Let's go with part two of the news:

Paradox Interactive rolls back its price increases, will give refunds to purchasers
http://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-interactive-rolls-back-its-price-increases-will-give-refunds-to-purchasers/
In a message posted earlier this week, Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester apologized for the poor communication and timing of the changes and promised that in the future, "We will do our best to ensure that our community is better informed, that we have a better process for rolling out changes, and that the only surprises you get from us are of the pleasant kind." At the same time, he said, "We stand by our new prices."
Today, however, the situation has changed. In a new statement, Wester said that after spending a day reading comments, feedback, and email, he has decided that you were right and he was wrong—and because of that, he's decided to roll back all the increases.

Hearthstone changing card packs so you'll never get duplicate legendaries
http://www.pcgamer.com/hearthstone-changing-card-packs-so-youll-never-get-duplicate-legendaries/
There's nothing worse than seeing that shimmering golden glow under a card in a Hearthstone pack, only to flip it over and see it's your fourth copy of Millhouse Manastorm. Thankfully, Blizzard is making that feeling a thing of the past. Starting with the next expansion, you will never open a copy of a legendary card you already have.

You can now save your Overwatch highlights
http://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-now-save-your-overwatch-highlights/
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has revealed that Overwatch's highlight system is being overhauled—a feature that has been frequently requested since the game's launch. Until now, Overwatch would automatically save a handful of highlights—awesome moments and plays of the game from your last five matches—but those clips would be lost if you logged out of the game.

Overwatch loot box duplicates are being 'drastically' reduced
http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-loot-box-duplicates-are-being-drastically-reduced/
It's not much fun to bust open an Overwatch loot box and find a bunch of stuff inside that you've already got. You get some compensation for it in the form of in-game credits, but it's like getting socks for Christmas: Sure, they're useful, but it's still a drag. So Blizzard is making changes to the system that will "drastically reduce" the number of duplicates that players encounter when the pop a box.

Gigantic, the free-to-play hero shooter, will officially launch next month
http://www.pcgamer.com/gigantic-the-free-to-play-hero-shooter-will-officially-launch-next-month/
Ah, Gigantic. One of those colourful, approachable, charismatic "hero shooters" tasked with the unenviable struggle of competing with Overwatch. It will commence doing so officially come July 20, because that's when the game will officially launch on Steam.

This survival game has no zombies or monsters, and also you're Henry David Thoreau
http://www.pcgamer.com/this-survival-game-has-no-zombies-or-monsters-and-also-youre-henry-david-thoreau/
Weary, hungry, and alone in a dark forest in the middle of the night, I lift my lantern to illuminate a half-built shack. It's certainly nothing I haven't done in other games before, but there's nothing spooky about this, even though the image above may look that way. I'm playing Walden, a new entry in the Early Access survival genre, and a game in which you play as essayist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau spent two years in the wilderness around Walden Pond, as he put it, because he "wished to live deliberately." Now, you can too.

Titanfall 2's next update introduces another map from the first game
http://www.pcgamer.com/titanfall-2s-next-update-introduces-another-map-from-the-first-game/
Titanfall 2's next update is set to launch on June 27, and in keeping with previous updates it will introduce a map from the previous game. The War Games map was a DLC-only map in the first Titanfall, but it was also among the most visually striking, with its mix of steely architecture and fluorescent-hued gridded walls.

Thimbleweed Park gets a hint system and player character dialogues
http://www.pcgamer.com/thimbleweed-park-gets-a-hint-system-and-player-character-dialogues/
Thimbleweed Park—the Ron Gilbert-crafted, retro-inspired point-and-clicker than Andy billed as a "quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot"—has been updated. Alongside "several" minor additions, as told by Mr Gilbert himself, the update brings with it two "major" ones by way of a new hint system and player character dialogues.

Farming Simulator 17 to get sugarcane farms and new tractors in 'Platinum Expansion'
http://www.pcgamer.com/farming-simulator-17-to-get-sugar-cane-farms-and-new-tractors-in-platinum-expansion/
As part of the Platinum Expansion (or separate Platinum Edition for those who don't already own the base game), Farming Simulator 17 plans to give players "the most complete experience" by introducing sugarcane farms and a sugarcane harvester, new South American farmland complete with "unique" vegetation, a railway network, and, apparently, local cows.

Lastly, let's go with the weekend deals:

+GOG

There are two deals running now at GOG:

• The first one is the weekly sale: https://www.gog.com/promo/20170619_weekly_sale
• The second one features the whole Homeworld saga with up to 66% off discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20170622_launch_promo_homeworld

+Steam

In case you've missed the news, the Steam Summer (or Winter if you're on the southern hemisphere) Sale is now life. Go check it out!

And that's all for now. I hope you have a happy and gaming weekend

Imagine when the cheap Vega cards release, we all know AMD have stock issues, but just imagine when the miners soak up Vega from reelase day.

Just checked PCPP, my 1080ti is going up in price as well.

 so it begins.

Edit: Changed from the Strix 1080ti to the Zotac AMP extreme.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/DZmxFT/zotac-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-11gb-amp-extreme-video-card-zt-p10810c-10p

I should really stop being a lazy arse and just order the parts before any prices start rising again.

I would. Heck, order it from amazon if u can since they have a 30 day relaxed af return policy so if we get more info about vega in the next 30 days and it turns out to be really good, then u can return it and get a vega card.

Sounds like a plan, I'll check to see they have any there. 

I'm back. What an adventure again. Amazon decided not to ship at all so I went out and got one. Put it in, everything fine. Booting, all great. RL was a bit stuttering so I decided to tweak my GPU driver and rebooted.
But it didn't want to reboot. It started and then just turned off before booting. Had to delete CMOS. Then it almost worked. Bios had to be tweaked and windows had to repair itself. But now everything is running fine. Gonna have a closer look at CPU temps now but in the end I think it was just a bad batch of a CPU. I mean even with RL my CPU idles at no more than 40°.

Now I can finally partake in dem steam sales.

Damnn, glad u got it working though! Hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here

I already saw you were playing Rocket League. Congrats on making your machine work again.

I finally bought the game I wanted to buy since its release. DOOM is every bit as fun as I always imagined. It's fluid, responsive, looks great, actually utilizes all of my CPU threads and it's simply fun.
I only played it for half an hour so I can't say much about gameplay but it does have weapon upgrades and neatly designed areas that reward exploration so it should be amazing.

I can only hope id doesn't take decades again to develop their next game because they got shit figured out yo..

I'm playing at 1440p Ultra and variable framerate between 120 and 144fps btw. In the starting area it dropped down to 60fps due to adaptive vsync but even that felt fine.

Shots fired.
http://www.barrons.com/articles/amd-reveals-epyc-details-intel-vows-to-top-it-1497997334

And I quote Intel:
"With our next-generation Xeon Scalable processors, we expect to continue offering the highest core and system performance versus AMD. AMD’s approach of stitching together 4 desktop die in a processor is expected to lead to inconsistent performance and other deployment complexities in the data center."

Lol, nice. Wonder if this is out of fear or confidence.