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

We already know that Activision are planning to inject their free-to-play battle royale ’em up Call Of Duty: Warzone with content from the next not-free game Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Activision have now given a rough timeline, saying that Verdansk will begin adding Cold War content when Black Ops season one launches in December.

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

Ah yes, here’s the face of Eivor. You know him for being the muscly, bearded bloke in Ubisoft’s upcoming Vikings game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. No surprise such a famous fella would be getting deals to appear in commercials for—sorry, wait, he’s still repping his own game that’s not out yet? I dunno, are you absolutely sure he’s not selling performance-enhancing basketball shorts or something? Oh alright, I suppose he is still drumming up views for Valhalla until it launches in November.

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

A photo of lots of different varieties of SSD, including NVMe SSDs, SATA SSDs and external portable SSDs.A photo showing a bundle of gaming headsets from Logitech, Corsair, Steelseries and Sennheiser.A photo of three gaming monitors on a deskA photo showing several different gaming mice at various angles in front of a keyboard.Black Friday

2020 is almost here. While the day itself isn’t until November 27th this year, several retailers started their Black Friday PC gaming deals earlier this week, meaning you can pick up a bargain right now in order to beat the rush. Most of the best PC gaming deals will still be clustered around the two weeks leading up to Black Friday proper, but to help you make the most of all these early Black Friday deals taking place, I’ve rounded them all up below so they’re in one handy location.

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

A photo of the Roccat Vulcan Pro TKL.

The Roccat Vulcan has been sitting at the top of my [cms-block] list ever since it first came out at the beginning of 2019. Its superb build quality and Roccat’s brilliant mechanical Titan switches were a winning combination in my eyes, so I was extra intrigued when they announced that not only were they making a smaller, tenkeyless version of the original Vulcan, the Vulcan TKL, but that they were also introducing two new Vulcan Pro models with their new Titan Optical switch as well.

I’ve been testing the smaller of these two Vulcan Pro models for the past couple of weeks – the Vulcan Pro TKL – and I can confirm it’s every bit as lovely as the full-sized original.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Law)

Watch Dogs: Legion operator posing next to tower bridge.

In Watch Dogs: Legion, you’re able to explore the world to pick up special masks for use when you’re doing illegal DedSec stuff to avoid being recognised. There are special ones to find around the city of London though, so here’s all the mask locations in Watch Dogs: Legion.

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A lush city in the sky, a time-travelling Scottish scientist and vehicles you can turn into gassy death machines. These headline the cool new additions coming to Apex Legends‘ seventh season, Ascension, and I got to play it ahead of Wednesday’s launch.

There’s a lot I like about this season. The new map, Olympus, is gorgeous and interesting to traverse. This is largely thanks to the vehicle, the Trident, which isn’t particularly deadly but is certainly versatile. Then there’s Horizon – the brand new Legend who is my new favourite mum (sorry real mum).

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nate Crowley)

A man in a garish union jack outfit leers into the camera; behind him, the Shard tower displays an equally garish terrorism warning

Right then you muppets. I bet you’ve heard all sorts of old rubbish about London town in Watch Dogs Legion, ‘aven’t you? You’ve probably got yer knickers in a right twist over how faithfully it recreates the UK capital, and how totally facked> it is.

Well don’t you worry no more, sunshine. The name’s Ronald McNationalism, hardest bloke in DedSec, and I’m going to take you on a little bloppity-blip (that’s geezer chat for “trip”) round some of the city’s most iconic landmarks. We’ll start with the Shard, that massive tower full of money in Southwark. You can see behind me there, plastered with massive warnings about what an utter bloody danger I am.

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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

The cheery storyteller of The Dark Pictures Anthology.

Supermassive Games, the makers of Until Dawn, return today with a new branching horror story, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. This time, they’re sending hapless students to an abandoned American town with a dark history of witch trials. Oh you bet they’re getting a spooking! It supports co-op so your pals can join in making foolish decisions leading to their deaths too, make a real Halloween of it.

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Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack artists and song list

Ever since the 2013 Cyberpunk 2077 teaser trailer, we’ve known that the game was going to have one banging soundtrack. The music of CD Projekt Red’s extremely ambitious RPG has been the topic of much excitement and discussion, so we thought we’d put together this quick Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack guide, which will walk you through the diverse selection of musical artists and songs that are known to be in the game.

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GameMaker Studio 2 Desktop - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Tim Stone)

Generally when a Flare Path interviewee says they dabbled in diplomacy in their younger days they are talking about their formative games. However, in Ryan Hewer’s case the lower case ‘d’ isn’t a typo. My interlocutor today is a man whose CV bestrides two parallel worlds. In one the dire consequences of a clumsy piece of international brinkmanship can be fixed with a single dab of the Load button. In the other geopolitical miscalculations blight real lives and end them. (more…)

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