Today’s gaming deals are stacked, I'm so hyped. We’ve got premium laptops with decent discounts, curved OLED monitors, and high-refresh powerhouses, all with serious price cuts. A couple of these are big hitters from HP and ASUS with RTX 5080 GPUs inside, while the LG and Samsung monitors are flying under $800 thanks to that JULYFINDS coupon on eBay (don’t forget to apply it at checkout).

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If you’ve well and truly filled your boots in the Steam Summer Sale (and why wouldn’t you?) then there’s a good chance your Steam Deck is in need of some more storage.

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Edwin gave Ostrich Farm header honours in this week's Maw, and with good reason I think. "Breed vibrant ostriches", he wrote. I misread it as "breed violent ostriches" and got excited. I still liked the concept even after realising my mistake. I pinned the Steam page tab (aka "The Coward's Wishlist"), and forgot about it for a couple of days.

This morning, I clicked on the tab again while browser tidying. "I wonder how Steam likes the ostrich game?", I mused. One review. A single, negative review. "The performance tanked for me once I had around 70 ostriches and made the game totally unplayable".

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As you’ll know if you’ve been around RPS for a while, we love the Steam Deck. Valve’s system blends the library and options of a PC with the portability and ease of use of a console, and a big part of that is Steam OS.

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Black Friday is here (apparently), and while we’re fairly certain someone at Dell/Alienware needs a calendar for their birthday, there are some deals to be had in (just checking here), yep, July.

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As a faction, the strength of Total War: Warhammer 3's Bretonnia lies in their knightly calvary. The peasant infantry is basically just there to squishily hold the enemy in place for charges. However, I'm feeling revolutionary today, so we're staging a serf uprising. Let's see how long we last. Pretty simple rules here, then. No knights. No horses. Conquer the entirety of Bretonnia. Defeat every horse I see in one-on-one combat.>

Indeed, the serfs of Carcassonne had suffered too long under feudalism's gussied-up protection racket, and the battle fought for their freedom had been long and bloody. Bretonnia's knightly class were better armed and better trained, their bodies nourished and strong. The bones of the common folk creaked from years of tireless field work. Their frames were frail from a diet of nettles, bruised turnips, and a wide selection of delectable artisanal French pastries which they all refused to eat, French being the language of their oppressors.

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Storage, screens, rigs and chairs, I've found the whole loadout today. There's speedy microSD cards for your Steamdeck and ROG Ally, some slick upgrades for your battlestation, and a few big names slashing prices on premium gear. From a beastly gaming PC to the comfiest chairs in the game, these deals are full in Independence Day deals material. Let's get into

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Y’know what, I think we’ve lived long enough in the post-Steam Deck world that it bears weighing up what the current best handheld PCs are. A few years ago this would have just been a vaguely-ranked list of whatever portables were available, but after Valve demonstrated that the palm-resting format could not just work, but actually be good>, handhelds have arguably become the most interesting and rapidly-changing thing in all of PC hardware. Even Microsoft are having a go, slapping their branding on the upcoming Asus ROG Xbox Ally – though here, I’m sticking strictly to the finest handhelds that I’ve tested and that you can buy.

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Microsoft have reportedly set in motion the wave of layoffs the company were said to be gearing up for last week - the fourth round of major job cuts to hit Xbox in 18 months.

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It’s the Fourth of July this week, and that means there are deals to be had on the other side of the pond.

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