Yes, you read that correctly. Thanks to a positively bonkers deal over at Ebuyer in the UK right now, you can currently get loads of extra Razer goodies for free (including their £500 Iskur gaming chair) when you buy their RTX 2080 Super-powered Blade Pro 17 gaming laptop. I mean, £1800 would be a pretty decent price for an RTX 2080 Super laptop by itself, let alone a laptop, a great big whacking chair, a keyboard, a headset, a water bottle and> a backpack. That's just madness. It doesn't seem to be a weird database malfunction either, as the deal has been live since yesterday afternoon.

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Oh, but I despise> the owl in Ring Of Pain. Speaking entirely in slightly busted rhyming couplets, and looking like Gollum cosplaying as a newborn chick, he’s got some of the worst vibes I’ve ever encountered in a video game. Worse still, he’s your only mate in a dungeon full of equally eerie creatures, and so you’ve got no choice but to hang out with him from time to time, chugging potions in his filth-encrusted nest.

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Remasters, reboots, spiritual successors and the like have always been a part of gaming, but it does feel as if we've entered into a new era of remasters. Or at least, I can point to Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Diablo 2: Resurrected and Total War: Rome Remastered and say, "three's a trend."

There's a new trailer showing the quality of life updates coming to Total War: Rome when the remaster releases later this month.

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I feel as if I have had enough of post-apocalyptic games, and to a lesser extent, of traditional citybuilders. But a combination of the two? That's a compelling prospect. It's also the pitch of Endzone: A World Apart, a game that released in early access last spring and hit 1.0 last month, all without us remarking upon it. So here's me remarking upon it.

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Roblox's game development tools are accessible enough that it's likely the next generation of game designers and entrepeneurs will emerge from its creator scene. Roblox is also now successful enough, however, that the current> generation of developers and entrepeneurs look at it and think, 'we want to do that, too'.

Example: Core, which you could and I will describe as 'Roblox but with Fortnite graphics', is now available in early access on the Epic Games Store.

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A few weeks ago Epic showed off MetaHuman Creator, a new development tool designed to make it easier to create believable human faces. Now you can sign-up to get an early access version of it, meaning you can try it out if you're i) a game developer interested in the future of character design or ii) a curious onlooker wondering whether you can use it to recreate the Gigaknight.

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Sony announced earlier this year that more first-party exclusives would be headed to PC later this year, with the zombie 'em up Days Gone being the first to arrive in spring. Now we have a specific date, May 18th, and a trailer that details the features being added to the PC version.

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What's galactic drama without an evil empire to rally against or a mighty hero to save us all? A bit of a damp squib. The latest Stellaris expansion, Nemesis, today spices up the end-game by offering extra powers for domination or liberation. It's got big Star Trek baddie vibes, enough that it even adds new ship designs which look like Star Destroyers. And as ever, the expansion is accompanied by a patch adding and changing loads in the 4X strategy game.

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Square Enix have been rummaging around in their back catalogue of 90s JRPGs... and they still haven't released the Final Fantasy 7 remake on PC, sorry. Today, they launched SaGa Frontier Remastered, an improved version of the old 1998 PlayStation game, with refreshed graphics, an extra main character and some restored old cutscenes to boot. Get a load of the new look in the trailer below.

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It is the year 980AD, in a very odd game of Crusader Kings 3, and under the brassy gloom of a midwinter afternoon, Europe holds its breath. For one hundred and fourteen years now, the continent’s fortunes have been driven by the whims of a single, anvil-sized heart. But today, in a sprawling fortress-chapel beside the Thames, that monstrous drum is striking its final, furious beats.

The last of the succession parchments have been signed. The last threats have been sent to the East. In the great hall, beneath the alabaster snarls of Zeus and Demeter, a marsh of sick cools from the near-apocalyptic revels of the emperor’s farewell feast. And now, in the imperial bedchamber, with a wheeze like a ruptured bouncy castle being leaned on by thirty builders, the soul of a god escapes its prison of flesh at last.

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