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Space Rift is now available on Steam, offering a virtual reality game set in the depths of space. This requires either an Oculus Rift or an HTC Vive headset, and supports both gamepads and mouse/keybo...

Overwatch website welcomes players to the "summer games" in Blizzard's first-person shooter. The celebration of the Olympic games includes special loot boxes and a Rocket League-style brawl called Lúc...

Electronic Arts Reports Q1 FY17 Financial Results, calling these "preliminary." The announcement speaks of the company's success in the digital side of the business. They also express optimism about...

Xbox One S 2TB Launch Edition Is Available Now. Xbox One S: The smaller, handsomer, 4K-ier system weve been looking for. Xbox One S performance boost revealed. Another month goes by and Fallout 4...

The International Dota 2 Group Assignments and Wild Cards.

GeForce website announces NVIDIA's new Titan X graphics cards are now theoretically available. Here's word on this $1200 beast: TITAN-series graphics cards are the embodiment of perfection,...

Diabotical by The GD Studio by The GD Studio Kickstarter. "A fast-paced multiplayer Arena FPS set in a colourful robot universe developed by former Quake and esport professionals." Here's a...

Big Robot announces The Signal From Tölva, a first-person action game featuring space exploration and combat. This will be a single-player game, and it's currently expected in early 2017. "Tölva is...

Slitherine announces Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach, a new turn-based strategy game based on the Warhammer 40K tabletop series. They note that Sanctus Reach features some of its most iconic races...

Publisher PlayWay announces Project Remedium, a first-person shooter where you control a nanobot blasting its way through a human body in the name of good health. The game's Steam page says this is...

Headup games announces Subsiege is the new name for the upcoming MOBA formerly known as Submerge. This is in the works at Iceberg Studios with the assistance of an Unreal Dev Grant from Epic Games,...

Bethesda.net now has an update on Quake Champions, id Software's upcoming multiplayer shooter. They offer this video where id's Tim Willits discusses their support for eSports and competitive play....

Ubisoft announces the Skull Rain update will come tomorrow to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, their first-person shooter. They offer this trailer showing off the patch, and this page has all the...

Farm simulation has gone from being a game to a genre, as Techland announces Pure Farming 17: The Simulator. This teaser trailer accompanies the news, showing a few seconds of cinematic tractor...

The LawBreakers website now offers a new Play The Titan trailer from Lawbreakers, Boss Key's upcoming FPS. Following the pattern of the last couple of character introductions, we can expect a Titan...

Studio Wildcard announces full Steam Workshop support for ARK: Survival of the Fittest, their competitive dinosaur survival spin-off. They point to the Ark mod tutorial and the Ark Unreal engine...

Temple Gates Games announces the release of Ascension VR, a VR adaptation of this deck-building card game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. This takes advantage of virtual reality headsets in some...

A post on reddit notes that another ban wave seems to have come down in Overwatch, Blizzard's first-person shooter. This points to an album on Imgur recording the indignant responses from banned...

Red Barrels took to Facebook to announce a delay to Outlast 2, their survival/horror sequel (thanks VG247). The game was due in Q3 of this year, but now they say not to expect it before the first...

CBS Says Showtime, CBS All Access Each Have 1 Million Subs.

Philips new Health Watch tackles chronic disease instead of fitness.

Inside releasing on PS4 this month, report claims. The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 8/2/2016.

Overwatch joins the ESL UK premiership for season four. ELEAGUE's first season pulls in millions of viewers.

The Sims 4 returns to its comfort zone atop the GFK Chart-Track top 30 chart of last week's PC game sales in the U.K. Last weeks' number one, Football Manager 2016, drops to number two this week....

Fireforge Games has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, reports Kotaku (thanks nin). Noting this is not to be confused with the tabletop Fireforge Games, they say this came just days after the release of...

Trion Worlds announces a free mode is coming to Atlas Reactor, their simultaneous turn-based arena battle game. This is a bit of a full circle, as this launched as a free-to-play game before it...

Frontwire Studios announces the cancellation Galaxy in Turmoil, their planned action game based on leaks from Star Wars Battlefront III (thanks nin). Lucasfilm informs them that this will not fly...

The EMV chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster. Thanks crazy overlords (and Slashdot via Ant). There are limits to 2FA and it can be near-crippling to your digital life.

iPad-only is the new desktop Linux. Thanks OS news via Ant.

China's Giant leads consortium to buy Playtika for $4.4 billion.

PS Vita hacked- full system access enabled for homebrew.

Join me in LA for a Xbox One S Unboxing. The Wait Is Over The Xbox Summer Update Is Here.

Indie Retro News went to PLAY Expo Margate 2016!. Thanks Ant.

Here's Valve's official report of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week, carefully guarded until this point by the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers: No Man's Sky We Happy Few...

Gone Home on Steam. Save 80%. Summer Sale Encore on Green Man Gaming.

Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update tweaked to stop you disabling app promos. Disney Wants to Track Park Visitors By Secretly Photographing Their Shoes Like a Creep. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

Facebook Offering Refunds for Kids' In-App Purchases. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

The Pitfalls of Publishing a Video Game Magazine in 1982 - Atlas Obscura. Thanks Neutronbeam. SpiritSphere Interview: Reviving Windjammers And Developing On A Tablet - One Angry Gamer. Even This...

Vainglory summer season championships head to Seattle and Cologne.

Dota 2 Update - July 29th, 2016. Dota 2 Update - July 29th 2016.

Steam News announces the release of Super Kaiju in early access, offering first crack at this virtual reality game about cancelling the apocalypse. This requires an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset (se...

The Dota 2 website has word from Valve that they have opened up The International website in preparation for the upcoming main event in their annual Dota 2 tournament. Things get underway on August...

Marvel Games creative director Bill Rosemann tweets that "PC fixes are on the way" to help deal with the recent release of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 on Steam, which...

Steam News announces the release of Super Kaiju in early access, offering first crack at this virtual reality game about cancelling the apocalypse. This requires an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset (se...

Steam News announces the release of Super Kaiju in early access, offering first crack at this virtual reality game about cancelling the apocalypse. This requires an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset,...

Best of Summer Sale 2016 ON GOG.com. Capcom Weekend on GamesRepublic.com. Friday Special Bundle #36 on Indiegala. Mushihimesama ON Steam. Save 50%.

AIRHEART receives Steam Greenlight. "AIRHEART follows Amelia, a young pilot and sky-fisherwoman who dreams of reaching the stratosphere and catching the legendary Skywhale, a feat that promises...

Telltale Games unveils 'Batman: Unmasked' Episode One, kicking off a series of live videos related to BATMAN - The Telltale Series, their episodic superhero adventure that will kick off next week....

SEGA announces that Scott Speed is the U.S. spokesperson for Motorsport Manager, alerting us to development of this racing management sim that's coming to Windows and OS X in September via Steam with...

Steam News announces the release of the Call of the Beastmen campaign pack for Total War: WARHAMMER, the fantasy-themed strategy game. Here's a trailer showing off the pack, and here's the news: The...