Curved gaming monitors have become increasingly popular in recent years, with their wraparound displays offering a more immersive gaming experience compared to traditional flat screen monitors. To help you find the best curved gaming monitor for you and your budget, we've put together this list of our top recommendations. We cover all manner of screen sizes in this list, from small 24in screens right up to 49in super ultrawide ones, and all of them come with high refresh rates for super smooth gaming. Whatever type of curved gaming monitor you're looking for, we've got you covered.

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Giant sharks: what a concept. I feel like humans have an obsession with these big toothy sea monsters, and we likely have Jaws to blame. If you fancy playing as one of these bloodthirsty ocean beasts, Maneater came out on Steam today, after a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store. It's an open world shark simulator where you gotta eat people and find "shark loot" to grow and evolve. Shark loot>.

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Trackmania is a series of racing games where the goal is to get the fastest time possible on various race tracks. Naturally, the game has a healthy competitive scene full of players trying to beat each other's world records. But recently, Trackmania players "Wirtual" and "Donadigo" discovered a cheating scandal in this speedrunning community, where a number of players had been slowing down their games to make more precise movements to get faster times.

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All right, so the embargo is up for Biomutant reviews, an action RPG where you play a strange little squirrel-rat-fox-raccoon mutant... thing in a post-human, post-apocalyptic world that is slowly dying.

I had some problems with Biomutant, which is a fun game trying to do too much, to the detriment of the things that it does well. But one thing that this does not extend to is the animation for swimming, which is the funniest and best animation in my recent memory for a couple of reasons.

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What better way to start your week than to become a high school student who experiences an apocalyptic event that turns Tokyo into a demon world? Today, Atlus released the Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster (which I will refer to as SMT3, because good lord that's a long title), inviting PC players to try out the series that spawned Persona for the first time (alright fine, other Megami Tensei games have been on PC, but this is the first from the main> series).

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Earlier this month, Apex Legends added a new permanent 3v3 deathmatch mode, Arenas. It's brilliant, with one glaring problem: leavers. It's never fun to lose a few rounds in a row, and it's even worse a teammate outright gives up and abandons you, rather than sticking around to try and pull it back. Thankfully, a new patch released last night has added penalties for players who ditch Arenas matches early.

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Whoa - the Xtrfy K4 TKL was already a great value mechanical keyboard at its original price of £90, but today Amazon are selling the UK model for just £36.59. That's a titanic reduction and a truly wicked deal for a high-grade mechanical keyboard.

Katharine hasn't reviewed the K4 TKL for RPS just yet, but I have happened to test it out - so let me run through its strong points quickly. It's got high quality Kailh Red switches, which are plate-mounted to improve the typing response. It has thick ABS keycaps, lubed stabilisers and foam padding in the bottom of the case to dampen noise. The key legends are clearly illuminated by the lighting beneath, which can be set to different colours and effects using the keyboard itself - no software needed.

It's hard to overstate how much of a good deal this is. Normally, the only mechanical keyboards we see this low are really obviously budget models with build quality concerns, sloppy printing on the key legends, weird features, that kind of thing. To get a critically acclaimed keyboard from a Swedish peripheral maker, part of the esports organisation Ninjas in Pyjamas, for £37 - it's kind of incredible.

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The time of the month has come for Steam to roll out their biggo blog post and sale page for top new releases on their store for the prior month. Not every month brings a terribly interesting bunch, but this does have a couple smaller surprises. The remasters you were waiting for nabbed a spot as expected, but there are also spots earned by games you might not have heard of—a retro-future hidden role game, for instance.

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Don't look now, but the Tony Hawk series might be about to drop in again. According to the drummer from CKY, who appeared in a Hawk game twenty whole years ago, the rock band's tunes may be making an appearance in "the new one". Activision just released the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remastered last year, but it's certainly possible they've got another series remaster waiting in the wing. Or hey, maybe there really is a new one—like an actually new one.

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Gigabyte makes some of the best value gaming monitors on the market, and today their popular G34WQC ultrawide is even better value than normal. This 34-in monitor has been reduced from $450 to $400 on Amazon, an excellent price for a monitor of this size and quality.

In terms of the specs, the Gigabyte monitor comes with a 34-in curved VA panel, with a 3440x1440 (21:9) resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. The monitor meets the DisplayHDR 400 certification, meaning it can accept an HDR signal and get reasonably bright (500 nits) to offer good contrast (~3000:1) between dark and light areas. Colour accuracy is also a strength, with coverage of 90% of the DCI P3 gamut and exceptional Delta-E values that makes this a great choice for colour-accurate work (if you have a colourimeter on hand to calibrate it - otherwise it's merely good).

The G34WQC is also a FreeSync Premium and G-Sync Compatible monitor, so you have a low-lag solution for tear-free gaming no matter which graphics card brand powers your PC. There's also a (somewhat rare) Black Frame Insertion feature that improves motion clarity, which can be great for games that run at high framerates. In general, this is a well-equipped monitor that gets great critical reviews and averages five stars on Amazon as well - not bad!

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