Free-to-play FPS gets a much-demanded class rebalance Embark Studios have releasedThe Finalsupdate 1.4.0, a mixture of balance tweaks, quality-of-life improvements and crash fixes which is going down like the proverbial lead balloon among fans of the free-to-playshooter’s Heavy class. I’m definitely here for the crash fixes - I can’t get The Finals to run for longer than five minutes, which is a shame, because as Graham tells it, this isthe most exciting new multiplayer FPS in years....

Cut off their what, sorry? Interesting. This door on the Advent Calendar has an instruction scrawled on it in blood: TURN THE DOOR KNOB. There’s a remote recorder on the floor there, and if you press play a voice, coughing itself to death, says “You have to turn the door knob!”. After a few minutes standing there, you think to yourself, “Maybe I should try turning the door knob?” You open the door and a million dead bodies roll out and physics-crash into themselves an all the furniture - in high definition!...

A budget price for a small but well-featured computer desk. Want a standing desk but don’t have the budget to get something ultra-premium like Corsair’s£1000Platform:6, Ikea’s£475Bekant or Flexispot’s£200Essential Standing Desk? Well, no worries - there are even cheaper standing desks available online, and today you can pick one up from Marsail for just £80 using a voucher at Amazon UK, saving you £28. This is definitely one of the most affordable electric standing desks, but you pay the price in terms of size....

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games Last time, in celebration of Doom’s 30th birthday, you decided thatDoom 2’s super shotgun is better than Doom’s shotgun(57% vs 43%, statheads). An intellectual brawl between two absolute titans. Whoever won, we’d lose. But whoever won, we won. This week, the calendar also dictates our subject. This being Christmastime, I need to know: what’s better, giving items to other players or throwing grenades back?...

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The rough timeline for next year’s updates and expansions for WOW and WOW Classic Blizzard have revealed their approximate update plans for the next year of arthouse oddityWorld Of Warcraft, which if I remember correctly is a “massively multiple-player” experience of some antiquity that involves Orcs - a kind of always-onlineBaldur’s Gate, if you will, or a strictly fantasy-themed Fortnite with dungeons instead of forts. Seems far-fetched, but let’s roll with it....

And may cause “soft layoffs” Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3publisher Activision Blizzard plan to end hybrid remote/in-office work for QA staff based in Minneapolis, Austin and El Segundo next year, with employees who are unwilling to fully return to the office offered severance, in what the ABK Workers Alliance are calling the basis for a round of “soft layoffs”. The union state that “hundreds of employees” have already approached the publisher’s Accommodations team this year seeking permanent work-from-home arrangements “due to disability, financial issues, or other factors”....

Let loose a barrage of rounds with the best RAM-7 loadout in Modern Warfare 3 You’ll need to purchase Modern Warfare 3’s Season 1 battle pass and grind for a bit tounlock the RAM-7 on sector A7. For the speediest route possible, start with sector A1, progress to A3, complete A6, and get your new RAM-7 at A7. Once you’ve got your paws on this shiny AR, read on - we’ve got the full details on our preferred RAM-7 loadout below, including the best attachments, secondary weapon, perks, and all the equipment that you need to start dropping bodies with your new hardware....

Now drag me to The Hague I haven’t checked in onMicrosoft Flight Simulatorfor a while, but the aviation ‘em up hasn’t missed a beat. Last month it received World Update 15, continuing increase the detail of its global landscape with a visit to Greenland and the Nordics. Now Asobo have released City Update 5: European Cities 1, which brings a similar pass of polish to five “exemplary urban regions”. Each of these updates uses new satellite data and 3D scans to render the world you’re flying over in greater fidelity - and much greater fidelity than its developers could manage if they were crafting each building by hand....

Story-Rich Megabundle live till 21st Dec I don’t tend to write up Steam bundle discounts, but thisisa rather good one. As the name suggests, LudoNarraCon and Fellow Traveller’sStory-Rich Megabundlenets you 10 well-received narrative-heavy games for around £20, €23 or $25, including three games I’d personally say are among the choicest chunks of digital scribble to ever grace an SSD. Those three areParadise Killer,RoadwardenandCard Shark. All excellent, all “story rich”, all otherwise extremely different....

2% of published files reportedly flogged to online bidders Afterthreatening to do solast week, ransomware group Rhysida have published well over a terabyte of stolen Insomniac Games data, with files ranging from personal information about Insomniac employees to details of forthcoming videogame projects, such as the already-announced Wolverine. As reported byCyberdaily, the leak totals 1.3 million files and represents 98% of the data Rhysida obtained from the Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank studio....

This free skiing game is an RPS Christmas tradition With Christmas barely a week away, it’s time to start celebrating my own RPS Christmas traditions. Games to play, songs to time, surprises to spring. Let’s start with a wee surprise. Pull on your mittens, fill your flask with cocoa, and clip-click-skkrachk those ski boots, for it is time to play the free downhill slalom gameSkeal. Hie theeto Itch.ioto play Skeal anon....

Detachable controllers and a massive screen ensure this is no half-cooked Steam Deck clone It’s been encouraging to see how post-Steam Deckhandheld PCs aren’t merely copying Valve’s homework. TheAsus ROG Allymade a (mostly) successful attempt at slimming down while upping performance, and now we have theLenovo Legion Go: an even higher-concept portable with Switch-style detachable controllers. One of which transforms into a mouse. It’s a bit mad but I’ve always loved the concept’s ambition, even as Irendered working protypes a little less… working....