], then there’s one laptop deal that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to value for money. It’s the MSI Alpha 15, available for £799 from Scan. Down from its original £1099, this 15.6in laptop has great specs and comes with a load of free goodies.

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You know you’re onto a winner when your heart swells ten times its normal size out of pure excitement from the boot-up sequence for the remaster of a game you never played. I was far too young to even comprehend Command & Conquer when it first came out in 1995, and to my great shame it’s never been something I’ve sought out in the intervening years. But watching Command & Conquer Remastered Collection‘s newly re-tooled EVA opening sequence had me pumping my fists and bellowing with excitement like I’d been down there in the fan trenches all along.

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If you’ve decided it’s time to taking your PC games on the go, then the best way to do that is with one of today’s best gaming laptops. Buying a gaming laptop used to involve spending a fortune on a machine that couldn’t hold a candle to a desktop’s performance, but thanks to the gradual shrinking of graphics chips, you’d be surprised by what today’s gaming laptops are capable of. Sadly, a lot of the very best gaming laptops still cost an absolute fortune, which is why we’ve rounded up the best budget gaming laptop deals that you can get for under £1000 / $1000.

Each week, we shop around on your behalf and line up a number of budget gaming laptop deals that won’t push you over the four figure mark. As ever with PC hardware, the more you can spend, the happier you’ll be with the results, but if you’re determined to keep your costs down to under £1000 / $1000, then these are the best budget gaming laptop deals you can buy today.

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Blizzard are changing up Overwatch‘s hero pool system again, except this time around they’re just straight up removing it from regular competitive play. The system, which involves banning several characters each week, was originally implemented to stop the meta from turning stale, and it’s seen a few changes already in its short life. Just last month I reported that they’d ditched hero pools for lower rank players, and now they’ve gone as far as to get rid of them for everyone. Except the Overwatch League, that is, which, let’s be honest, is pretty much the only reason hero pools were invented in the first place.

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Atlus, the makers of games including Persona and Trauma Center, are teasing that they might have more games coming to PC. They’ve said they’ll have something to show during the PC Gaming Show, Saturday’s newsblast stream organised by cheery RPS fanzine PC Gamer, and I dearly hope it’s PC releases for Persona. The long-running RPG series is about high school students drawn into supernatural mysteries, balancing regular life by day and battling spookies by night. They are: good. An enhanced version of Persona 5 came out on PlayStation 4 only in March so saaay that might be a good place to start.

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