After serving up ten days of some pretty great gaming laptop and monitor deals, today is the last day of Dell UK’s Premier sale event, making it your last chance to save 14% on their range of gaming laptops, gaming desktops and gaming monitors. Far from being left with the deals dregs, however, there are still some pretty smashing deals out there to see out the sale in style, including a GTX 1660 Ti-powered G5 gaming laptop for £945 and £330 off an RTX 2080 Super-powered gaming desktop. Read on below for my pick of the bunch.

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There are lots of cheap gaming monitor deals going on right now, thanks mostly to a big sale on LG gaming monitors over at Amazon UK this week. Stock levels are still a bit low in the US right now, so there are slightly fewer gaming monitor deals available for you folks across the Atlantic, but there are still a decent number of tempting monitor deals if you know where to look. Thankfully, we’ve done the hard work for you and rounded up all the best gaming monitor deals around right now, from cheap 144Hz and 240Hz gaming screens to cut-price ultrawide monitor deals. So read on below for all the best prices on as many of today’s [cms-block]s we’ve been able to find. Whether you’re looking for the cheapest G-Sync gaming monitor deals or the lowest ultrawide gaming monitor deals, here are the top gaming monitor deals of the week.

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Though EA’s notE3 showcase has come and gone with nary a mention of a remastered Mass Effect trilogy, rumours persist. Now they’re being stoked again by an Amazon listing apparently revealing an expanded version of the art book, The Art Of The Mass Effect Trilogy is coming in March 2021. Which makes some fans wonder: why expand the art book now? Hell, we all need something to believe in.

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After Friday’s gaming monitor deal on LG’s G-Sync Compatible 24GL650, another four LG monitors have come down in price today, this time over at Amazon UK. With two ultrawide monitors and two 27in, 144Hz G-Sync Compatible displays on sale right now, these monitors are of a slightly higher spec than Friday’s deal (which is still ongoing, I might add, and a couple of quid cheaper at time of writing to boot), but with savings of almost £100 on some of them, they’re well worth taking a look at.

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I’m still enjoying Fallout 76 partly because it makes it much easier to ignore the things I usually gripe about in MMOs. That’s not to say it isn’t naggy (and the recently added public teams pop up a notification with a noise that startles me almost every time I’m creeping up on something), nor immune to the usual MMO diseases.

But I can largely do my own thing. Like when I inadvertantly ended up far from my camp in an unfamiliar spot and walked all the way home. I doubtless walked past a dozen ‘quest’ bits, and could have run off to do some events, or looked up an achievement or challenge or whatever to make some numbers go up. But instead, I figured I’d take the opportunity to explore and get to know the land better.

I’m not saying it’s the only> way to enjoy the game. But it’s certainly a good one. If you go at your own pace, Fallout 76 has a lot of extra fun to uncover.

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I’m always going on about Pharaoh, the Impressions city builder from 1999 that’s lodged itself in my psyche like a toy soldier in an alsatian’s paw. And every time I mention how good it is, some forlorn soul in the comments mentions Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom, it’s successor-but-one (after Zeus: Master of Olympus) from 2002, as being better. And you know what? They’re right. Pharaoh will always be my favourite because I’m just so into the theme, but Emperor was by far the better game, and is arguably as good as historical city builders ever got.

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Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s time for our weekly foray into the swamps of Twitter’s screenshotsaturday hashtag, fishing out the juiciest gifs, videos and in-development jpegs we can find for the afternoon’s pleasure. This week: moon’s haunted, but we’ve also got concrete gardening, low-fi adaptations, and crunchy cosmic billiards.

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Sundays are for swimming in the sea, as you have been doing most mornings. Nobody tell Alice O. Here’s the best writing about videogames from the past week.

For FanByte, Jay Castello weighed in on the ‘not overly-cutesy even though it looks like it’ nature of Ooblets. The RPS treehouse arrived at a similar conclusion.

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Onyxia, Broodmother of the Black Dragonflight. If you’re a veteran World Of Warcraft player, that name will immediately conjure long-buried feelings of dread – from the precision play needed to take her down, to the hours spent grinding quests to even enter her lair. But Azeroth’s scariest dragon seems to have lost her touch, as a band of 40 World Of Warcraft: Classic adventurers worked out how to fell Onyxia in nought but their undies earlier this week.

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Usually, when I’m working the news shift, I’ll pop on one of those lo-fi youtube mixes to keep my ears distracted. Today, however, I’m thinking about trying something a little more Nordic. This week, a snippet of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s soundscape hit Spotify in the form of the Out Of The North EP, a seven-track mix of chanting, panpipes and warlike drums to study / relax / raid East Anglian settlements to.

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