I’ve already posted about Valorant‘s new upcoming agent, but now she’s official. Following an accidental leak, Riot have unveiled Killjoy in the way they meant to: with a trailer that looks like one of those commercials for stupidly expensive gadgets you don’t need. She’s a turret-packing, grenade-chucking, robot-deploying hacker who looks a bit like ex-RPS vidbud Alice Liguori.

I’m being snarky but I do quite like the trailer. And Alice Liguori.

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We have generally avoided posting about things that exist in the intersection of “games, things that are enjoyable and we love” and “the global pandemic, a thing which is terrible”, mostly because this intersection is quite weird and grim. I am, however, making an exception today in order to highlight a mod that adds both a slight pandemic slant to Stardew Valley, and a good dose of much-needed humour.

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Surprise! FromSoftware’s most recent very difficult action game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is getting a big free update on October 29th. Because of who I am as a person, the immediate thing I’m drawn to in said update is the fact that there are some cool new outfits for everyone’s favourite Shinobi. But there are two other very exciting things on the way, too – a boss rush-style mode, and a recording feature that allows you to send ghosts of yourself to other players’ worlds (kind of like the ones you see wandering around in Dark Souls).

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Remember the other day when I reported that some skelly-head flamethrowers were coming to Sea Of Thieves? Well, it turns out those heads belong to four particularly deadly Skeleton Captains, who’ve arrived in today’s Ashen Winds update. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy to nab their flaming skulls, either, as each of these Captains will use all sorts of dirty tricks to stop you from defeating them – from whipping up clouds of ash to obscure your view, to raining molten meteors right on top of you.

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Dusty mook-tormenting simulator Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has finally had its much-awaited Peace Day, as players achieved full nuclear disarmament last night.

For the first time since its 2015 release, not a single player had possession of a nuclear weapon. Enough people chose to destroy them that there were simply none left. The result is the unlocking of a new celebratory cutscene, which you can see below thanks to a YouTube user known as Steff.

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In Baldur’s Gate 3, you’ll be able to play as an almost-vampire. His name is Astarion, and he’s technically a vampire spawn rather than a fully-fledged blood sucker, but like vampires across all sorts of fantasy media, he can’t go into places without being specifically invited and, more importantly, he can’t cross running water. Unfortunately for Astarion, there just so happens to be a large river right next to where you spawn in the very first section of Baldur’s Gate 3. According to the game’s lead systems designer, Nick Pechenin, it’s possible to kill the poor vamp within 15 seconds of spawning in.

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If you’ve been itching to play former PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn when it comes out on PC next month, you can now see if your PC’s up to the task of running Guerrilla Games’ post-apocalyptic cyber dino-hunting adventure thanks to some freshly published PC requirements over on its Steam page.

Thankfully, they’re pretty much exactly the same as Kojima’s post-apocalyptic courier sim, Death Stranding, which isn’t surprising given that they run on the same engine, but if you’ve been merrily building bridges and delivering packages in the old Stranding, you should be pretty good to go when Horizon bounds onto PC on August 7th.

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Theoretically, I like chess. I learned it at a very young age, and defeated the uncle who taught me, hollowing his soul and cursing myself to a decade with nobody to play it with. That decade probably kept me from being the kind of person who memorises moves and has special names for things from a textbook. In a way, it made me.

5D Chess, on the other hand, makes me feel like that uncle likely did. This is not possible. How. What. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

I have yet to experience a single defeat or victory that I understood. And I don’t like it.

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Respawn have sought to defend themselves against accusations of crunch, after an anonymous employee wrote a negative review of the company on Glassdoor. The employee writes that they “feel extremely stressed and burnt out trying to keep our seasonal releases on the same aggressive timeline as pre-shelter in place productivity”, “work 12-13 hours a day”, and are “considering leaving without a better job to go to just so mentally [they] can be in a better place”. This emerged last week, causing Apex Legends game director Chad Grenier to assert that the problem “is not with the intent of Respawn’s leadership”.

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There are lots of great SSD deals to be had this week, particularly if you’re after an SSD made by WD, as there are lots of big discounts across their Blue and Black drives right now in both the UK and the US. To help you get the best price on your new SSD, we’ve rounded up all the cheapest deals on our [cms-block] recommendations from around the web, covering a range of form factors and different size capacities from budget 2.5in SSDs right up to ultra fast NVMe drives. Whether you’re looking for the cheapest SATA SSD deals or the biggest savings on today’s NVMe SSDs and external SSDs, here are the cheapest SSD deals of the week.

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