Sometimes, a flashy shooter campaign is just what you need at the end of the day. Here's two for bugger all.

Need something to push that Xbox One X a little? Then why not grab Lara's latest adventure for $12.

It's not an Xbox One X, or even an Xbox One S. But for $199 today, you can get Rise of the Tomb Raider and a 1TB stock Xbox One for - I shit you not - $199.

The Humble Store does publisher weeks from time to time and the latest one for Square Enix is a doozy. There's hefty discounts on Nier: Automata, Rise of the Tomb Raider and pretty much every Final Fantasy game available on PC.

Xbox Game Pass is supposed to enable Xbox owners to play more games, not less. Unfortunately, over the last few days, some Xbox One owners have reported being unable to play certain games they own due to an error with Game Pass, a problem Microsoft has confirmed it's looking into.

I had read our positive review of the 2015 Xbox One version of the game. I'd seen colleagues say it was one of the best things on that console. But I really had no idea how good Rise of the Tomb Raider was until I finally played it the PS4 version last month.

Amazon. Green Man Gaming. Steam. Good Old Games. Humble Bundle. Wherever you look today, chances are you'll see a sale and a fat discount.

But not everyone has had the time or wherewithal to consider how hard they would like to throw their wallet at their monitor. So to help out, here's a cross-section of cracking deals on video games that are worth your time.

4K? That's nothing. If you want to get serious about pixels, you're going to need to go higher. Much higher. Like, uh, six gigapixels. I know that sounds made-up, but it's not. Honest. There's even a website called "Gigapixel Gaming" that's filled with super-mega-resolution stills from popular titles. The most recent addition? This stunner from Rise of the Tomb Raider.

The part of 2015 Xbox One game Rise of the Tomb Raider that will be new to all gamers this week is Blood Ties, an expansion being bundled with today's PS4 release of the game and being offered as paid DLC (or part of the season pass) for Xbox One and PC. It's mostly a Tomb Raider version of Gone Home.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the best action-adventure game of this generation, a game that effortlessly balances great gameplay with puzzles that feel more naturalistic than artificial. As if that weren't enough, the levels are awesome, exploration is a blast, and the game's great at encouraging a sense of completionism. There's just one problem: Lara Croft is boring.

Well, guess all that worrying was for nothing. Despite fears from the scene that Denuvo's famous "anti-tamper measures" were making it impossible to illegally share video games, it's emerged over the weekend that one of the industry's most stalwart defences against piracy has reportedly been cracked.

If the prospect of buying an Xbox One for not much money is tempting to you, then the Microsoft Store has a cracking deal.

If you've been waiting patiently for Rise of the Tomb Raider to make its PS4 debut, well ... you'll still have to wait a little while longer. Until early October, that is.

This headline is not a joke. ALDI. The budget supermarket, which is great for $8 pre-marinated pork sirloins, $5 bottles of wine for cooking and litre jugs of custard so cheap it represents a severe risk to my health, has the best Xbox One deal you'll see for a while.

Actually, it might be the best Xbox One deal there has ever been.

NVIDIA might be crowing about how their GeForce GTX 1080 is the new king of graphics cards, but for many gamers their interest lies more in the smaller Pascal sibling -- the GTX 1070.

We don't have an Australian price or release date yet. But after spending just over an hour with the card, I have something that's equally useful: benchmarks.

Poor Lara Croft. She didn't deserve this.

So far, Lara Croft has battled mercenaries, wild animals and ancient mystical warriors in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Today, she starts fighting against enemies that used to be human but are now more like feral animals.

On a popular torrent site, Fallout 4 has been downloaded nearly 140,000 times. Nearly 200 people are downloading right now, as I write this. AAA or indie, Fallout 4 or Super Meat Boy, it doesn't matter. Piracy is inevitable. But a torrent doesn't appear out of thin air.

Rise of the Tomb Raider has had a steady stream of updates since it hit Steam in February, with the fifth patch released just yesterday. However, along with the expected packet of fixes and tweaks, it introduced DirectX 12 support for the rather gorgeous title.