Amazon Prime Day 2018: Best deals on PC games and hardware, including free Pillars of Eternity

Hold onto your credit cards, folks. This year’s Amazon Prime Day is almost here – and now we know exactly when it will be taking place. There are even some deals going on right now if you feel so inclined, so I thought I’d collect the best of the best PC Prime Day deals right here to save you the hassle of trawling through them yourself.

Of course, more deals will be announced as we get closer to the day itself, but below you’ll find handy answers to questions such as ‘When is Amazon Prime Day 2018?’ and ‘What kind of deals can I expect to see?’ and ‘For the love of PC, JUST TAKE MY MONEY, I don’t care on what!’ All right, so maybe that last one wasn’t so much a question as a general cry of despair in this age of lightning deals and blink and you’ll miss ’em discounts, but that’s where I come in. I’ll be regularly updating this piece with all the most relevant (and good) deals as and when they get announced, but for now, here’s everything you need to know to prep yourself for Prime Day 2018.

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Bounce from one mortal peril to another in Merrily Perilly

Ever been poisoned without healing or a cure potion in an RPG? Prompting a mad dash into danger to find something – anything – that will prolong your life just a few moments longer? Upcoming comedy adventure Merrily Perilly is about this kind of looming peril writ large, with you leading bumbling protagonist Perry from one impending doom to the next, with each successive fix being more dangerous than the ailment that got you there in the first place.

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This Is the Police 2 has a warrant for an August launch

Videogames provide us with a great many escapist fantasies, like home ownership, and the opportunity to travel. Another dream that seems to exist only in the realm of games is a police force sans corruption, or at least the opportunity to run one without embezzling too much cash or threatening to remove anyone’s kneecaps. We’ve long heard sirens on the horizon from tactical police management sequel This Is the Police 2, but now we’ve got the big-wigs to sign off on the papers, confirming that it’s due out on August 2nd – just one month from now.

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Rami Ismail on what indies & AAA can teach each other

Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail (Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing) is one of the nicest people in the industry. When he’s not hammering away at the code-forge, he’s travelling the world, meeting new people and advocating diversity in games. Recently, he swung by Barcelona to moderate talks at industry conference Gamelab. While he was there, he found the time to give a few interviews, including a particularly interesting (and lengthy) one to Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat’s games division, wherein he detailed the problems faced by both sides of the industry today.

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Streaming service Rainway expose the scale of the Fortnite virus problem

Battle royale shooter Fortnite is a phenomenon now, but with many millions of players comes big problems, especially when the audience skews a little younger than average and the game is free to play. Last Tuesday, engineers at game-streaming service Rainway noticed tens of thousands of automatically logged errors flooding in, all of them coming from Fortnite players.It was time for their tech team to do a little internet sleuthing, which they kindly documented here in this developer blog post.

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A visual novel proves the duality of axolotls is the duality of man

It turns out that a surefire way to ignite interest in your visual novel is to make it about axolotls and then send an email about it to someone who desperately loves axolotls. Have you heard the good word about axolotls, ma’am? I can leave you some informational leaflets about axolotls. Please consider letting the light of axolotls into your life. Enter, stage left: RB: Axolotl, a visual novel about a bunch of axolotls living in the same tank. Or is it? It’s crowdfunding for a full release, but has a demo allowing you to sample its extreme weirdness for nothing. (more…)

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Star Citizen adds mining in latest update

After almost five years on the early access assembling pad, Star Citizen continues to have new booster rockets and decals attached. The space sim launched alpha version 3.2.0 over the weekend, strapping on the thrilling ability to mine spacerock. Hey, it’s a living. Mining is supposed to eventually become a core part of the space sandbox MMO’s economy, though without half the rest of the MMO it’s something to do, innit. Over on the banter and antics end of the spacespectrum, the update also added a new group system and an easy way to engage hyper warp jump together with your pals. (more…)

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