Total War: Arena is a free-to-play spinoff of the Total War games from game custodian Creative Assembly and new friends and publisher Wargaming (of World of Tanks fame). It’s a tactical online multiplayer game that combines a few elements of real-time strategy with multiplayer battle arena gameplay. It’s not too removed from the multiplayer modes in most Total War games, just a little more personal. And it’s shutting down.

Say what you like about Red Dead Redemption 2 and the odd glitch, but that game felt amazingly polished when it came out in October, with zero large-scale patches having been introduced for the game…yet. A sequel that truly feels like the result of hundreds of people being overworked, Red Dead Redemption 2 a terrific example of quality meeting expectations. A quality that exists as an educational benchmark for CD Projekt RED and their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 game.

Appearing on Larry King’s talk show (Yes, he’s still going), Maher addressed his comments from his blog and the negative backlash that they had garnered, as he claimed that he was “agnostic” towards Stan Lee and he wasn’t aiming his swipes at the man himself. Which is all well and fine, until Maher decided to dig his hole even further with this gem of a comment.

Hitman 2 is out, it’s superb and your first Elusive Target currently available to kill is none other than Mr Bean. No, not Rowan Atkinson (Idea to self: Pitch a Johnny English murder to IO Interactive), but actor Sean Bean, who lends his voice and likeness to Mark Faba. In Many ways, Faba feels like a subtle dig at the entire Hitman franchise.

Today is Black Friday, and as such there’s a bunch of games, gaming hardware and general tech on sale. One of the biggest deals you can get this year in SA is a PlayStation VR headset, which is significantly down from its R6500 launch price. Today, you can pick up a PSVR headset, with the requisite camera and some bundled games for a far more appealing R2999. It's finally in the sort of pricing where I feel that it’s worth picking up – and in the years since its release, there’s a lot of great stuff to play. If you’re picking a PlayStation VR headset up for Black Friday, here are the games we think you should grab.

Hitman 2 is celebrating the many murders of British actor Sean Bean this weekend, but be careful about posting that on Twitter lest you want to get banned.

It feels like there is nowhere you can go to avoid that which rhymes with Flack Fillet Slay. So why even bother? If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Battlefield V is barely a week old, but DICE is already looking to address some of the issues that have been raised as well as releasing the first batch of their planned Tides of War content in early December.