Space can come at a premium, and that’s often the case with home office setups. If you want to save a bit of real estate, you can invest in a mini PC to keep things a little more compact. From gaming PCs to everyday workstations, there’s a mini PC to suit every budget. Our top pick is the MSI MEG Trident X2 which boasts an impressive design, 13th-gen processor, and RTX 4070 graphics card. And now that Black Friday deals have arrived, there’s no better time to look for a mini PC.
TL;DR – These are the Best Mini PCs of 2023:
MSI MEG Trident X2
Apple Mac mini
MinisForum EM680
Asus Chromebox 5
Acer Chromebox CXI4
Intel NUC 12 Extreme
Lenovo ThinkCentre M90q Tiny Gen 3
Remember, mini doesn’t mean these PCs are any less powered or premium...
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It might not technically be Black Friday 2023 yet, but the sales are live at all the major retailers. That means you can save a bunch of money on all kinds of things, including video games. One of the best games of 2023 (see our 10/10 Resident Evil 4 remake review) is a from-the-ground-up remake of Resident Evil 4. Like the remakes of the previous games, this one is excellently made and just phenomenally fun to play. And thanks to Walmart's Black Friday sale, it's available on PS5 and Xbox Series X for just $30. That's a killer deal.
Resident Evil 4 Is $30 for Black Friday
See it at Best Buy - $39.99
See it at Amazon - In and out of stock
See it at GameStop - In and out of stock
In this reimagined version of the game, we catch up...
The next Call of Duty game, set for release in 2024, may be another entry in the Black Ops series of games and set in the Gulf War, according to a new report.
As reported by Windows Central, the Treyarch-developed next release in the Call of Duty franchise will be a new Black Ops game, though its official name is still being decided internally. It will take place during the Gulf War, additionally touching on the global political fallout after the Cold War. Windows Central describes the approach as having a "nuanced" narrative, focusing on different participants in the Gulf War.
This largely corroborates similar reports of the Gulf War setting inadvertently leaked by an actor earlier this year.
Additionally, the report suggests the...
With ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA) launching this week on Xbox Series X/S and joining the PC survivors already traversing the island, we thought we’d gather a list of reasons to play this new next-gen remake game! A top-to-bottom remake of the original game, so here are a few of the key differences you may have noticed in the gameplay trailer.
Studio Wildcard’s goal with ARK: Survival Ascended is to provide an evergreen adventure that re-energizes the classic-ARK experience. ARK: Survival Ascended is available now in Early Access on Steam and Xbox Series X/S, with PlayStation 5 releasing early December.
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If you are anything like me, Black Friday is the time of year you pick up all-time classic games you don't own, or great games from that year you haven't gotten to yet (I'm currently deciding how many of these games I can afford to get, if we're being honest).
Games go on sale all the time, but discounts during the Black Friday season hit differently, and GMG has PlayStation, 2K, and more, including some of the best games of 2023.
GMG Black Friday Sale
GMG is an official key reseller, meaning every key comes directly from the game's publishers. You can also get games from a wide range of platforms, including Steam, Epic, and more.
As part of the GMG Black Friday sale, they also have a rotating Star Deal, which is even more heavily...
Mimimi Games will release two DLC packs for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S come December 6. These add-ons will be the final projects from the studio before it closes for good.
Mimimi revealed the post-launch plans in a news post on the Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew website. Each expansion comes with “several hours” of new content, including a new character with unique supernatural powers to add to your cursed crew lineup, a new uncharted island to explore, and a story campaign with six new missions.
Mimimi says both DLC packs will integrate seamlessly into the base game, meaning you’ll be able to take your new characters into almost any other main game mission. Specific details about the...
Don't buy the coveted $80 Baldur’s Gate 3 Deluxe Edition from scalpers online, developer Larian has told fans — there's plenty of stock to go around.
Scalpers are currently selling confirmed preorders of the Deluxe Edition for hundreds of dollars on auction sites such as eBay.
“Just for your information, the Deluxe Edition is not a limited edition and stock is holding steady, with more waves being prepared within the first quarter of 2024 shipping window, so if you see them online being resold based on confirmed preorders at higher prices, skip it,” Michael Douse, Larien's director of publishing, said on X/Twitter. “There won’t be stock scarcity.”
He added: “We confirmed a minimum order but we already blitzed past that in the first...
A gameplay clip from Steam's latest hit Lethal Company has gone viral as players laugh at and praise the game's proximity voice chat.
YouTube user Sej uploaded the clip, titled Time to Go, that's since been shared across social media and video game forum website ResetEra where it's being viewed again and again. One post containing the video on X/Twitter (below) was only posted yesterday, November 21, but already has 1.6 million views.
"This might be one of the greatest game clips of all time," said Kalentan, who shared the video on ResetEra. "Lethal Company does indeed look awesome, with amazing [voice chat] implementation and sound design," read one reply.
Lethal Company is a cooperative sci-fi horror game about scavenging, as...
Blizzard Entertainment has made its action role-playing game Diablo 4 free-to-play on Steam for a week.
Steam users can download and trial the game until November 28 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK. Diablo 4 launched first in June on PC via Blizzard's own Battle.net, where it remains a premium game. It's also on PlayStation and Xbox.
The free-to play period lets users play Diablo 4 up to level 20, which equates to around eight hours of gameplay. Blizzard will likely be hoping those who get there will be tempted by the game's 40% off price-tag in the Steam Autumn Sale, which also ends November 28.
Those sales would only add to the already record-breaking popularity of Diablo 4, which is Blizzard's fastest-selling game of all...
Bungie's sci-fi shooter Destiny 2 is getting an unusual crossover as CD Projekt Red's The Witcher is coming to the cosmetics store.
Bungie released an image, below, showing fans what to expect from the upcoming collaboration. The Geralt of Rivia armour, due out November 28, includes armour ornaments, a Ghost shell, ship, Sparrow, emote, and finisher.
The centre set, worn by the Titan, is most reminiscent of The Witcher and protagonist Geralt in particular. It's based on the Kaer Morhen armour available in The Witcher 3, the same set that features on most key art including the box cover.
The Warlock's set looks based the Ursine Armour and the clothing of the Skellige people in general, while the Hunter's set of course features a...
Underwater survival series Subnautica is set to see a new game come out during the first half of 2025. That’s according to Krafton, the company behind battle royale PUBG and owner of Subnautica after buying developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment in 2021.
Subnautica is a hugely successful indie game that first emerged in 2018, then saw a follow-up, dubbed Below Zero, in 2021. IGN’s Subnautica review returned a 9/10. We said: “Subnautica's a survival game with focus and an excellent sci-fi story, but its greatest achievement is its underwater horror.” We were equally impressed with Below Zero: “Subnautica: Below Zero is a leaner, meaner standalone expansion to Subnautica that improves on the story and mechanics, but doesn't give us as...
Amid continued silence from embattled games company Embracer about the status of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake, developer Saber Interactive is reportedly still soldiering on with the project in some capacity.
The KOTOR Remake was thought dead after Embracer had Saber Interactive, the developer working on the recently delayed Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2, take over following significant trouble at original developer Aspyr.
Bloomberg reporter and reputable insider Jason Schreier posted on X/Twitter (below) to say Saber Interactive is still working on the game, although question marks remain over whether it will ever actually come out, and if it does, what sort of game it will be.
The Star Wars: Knights of the...
The very same weekend we received Bluey: The Videogame, Australia’s ABC broadcasted a countdown of the top 100 Bluey episodes, as voted by the public. Tuning in for the final 20-or-so, it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with any of the very best ones I’d managed to miss over the years ahead of this review. One of those was Onesies, and I was floored when the theme was revealed. Seriously, the ability of this children’s show to tackle a concept as complex as infertility for an audience of any age, and with such an expert balance of levity and empathy, is nothing short of remarkable. There is so much to this show beneath the surface. I do wish I could say the same about Bluey: The Videogame – that it, too, is quite remarkable in...
Robux is the virtual currency within Roblox, and can be used to purchase special outfits or animations, various items for your avatar, and even unique abilities! If you’re looking to gift someone some Robux, you might be wondering how to do that? We’ve got all the information you’ll need on where and how to buy Robux during Black Friday, as well as how to redeem them.
How to Purchase a Roblox Gift Card
Players of Roblox are able to purchase Robux in-game via the in-game store on their chosen platform; mobile, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. However, if you’re wanting to gift someone some Robux, you’ll need to buy them a gift card, either from the Roblox Store or via Amazon. To begin with, you’ll want to head to the Roblox Store and decide...
Ubisoft’s troubled Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake has received a positive update.
The publisher shared the news on Twitter (formerly X) to help celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the original game's launch. It’s a brief and somewhat vague update, but it’s at least a sign that the team at Ubisoft Montreal is moving in the right direction.
“As you know, the passionate team at @UbisoftMTL is reimagining this legendary story,” the update says, “and we are glad to announce today that the project has passed an important internal milestone and development is progressing.”
It’s not clear what exactly this “important internal milestone” is. Still, considering the Prince of Persia remake has been engulfed by less-than-stellar...
Welcome to the business end of the week that is Black Friday 2023. The plan is to constantly refresh the deals list below which, honestly, is pretty damn robust already. For the smoothest shopping experience, be sure to make a bookmark and (freely) sign up for Amazon Prime. Said retailer started their festivities a few days ago and the really good stuff is set to drop on the 24th. I also have an eagle eye trained on all of the first-party console storefronts, too.
For now, let's hook you up with the best deals of the year on games, controllers, monitors, wireless headphones, SSDs, and much, much more. Join us now as we pick out the cream of the crop and then keep updating this page as this Black Friday extravaganza progresses!
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If you are anything like me, Black Friday is the time of year to pick up any stone-cold bangers that you didn't play during the year. Games go on sale all the time, but the discounts are typically steepest during the Black Friday season and GOG has just kicked their sale off, with tons of games on sale, from CD Projekt, PlayStation, Bethesda, Blizzard, and more on offer.
They also have tons of retro PC games on offer, so if you dig those, this is a treasure trove.
GOG Black Friday Sale
GOG games are as much defined by what they are by what they aren't. Are they digital PC games? Yes, but they are also DRM-free, which means when you buy a game on this storefront, you actually own it and you don't need a launcher to 'check-in' every...
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has been hit with a delay that will see its PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S launch pushed to sometime in the second half of 2024.
It’s a sizable delay that Focus Entertainment delivered as part of an update today. The previous plan was to see developer Saber Interactive release Space Marine 2 sometime before 2023 came to a close. Now, a few days into the third week of November, a delay isn’t much of a surprise.
Focus says it moved to delay the project due to its desire to provide players with a high-quality experience.
“The game is now poised to ship in the second half of 2024, to provide the time needed to properly polish the game and to ensure the best possible experience,” Focus said in a...
Black Friday is one of the most exciting times of the year if you're looking for great deals, and for PC gamers, the Steam Autumn Sale is one of the best chances to score some deep discounts on games you've had your eye on. This year, you can score deals on recently released titles such as Starfield, Diablo IV, Lords of the Fallen, and more, as well as hundreds of older titles at great prices. Check out some of the highlights from Steam's Black Friday 2023 sale below.
Steam Autumn Sale
Steam's Autumn Sale is the annual sale that coincides with Black Friday, and there are currently hundreds of massive titles on sale now through November 28th at 10:00 AM PT. You can score big savings on popular games like God of War, Red Dead Redemption...
Epic Games has promised an "unforgettable" Big Bang event will take place in Fortnite on December 2, probably starring Eminem.
A Fortnite blog post revealed the event will begin at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK, though the experience will be available in the Battle Royale tile in Discover 30 minutes prior. It supports parties of up to four players and comes with a photosensitivity and seizures warning due to flashing lights.
The Big Bang event will be "evolving all things as you know them" according to a post on X/Twitter (below) and will feature a "memorable reveal toward the end". This is likely the transition into a new Chapter as Fortnite's OG Update, which saw the highest player numbers of all time, is replaced by...
The developers of Modern Warfare 3 have another glitch to contend with: Snaking 2.0.
Call of Duty players would be forgiven for thinking they’d seen this one before, and that’s because they have. Various games in the series have had movement glitches and exploits that have let players zip about the battlefield like a snake, making it difficult for opposing players to get a lock on.
Just weeks into this latest Modern Warfare 3’s life, snaking has returned, with some hilarious clips popping up online showing players surprised to see it in action. Here’s a snippet.
How’s this done? It seems the glitch is triggered on mouse and keyboard only, and with various changes made to keybinds. It sounds fiddly, but the gist is players are...
The just announced Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will become the first Xbox Series X game to release with three discs, CD Projekt Red has confirmed.
Speaking to IGN, a spokesperson clarified exactly how the Ultimate Edition — which packages the base Cyberpunk 2077 with its Phantom Liberty expansion — will be released on each system.
"The Xbox Series X box contains three discs with the base game and expansion," the CD Projekt Red spokesperson confirmed, which makes it the only physical version of Phantom Liberty available across any platform.
"The PlayStation 5 box includes a game disc with Cyberpunk 2077 and a code for the expansion to be redeemed in the PlayStation Store," they added. "The PC version comes with a GOG code for...
Star Wars: Empire at War developer Petroglyph has returned to its 17-year-old real-time strategy game with a series of surprise updates.
2006’s Empire at War is set between Star Wars: Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope, and focuses on the fight between the Empire and the Rebels. Online functionality was canned back in 2014, but three years later multiplayer was re-enabled on the Steam version alongside workshop support.
Earlier in November 2023, Empire at War received a “maintenance patch” that made minor bug fixes, player balance changes, and optimised performance. Then this week, Petroglyph went one step further, issuing Empire at War’s most significant update in years.
The latest patch...
For years, video game players have changed the time and date on their hardware, whether it be PC or console, to go back in time or into the future, accessing removed content or content yet to come.
Now, Mortal Kombat 1 players are changing the date on their console to avoid paying for skins that were once available through gameplay — the latest twist in what has been a tumultuous launch for NetherRealm’s gory fighting game.
First, some context. This week Mortal Kombat 1’s already aggressive monetisation sparked yet another backlash after some skins previously available as part of Invasions mode in Season 1 were made available to buy from the in-game store for Dragon Krystals, the game’s premium currency. NetherRealm had previously...
Lords of the Fallen gets another update today, this time adding a new questline event based on a popular NPC.
The Way of the Bucket quest features the eponymous community favourite NPC, a new corresponding weapon and armour set, and six new spells.
Developer Hexworks has issued a long list of updates to its Soulslike following its October 13 launch, improving performance, stability, and optimisation, and making significant balance changes. Enemy density has been “extensively” re-proportioned throughout the game, with some enemies seeing up to 30% fewer foes. Other balance tweaks including reducing the accuracy of ranged enemies at long distance, and improving enemy leashing to players aren’t pursued as far, thereby reducing...
CD Projekt Red has announced a Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will be released on December 5, 2023.
This edition is much like a Game of the Year or Complete Edition product, granting players access to Cyberpunk 2077's expansion Phantom Liberty and the main game all in one package. It will be released for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC.
A physical edition for consoles wil also mark the first time Cyberpunk 2077 comes packaged under current generation banners, with only a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of the game available physically previously. The Ultimate Edition will not be released for those consoles, however, as Phantom Liberty wasn't either.
All of CD Projekt Red's previous updates to the game will of course...
We might complain about it, but FIFA and now EA Sports FC are some of the best-selling games every single year -- so there's definitely still an appeal out there for happy gamers. If you haven't had the chance to pick up the world-leading soccer sim just yet, well you're in luck as it's 57% off in the Black Friday sales.
Currently available for just $29.99 at retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, this is a great deal and likely the best offer we're getting on the game until it inevitably ends up on EA Play and Xbox Game Pass come May or June 2024. If you don't want to wait until then, we suggest bagging this deal this Black Friday. For digital owners, the game is down to $34.99 on PS5 but you can also save 10% on PS credit right now; so...
The saga of Ark: Survival Ascended’s console release date has taken another twist, with developer Studio Wildcard committing to a release date for the Xbox version, but delaying the PlayStation 5 version.
Ark: Survival Ascended is Studio Wildcard’s Unreal Engine 5 remake of the original Ark: Survival Evolved. (If you're playing, check out IGN's comprehensive Ark: Survival Ascended guide).
It finally launches on Xbox Series X and S today, November 21 at 9am Pacific / 12noon Eastern / 5pm UK, Studio Wildcard said in a post on X/Twitter. Despite long-running scepticism from the Ark community about Studio Wildcard announcements, this one seems locked in.
However, it’s bad news for the PS5 version, which was due out at the end of...
The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski has given fans a release window for the highly anticipated next book in the series, alongside a possible tease of its story.
As reported by IGN Poland, Sapkowski said during Comic Con Vienna that the next book, which currently lacks a title, will arrive worldwide in early 2025 following a debut in its native Poland in late 2024.
Known for his dry and sarcastic humour, Sapkowski also shared a brief tease as to what the story might involve. "[Netflix] made a series based on one short story. They forced me to continue," he said. "I'm not complaining. Thanks to this, I now have enough money for the rent."
Sapkowski saying Netflix is making a series based on one short story isn't quite accurate, but...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer Games held a Reddit AMA on Monday intended to answer a ton questions about the game's multiplayer. However, it remained silent on one of the game's most controversial issues: Skill-Based Matchmaking.
For those unfamiliar, Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM) has been a long-running hot topic in the world of Call of Duty, as it is meant to put players in lobbies made up of similarly-skilled players. Unfortunately, some higher-skilled players have been known to lose on purpose so they can match up against lower-skilled players.
Many have called for SBMM to just be part of Ranked playlists, but those requests and many more have never been addressed. Activision has never truly spoken on the...