Introduce Woody and Buzz to several horrible villains Disney Dreamlight Valley’s second major update now has a release date. Characters, locations and cosmetic items from Toy Story will be added to the free-to-play life sim on December 6th. The news was announced with atweet, although we’re still reliant on the announcement trailer for what the update contains: The update adds the “Toy Story realm”, which looks like a version of Andy’s bedroom in which your Dreamlight Valley character will be shrunk to the size of a toy....

The WD Black SN850X is cheaper than ever in the UK One of my absolute favourite SSDs for gaming PCs is among the highlights of this year’searly Black Friday SSD deals. The WD Black SN850X is the overall second-fastest NVMe SSD in the RPS benchmark books – with the outright fastest write speeds – and its 1TB model has some sizeable savings going for it, across both the UK and US....

The Cooler Master SK652 is less than half price. Much less Here’s an earlyBlack Fridaydeal for anyone still prodding at a mushy membrane keyboard: in the UK, you can get the all-mechanical Cooler Master SK652 for just £45. If you go for the black model, that’s a £65 saving off the RRP, and it’s £95 off if you opt for the white version, which is £45 as well. £45! And it’s full-size to boot....

Down from a regular price of $349.99, this is a great Black Friday storage deal. Crucial’s MX500 is a classic SATA SSD, with TLC NAND and a DRAM-cache offering excellent sustained performance only supplanted by newfangled NVMe M.2 drives. Today the biggest size of the MX500, the 4TB model, is down to $269.90 in an early Black Friday sale at B&H Photo in the US - an $80 saving from the drive’s usual price....

Oh boy, do I really wanna talk about this game? Lisa: The Painfulis one of those games that’s like… if you know,you know. You know? Like, it’s ruthless, stomach-churning, and soul-destroying. I’m kinda joking but also not joking? I don’t know what it is about RPG maker games, but they just hit different. Set in a post-apocalypse with no women, you play as Brad who one day finds an abandoned baby girl, names her Buddy, and raises her in secret....

Like chill Zelda, with a reptile I’m always looking for new games to play with my kids, and MegaWobble’sLil Gator Gameseems like just the right combination of harmless and wacky for us. Coming to Steam on December 14th, Lil Gator Game involves most of the core components of childhood, such as displays of reckless acrobatics, pretending sticks are swords, and making friends with every other random child you meet. You can see what I mean by watching the trailer below....

Starting this week on November 24th Eurogamer reportthat the expeditions will start their re-runs on November 24th. Each one will be available to play for a shorter time than it was originally - just two weeks. Here’s when you can hop into your spaceship and try each of the four re-appearing Expeditions: Although these are timed content, the rewards you get for completing them are permanent and substantial. They range from Exobiology, which gave you a robot dog companion, to Polestar, which granted you a space jellyfish....

Another great controller deal for PC and PS5. Yesterday we covered a great deal ondiscounted Xbox Series Wireless Controllers at Currys, and today I’m back to share a similar deal that sees Sony’s DualSense controller down to the lowest price we’ve ever seen. Right now you can pick up the PC-compatible controller in white for £40, a £20 reduction from its normal price of £60. The DualSense is a good choice for PC gaming, with easy support via Steam orDS4Windowsand a choice of wired (USB-C or USB-A) or wireless (Bluetooth) connection methods....

And this means you can now make vampire worshipers Colony simRimWorldadded ideologies in an expansion last year, promptingNate to force drifters to knife-fight a unicorn(among other things). There have been other RimWorld expansions however, and while each has added a substantial new chunk of content, those systems have previously been unable to interact with each other. That changed with RimWorld 1.4, which adds “cross-expansion integration”, so now you can use the ideology system from the Ideology expansion to, for example, tell stories about people who have ideologies about the biotech from thebiotech expansion....

As always, we’re going by the year of a game’s PC release, not when they might have come out on consoles years earlier. It’s also this particular version of a game we’re recommending as well, which is why you might see certain games absent from their original release year if they’ve had a shiny new remaster or remake recently. The RPS Time Capsule is also not intended to be a definitive best games of the year list - it’s simply a collection of our personal faves, and ones we’d want to save in the event of some probably not at all inevitable apocalypse....

Tempting early deals on the Samsung Pro Plus, in 256GB or 512GB varieties I’m rounding upSteam Deck-ready microSD sales over in ourbest early Black Friday SSD dealshub, but thought it worth highlighting the Samsung Pro Plus more directly. This is, of all the ones I’ve tried, thebest microSD cardfor Valve’s handheld PC, and it’s currently enjoying some discounts in both the UK and US. These focus on the 256GB and 512GB models, the latter being the roomiest capacity that the Pro Plus comes in....

Try not to slide cancel Warzone 2is many things: battle royale, free-to-play, chock-full of guns. One thing I hadn’t thought of it as, at least until now, was a dance simulator, but then I’ve never used Tiktok. A cunning Warzone 2 player has managed to convince the enemy team to abandon their hostilities and indulge in a spot of shuffling to DJ Casper’s classic turn of the millennium hit Cha Cha Slide....

Renaissance manhandling Ezio Auditore, the fire of Firenze, pulls the guard close in passionate embrace. It’s an intimacy born not of love but its close cousin, hate. Gripping the man around the neck, Ezio holds him steady so that a nearby thief - hired at a fixed rate of 150 florins for an indefinite period of rooftop troublemaking - can take a free swing at his exposed abdomen. The sword connects, though not with its intended target....