Good news if you’re in the market for a new gaming laptop or monitor – especially if you prefer your hardware to have the Dell or Alienware logo attached. There’s a voucher code doing the rounds on HotUKDeals that takes 15% off all hardware in the Dell store, and that leads to some serious bargains on top of their already existing two-day deals prices.
You have until 8am tomorrow (midnight Pacific) to buy Itch.io’s Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, getting you over 1700 games and things while giving money to a great cause. The bundle has so far raised over $7 million (£5.5m) for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Community Bail Fund, which all proceeds to be 50/50. The bundle contains lots of games you’ll likely know, like Night In The Woods (above) and Pyre, as well as loads of the smaller games Itch is known for. It’s a bit overwhelming, so we can help you with recommendations too.
I used to think I was pretty good at platformers, until I played Celeste. Made the creators of Towerfall, Celeste drops you in the shoes of Madeline, whose goal is to climb a mountain. Except, the mountain isn’t really just a mountain – it’s a metaphor for all the difficulties that Madeline, and you, have overcome, and will need to overcome in the future. It’s gruelling and lovely, and you’re missing out on a wonderful experience if you haven’t gotten around to playing it. Now, however, you have no excuse not to be playing it, because it’s one of the hundred of games included in the Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality.
I have long described Kingdoms Of Amular: Reckoning as one of my favourite games. It has also been a long time since I checked. And as you can see, despite its status in my gaming life, I still can’t spell its name correctly. AmAlUr. Am-ah-lure.
With the very welcome recent announcement that its most recent owners, THQ Nordic, are remastering it, I thought I’d return to give them a few pointers of what needs fixing. And that does not include the troll rolling.
EA today revealed Star Wars: Squadrons as a first-person spacehip dogfighting game, coming in October. It’s set after Return of the Jedi, will let you fly both Rebel Alliance and Empire, and yes, it will have a singleplayer campaign as well as 5v5 multiplayer. Three pleasant surprises: it’ll have cross-platformer multiplayer between PC and consoles; it’ll support VR; and it will be on Steam at launch.
is one of our [cms-block] picks you can buy right now, which makes this deal from Amazon a real eye-opener. For weeks now, the Ryzen 7 3700X has cost around £280, but today you can snap it up for just £250.
We all loved playing as the horrible goose in Untitled Goose Game last year, but Sam Person’s Desktop Goose companion has now given me a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that terrible honking machine. The goose is, as you’d expect, a monster, slapping his tiny feet all across your monitor, dragging in goose-related pictures and notepad messages that he’s apparently typed with his own feet, and if you try and shut them down he’ll come after you and bite your mouse cursor.
Desktop Goose has been out for a while, but it’s one of the many hundreds of games now available as part of the stupendously good value Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, which has just ticked over an incredible $7 million. But the goose isn’t all bad. Occasionally he’ll bring you notes of encouragement saying you’re doing a good job, and it actually made my heart swell to one hundred times its normal size. Thank you, desktop goose, you’re all right.
I’d love to say we got a new trailer for eerie, top-down cowboy purgatory Weird West during the PC Gaming Show, but alas we did not. We did, however, get a short interview with its dad, Raphaël Colantonio, who managed to squeeze out a few sentences about how character-switching and death works in the game, before the juggernaut of not-quite-reveals rolled over him and the show moved on to other previously-seen trailers. Still, for all that its nuts and bolts remain fairly opaque ahead of its 2021 release, there’s something really enticing about Weird West.
If last few days of notE3 have made you wonder whether it’s time to upgrade your PC, then you’ll want to make sure you’ve got one of today’s best graphics cards inside it. I should warn you, Nvidia are prepping for the launching of their high-end [cms-block] RTX 3000 graphics cards at the moment, and we know AMD are going to release their new [cms-block] cards before the end of the year as well. As such, if you’re looking to buy a 4K graphics card, you’ll probably want to hang tight.
If you’re in the market for a new graphics card for playing games at 1080p or 1440p, though, then there’s no need to wait. We aren’t likely to see next-gen versions of Nvidia and AMD’s lower-end graphics cards for quite some time yet, making it a good time to buy our current best graphics card recommendation, the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT. Having tested all of today’s graphics cards, the RX 5600 XT is the one that, in our eyes, represents the best value for money, and you can find out more about why we’ve chosen the RX 5600 XT below. All prices are correct at time of writing, but make sure you also check our regularly updated [cms-block] hub for all the best prices.
Klei Entertainment’s fast-talking, hard-stabbing Griftlands is now available on Steam too, after almost a year exclusive to the Epic Games Store. Griftlands is a roguelikelike deckbuilding RPG about mercenaries on a backwater alien planet. You’ll take quests, build friendships and rivalries, and settle differences with separate decks you build for speech and combat. It is: pretty neat. It also has: a demo.
