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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » CS-GO Weapon Finish Contest Winners. The Week in StarCraft II Esports (June 7 - June 13).

Thanks Ant Smartphone sales growth will drop to single digits in 2016, says Gartner. Goal of infinite growth remains elusive. Thanks Slashdot. Social Media App Usage Down Across the Globe. Thanks...

The Steam page for Trackmania Turbo now offers a playable demo for the latest installment in Nadeo's racing series. Thanks to Frans for pointing out that in addition to a Steam account, playing this...

A playable demo for TRON RUN/r is now available for Windows through Steam, offering the chance to test your reflexes in this action/racing game based on the movie series based on video games (thanks...

The Rainbow Six website outlines an updated code of conduct for Rainbow Six Siege, establishing a zero tolerance policy for cheating in the multiplayer first-person shooter. They say violators will...

Activision announces plans for Call of Duty XP, saying the "biggest Call of Duty fan event in history" will come to Los Angeles from September 2-4 with tickets to go on sale on Saturday. The overview...

The promised world premiere livestream for Watch Dogs 2 just concluded, the first official showing of the open-world hacking sequel. Ubisoft offered a video presentation for the game in which the...

HTC says Vive shipment problems are over. Turtle Beach introduces HyperSound Innovations transparent speakers. VideoLAN - VLC 2.2.4 WeatherWax released. Thanks Rhialto.

Overwatch: Blizzard answers the big questions Eurogamer.net.

HoloGrid- Monster Battle (Augmented Reality Board Game) by Tippett Studio & HappyGiant Kickstarter. Funded.

10 Years Kalypso Sale. Save up to 90% and also get free games. Beyond Eyes on Steam. Save 66%. Hacknet on Steam. Save 50%. Heroes of the Storm Weekly Sale- June 7 - 14, 2016. Watch_Dogs on Steam....

Grim Dawn Version 1.0.0.4. Thanks MT Silver. Minecraft 1.10 Pre-Release 2.

EA announces the release of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, a sequel to Mirror's Edge that once again takes to the rooftops of a future dystopia for a parkour-inspired action game. The launch trailer was...

Steam News announces the release of The Solus Project, offering a single-player adventure game that's considered a spiritual successor to The Ball, which was released back in 2010. Word is: "A single...

Slitherine announces the last days of early access to Last Days on Earth have passed, and the turn-based strategy game is now officially available in full release on Steam. Word is: "Thanks to the...

The GeForce website now offers new version 368.39 WHQL-certified, game-ready drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. The new drivers are optimized for Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Edge of Nowhere, and will...

Riot Games League of Legends API Challenge 2016 Winners.

FINAL FANTASY XIV- Heavensward - Revenge of the Horde patch 3.3. Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes June 06, 2016.

Eurogamer says a mishap over at IGN revealed some of the marketing materials for Watch Dogs 2 that are part of the site's big advertising splash reveal of the upcoming open-world hacking sequel....

Cliffski's Blog announces Democracy 3: Electioneering, a new expansion in the works at Positech for Democracy 3, their political simulation sequel. As the title implies, this add-on will concentrate...

The Oculus store now offers Edge of Nowhere, a third-person VR adventure exclusively for Oculus Rift. The game's official website offers all the details on the game, and provides a reveal teaser with...

AMD support offers new version 16.6.1 hotfix Crimson Edition reference drivers for AMD graphics cards. These add support for Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Paragon, and also include a new AMD Crossfire...

A Paragon Essentials Edition is now available in stores, a special edition of Paragon, Epic Games' first-person MOBA. There are a couple of unusual aspects to this release of the game on physical...

A Battlefield tweet offers 15 seconds of gameplay footage from Battlefield 1, offering a sneak peek at the upcoming installment that will take the military shooter series back to World War I. This is...

Mirrors Edge Catalyst Is Now Available For Xbox One. Ford GT GTE racer available as free download in Forza Motorsport 6. This Weeks Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 06.07 - 06.10. SMITE Skin Sale- June 6th 9th. STRIDER - ストライダー飛竜 on Steam. Save 70%. Warhammer 40,0...

Heroes of the West D-Day 2016 Update. The official community-made mod for Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm. Here's a new trailer. The Lab: Appliance of Science Update.

Ubisoft and Blue Byte are offering the Big Five Pack, a new DLC pack that's free to all owners of the strategy sequel. Here's word on the free pack as well as the next bit of premium DLC that will...

Steam News announces the release of the Arizona DLC pack, free to all owners of American Truck Simulator for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This trailer shows off the DLC, and word is: "Discover 15 new...

Ubisoft is running a Watch Dogs 2 countdown to track the seconds between now and noon EDT on Wednesday, which is when they plan on a world premiere of Watch Dogs 2. This will presumably be a trailer...

Jay Wilson tweets of his departure from Blizzard Entertainment, saying: "I'm leaving to pursue my original passion, writing. It's what I was doing when I fell into this job, and I've always wanted to...

EA announces FIFA 17, saying the next installment in the association football/soccer series will be powered by the Frostbite engine, and will launch in North America on September 27 and everywhere...

Kotaku points to a post on ThisGenGaming with an image of a poster, suggesting a new installment in the zombie series will be announced soon (presumably surrounding the imminent E3 2016). The poster...

RPG Codex Interview- Chris Avellone at Digital Dragons 2016. Thanks Acleacius. Matt Chat 343- Copper Dreams with Joe and Hannah. Thanks Ant.

Why eSports Tournaments Make Great Venues for Research. EGX partners with Amazon for 2016 show.

The Atari ST and the creative people- Volume 1 by Marco A. Breddin Kickstarter. Campaign for proposed book not looking great in its final hours.

Overwatch falls to number two on the GFK Chart-Track PC Top 30 Chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for last week, as the region's obsession with The Sims 4 continues unabated. Total War:...

Headup Games and PineStudio announce the release of a playable demo for EUM: Speedrunners From Hell for Windows, OS X, and Linux, offering the chance to appreciate what they mean when they call this "...

Without specifically invoking D-Day, Paradox Interactive announces the release of Hearts of Iron IV, the newest installment in the World War II strategy series. You can order the game and find more...

Deep Silver announces Agents of Mayhem, an open-world action game from Volition coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 next year, confirming rumors that began circulating latst month. They say...

Twin Galaxies tweets about this post floating the possibility of Kickstarting a revival of Blood, the Build-engine first-person shooter released by Monolith in 1997 (thanks Janic). Monolith Founder...

More Social, More Games, More Devices Whats In The Xbox Update Coming This Summer. Elite Dangerous: Horizons Released on Xbox One. Row over "stolen" Fallout 4 mods.

Nests time at Alphabet: A virtually unlimited budget with no results. How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebooks War to Crush Google Plus. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. How Social Media Brainwashes...

Working Game Boy Built Out Of Burger King Toy.

Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is. All the good science was taken. PlayStation Blogcast 211: Overwatch and Out.

This Month in WoW June 2016.

Soulless - A Game About Hope - Indiegogo. "Soulless is an atmospheric 2D puzzle platformer set in a world of silhouettes." Also on Steam Greenlight. Here's a gameplay trailer.

Here's Valve's report of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: Total War: WARHAMMER DOOM Youtubers Life The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Counter-Strike: Global Offensive METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE...

The Unknown Worlds website now offers a new update for Natural Selection 2, updating the action/strategy game to version 301. In addition to fixes and changes, the new version comes with a new map...

A post on Battle.net discusses plans to increase the draw distance in World of Warcraft in the upcoming Legion expansion for the MMORPG, adding the ability to see more distant objects, and adding...