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Campaigns unlocked! Fully customisable hotkeys! Player colour picker! Hearing thatAge Of Empires 4is getting a second season of support is a bit like finding out an old friend from school who struggled for a while is finally doing well for themselves. Good on you, decent-ish sequel to several real-time strategy classics, for adding more multiplayer features, campaign unlocks and quality of life improvements. Check out what’s coming in season two of AOE4 in the trailer below....

No Prime account necessary for these Amazon alternatives Since Prime Day technically lasts for two days, July 12th and July 13th, I’ll also be highlighting ten of the choicest deals for each day at the top of this page. Further down you’ll find your guide to many more anti-Prime Day deals on PC gaming hardware of all types, and here’s a littleanti-Prime Day FAQas well. Today’s best anti-Prime Day PC gaming deals...

Plus new details about its North Africa campaign Relic Entertainment has announced thatCompany Of Heroes 3will parachuting onto Steam on November 17th. They also unveiled new details about its second North African campaign this evening, which will offer a more traditional, narrative-led single-player experience compared to its more open-ended Italian campaigh, which wasrevealed last year. We had hoped to bring you more hands on details of this new campaign this evening, but in classic RTS fashion, things didn’t quite go according to plan....

Well, that’s a no-brainer Developers ofThe QuarryandThe Dark Pictures Anthologyseries Supermassive Games have been fully acquired by Danish film production company Nordisk Film. UK studio Supermassive announced the buy-out today onTwitter, but did not share how much the acquisition will cost. The Copenhagen-based Nordisk is the world’s oldest continuously active movie production company, founded in 1906. Their Nordisk Games division has minority and majority stakes in six other development studios....

Don’t faucet If the word “simulator” inPowerWash Simulatorputs you off, please don’t let it. Where other simulators double down on the minutiae surrounding the thing you’re meant to be doing, that they put you off the thing you’remeant to be doing, PowerWash Sim understands that you just want to rid surfaces of grime in the most satisfying way possible. You do not need to prize open your powerwasher with a tri-wing screwdriver or manage your finances via a convoluted banking app or determine whether a kitchen sink delivers enough pressure....

Well, “least worst” maybe The bad news is that the vast majority of Prime Day GPU “deals” still reach above the respective card’s original retail price. The good news is that I’ve found a small handful of offers that are, if nothing else, good value by the incredibly whacked-out standards of the past two years. First up, there are a couple of Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series cards worth considering in the UK, including an MSI-madeRTX 3070(that Ebuyer have price matched)....

The Razer Basilisk V3 is a tidy £35 on Amazon UK The only downside to this deal is that it is best served via Amazon UK alone - over on Amazon US, the Basilisk V3 isn’t part of the Prime Day festivities unless you buy a refurbished model. And even then, the$50 refurbwas $45 in late June, so that’s not much of a deal. I also checked non-Amazon retailers for ouranti-Prime Day dealsguide, and the lowest I could find the Basilisk V3 was at£50 from Scan....

Codes are first come, first served Aside from our eternal love and gratitude, lovely folks who choose to support RPS at the premium tier get extra perks - and one of those is getting regular access to free game keys. Today I’m excited to tell you that we havetwomore games stepping up to the code plate, and you can choose one of them to take home for free later this week:The LongingorGhost On The Shore, both beautiful and contemplative games....

Deep cuts to some tried-and-tested Steam Deck storage expanders Anyway, yes, there are indeed a few good microSD performers that are caught up among today’s Prime Day deals. Most commonly, the SanDisk Ultra: a good budget pick, thanks to its ability to keep pace with more expensive cards on game loading times. There are various capacities on sale in both the UK and US: For those on Amazon UK, you could alternatively pick up the 512GB model of the Samsung Pro Plus....

At least the space trains are running on time Monorail! Humanity’s greatest form of transport after dirigibles and the tuktuk. Space survival sandboxAstroneerhas been good enough to plonk in the ability to construct our own railways among the stars in its new free rails update. It looks like a pretty chill addition to an already chilled take on the survival genre, if I’m using my chills correctly. Raise your visor and have a watch for yourself below....

Roccat’s Vulcan 120 mechanical board is down to $88, on Amazon and beyond What’s more, you don’t even have to limit yourself to Amazon – Best Buy are currently matching that price in their own sale. The Vulcan 120 may have fallen to $90 here and there in the past, but there’s a very good chance that the extra $2 discount technically makes this a new low. And what a keyboard you’d be getting in exchange: a crisp, fast, keenly crafted slab of metal and half-height keycaps that further enhance the sense of responsiveness....

It’s called All On Board! How un-blasphemous Gruesome side-scrolling MetroidvaniaBlasphemousis a pixel art game where a burly man in a very pointy hat smacks the daylights out of unholy monstrosities, from Spanish devs The Game Kitchen. Now they’re back – the devs, not the monstrosities – with something a bit more than a game. It’s aVRplatform for co-op board games calledAll On Board!, and its Kickstarter launches today. Have a 2D-looksie in the trailer below, but maybe mute it or you’ll have the song stuck in your head all day....

Plus how to cure Werebies and lycanthropy How does my Sim become a werewolf in The Sims 4?The Sims 4Werewolvesis the latest in a long line of supernatural-themed game packs for The Sims 4, and for my money it might bethe best of the lot. Becoming a werewolf brings with it a whole host of interesting perks and unique interactions that are well worth checking out. If you’ve ever wanted your Sim to be able to pee freely anywhere in the world or eat literally every single item of furniture in their house, lycanthropy is definitely for you....