A storm has swept through Fortnite, leaving the island looking a bit like the Universal Studios stunt show, Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular. Chapter 2 Season 3 launched today and the battle royale’s map has been remade once again, with large chunks of it now underwater. And yes, you really can get around by fast by snagging a shark with your fishing rod then water-skiing behind it. A Jason Momoa Aquaman is here too?

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If you’re in the market for an excellent gaming monitor and don’t care about anything more than 1080p gaming, then you’ll be pleased to hear that Amazon US have knocked $120 off the 27in Acer Nitro XV273 at the moment (which is the 1080p, 240Hz sibling of the superb Acer Nitro XV273K Katharine reviewed late last year), taking this once $490 monitor down to just $360.

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Despite all the notE3 showcases and announcements this week, Konami have not announced a new Silent Hill. Not even hinted at one. Despite the rumours that they might have two coming. Ah well. However, two notable things have happened in the field of quiet mounds:

1) Dead By Daylight launched Silent Hill DLC, adding Cheryl Mason and Pyramid Head.2) Konami put seven Silent Hill soundtracks back up on Spotify, including the best one.

That’ll have to do for now.

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Without good, honest workers stripping apart old spaceships, the galaxy would be much more crowded. The reason you never see Luke Skywalker run into traffic is because of the hard work done by the great tradesmen of the Milky Way. If you’ve always been more interested in carefully dismantling spaceships rather than flying them, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is definitely something you should check out.

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The ball is fumbled on the pig iron, and it’s good! Electronic Arts have now announced Madden NFL 21, their latest annual American sporting sequel, and it will be on both Origin and Steam and launch. I know EA have been going on about their reinvigorated commitment to Steam for a while now, but between this and Star Wars: Squadrons both coming to Steam at launch, I might actually believe it. While I have bought games on Origin, I would be quite glad to never use the client again because of one bug: how often it forgets my saved login.

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If you haven’t finally cracked into The Witcher 3 after three months of lockdown, perhaps you never will. Still, this latest offer from GOG might make you rethink, as from now until June 23rd, they’re giving away free GOG copies of the game to anybody who’s bought it on other platforms, such as Steam, Epic Games Store and Origin – even PS4 and Xbox One copies are eligible. Best of all, your save file and achievements will transfer over, too.

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Valorant

is great, but it’s sorely lacking a mode where you get to make a number go up. Riot’s guns ‘n’ wizards FPS launched two weeks ago, but the developers have held off on adding a ranked mode until non-beta players had a chance to find their feet. Not for much longer, though – Valorant game director Joe Ziegler has announced that ranked mode will “likely be out some time next week”.

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SSD prices have largely remained the same this week, although sadly the uniform price cut for one of last week’s top SSD deals, the WD Black SN750, has reverted to its old price again. There are a couple of exceptions (it’s a good time to buy a 1TB model in the US), but WD SSD deals hunters will be mostly disappointed this week. Still, there are plenty of other great SSD deals around, making it the perfect time to upgrade your PC with one of our best [cms-block] recommendations.

This week in SSD deals land, the main pick is for UK buyers looking for a 250GB or 500GB Samsung 860 Evo, which both get a decent discount via that excellent Currys Ebay voucher doing the rounds. That’s not all, though. Below, you’ll also find a range of SSD deals in all sorts of size capacities and form factors. 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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Next month, Wizards of the Coast will release a new way to play Magic: The Gathering in the form of Jumpstart. Available physically and also in Arena, its PC-based incarnation. We previewed Jumpstart yesterday in conversation with Magic’s principal product designer, Mark Heggen. Today we’re exclusively revealing two of its 46 different themes, and discovering the incredible calculus Wizards of the Coast apply to their card designs. (more…)

I somehow missed the fact that Treachery In Beatdown City has its own full length theme, and it is the greatest thing that has ever happened.

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