Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Reports suggested Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was a crunch-driven 16 month project, and our campaign review thought it displayed characteristics of a rushed schedule-filler. Besides quality gunplay and a fantastic array of classic maps, MW3’s multiplayer doesn’t do much to differentiate itself from MW2, aside from being more of a frustrating grind. And its awkwardly positioned zombies mode, though it might appeal to some, has been robbed of its sickle-sharpening soul. All of it does smack of being rushed, and I’d only recommend the game if you’re an ardent fan of COD who’s happy to accept little in the way of changes. Otherwise, this FPS simply isn’t worth spending your hard-earned bucks on.

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It’s a good day for small form factor PC case deals, apparently, as you can now pick up Fractal Design’s gorgeous wood-adorned Terra case in Jade or Silver for $150 after a rare $30 discount for Black Friday.

This case has attracted rave reviews from hardware journalists and users alike, and just looks completely unlike almost everything else on the market which is awesome.

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Many grand strategy games let you hop from a map down to a battle layer where you can control a real-time scrap. Kaiserpunk is the first time I’ve seen a grand strategy game that lets you hop down instead to a citybuilding layer, where the construction of alternate history early-20th century industrial towns will determine whether you have the economic power to win the war.

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If my calculations are correct, all the buildings in PowerWash Simulator‘s Back To The Future DLC are covered in some serious shit. It’s your job to clean it off, of course – off the Hill Valley clocktower, Doc Brown’s van, and of course the Delorean. It’s out now.

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Arma Reforger, the latest game in the long-running milsim series, has been in Early Access since May last year. No longer. It’s 1.0 update arrived today, adding helicopters, a totally revised supply system, and as close to fast travel as the relentlessly realistic shooter will allow.

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Black Friday season is once again upon us, folks, but before you sigh with a deep-seated sense of dread, there’s good news afoot. From now until November 30th, we’ve shaved 20% off the price of our annual RPS supporter memberships, which means you can pick up 12 months of ad-free browsing (and exclusive articles and game keys if you pick our Premium tier) on the cheap. All you need to do is head on over to our sign-up page and pick the subscription that suits you best.

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Alright, fine, if you’re consulting a list of the best early Black Friday gaming PC deals, it’s probably already too late for me to convince you to build a PC from scratch. “But it works out cheaper!” I’d plead, sobbing, into disinterested ears. So be it – at least with the Black Friday sales going on, a prebuilt rig can be much better value that it would otherwise. The PCs on this list, some of which have several hundred pounds/dollars off their usual prices, are testament to that.

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The ocean planet of GUP-14 is not a happy place. Its seabed has been gunked up with piles of trash, globs of purple gunge and nasty clouds of micro-plastics, all because an industrial megacorp couldn’t be bothered to clean up after themselves after bleeding it for resources. That megacorp’s since upped sticks to, sadly, continue their terrible ways somewhere else in the solar system, but calling out these bad practices (beyond them being obviously bad and not good for the planet) is not really Loddlenaut‘s concern here.

Rather, your job is to simply clean up this mess with your array of high-tech gadgetry, healing its polluted environments so: a) it’s not a grim, purple hellscape anymore; b) native, axolotl-like loddle creatures can move back in and prosper. It’s simple, satisfying work that’s designed to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside without having to think too hard. But its straightforward, frictionless tale may leave some wishing it had just a little more bite, and less of a sense that you’re laying the ground for some other faceless corpo power to go and splurge all over it again.

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Everybody’s favourite bulk-buyer of studios and licenses Embracer Group have announced that they’ve laid off 900 people over the last three months, as per restructuring plans revealed this summer – around five percent of their total workforce.

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I’d be fibbing if I said that narrowing down the best early Black Friday gaming keyboards took much detective work – sales events like this are typically rich with PC peripherals, as you may have already noticed in our Black Friday gaming mouse deals guide. That’s still good news to you, the discerning key presser, as even with the main event a few days away, there’s already a healthy selection of discounts on mechanical and mebrane keyboards to choose from. Plenty of the outright best gaming keyboards, no less, are getting slashed down.

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