The Cyber Monday gaming PC deals are already taking the same form as the Black Friday gaming PC deals (opens in new tab); a host of last-gen stock being sold off with varying levels of discount. Which is a double-edged sword, to be honest. On the one hand it means you can track down rigs with still relevant gaming hardware at a great price, but on the other there are over-priced systems with weak specs lists baiting the unsuspecting buyer.

But that’s why we’re here, still casting our eyes over what the world has to offer the discerning gaming PC purchaser and making sure we only surface the best offers for you lovely folk. ‘Cos we’re good like that.

There’s a lot of stuff that’s annoying when someone is hacking. Sometimes, however, people use the power of hacking for a laugh. A goof. A ha-ha. Such seems to be the case, at least so far, with the advent of flying boats in Call of Duty: Warzone 2. 

For the last few days, videos like the one above have cropped up of cheaters,  hackers, what have you, floating about in the latest version of Warzone. While it’s annoying that people are cheating, this is in fact extremely funny. My favorite video, embedded above and also on YouTube (opens in new tab), features a jankily floating boat crossing the sky before exploding, all set to a gruesome recorder performance of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie theme.

I love student games for two reasons: They’re usually really cool proofs-of-concept and they’re usually free. 

So it is with Witchpunk, a free game that hit Steam this month made by a team called 99% Funk at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. In it, you lay down some sick arena combat against corporate demons as you shred around on your witchy skateboard while bashing robots with your giant, magic hammer and/or spraypaint.

Witch Mollie’s biggest trick is that she deals more damage as she picks up speed, letting her get real fast in order to lay out a really big smash. So, as you might imagine, doing something like grinding down the subway rail, or blasting off a ramp, lets you splatter enemies with delightfully high-speed hammer attacks.

Levitation, a mod that continues the story of Valve’s hit VR game Half-Life: Alyx, is now available on Steam (opens in new tab). The mod picks up right after the events of Half-Life: Alyx, bringing the titular character and her pal Russell back to City 17 to save her friends, and possibly the whole resistance.

Half-Life: Alyx – Levitation has gone from announcement to completion in very short order, especially in comparison to the development of the game itself: It was only revealed (opens in new tab) in April this year. The final result is scaled back a wee bit from what was initially promised—the story is expected to run 3-4 hours, rather than 4-5—but even so it sounds like a very beefy experience, with eight levels featuring new voice lines and character animations. The launch trailer looks pretty great, too.