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Greystone is now live in Paragon, becoming the newest hero to join Epic's MOBA that's currently in paid early access. This video offers an overview of the character, and this post has all the detail...

Steam News announces the release of NECROPOLIS: A Diabolical Dungeon Delve, a procedurally generated action/adventure from Harebrained Schemes featuring perma-death, prompting them to call it a...

A new patch is now live in Heroes of the Storm, updating Blizzard's MOBA/team brawler to version 19.0. This brings a bunch of promised changes and new features, including the new hero Gul'dan,...

New Overwatch PTR patch notes are now online, outlining changes being tested for Overwatch in a patch that will probably go live for the teamplay shooter in a week or two. There are some major...

Detective Hayseed - Hollywood -- Steam Greenlight. Pint-and-click adventure. "The list of Oscar winners has been stolen as part of a nefarious plot to overturn the established Hollywood order. Our...

Survarium 0.43 is Live. Play Now.

Rockstar Games announces the release of the promised Cunning Stunts update for Grand Theft Auto Online. This updates the multiplayer side of Grand Theft Auto V with Stunt Races, Premium Races, new...

A public "pre-alpha" test for Starfall Tactics will begin on Thursday before they turn their attention to adding a lot of the game's MMO content. The Starfall Tactics website has details on how to...

A new patch is now available for Gas Guzzlers Extreme on Steam, offering changes and improvements for the combat racing game, including DirectX 11 support. This post has word on version 1.8.0.0: New...

A formatting error obscured our report last night on the release of the Arma 3: Apex new expansion for Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive's military shooter sequel. The post has the details and the launch...

A semi-recent post on reddit has a confirmation from Psyonix of plans to add loot crates to Rocket League to provide cosmetic drops for the motorized sports game (thanks Gamasutra). They call these...

AMD support now offers new version 16.7.2 Crimson reference drivers fro AMD graphic cards. These offer support for the new Vulkan support for DOOM and a couple of other changes. Here's word: Radeon...

What if Comcast's X1 Deal Gives Netflix Cap-Exempt Status? Verizon to Begin Boston FiOS Build in September.

Blade Ballet Whirls onto PS4 August 9. SMITE Console: Mid Season Update - 3.12 Patch Notes.

The Arma 3 website announces the release of Arma 3: Apex, the new expansion for Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive's military shooter sequel. They offer a launch trailer and the following explanation:...

Link your Twitch and Battle.net Accounts for Two Fall Season Portraits. GamerMania officially cancelled but new event set for 2017.

Block'hood on Steam. Save 30%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 07.12 - 07.15. Sakura Swim Club on Steam. Save 50%.

A new patch is now available for Homefront: The Revolution on Steam, updating the first-person shooter to version 1.06 and adding the game's first mission pack with two new missions for Resistance...

UbiBlog highlights a significant change from the upcoming version 3.4 patch for Rainbow Six Siege that will punish players for excessive team kills. They outline a list of penalties that escalate...

A patch is now available for DOOM, updating id Software's first person shooter with support for the Vulkan low-level graphics API, a fitting move since part of the fluid gameplay of the original DOOM...

Thanks j.c.f. iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck. D-Link Vulnerability Affects over 120 Products, 400,000 Devices. New "Patchwork" Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Copy-Pasted...

Mysterious Castle on Christ Centered Gamer.

Xiaomi prepares to take on GoPro with its Xiaomi Yi 4K action camera. Sonnens new battery for solar self-consumption could succeed in US. Samsung deals out microSD-crushing faster fingernail flash...

HTTPS is not a magic bullet for Web security. Comcast Expands Usage Caps, Again.

Verizon, AT&T Working on VoLTE Interoperability. Pokémon Go troubleshooting page mentions inbound fixes for battery life and more. Pokemon GO is a huge opportunity for small businesses right now....

The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 7-12-2016.

Just Cause Multiplayer forums announce "the indefinite halt of JC3-MP development," which sounds like a death knell for this multiplayer modification for Just Cause 3 (thanks DSOGaming). The good...

The Sims 4 remains number one on the GfK Chart-Track PC top 30 chart of the bestselling games in the U.K. for the week ending July 9th. That chart is pretty similar to last week's, and so is the all...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » Cologne 2016 Champions. CS-GO player numbers down 25%, viewership down 37% since March. Mysterious League of Legends posters are appearing across European...

Amped Wireless Athena-EX AC2600 Wi-Fi Range Extender on TweakTwon. Synology DiskStation DS916+ on Legion Hardware.

Streaming Password Sharing Now A Crime? Led Zep lawyers want $800k for defending Stairway to Heaven lawsuit. Is it ironic that this song lambastes greed?

Thanks Ant. How the Media Screwed Up the Fatal Tesla Accident. Thanks The Flying Penguin. Amazon's Chinese counterfeit problem is getting worse. Thanks Slashdot. Paint.NET version 4.0.10.

Lesbian brawler Valkyrie Drive will bare it all in the US and Europe this year.

Team Fortress 2 update released.

Cliffski's Blog - Why valve should give jobs to journalists. "I think if you want to keep reviews you have to accept that the only real way to fix 1) 2) and 3) is to have at least some paid reviews....

Here are the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week according to Valve: Grand Theft Auto V Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dead by Daylight DOOM INSIDE ARK: Survival Evolved The Witcher 3:...

A thank you post from Nightdive Studios celebrates the news that the System Shock remake on Kickstarter has achieved its initial funding goal of $900,000 (thanks nin). This leaves 18 days for the...

Thanks Ant and j.c.f. Smartwatches not secure, give away PIN numbers. Best practices for managing the security of BYOD smartphones and tablets. Google hopes to thwart quantum computers from cracking...

Five reasons to upgrade to Windows 10. Five reasons not to upgrade to Windows 10. LGR - Building a 486 DOS PC. Thanks Ant.

The great tablet gold rush is over. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Nintendo stock price up 9% after Pokémon Go launch. Gamer finds dead body while testing Pokémon Gos GPS features.

No More Halo 5 Monthly Updates, But More Content Coming.

Dota 2 Update - July 8th, 2016. Team Fortress 2 update released.

An update to the Team Fortress 2 blog discusses the admittedly rough launch of casual mode in Team Fortress 2, Valve's multiplayer shooter. They offer a new patch to address some issues and remove...

Though the Splash Damage website and Twitter account are silent on the topic, press release from the Hong Kong exchange indicates that Paul Wedgewood is in the process of selling Splash Damage to...

Following recent indications from Monolith founder Jace Hall about the possibility of a Blood revival, Jace posted a photo to Facebook to fuel whatever speculation this news generated. The photo...

Kickstarter Gets NSFW With Discarded Angel - Cliqist. Why Your Game Demo Is Hurting Your Kickstarter Campaign.

Digital Extremes offers a new Specters of the Rail update for Warframe, bringing significant changes to their free-to-play, third-person shooter just in time for tomorrow's TennoCon 2016 convention....

Battle.net announces Season 6 for Diablo III will end on July 22nd, and that Season 7 for the action/RPG sequel will commence on August 5th. They outline the process and try to make sure everybody is...

Finally admitting they don't know what PC gamers want, Microsoft has launched a Windows Insider Program PC Gamers Survey to help get them back on track (thanks GameSpot). Here's what they hope to...

Patch #7 is now available for Rise of the Tomb Raider, updating the Windows action/adventure to version 1.0.668.0. Among the other changes and fixes, the new version implements DirectX 12 multi-GPU...