An ideal first gaming monitor, or a cheap second screen to take to LAN parties. The best budget gaming monitor just got cheaper. Dell have knocked the price of their G2722HS 27-in 1080p 165Hz gaming monitor down to £129, but when you use the code BFUKG2722HS it gets even cheaper: just £116.10. That’s a tiny fraction of the original £239 price point, and one heck of a Black Friday discount on one of the best value gaming monitors of recent memory....

The battle over Call Of Duty continues The United States’ consumer watchdogs, the Federal Trade Commission, are considering filing a lawsuit against Microsoft over the company’s proposed $68.7 billion (£57 billion) buyout of Activision Blizzard. US newspaperPoliticoreport that three anonymous sources with knowledge of the potential antitrust lawsuit have claimed it could happen in December, although any such lawsuit isn’t guaranteed. The four FTC commissioners haven’t voted to decide on a complaint yet, and haven’t met with Microsoft or Activision Blizzard lawyers, two of the sources said....

And fix stability issues Warhammer 40,000: Darktideisn’t out until November 30th - unless you pre-ordered it, in which case it’s playable in beta right now. This also means that it’s already being regularly patched and expanded with new features. Today’s update, version 1.0.8, introduced “the first element of the crafting system” as well as new cosmetics. “The first batch of character and weapons cosmetics are now available in the Armoury Exchange....

Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word Time’s tight, though, so it’s completely understandable if you don’t want to dedicate a lot of time to quietly contemplating a word puzzle right now. To help speed things along for you, we’ve put together a series of clues pointing towards today’s solution below; or to really skip to the good part, scroll down below the video to see the answer in full....

That’s nearly £700 off the Acer Nitro 5 I had to check this particularBlack Fridaydeal three times to make sure the specs were right, but yes, you can indeed get an RTX 3080-equipped version of the Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop for £1200. That’s hundreds upon hundreds of pounds less than the average RTX 3080 laptop, even during the current season of early Black Friday offers. Until Nvidia get around to making a mobile version of theRTX 4080, this is the second-most powerful RTX laptop GPU you can get, so it’s much more commonly found inside £2000-plus models....

Get murdered in the swedish wilderness The new map is called Operation Spearpoint, and it features “two fully automated megafactories and an untamed terrain”. The map’s very own trailer goes into more detailhere, where a man runs through all the different capture points in his best subdued bombast voice. They’re billing it as a close-quarters focused map, though it looks like most of the squabbling actually happens outdoors across a river and some nice-looking hillocks....

DMZ makes for an excellent companion too Not long ago I watched my Warzone Legacy, a two-minute-long compilation of my best stats from the first game, which included my K/D ratio and hours played and the like. It was undoubtedly produced by AI to feed the social media machine, yet the cold, hard numbers transported me back to the warm embrace of Verdansk, a battle royale map my mates and escaped to almost every evening as the pandemic raged....

Space to breathe I’ve known for a long time that becoming an astronaut was never going to be my life’s calling. My eyesight’s terrible, for one, and I guarantee I’d be vomming all over the walls if I was ever put inside one of those whirly burly machines to simulate the experience of launching into space. Indeed, if the two hours I spent playingDeliver Us Marslast week were anything to go by, I don’t think I’d even make it through the doors at NASA....

Success scores players a reward before the end of the year GTA Online’s month-long Heists event concludes on November 30th, and Rockstar are setting the game’s community a challenge to steal a total of $2 trillion in-game over the next week. That would be double what GTA Online players managed during the last Heists Challenge two years ago, when the target was set at the much lower amount of $100 billion....

Meat cute I’m a sucker for a good romcom. As soon as the fateful meet cute happens, you’ll find me curled up with a blanket swooning over the blossoming romance. Bumping into someone while getting on the train or getting in an elevator might be a minor part of your day, but for a romcom protagonist, it ignites the love story they’ve been waiting for. They were ready to fall in love and probably hoped for a meet cute because they wanted a surprising story that they could tell everyone about....

Power Cosmic update brings Silver Surfer into play in December Free to play superhero card battlerMarvel Snapis getting a Power Cosmic update for PC and mobile on December 6th. The big deal with this update is the arrival of Collector Tokens that’ll let you snap up cards you want from the new store. Given the name, it’s not surprising to hear that some fresh, cosmic-themed rare cards are set to land too, including the Silver Surfer and his absolute unit of a mate, Galactus....

Not content with your telly or your tablet, Netflix has begun making moves on your PC. The streaming giant is recruiting people to work on “a brand-new AAA PC game”, seeking those with knowledge of Unreal Engine and “experience with FPS and/or third person shooter games”.The adfor their lead engineer specifically refers to the game as a third-person action RPG. The new hires will join formerOverwatchexecutive producer Chacko Sonny, team lead at the newly formed Netflix Games Studio....

A fine way to spend an endgame Spaceship looter shooterEverspace 2has launched one last update at the final frontier, with today’s Ancient Rifts update constituting the sixth and final major early access content drop. The full game won’t be out ‘til next year, but what’s there now includes an endgame where you head through rifts to blow up lost pirates “who’ve succumbed to madness”. I’d leave ‘em be, if I were you....