is… lord. What’s the best way to describe a hybrid of a dystopian graphic novel with Punch-Out about a boxer with the head of a duck who sets out to destroy the secret society of assassins that betrayed him?
I mean, it’s fun as well, but honestly. Throw me a bone here, game.
A busy livestream has brought a whole lot of Destiny 2 news today. Bungie announced the next expansion, named Beyond Light, for launch in September. Today they also start the next season, named Season Of Arrivals, and launch a new dungeon. Looking into the far future, they’ve a further announced two expansions for 2021 and 2022. And to keep the game manageable, they plan to starting cycling out some older content into a ‘Destiny Content Vault’ – but also use that Vault to bring back older bits from the first game, with one area and a raid already confirmed. Whew.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.