Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Tides Of Torment, the next DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3, has been pushed back from its original Summer release window to later in the year, with September onwards sounding the likeliest from a new blog post.

And that’s…honestly where the bad news ends, as far as I’m concerned. The rest of the blog is filled with some exciting and pretty respectable thoughts about future updates. Even the reason for Tides Of Torment’s delay (“the short answer was no”, it didn’t hit the team’s standards) strikes me as a good sign, since it means the DLC team at least feel they’ve got the breathing room to not rush out something they’re not happy with. It’s too nice outside for my PC to be running the kind of temps 1000 angry sea elves are going to result in, anyway.

Ah, yes: Sea Elves are confirmed now, led by Sea Lord Aislinn. Expect more details from a new video in August, by the sound of it.

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There’s a strong mix of Prime Day deals and direct offers from HP, Dell, MSI, and others, covering everything from compact gaming laptops to top-tier RTX 5090 desktops. Some builds are priced well below what it would cost to build yourself, and a few include extra savings with codes like LEVELUP20. If you’re gaming on the go or setting up a full desktop battlestation, there’s a deal in this guide for just about everyone.

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Was: $44.99, Now: $24.50, 46% off

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Sometimes, when you’re fighting aliens, you’ve got to whip out a gun that might explode in your own face. Them’s the rules. You’ve got to risk it for a chocolate biscuit. Or, at least that’s premise of Helldivers 2‘s latest warbond.

Dubbed Control Group, it’ll give you access to a bunch of experimental gear Super Earth’s scientists have cobbled together from captured Illuminate tech if you opt to pick it up when it drops on June 17th.

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It’s the open environments of tactical RPG Every Day We Fight that have most caught my eye. Huge warehouses, bases, and ruins so stuffed with cover and walkways as to suggest the dominant species on the game’s pre-alien invasion earth were sandbag piles. These sprawling layouts aren’t just for show or getting a nice height advantage, either. The city is explorable between battles with your gang of resistance members, letting you poke around and scavenge before sneaking into optimal positions for the next scrap against invading aliens.

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Sometimes it’s fun to just do things that don’t make sense. Especially in a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 that generally rewards you for embracing the chaos and behaving a manner that’d leave onlookers scratching their heads and slightly afraid.

Sadly, there’s one immensely satisfying bit of action those who play the the RPG as a tadpole-slupring hypocrite have, to the best of my knowledge, been unable to get in on since November 2023. No longer. BG3 modders have stepped in to save us from the scourge that is logical decision making.

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Was: $149.99, Now: $79.99, 47% off

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Subnautica 2 is being delayed into 2026 by its publishers Krafton, which would lead to the survival game’s studio missing out on a previously agreed $250 million bonus, meant to be shared among employees. The revelation comes via a report from Bloomberg, and could finally explain why Krafton ousted the studio’s most senior figures last week.

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I did scan strategy RPG Space Scum‘s trailer a few times for the hint of a feature that didn’t make me immediately think, ah yeah, that’s just like Battle Brothers innit. This is a bit unfair of me. After all, your dudes sit on chess piece-like plinths in this one. That’s innovation, right? Anyway, I like the art and the bloke from the trailer looks like he’d nut me if I dwelled on the comparison too long. With someone else’s face. So, here’s a trailer. There’s also a Steam demo from next month, although you can sign up for a playtest now.

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Amazon Prime Day isn’t just for smartwatches and air fryers. It’s a goldmine for gamers this year, and I couldn’t resist weighing up a PC build . I dove into the discounts (Don’t forget that free 30-day Prime trial) and built two monster gaming rigs. One powered by Nvidia’s brand-new RTX 5070 and another fueled by AMD’s scorching Radeon 9070XT. I’ve put components together around the two GPU’s I could find in Prime Deals and worked from there, so a budget of below $2,000 was kept in mind throughout. Let’s get into it:

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