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

A collection of Intel and AMD CPUs on a table.

[cms-block] still isn’t for another couple of weeks yet, but Newegg have decided to get the ball rolling early, as they’ve just kicked off their Black Friday sale today – and there are a couple of CPU deals to be found in there, too, including big discounts on Intel’s Core i7-9700K. So to help you cut through the noise, I’ve gathered together all the best Black Friday CPU deals right here in one handy location to help you get the best price.

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

Fortnite: Battle Royale characters stand over a treasure chest.

The default Fortnite dance is terrible. You move out of time with the music, the music itself is boring, and it wasn’t even stolen from a pop-cultural icon (although to be fair it has become one in itself). No one thinks you’re cool doing the default Fortnite dance.

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Weaving Tides - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Scream-shot Saturday Sundays? Not on your unlife, pal, it’s November. Halloween’s over. I have no contractual obligation to be “spooky” today, so let’s fearlessly dive back into the well of Twitter’s favourite gamedev hashtag. This week: A frog chorus, a living painting, an ominous orb, and a begrudging admission that yes, it’s the scary weekend, fine.

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

Much as Riot might like to think otherwise, a MOBA just ain’t the best place to show off your sprawling lore. It’s just hard to care about my wizard’s tragic past when I’m trying to hold mid. That’s where Ruined King: A League Of Legends Story comes in, a singleplayer turn-based RPG that’ll let you linger and explore Runeterra’s fantasy scenarios outside the brutal confines of a 90-minute multiplayer murderfest when it arrives next year.

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

Remember Lone Survivor? It’s hard to believe Jasper Byrne’s harrowing side-scrolling adventure game is almost a decade old at this point, but such is the equally terrifying march of time. Today, the developer and composer announced Super Lone Survivor, a remake that’s bringing the 2011 game up to date with a new engine and a brand new chapter later next year.

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Disc Room - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

Okay, so nobody was accusing Disc Room of being short on blades. But as Devolver Digital have proven, there are so, so many ways to be sliced and diced by a room of spinning saws. Wrapping up today, the official Disc Room Game Jam over on Itch has summoned dozens of razor-sharp new takes on the game, from paint-splattered puzzles and household chores to an unexpected mash-up with one of the year’s biggest games.

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Halo: Reach - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

If there’s been one small positive about this year, it’s the reliable rollout of once console-locked Halo games on PC through Halo: The Master Chief Collection. With Halo 4 currently on the launchpad, 343 Industries have chosen to extend the game’s testing (“flighting”) period by another week, with the Insider client now testing crossplay support for Halo Reach.

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

I do love a good RTS from time to time. It’s just that, well, I start to lose focus as soon as I’m juggling a dozen units or more, my perfect opening collapsing into a panic of select-all death balls. Fortunately, that’s not a problem I ever see myself having in Sokpop’s King Pins, with the Dutch indie rascals stripping the genre down into an adorably simple single-screen strategy puzzle for you and up to three pals.

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

Demons grinding someone in an illustration from 'Our New Way round the World.'

Well hellOoooOo to yooOoOou this spOoooOoky weekend. Ghost noise, innit. Happy Halloween! In a fine stroke of serendipity, today also has a full moon (a full awooooon? werewolf noise, yeah), the blue moon. This could well be the best day of the year. Enjoy!

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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

A screenshot showing a ruined building on a computer screen in World Of Horror.

I am not usually one for horror games. I don’t like jump scares and I prefer my video games to be chill and relaxing instead of stressing me out to high heaven. To be honest, I’m still not sure why I decided to put myself through panstasz’s all-caps World Of Horror last week when the name itself would normally be a big, all-caps “Nope” for me. But it was on Game Pass, and I’ve been mildly intrigued by its 1-bit, Junji Ito-esque art style ever since I clapped eyes on it (through cracks in my fingers, natch), and with the autumn sun blazing in through my window over the weekend, I thought, “What’s the worst that could happen?” A lot, it turns out.

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