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Wikimedia Foundation director resigns after uproar over Knowledge Engine. Google says it bears 'some responsibility' after self-driving car hit bus. Thanks HARDOCP.

Your Smartphone Knows Who You Are and What You're Doing. Thanks HARDOCP.

Advanced VR Rendering with Valve's Alex Vlachos. Thanks nin. Get Ready for the HTC Vive with NVIDIA GPUs. FreeSync-over-HDMI: Samsung Launches 1800R Curved FHD Monitors in the CF591 and CF390. The...

Coolest Tells Kickstarter Backers That Its Out Of Money, Needs Investment To Ship All Coolers. Not cool. Thanks nin. Days of War by Driven Arts Kickstarter. "'Days of War' delivers a fiercely...

The Green Man Gaming & Playfire Community Blog now offers their own chart showing the bestselling games for last week on Green Man Gaming. This could have been handled in a few bytes of text, but...

Plants versus Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is the top new entry on GfK Chart-Track's PC top 30 chart tracking U.K. game sales for last week, as the PC edition of Far Cry Primal doesn't launch until...

Blood Alloy: Reborn on Gaming Nexus. The Culling on Skewed 'n Reviewed.

Matt Chat 329- Rob Irving on Wing Commander III. Thanks Ant. World of Darkness News interview with White Wolf Martin Elricsson. Discusses Paradox's plans for the Vampire IP.

Minecraft 1.9 - Combat Update. "Most remarkably, the combat mechanics have been updated to make fighting more interesting and offer more map-making options."

The previously announced preorders for HTC's Vive VR headsets begins in scant minutes on the Vive website. AnandTech rounds up the details, saying that credit card purchases will put a hold on the...

SCS Software announces they are working on Steam Workshop support for American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2, which will add the ability to share customized trucks. Here's a bit: We are...

Amy Gonzalez, brother David Matusiewicz to be sentenced for cyberstalking. Thanks Acleacius.

Thanks Acleacius. Are Hackers Already Outsmarting New Chip Credit Cards? UC Berkeley system with data on students, workers, alumni hacked.

Thanks Ant. IBM added and lost 70,000 people. Thanks Slashdot. Former Disney IT worker to Congress: How can you allow this?

Slashy Souls: a first look at Namco's new Dark Souls-inspired mobile game.

Fired Dota 2 Commentator On Why Valve Dropped Him. "And I just needed to do something high-brow once, to appease my fans and loosen up the panel."

DownWind -- Steam Greenlight. "DownWind is a gaming experience that you dont want to miss. Soar higher and higher, and use the wind to your advantage, as the most unlikely hero; a small green leaf...

Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition on Steam. Save 85%.

Valve lists the following nine games as the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week. It probably bears repeating that the main reason the Fallout 4 Season Pass appears here is because it's been...

Apple to launch 9.7-inch iPad Pro, not Air 3; Smart Keyboard & Apple Pencil support likely. Thanks HARDOCP. Microsoft's plan to port Android apps to Windows is dead.

Valve fires Dota2 commentator, Gabe Newell calls him "an ass." Heroes of the Storm North American Spring Regionals in Los Angeles this weekend.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » Release Notes for 2/26/2016.

Most software already has a golden key backdoor: the system update. The Internet's routing security needs an urgent fix, but it'll require collaboration.

Pentium? Core i5? Core i7? Making sense of Intels convoluted CPU lineup.

You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free - Ars Technica.

There are Some Thoughts on PC Rhythm Gaming on the Harmonix Blog where the company's Community Interaction Manager explains why now "really is the perfect time for the rhythm game scene to burst onto...

There's a fifth update on CapCom Unity covering issues with the release of Street Fighter V. Today they cover the oversight of failing to build in punishments for rage quitters as well as more on...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive MLG Columbus 2016 Qualifier. Rockstar Games: Rhino Hunt Week- Bonus GTA$, RP and Discounts in GTA Online (Feb 26 - Mar 3). StarCraft II WCS 2016 Winter Circuit...

Heavy Metal Gamer Video Blog- Street Fighter V - Unfinished Edition. NSFW. Thanks Ant.

Cratering portable sales cant prop up Nintendos business anymore. The Power Glove reborn? Sony patent points to finger-tracking controller.

WG Labs announces the release of the Master of Orion Collector's Edition, though what this offers for now is early access to the 4X strategy game, and it will also include content exclusive to the...

Paul Anthony Romero - The Piano Sonatas Album by Indie Designers Kickstarter. "Help us to release the first Heroes of Might and Magic piano sonata album & scorebook." Bring -Thank You For Playing-...

Deep Silver Build Your Own Bundle on The Humble Store. The Red Solstice on Steam. Save 50%. Weekend Sale on GamesRepublic.com. Save up to 85%.

SMITE PTS Patch Notes- Victory Lap - 3.3. Thanks PCGamesN. Zombasite version 0.922. Here are the patch notes.

Amanita Design announces a March 24th release date for the Windows and OS X editions of Samorost 3, a "loose" continuation of the point-and-click adventuring of the first two games in the series. You...

New Pokémon Games Announced via Pokémon Direct.

Matrix Games now features the release of Tigers on the Hunt, a World War II tactical wargame for PC that makes no excuses about being a hardcore game with a higher degree of complexity than many...

The Church in the Darkness Coming to PS4. PlayStation Blogcast Episode 198: Plants vs. Paragon. Tiny Troopers Joint Ops Is Now Available For Xbox One. MagNets- Fully Charged Is Now Available For...

Silence - The Whispered World 2 PC Interview - GameWatcher. Presumably conducted in hushed tones.

Dota 2 Shanghai Major suffers serious production issues, host James '2GD' Harding let go on day two. Cloud9 eSports Players To Share Their Expertise On NVIDIA Twitch Channel.

City of the Shroud has received a Steam Greenlight. They also offer the latest episode of the story preview to backers of the original Kickstarter campaign.

German Swiss e-tailer World of Games now has a listing for Battlefield 5, which, if accurate, reveals a World War I setting for the next installment in the military shooter series. They call it a "Me...

The Globe and Mail reports that Ubisoft is in discussions with financiers in an attempt to fend off what's described as a hostile takeover by Vivendi, owners of a 15% stake in the company. Ubisoft...

Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive offer some details, images, and a 2017 release window for Call of Cthulhu, basically the first news about this Lovecraft-inspired game since it was announced...

German e-tailer World of Games now has a listing for Battlefield 5, which, if accurate, reveals a World War I setting for the next installment in the military shooter series. They call it a "Mehrspie...

Making of XCOM 2 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun. "Firaxis Jake Solomon On What Went Right And Wrong With XCOM 2." Game developers tell us how they would make Half-Life 3 - PC Gamer.

ARMA Sale on Steam. Save up to 80%. Iceberg Interactive 2 on Humble Weekly Bundle. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 02.26 - 02.29.

Steam News announces a free multiplayer weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, allowing you to sample the military shooter sequel without even paying for virtual bullets:Try out the Multiplayer for...

Early access to Acaratus is now available on Steam, offering the first chance to play this award-winning turn-based RPG for Windows that features "randomized maps, highly customizable battle suits,...

Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6 coming to consoles. DiRT Rally Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.