I’m digging out the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals using my many years of experience and an NFT of a shovel

Black Friday laptop deals (Image credit: Asus, Future) Jump straight to the deals you want…1. Quick links2. Under $10003. $1000 – $15004. $1500+5. UK deals6. Live You might as well call it Black Friday week because there are plenty of excellent Black Friday gaming laptop deals circulating the web. I’m beavering away updating this page…

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If you’re secretly way too proud of your Excel skills, does this dev have the game for you: ‘While other kids were dreaming of spaceships, I was dreaming of spreadsheets’

Today I watched a trailer where in the first 10 seconds a ‘90s-style 3D model of a businessman kickflips a dolphin in slowmo over the flashing words “ASSET FLIP”. Such was the pull of this spectacle that I immediately went to Steam and downloaded the free demo of Spreadcheat, a game whose opening gambit to…

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Arcane co-creator feels Viktor and Jayce’s storyline was unresolved ‘to a certain degree’, but they weren’t quite ‘given the time’ to explore it

Arcane’s second season is all done, which means an end to the series, too—though there’s been a whole heap of winks and nudges that Riot’ll be cooking up more seasons of stunning animation with Fortiche in the future. For now, the current debate is whirring around whether the season happened to be ‘rushed’, or if…

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Blizzard is finally coming after chronic Mythic+ ditchers in WoW, suspending players ‘who repeatedly and recklessly disrupted’ groups for funsies

World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ system, wherein players can time-trial endgame dungeons for a chance at loot and bragging rights, has been a bit of a curse and a blessing for the game since it was introduced. It’s been a blessing because, well, it’s become a massive scene—letting small-scale groups get all sweaty without having to…

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Somehow this Japanese cult classic brings intense arcade action to… train driving simulators?

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Taito, Unbalance Released: 2000, 2002 Platforms: Arcade, PC (Image credit: Taito, Unbalance) Train driving games, especially on PC, the home of multi-monitor displays and eye wateringly-priced…

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