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Disc Room

, the very frightening series of deadly rooms full of circular sawblades, fires up the player grinder later this month. October does seem like the proper time for all that slice-y gore, sure enough. Devolver Digital have announced that you can begin dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodging through the game on October 22nd.

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The nuclear apocalypse in a Fallout 4 wallpaper.

Nexus Mods, a site hosting mods for squillions of PC games, have temporarily banned people from uploading mods related to socio-political issues of the USA. This came after a flurry of “provocative and troll mods” doing things like renaming Fallout 4‘s raiders to “Antifa”, “Trump Supporter”, or “BLM ‘Protester'”, some being uploaded with photographs of corpses.

“Most of these mods are being uploaded by cowards with sock puppet accounts deliberately to try and cause a stir,” the site’s admins say. So if people can’t behave, they’ll allow no US politics on the Nexus until the presidential election is well and truly settled.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

It wouldn’t be a medieval season without a proper gauntlet, would it? Mediatonic have been offering bits of information about Fall Guys season two over the last few weeks and have now dropped this preview for one of the new levels. Knight Fever is a new obstacle course level with all sorts of fresh new contraptions to torture your little beans in shining armor when season two starts later this week.

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Samsung 860 Evo - Best gaming SSD

If your PC is constantly running out of space, you might want to think about adding another SSD to the mix. The good news is that there are some great SSD deals going on right now, including the excellent WD Blue SN550, whose 1TB model is back down to just £95 at the moment. There are also some great SSD deals on other SN550 size capacities, including the 250GB version for just $40 in the US, and a big drop on the 2TB Samsung 870 Qvo, too.

So, even though we’re just a week away from [cms-block], it’s still a good time to snap up a great SSD, and to help you get the best deals on today’s best SSDs for gaming, we’ve rounded up all the cheapest prices going on in the UK and US below. 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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One of the best things about buying physical games is getting to unfurl great big maps of their worlds that come tucked away in their boxes. I’m pretty sure I still have ones for Skyrim and GTA 5 hanging around somewhere, and soon it seems I’ll be able to add one of Cyberpunk 2077‘s Night City to my collection (well, I mean, maybe not if I buy it digitally on PC). The game’s full map has been leaked online, giving us a broad overview of all the different districts we’ll get to explore.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Minecraft Dungeons

didn’t get left out of Mojang’s Minecraft Live presentation this past weekend. The Diablo-style looting RPG has a few updates of its own landing before the end of this year. It’ll be getting another DLC with new enemies and areas and, praise be, multiplayer between folks on different systems.

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Among Us - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

A picture of three crocheted fridge magnets of crewmates from Among us, by reddit user CitrineSensibilityA photo of a medium sized, green crocheted crewmate, about the size of a hand, by Reddit user miharu17A picture of a small purple crocheted crewmate ghost, by Reddit user cupcatt A picture of two light blue crewmate key rings by Reddit user oafese, one depicting the crewmate after being murdered (i.e. it is some legs with a comedy bone sticking out of the top)

As readers may know, my lockdown hobby was and is learning to crochet, to the extent that making things out of yarn is now just a thing I do. If you cut me, do I not bleed? No: yards and yards of wool spools out of my veins. Quickly, we must wind it up and pack it back in, or else make a scarf!

My digital game interests and my physical craft interests collide with surprising regularity, though. This is the 21st century, after all, so instead of joining groups that meet in person in church halls, I am in a crochet-specific Discord group as well as subscribed to several different crochet subreddits. And if there is one thing I have learned from them over the last few weeks, it is that people cannot stop making the crewmates from secret murder game Among Us.

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Best TIE Reaper Support loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons

Playing a support-class ship in Star Wars: Squadrons might be an uninviting prospect, when the alternative is to pilot a TIE Interceptor or an X-wing. But the TIE Reaper, when kitted out and piloted properly, is likely to be the MVP of any match when all’s said and done. Our best TIE Reaper loadout equips you with everything you need to keep your team alive and wreak havoc on the enemy fleet.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

The cuteness scale from axolotl to Warden in Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update.

Mojang have announced the next big Minecraft content update, Caves & Cliffs, with a focus on improving holes and heights. They’re overhauling how it generates these geological features while adding new biomes, so we should expect some cavernous caves, watery caves with waterfalls and rivers running through, stalactites and stalactites, a lovely new ‘Lush Cave’ biome full of flora, and a spooky ‘Deep Dark’ biome with a nasty new enemy. The update is not due to launch until next summer, but Mojang showed a few bit of the newness in their Minecraft Live event over the weekend. Oh, and hell yeah it’s adding axolotls.

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Best Interceptor loadout in Star Wars: Squadrons

The TIE Interceptor is the fastest and most agile ship in Star Wars: Squadrons, so it’s no surprise that most players have taken to learning this ship first. But very few players are picking the very best Interceptor loadout available to them. Below I’ll walk you through a startlingly powerful and dangerous Interceptor build and all its components, along with an explanation of how it can be used to consistently reach the top of the scoreboard in any match.

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