Today is the 75th anniversary of the first publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, perhaps the most distressing book for a kid to pick from their parents’ shelves when looking for a nice story about horses. In celebration, an official video game adaptation was of Animal Farm has been announced. News of a beloved work of literature becoming a video game should inspired a wariness (thanks, Dante’s Inferno) but this one does sound promising. For starters, Orwell’s Animal Farm is being made by the creators of Reigns with Failbetter’s Emily Short.

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Buying a gaming monitor can often take up a huge part of your PC building budget, so finding yourself a good deal on your next gaming monitor can be a real help to try and keep costs down. The good news is that you’re in exactly the right place, as we’ve rounded up all the cheapest gaming monitor deals we’ve been able to find from around the web in both the UK and US. You’ll find gaming monitor deals on 144Hz screens and 240Hz displays, as well as G-Sync, Freesync and ultrawide monitors, too. Whatever you’re looking for, these are the top gaming monitor deals of the week.

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It’s exciting enough when Rainbow Six Siege gets a new operator, let alone one that’s a well-loved sneaky boy from Splinter Cell. Ubisoft revealed last week that Sam Fisher would be making an appearance in the tactical team-based shoot ’em up, and last night they showed the gadgets and abilities he’ll be bringing with him to the game’s next update, Operation Shadow Legacy.

He’s not the only exciting thing on the way, though, because there are a bunch of reworks and changes coming to improve how you play Siege across the board.

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The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is quite possibly one of the most ludicrous gaming laptops I’ve ever come across. Specs-wise, it has all the bells and whistles you could possibly want. There’s a brand-new 10th Gen Intel Core i9 processor in here, along with a massive 32GB of RAM, an RTX 2080 Super Max-Q graphics chip and a pair of 1TB NVMe SSDs RAIDed together to form one enormous 2TB storage bank.

Normally, the specs alone would have been enough to put it squarely in ‘overkill’ territory, but that’s not even the tip of this mad iceberg. On top of all that, this laptop has not one, but two screens, and is one of the first dual-screen laptops to make its way to the UK (with a US launch to follow shortly). The first is a fairly traditional 15.6in 4K IPS panel with full-fat Nvidia G-Sync support. The other is a skinny 14.1in 3840×1100 touchscreen that rises up from the top of the keyboard automatically as soon as you open the lid. It is, in short, bonkers. Best of all, Asus want a cool £4000 for it.

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Tuesday will bring the long-awaited launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the first proper new entry in the revered aeroplane sim series in over a decade. It looks quite fancy. When exactly you’ll get to play MS Flight Sim is a bit of a complicated matter, depending on which store you’re going through. Get the game on Steam and bish bash bosh it’ll unlock for everyone in the world at the same time. Play it on Microsoft’s Store (which includes getting it through Xbox Game Pass) and you’ll find 25 launch times spread across the globe.

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If you’ve been thinking about bolstering your PC’s storage banks with one of today’s best SSDs for gaming, then we’re here to help, as we’ve rounded up all the lowest prices for them in the UK and US right here. This week, there have been a lot of price rises in the UK due that rather good Ebay voucher expiring, but there are still some fantastic deals to be had on the 1TB WD Blue SN550, which is now down to a new all-time low of £95. There have also been some good price drops on the Samsung 970 Evo Plus and WD Black SN750 in the US, too. Whether you’re looking for a cheap SATA drive or a brand-new NVMe SSD, these are the cheapest SSD deals of the week.

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Have I told you lately, reader, that I really, properly, stonkingly love how weird each and every single one of us are? Even if we manage to keep it on the quiet (which we may not: recently, my predilection for eating dry, buttered Weetabix for breakfast was shared at a company-wide meeting), we all have strange and specific depths. And when weird worlds collide, the weirdness refracts and becomes something else even more precious and strange. Like true crime and The Sims 4, for example.

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Rumour has it that EA are working on a remastered rerelease of 2010’s Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, and by ‘rumour’ I mean ‘several unconfirmed leaks’. Over the weekend, an Amazon store listing for Hot Pursuit Remastered joined the chain of whispers. The listing has since been removed, there’s no guarantee it was real, and it didn’t mention PC, but hey we’re still scrabbling in the dark until EA actually announce the game (or don’t). 2008’s Hot Pursuit was a good’un as Need For Speed goes, and the cops & robbers racing series has gone some truly dire places since then, so fingers crossed?

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Ever since it came out at the end of last year, the WD Blue SN550 has been one of the best SSDs you can buy today. Its predecessor, the Blue SN500, was already excellent value, but the SN550 pushed its performance even further, offering faster read and write speeds while also making it available in a new 1TB size capacity. It’s that top 1TB model that’s on sale in the UK right now, too, with prices falling from its usual £115 to a very agreeable £95 over at Amazon.

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I feel like such a hypocrite whenever I bemoan the shortage of games about massive spaceship combat. Nexus – The Jupiter Incident may have given me 16 years to get round to it, but I still haven’t played more than its first couple of missions, and I’m honestly not sure why.

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