The brilliant Logitech G432 is cheaper than usual right now. The Logitech G432 has been our pick for thebest gaming headsetfor ages, and with good reason. It packs a huge amount of quality into a very reasonably priced package. And thisBlack Fridayweekend, that package is even more reasonably priced than usual, as this fantastic headset is down to half-price in both the UK and the US. It’s also a pleasingly flexible headset, coming with a 3....

The Intel Core i5-13600K is available at a discount right now We reckon the Intel Core i5-13600K is not only Intel’s best processor overall, but thebest CPU for gamingcurrently available. That quality has also meant it’s maintained its initial price fairly steadily for the last twelve months. But in both the UK and the US, you can get this excellent CPU for a pretty decent discount thisBlack Fridayweekend. The i5-13600K followed on from Intel’slandmark12600K, which put the manufacturer back into CPU contention after being caught napping by the excellent AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (which is alsocurrently availableat a discount)....

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That tentacle is going to be happy Not anymore. After over twenty years, Valve programmer Ben Burbank has fixed the bug - and explained how he did it. First off, when I first played Half-Life in 1998 and 1999, this bug didn’t exist. The leading theory is that it was introduced by the Win32 API with Windows 2000. As Burbank explainsover on Mastodon, on “computers running at least Windows 2000 or newer”, you’d see the mis-alignment....

A deal just for CPU. Amazon doesn’t specifically list this as aBlack Fridaydeal. But it’s certainly a bargain that you can take advantage of this Black Friday weekend. AMD’s Ryzen 5 5600X processor is available for just either side of half-price, depending on which side of the pond you live on. Regardless, that’s a big chunk off one of thebest gaming CPUsaround. It’s also worth noting that the 5600X is highly power efficient, with a TDP of just 65 watts....

Boost your PC’s brainpower. RAM is rarely the first consideration when upgrading a PC, as it has a much smaller impact on performance compared to a better processor or a spanking new GPU. But you also won’t get without far it, and we are slowly heading toward the point where more RAM is preferable. This year brought a scare when Star Wars: Jedi Survivorseemingly neededa minimum 32GB of RAM. Luckily that turned out to be an error in the system requirements, but as the size and detail of video game worlds exerts greater demand on load times, RAM will become more important....

The Steelseries Rival 3 is just £18 on Amazon UK. These days thebest gaming miceoften have nearly as many buttons as your keyboard. But at the end of the day, a gaming mouse needs three things, a left-button, a right-button and a scroll-wheel. And thisBlack Fridayweekend, you can get twice that many buttons three, plus some fetching RGB lighting, for less than twenty quid. TheSteelseriesRival 3 has long been one of the most dependable budget gaming mice....

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Look at that space man sweat There’s a quote about early computer animation, which I can’t track down now, that before Pixar came along everyone was using it to swoop cameras through outerspace and up a gnat’s ass. Or perhaps it was a fly’s butt? I’m glad Pixar used computer animation to tell great stories, but in watching the 24-minute trailer for the technology underpinningStar Citizen, I have come to realise: swooping the camera through outerspace and up to a man’s sweaty brow, at least, is actually pretty cool, too....

Crowdfunders' lament Four-legged beat ‘em upThem’s Fightin’ Herdshas had quite the journey, having begun life as an unofficial My Little Pony fangame before becoming a legally distinct and well-liked fighter via crowdfunding and Early Access. Now that journey seems to be an end. News of a patch and some DLC characters earlier this week came alongside the news that these updates would the game’s last - meaning that an in-progress story mode will never be completed and certain crowdfunded rewards will never be delivered....

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Its 1.3.3 update just released Fast Forward five years and BallisticNG has been regularly updated since that initial launch, and a new trailer to mark its release on GOG is keen to brag about As the trailer says: it’s got VR support, mod support, plenty of community content, and plenty of game modes to choose from. It’s not Steam Deck verified but it reportedly works great on Valve’s handheld, too....