If you’re on the hunt for a great Black Friday gaming mouse deal, and you’re also looking for a sale on a solid gaming headset, you can find both in a single box. The Razer “battle bundle” contains both our favorite gaming mouse and a solid choice for a budget headset sold together. As a bonus, this Black Friday deal even has a mouse pad thrown in, and the bundle only costs $67.99 (opens in new tab). That’s a pretty sweet box!

In this battle bundle, we’re mostly excited about the Black Friday mouse deal (opens in new tab): The Razer DeathAdder V2 is our top pick for the best gaming mouse and the best wired mouse on the market today, with the best in-class 20,000 CPI sensor, optical click sensors that boost its durability and responsiveness, and an extremely comfortable feel. The side-buttons aren’t the best on the DeathAdder V2, but everything else about it is top-notch. (Here’s our full DeathAdder V2 review.) 



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When Vampire Survivors left early access in October, developer poncle said it would probably start working on something new, but promised that “support for VS will also carry on.” Today it followed through on that promise with the announcement of the 1.1.0 “Tiny Update,” which actually sounds pretty big to me.

Vampire Survivors really caught me by surprise. It was immediately hard to stop playing, and the PC Gamer crew couldn’t stop talking about it when the 1.0 version launched. I didn’t expect just how deep it is. At first blush it looks like a fairly straightforward twin-stick shooter, but the more I played, the more things kept happening: I was discovering new weapons and upgrades, unlocking new characters, and being teleported to secret, weird areas, all of it without warning or even an acknowledgement that such things could happen.

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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion sometime in 2023. Since then the regulatory wheels have begun grinding, not least because an acquisition on this scale would be by some distance the largest in the industry’s history: and some of Activision Blizzard’s franchises, Call of Duty in particular, have attracted the most attention.

It’s not all bad news for Microsoft: Investigations don’t mean any action is necessarily going to be taken, and in some countries the deal’s already been waved through. But the EU is investigating, and has recently been paying very close attention to big tech mergers, while the UK Competition and Markets Authority has announced it’s opening an in-depth investigation Microsoft’s competitor Sony has now submitted its arguments against the merger.



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At the start of the event, the Eliksni’s home in the shadow of The Tower wasn’t exactly 5-star. (Image credit: Bungie)

Two things are certain in Destiny:

1) The development team will come up with increasingly esoteric reasons for players to head back into activities they’ve already beaten thousands of times.



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Twitch is continuing to build upon preventative measures against child predators on the platform, updating its policy to include mandatory phone verification for what it called “vulnerable accounts” alongside other steps to keep under-13s safe and away from the site, as they’re prohibited from using Twitch under its existing policy.

“Keeping people safe online requires a constantly evolving approach. This is true of our big picture for safety on Twitch, but it’s especially true for a topic like child predation, where the potential harm is so appalling and unspeakable,” Twitch said in its update today.



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CD Projekt has dropped the first trailer for the next-gen update coming to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in December, finally giving us our first look at the big visual overhaul and other changes coming to the hit RPG.

The original Witcher 3 looked pretty spectacular to start with, especially if you were fortunate enough to play it on a 4K-capable PC. (I did, and believe me, it looked great.) 



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As the inexorable march of time makes mockery of us all, perhaps you’d like to take a moment to vote on which games were good this year? I know I would.

2022 is shaping up to be a big one in videogames history, with a boatload of games out that have the potential to be lifetime experiences for nerds and career-defining releases for developers. We had games like Elden Ring, Total War: Warhammer 3, Uncharted, Persona 5 Royal, and God of War, and that’s just in the first few months of AAA releases. Not even touching the littler games like Return to Monkey Island, Immortality, Rollerdrome, NORCO, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Rogue Legacy 2, HYPER DEMON…

I could go on! But you’re here to vote. You’ve missed the deadline for the Golden Joystick Awards—you can find the winners over at GamesRadar (opens in new tab)—but there are a few others to vote in.

  • The Game Awards are happening soon, and your deadline to vote is Wednesday, December 7th at 6pm PT. You can vote for The Game Awards here. (opens in new tab) Public votes there count for 10% of the total score towards a game.
  • The Steam Awards (opens in new tab) is now taking nominations as part of the 2022 Autumn Sale (opens in new tab), and has its usual slate of quirky categories alongside its open Game of the Year call. Boot up your steam client or head over to their website for more on that.
  • The Esports Awards are open for voting right now, including a vote for Esports Game of The Year. You can find that on esportsawards.com. (opens in new tab)
  • ModDB is getting their Mod of the Year awards organized, but they aren’t live yet. You can watch that progress on ModDB. (opens in new tab)


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The Valheim Mistlands Queen is the new boss that arrived with the Mistlands update, which you can play now on the Valheim public testing branch. But finding the Queen’s location on your map and entering her lair to confront her is going to take a lot of exploration, resource gathering, and crafting in the dangerous and misty new biome.

For anyone who has battled the other five Valheim bosses, the process of locating Valheim’s new boss, Vegvisir the Queen, will mostly be familiar, but there’s a new wrinkle when it comes to actually getting the chance to beat her. The other bosses need to be located and summoned with certain items placed in their altars, but the Queen works a little differently. Spoiler alert: There is an image of the Queen at the end of the second section of this guide, so if you want to be completely surprised, turn back now.

How to find the Queen

Valheim Mistlands Queen: How to find the Mistlands boss



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Black Friday week is now in full swing, the sales are flying, and GOG is giving away another game. Today’s offering is Narita Boy (opens in new tab), a combat-heavy pixel-platformer that takes place in a digital world inside a 1980s game console.

We thought Narita Boy was quite good when we reviewed it in 2021. “Slicing and dicing through enemies feels punchy, and there are plenty of ways to take out an enemy without spamming the attack button,” we wrote in our 70% review (opens in new tab). “Boss fights are more challenging, but not as much as I was expecting. These dramatic encounters feel more about showing off the idea behind the creation rather than being actually difficult. One boss battle I had to dodge a giant mechanical carp in a bathhouse as I surfed on a giant floppy disk—which was pretty fantastic.”



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The Destiny 2 Eliksni Quarter community event is all about improving the Fallen’s home in the Last City by plundering Captain’s Coins from activities across the system, and placing them in the chest that’s appeared at the centre of the Tower. As with past community events, it’s basically a giant time sink that involves farming activities most people have played thousands of times before. And as such, it can be a little tedious to complete.

However, there is currently an exploit that lets you complete the event grind in mere minutes, getting the rewards, and also improving the Eliksni’s home. It’s a good thing, too—I wasn’t looking forward to feeling terrible about the Fallen living in a shanty town just because I was too lazy to grind. Here’s how the Eliksni Quarter event exploit works so you can get the rewards quickly.

How to get the Eliksni Quarter event rewards fast



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