With just over two weeks to go until Cyberpunk 2077 hits shelves, CD Projekt have slip another ratty VHS tape of footage under our office doors. Okay, so this one has “PlayStation” written all over it, but let’s peel that sticker off and take this latest vid for what it is – a dusty, banged up showcase of the smuggling shenanigans, interrogations, and disorderly driving wot makes up a Nomad V’s first steps into Night City.

And this time, the footage didn’t fall off the back of a truck.

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For those who fancy the rootin’ tootin’ multiplayer shootin’ of Red Dead Online but aren’t too interested in the grudgin’ trudgin’ singleplayer buy-in of the full Red Dead Redemption 2 package, Rockstar have announced a standalone version of RDO. It’s launching next week with an introductory price of $5 for several months, which, sure, is a price that’d get my interest. Not least of all because I want to try doing conference calls inside Red Dead Online.

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Hack ‘n’ slash ‘n’ mine ‘n’ crafter Minecraft: Dungeons is all kitted out for a winter of mountain climbing. The blocky dungeon-diver’s next DLC, Howling Peaks, begins its expedition in just over two weeks – and with new baddies and bosses, it’s not just vertigo you’ll be watching out for. But Mojang have also stuffed a brand new season-pass into their backpack, for the square-headed adventurer who’s already looking beyond the ridgeline for DLC quests yet to come.

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It’s Day 2 of this year’s Black Friday week, and the PC gaming deals continue to pour in from all corners of the internet. The good news is that we’re here to help, as we’ve scoured the web for all the best Black Friday PC gaming deals going on right now to create our own RPS-approved curated list. From graphics cards, monitors and SSDs right through to mice, keyboards, RAM and headsets, we’ve got you covered whatever you’ve got your eye on.

Today’s update includes a substantial new haul of gaming monitors, laptops and CPUs, and we’ve also filtered out all the deals that have passed in other component categories. Of course, there will be even more PC gaming deals to come later in the week, too, but you can rest assured that I’ll be updating this article at least once a day to help you make the most of all the latest discounts. Without further ado, here are the best early Black Friday PC gaming deals you can get right now.

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2020 was a pretty good year for management games, but nothing released in the past 12 months has impressed us enough to squeeze its way into our best management games list. Don’t worry, though – it’s only because there are already so many classics to choose from. If you’re looking for something to sink into over the holidays, check out our picks below.

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No matter how intelligent a game’s AI is, how immersive the story turns out to be, or how believable the characters are, it can never actually simulate the thing that makes Dungeons & Dragons a great game: human shenanigans.

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So, you’ve just bought World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands, a fresh new expansion filled with fantastical, wondrous new worlds to explore. Obviously, your first thought is to sod it all and burn through the levelling experience as quickly as possible. So it was for one plucky Warcraft player who sprinted through Shadowlands at a record pace, becoming the first person to hit level 60 by cleaning out the same dungeon over and over for three hours straight.

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Orlog! Orlog! Orlog! I have played a grand total of four hours of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and at least two of them have been playing this daft dice game. Much like The Witcher 3’s Gwent, players can stumble upon Orlog challengers throughout Valhalla, and partake in a weirdly engrossing minigame. I have good news for those of us who’ve got hooked on it – Ubisoft are making an actual physical version that’s set to arrive next year.

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Rain-drenched streets tinted pink by neon lights? No, Hitman 3 hasn’t gone all Cyberpunk on us just yet. Rather, developers IO Interactive have given us a peek at the stealthy sandbox threequel’s visual upgrades with a trip to new location Chongqing, a Chinese city whose rain-swept roads are perfect for showing us lots of close-up shots of raindrops splashing off Mr Hitman’s extra-shiny scalp.

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Attention, ultrawide monitor deals hunters in the US. Dell’s Alienware AW3420DW is currently down to a new all-time low of just $830 at the moment as part of Dell’s [cms-block] sale this week. That’s $70 lower than what you’ll find over on Amazon at the moment, but you’ll need to hurry, as this “door buster” deal is already 78% claimed.

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