To the Moon - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Craig Pearson)

An ominous shadow falls across the Earth, cast by a tentacled beast that reaches out to grasp the planet. Impostor Factory, the final game in the To The Moon series, is not effing around. Whatever journey the game will take you on, it involves the apocalypse, a time-travelling bathroom, and reliving lives. It is a “wholesome celebration of the bloody end of the world”, as the new trailer shows.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Craig Pearson)

It can be lonely being a Wargroove multiplayer fan. I hopped into Chucklefish’s Advance Wars-inspired strategy game the other day and there was only one game in the public lobby. I’m too shy to join such a game, so I left. But the latest patch might make that less of an issue, as it gathers up all the console versions and the PC and lets them play together.

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Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

We’re only a week away from our next dive into Cyberpunk 2077‘s neon-filled Night City, as CD Projekt Red have just announced their next Night City Wire showcase will be streamed on August 10th. The last one provided a nice little insight into some of the features we can expect to see in CD Projekt Red’s upcoming RPG, and this one looks to be a similar affair. This time round they’ll be taking a closer look at the game’s character backgrounds, or “life paths”, as well as showing the different types of weapons we’ll be able to get our cybernetic hands on.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

As far as lockdown hobbies go, invasive surgery’s a bit of a strange one. But if you insist on getting snappy with a scalpel, Surgeon Simulator 2 is opening the operating theatre a little early with a closed beta. Kicking off tomorrow, Bossa will give you a few days to get used to a stranger’s insides before the medically-trainer hand-wobbler opens the hospital doors later this month.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

There are finally some great gaming laptop deals happening in the US this week, making it a great time to pick up a powerful gaming laptop for under £1000 / $1000. We’ve even rounded up a couple of RTX 2060 models in this price range, which is pretty good going considering they often cost a lot more. So, to help you find the best budget gaming laptop deal possible, we’ve rounded all of our top picks below for both UK and US buyers.

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Drink More Glurp - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Imogen Beckhelling)

Drink More Glurp

is a game about aliens who simply do not understand the Olympics. They think that it’s all about paid sponsorships, and as a result, their sponsors have weirded-up all the events, making it so these poor aliens have to deal with increasingly bizarre competitions. Now, when I say aliens I mean you, because they’re who you play as in this quirky party game. It’s no small fry sports competition either, ‘cos you can play it locally with up to 20 people. 20!

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

A photo of the Asus ROG Strix Hero III gaming laptop

Gaming laptops are expensive at the best of times, especially if you want one with a decent graphics chip inside it and isn’t the size of a small vehicle. Happily, Newegg have chopped a massive $450 off Asus’ ROG Strix Hero III laptop today, taking this normally $2000 gaming machine down to a much more appealing $1550. That’s still a sizeable amount of cash, of course, but you do get an RTX 2070 graphics chip inside it, a Core i7 processor, a 144Hz display and a 512GB SSD.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Matt Cox)

What makeths a man? The finest minds of our generation have already pitted their wits against this most fundamental of questions, and you may (fairly!) scoff at any newcomer with the audacity to trample over established wisdom with his own. Nevertheless, that is exactly what I shall now endeavor to do, for I believe I have access to a vital cultural artifact my predecessors were temporally denied. As the enlightened among you will already know, it is our inestimable joy and good fortune to be born into the same epoch as Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, a battle royale game about squidgy jelly beans completing obstacle courses.

I believe this provides a lens through which our assumptions can, nay, must> be overturned. Ask not what maketh a man. Ask what maketh a Fall Guy.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ollie Toms)

Best AR in WarzoneAssault Rifles

are by far the most versatile and numerous weapons class in Call Of Duty: Warzone. They are reliable, effective at any range, and the backbone of the vast majority of Warzone loadouts out there.

Our Best AR in Warzone guide will walk you through the stats, attachments, and relative power of all 12 Assault Rifles in Season 5 of Warzone. Below we’ll go through each Assault Rifle from best to worst in the current meta, and explain everything you need to know about how to use (or whether to avoid) each one.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ollie Toms)

Learn the very best SMG in Warzone for any situation.

There are some damn fine specimens of the SMG weapon class in Warzone, aren’t there? Built for speed both in their handling and how quickly they can drop an enemy to the ground, SMGs have always been very nearly as popular as Assault Rifles when it comes to premade Warzone loadouts.

Our Best SMG in Warzone guide will walk you through the stats of all the SMGs on offer in Season 5, before divulging our personal take on the very best and very worst SMGs that Modern Warfare has to offer.

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