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With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap
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With Black Friday discounts, the top-spec Lenovo Legion Go S is faster than the equivalent Steam Deck OLED and almost as cheap

I never bought a Lenovo Legion Go S, or even slotted it into our best handheld PCs list, though it’s funny how much a fat Black Friday price cut can massage the desirability gland. And it helps that these savings cover not just the budget Ryzen Z2 Go model I originally reviewed, but the top-of-the-line Z1 Extreme version with an upgraded 32GB of RAM – and the same SteamOS, instead of fiddly Windows. That extra memory’s probably worth about four billion quid by itself, though w

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 18:20 Uhr
Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator
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Command a massive walking gun in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator

Of steel is my spirit, of thunder my bones. I am the hawk's justice, the quadrupedal crucible of oil and atrocity in which the future is forged. BEHOLD, ye strategy simulation enthusiasts. Behold my unabashed phallic symbolism menacing the gates of heaven, while my hissing hydraulics uncipher the coordinates of my prey. Many are my supplicants, strangers from near and far who seek to beguile me and aim my blessed ordnance, but mine is the judgement, and mine the tactile gratifications of lever

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 18:15 Uhr
Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam
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Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam

If you've been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch.io, and just released on Steam, it casts you as a reporter researching a book on serial killers. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 17:01 Uhr
The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales
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The PS5 DualSense controller is a surprisingly good PC pad that’s dropped to £43/$55 in the Black Friday sales

Convention tells us that to be a PC gamepad, the gamepad in question must follow the layout – or, at least, match the button glyphs – of the Xbox controller’s ABXY design. Even the new Steam Controller is doing it. To convention, though, I say: appreciate you’re an important component of usability design but also get lost. One of the best PC controllers right now is the PS5-pattern DualSense, which today's Black Friday deals have brought down to its lowest price in month

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 16:55 Uhr
Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will
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Fallout season 2 still sounds like it won't commit to a New Vegas ending, but for the love of all that's Housely, I hope it will

Update: Yep, no endings being picked here, just fog. Prime Video's Fallout TV series has been followed around by a buzzing swarm of canon chatter hornets since the moment its first series emerged from the vault. Such a thing's natural and healthy - people care enough about the games to have thoughts about how this adaptation portrays the world in which they take place. It goes double when when you head to locations which have played host to entries especially beloved for how much say they let t

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 16:40 Uhr
Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?
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Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?

Some days, I think I'd rather gouge my eyes out than read another email about a new roguelike or roguelite. This confuses me, because many of favourite games are roguelikes or roguelites, including Dead Cells, Balatro, FTL: Faster Than Light, and the recent Morsels, a reeking procedural dumpsite that speaks to the overproduction of Rogue/rogue derivatives at large. Roguish games are everywhere right now. According to SteamDB, 1602 games tagged "roguelike" were published in 2024 out of 18567 to

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 16:13 Uhr
MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released
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MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released

The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux 28.11.2025 16:10 Uhr
Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday
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Ugreen’s 9-in-1 Steam Deck stand is perfect for resting weary handhelds, and it’s going cheap on Black Friday

I, erm, write about the Steam Deck a lot, and keen eyed readers may have spotted a recurring theme among the accompanying photographs: a lurking Ugreen logo. That’s the Ugreen 9-in-1 Steam Deck Dock, aND what it lacks in sexy naming, it makes up for by being just the nicest little stand/port extender combo that a handheld PC could ask for. It’s also a mere £36/$40 on Black Friday, up to a third off its usual price. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 15:43 Uhr
The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is ÂŁ46/$50 off for Black Friday
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The best-ever lightweight gaming mouse, in my opinion, is ÂŁ46/$50 off for Black Friday

Rejoice, those with nimble wrists or heightened gravity anomalies localised on top of their desks. Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight 2 gaming mouse, which for my money is the finest ultra-lightweight mouse in existence, is getting cut down in the Black Friday sales – so for your money, it’s down from an admittedly ambitious £149/$180 to a far more reasonable £104/$130. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 14:59 Uhr
Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim
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Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim

Pre-release builds of Fallout: New Vegas recently unearthed at a shop in Utah contain rare files which could be "incredibly useful" to expanding what modders can do with the RPG. Well, at least they doe in the estimation of the folks who claim to have found them, a group of preservationists whose current online presence only looks to have popped up last month. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 13:47 Uhr
Black Friday’s microSD sales cut prices on our top Steam Deck cards – and they’ll work on the Steam Machine too
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Black Friday’s microSD sales cut prices on our top Steam Deck cards – and they’ll work on the Steam Machine too

I will begrudgingly accept that Black Friday, bleak as it is to anyone who didn’t grow up with framed spreadsheets above their beds, is at least a good opportunity to pick up dirt-cheap PC storage. Case in point, today’s sales include some nice, sharp slashings on some of the best Steam Deck microSD cards. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 13:15 Uhr
Oh hey, it's Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals
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Oh hey, it's Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals

I’m trying something new for this year’s Black Friday coverage: drastically overestimating how long it would take to put together a guide to its best graphics card deals. How is it past 11 already. Still, I do hope this helps any potential upgrader or from-scratch DIY builder out there – GPUs haven’t been 'cheap' in years, and while RAM is currently doing its best to replace them as the most overpriced component type in PCdom, graphics cards are usually in drastic need o

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 12:28 Uhr
Control Resonant trademark applied for in Europe by law firm Remedy have used multiple times
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Control Resonant trademark applied for in Europe by law firm Remedy have used multiple times

A trademark for Control Resonant has been applied for in Europe by a law firm who've represented Alan Wake developers Remedy on numerous previous occasions. This application's been lodged not long before The Game Awards and is to permit the phrase to be used in relation to games, but at the moment it's still a mystery what exact sort of Control-related thing it refers to. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 28.11.2025 11:03 Uhr
In a break from tradition, Ubisoft have no plans for a second big Assassin's Creed: Shadows DLC expansion
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In a break from tradition, Ubisoft have no plans for a second big Assassin's Creed: Shadows DLC expansion

Assassin's Creed Shadows probably won't get a second major DLC expansion on the scale of Claws of Awaji, Ubisoft's associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois has revealed. It's a blow to fans who are accustomed to getting a couple of major expansions per Assassin's Creed, and a boon to people who haven't even played Shadows yet, let alone the 10-hour-long Claws of Awaji, and are getting dry heaves from FOMO. It's me, I am people. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 27.11.2025 19:20 Uhr
Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage
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Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage

A couple of weeks after arguing that generative AI shouldn't be considered in videogame reviews, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is calling for Steam and digital storefronts generally to stop requiring generative AI disclosures. Sweeney's argument is broadly that all videogames will use generative AI tools at some stage, so you and I might as well stop hearing about it. He thinks tagging things as made with generative AI is only necessary when there's a formal need to prove legal authorship, or help b

Rock Paper Shotgun 27.11.2025 18:16 Uhr
Paradox take the blame for Bloodines 2 not selling as planned, will "evaluate" how to do World of Darkness games going forwards
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Paradox take the blame for Bloodines 2 not selling as planned, will "evaluate" how to do World of Darkness games going forwards

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 hasn't sold as well as publishers Paradox predicted. As such, the company have announced plans to write-down 355 million Swedish Krona (approximately £28 million/$37 million) of the game's development costs - essentially the financial way of saying something along the lines of 'oops, this isn't worth as much as we thought it was'. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 27.11.2025 17:48 Uhr
Where Winds Meet devs plan improved Steam Deck support
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Where Winds Meet devs plan improved Steam Deck support

Where Winds Meet continues to be a big hit on Steam and it works quite well on Desktop Linux but it needs a lot of improvements on Valve's Steam Deck..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux 27.11.2025 17:21 Uhr
"Essentially, War Sails is a large mod": Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord devs on delaying leaving port and why custom naval battles were a late addition
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"Essentially, War Sails is a large mod": Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord devs on delaying leaving port and why custom naval battles were a late addition

Earlier this year, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord's War Sails naval expansion had its release pushed back from June 17th to November 26th. You can give it a go right now if you fancy, so it obviously made that second date. Prior to the DLC dropping, I chatted with Bannerlord senior producer Falk Engel about what went into the decision to ditch the initial summer date, and why custom naval battles were only confirmed to be arriving with its launch quite late in the day. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 27.11.2025 17:04 Uhr