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It normally retails for a cool £1998, but today Laptops Direct has discounted it to £1399.97, making it the cheapest RTX 3080 laptop we can find right now. Get the MSI GP66 Leopard w/ RTX 3080 for £1400 (was £2000) MSI’s laptops tend to offer a good mixture of slim designs and powerful internals, and the GP66 Leopard is no different. Reviews write of its excellent value, strong gaming performance and good keyboard, which make it a good everyday performer as well as a gaming champion....

Get the MSI MAG CoreLiquid 360R AIO for £60 w/ code AUG15 (was £90) Get the MSI MAG CoreLiquid 280R AIO for £52 w/ code AUG15 (was £70) We actually covered the 280mm version of this fan back in June, when this size was available for £50. As I described back then, there is a reason that this particular model is being discounted so heavily: namely, this model had some teething troubles at launch, resulting in some negative reviews: Box and Ebay are both relatively good with returns, so in my mind the incredibly low prices make up for the slight element of risk here....

Get Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers for $59 (was $95.45) What I can tell you is that I actually used these speakers for a period of about two years, before SteelSeries’ Arena speakers arrived for review and displaced them. These speakers look far more professional - there’s no RGB backlighting, for a start - and the sound quality is excellent for the price, with well-balanced sound, good detail and generally accurate results....

Get a 2TB Crucial X6 portable SSD for £129 (was £204) The Crucial X6 was recently upgraded, and now supports sequential read and write speeds up to 800MB/s, making it much closer in performance to the more expensive Crucial X8. Of course, as well as offering faster file transfers, the drive also offers considerably lower latency than a portable hard drive - you can actually play games off of this without issue, which is incredible....

Get the Razer Basilisk X Hyperspeed for £30 (was £60) So - why consider this mouse? I think this is a good choice for anyone that wants the freedom that a wireless mouse affords, but doesn’t want to spend the better part of £100 on something that has features they’ll never use or an extremely lightweight design that they don’t get on with. The Basilisk X Hyperspeed is a much more traditional mouse in that sense, with a simple but comfortable design that includes those six programmable buttons....

Get up to 85% off on Far Cry games at the Ubisoft Store The headline discounts here are on the mainline Far Cry games, including 85% off Far Cry 3 (the Pacific island one), 80% off Far Cry 4 (the Himalayan one) and 85% off Far Cry 5 (the Montanan one). That means you can pick up the standard editions of all three for $18 in the US - not bad!...

Or maybe that should be extreme golf. Instead of fairways and putting greens, you’ll be chipping your way across abandoned warehouses, crumbling apartment blocks and leafy, overgrown parks full of ball-eating (and stealing) squirrels, cows and escaped giraffes, with your rotund, balf golfing man hovering from hole to hole with their trusty jetpack. Demagog’s challenging sports game is crazy golf writ large across the landscape, and let me tell you, it’s great fun....

As spotted last week by Twitter user Nitomatta, GTA 4 still has a Steam store page but the option to buy it has been removed. Interestingly, the Episodes From Liberty City DLC can still be bought for £15/€15/$20. “Grand Theft Auto 4 was originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform,” Rockstar say in a statement to US Gamer. Apparently Microsoft dropping support for GFWL has kept GTA’s publisher from generating new keys to sell the game....

The brief battles shown tonight were enough to see that Guile’s still got it. Facing off against already-confirmed to be returning classic characters like Ryu, Capcom showed Guile’s Sonic Boom, and even his traditional comb-bothering animation. It’s a bit jazzed up these days though. Street Fighter 6 was announced back in February. We got a bit more information about the game last week, showing off familiar faces Ryu, Chun Li and Luke, but also new character Jamie....

And a whole lot of work it was - 13 years of it. But over the weekend, Lambda Wars finally launched in full, inviting players to explore the world of Half-life 2 from a new perspective (that is: a strategic top-down one). Lambda Wars is a free standalone mod set in the HL2 universe, and based off of the code for Valve’s 2010 top-down shooter, Alien Swarm. It sees players take up the mantle of Resistance commander or Combine overlord in singleplayer, co-op and multiplayer modes, and swaps out the game’s first-person battles for real-time strategy skirmishes....

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a first-person sim starring a heavily indebted salvage worker, stuck dismantling spaceships to pay back The Man. Each ship is a puzzle, a place and an object to study and best learn how to cut it to pieces with your tools without accidentally destroying valuable parts or, y’know, igniting a fuel line. Steve Hogarty’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker early access review back in 2020 said it “speaks to the part of your brain that, when sufficiently bored, wants to very carefully take something apart until every bit is laid out neatly in front of you”....

You first take control of Zangestu, a katana-swinging lad in red tasked with putting a stop to the evil spreading through the land. Standard. Along the way, several potential allies will surface and you can bring them along to help your cause if you so wish. Or not. For you see, Zangestu can be who you want him to. Is he a lone-wolf? Easy peasy, just walk away from your new pal....

You start in the bowels of a ship, full of dangerous machinery swinging about, and burning furnaces. You find a magical library with floating books. a Strange sort of garden full of luminous flowers, and dark water, and throughout this there are whole stretches where you can’t see anything. These things aren’t necessarily leaps and bounds beyond the levels you’ll get in a lot of cute little platformers. But Candleman has a twist, because you are a tiny little candle in a metal holder that has little tappy feet....

While LCU wasn’t necessarily drastically different from the LEGO games that came before, it still gave me an open-world game I could play with my nephew. Given that the majority of open-worlds involve you either stabbing, shooting, or stabbing and shooting, a GTA Juniors game was a breath of fresh air. And, like most of the films, the dialogue and tone was more Pixar than Peppa. Fun for all the family!...

Well, that’s not strictly true. The few sessions I have played, with folks here at RPS, have been a right laugh. But without sounding like a bit of a poorly elephant, I mostly put that down to my colleagues being fun people to hang out with, rather than to anything we actually did in the game (although firing myself out of a cannon at a kraken was fairly noteworthy). Even if the fun I’ve had is largely down to company, mind, I’ll still applaud Sea Of Thieves for providing such a pretty, easygoing place to hang out....

With its frosty, beast-stuffed landscapes, Dawn Of Man does a grand job of making you feel like just another animal in the wilderness, with the hominid brain providing only the barest assortment of tricks up your sleeve to give you the edge over the hairy rhinos and suchlike. As with actual prehistory, this game is all about taking tiny, fierce sips of cultural progress, in the slivers of time not allotted by necessity to the business of raw survival....

After a bit of uncertainty leading up to launch, Io confirmed that players who owned the earlier games on Steam will be able to import their prior Hitman progress and levels to the currently Epic Games Store-exclusive series finale without buying them again. Trouble is, that import progress is being funneled through their progression carryover website that’s having a bit of a struggle handing all those barcode-bearing hitmans at once....

How to unlock two free Powerpasses in Lost Ark To unlock your free Powerpass character boosts, you will need to progress Lost Ark’s main story quest through North Vern on your first character. Simply follow the blue World Quest chain through the continent until you complete the final quest, called Ealyn’s Gift. Upon completion, you will receive a North Vern Powerpass token via in-game mail. Accept the token, then right-click it in your inventory to activate it....

My questions are in bold, and Vincke’s answers are undeneath - and they are both amusing and instructive. I for one hope that Wyll’s romcom visit home becomes a future winter DLC. What class and subclass would Santa be? He said that he was a Paladin that had an Oath of Devotion. So who am I to disagree with Santa? He did tell us. But I personally think of him as a Rogue....

So, when designer Tomislav Uzelac began thinking about turning to the Western front for its sequel, he knew he had a problem. The big battles of France and Italy were slow and attritional, crossing mountain ranges and facing enemies dug into forests. “The question was, how do you go from Case Blue, where you cover 1,000 kilometres in Russia over a month and half, to Monte Cassino, where you stay pounding on one position for six months?...