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Here’s an unusual proposition this Black Friday, we’ve got two gaming monitors on offer for you to choose from. Ok, it’s not that unusual. In fact, it’s pretty standard for an event all about buying cheap kit. But they are very similar monitors, which makes deciding between them more interesting. I’m referring to the ViewSonic Omni VX2428J and VX2728J.
EA Sports FC 24 will bring one of next year’s biggest football tournaments to The Video Game Franchise Formerly Known As FIFA next summer, letting you experience the UEFA Euro 2024 championships via a free update. There’ll also be the chance to compete in a virtual Euros hosted via the new game.
Eight years after Dontnod’s time-rewinding teen drama made its debut, the original Life is Strange has now been played by over 20 million people.
Would you believe the reboot of classic fighting game Killer Instinct is now a decade old? Well, it is! To mark the occasion, developers Iron Galaxy are taking it free-to-play – but not before they give existing PC players the game’s entire roster and premium DLC for free.
I really liked the NZXT Function keyboards when they launched last year, and I still do today: all three are cleanly-designed and responsive gaming keyboards, and their hot-swappable mechanical switches make it a doddle to customise the under-the-finger feel. And speaking of today, it happens to be Black Friday, so we can add “up to 50% off” to their list of qualities.
Ultrawide gaming monitors are good for two things: juggling the exploded mosaic of Chrome windows that it takes to be a hardware editor on Black Friday, and making your games look cooler. I’m too busy with the first to do much of the second right now, but you can get into ultrawide gaming for a relative pittance thanks to these Black Friday deals on the HP Omen 34c.
This week on the Electronic Wireless Show podcast we talk all things GTAVI augury, what with the community going bananas for secret GTAVI clues, and Rockstar finally announcing that they’ll have a trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto arriving in December. Our predictions are in fact not as outlandish as you might think, although there are gorillas, obviously.
Alongside this we talk about the games we’re playing right now (largely Darktide, it turns out), and dish up some recommendations. We also spent like a third of our recording time playing a deranged Age Of Empires 2-themed RPG using an abbreviated D20 system of Nate’s devising, but don’t worry, I edited it down quite a lot. Apologies for my poor mic quality!
You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat.
Earlier this week reports surfaced of players encountering in-game pop-up adverts for this year’s Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, while innocently trying to visit the map screen in Ubisoft’s older open world stabathon Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey.
Embracer Group’s restructuring process is still in its “early stages”, and as such, we can expect “more cancellations, potentially some more closures” and some possible “management buyouts”, according to Phil Rogers, CEO of the operating group that includes Crystal Dynamics and other Western studios previously owned by Square Enix.
What a charmed life the WD Black SN850X leads, if you don’t count how its existence is spent almost entirely locked inside a hot, dark box. Not only is it the overall best SSD for gaming, but it’s also arguably the single brightest highlight of this year’s Black Friday storage sales, with the spacious 1TB model down to £65 in the UK. Its US deal price of $80 also represents a sizeable $50 saving.
