Blue's News

A post on the Xbox Wire outlines release plans for various games in 2016, revealing plans to bring ReCore to Windows 10 (thanks VG247). There are no further details, they just now list Windows 10...

Kotaku reports a rumor that the next installment in the Assassin's Creed series is a game codenamed Empire set in Egypt, and that this will not launch until 2017, as the negative reaction to...

Activision Blizzard announces the acquisition of Major League Gaming, officially confirming reports that first emerged last week, saying the league will serve as the foundation for their own esports...

Matt Chat 322- Styg, Designer of Underrail. Thanks Ant. Q&A: Jonathan Blow on The Witness and the state of indie games - Gamasutra.

Football Manager 2016 retains a toehold on the top spot on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 PC U.K. game sales chart for the week ending January 2nd. The same titles occupy the top 10 this week, and the...

A story from last week's Fortune has some speculation on Star Wars Battlefront sales numbers from professional speculator Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities. According to his estimates,...

AMD sets a new course for Radeons with its Polaris architecture - The Tech Report. AMD's next-gen Polaris GPU architecture unveiled, arrives in mid-2016. Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious...

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.270. Thanks Ant.

New York is finally installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi. Thanks HARDOCP. Acer announces USB Type-C monitors alongside new premium laptops. Acer Announces the Iconia One 8. Lenovo Launches...

Ark Reaches 1 Million Downloads on Xbox One, Daily Players Higher Than PC. No word on what they're high on. Rainbow Six 1 TB Xbox One Bundle Spotted on Amazon.

The Oculus blog announces preorders for Oculus Rift VR headsets will begin on Wednesday (thanks Devicer). They outline what you need to know when this happens approximately 48 hours from now: Today,...

Most Americans Are OK with Warrantless Internet Surveillance. Thanks HARDOCP.

GamesDoneQuick 2016 now underway.

Thanks Ant. 32-bit vs 64-bit browsers- which version has the edge? Thanks HARDOCP. How the Internet changed the way we read. Thanks Slashdot. IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent...

Thanks Ant. Sayonara, subsidies- AT&T ends two-year phone contracts. LG Display, Samsung Display to supply OLED screens for iPhones - report. Thanks HARDOCP. Boy, 7, racks up £4,000 on dad's iPad...

Chris Avellone Talks Games, Obsidian, And Christmas Sweater Etiquette.

Steam Winter Sale - Last Chance.

Valve lists the following ten games as the bestselling titles on Steam for last wee: Grand Theft Auto V Fallout 4 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ARK: Survival Evolved...

A post on reddit notes there are details in this Twitch interview with Adam Isgreen on plans to bring Killer Instinct to PCs. A PC version of the fighting game remake with cross-platform support with...

Garry Newman tweets about the continued success of Garry's Mod, Cinderella story Source mod mod tool, saying that over the weekend it sold its 10 millionth copy on Steam (thanks reddit). This is an...

Steam Winter Sale - Day 11 - Happy New Year.

Get 'Kung Fu Panda' free when you buy something from Amazon. Thanks Ant.

Samsung Invents a Foldable Smartphone with Integrated Hologram & Projector Features. Thanks HARDOCP. Samsung's new bio-processor tracks your health in 5 different ways. The 20 best iOS games of 2015....

Xbox Boss Talks 2016 Lineup, Xbox 360 Streaming, Alan Wake Sequel Possibility. Hard Reset: Redux Rated For Release On Xbox One, PS4 By German Ratings Board. Hackers get Linux running on a...

Cliffski's Blog - The deep discount era is over. "Steam flash sales did this too. Some people are too busy (have jobs, just dont care about discounts much) to check steam EVERY day during a sale to...

Steam News announces updates to the Steam Subscriber Agreement that governs access to Valve's online store and services. They say this doesn't really have much impact on their customers, and most of...

Though it's not yet mentioned on the Brutal Doom Mod DB page, the new version 20 of Brutal Doom is now available, offering further enhancements for DOOM, id Software's classic first-person shooter....

New trailer from Cyan Worlds rings in the new year with a look at Obduction, the upcoming crowdfunded game from the creators of Myst, Riven, and other Myst stuff (thanks TweakTown). There is no...

Skyworth aims to sell 200,000 OLED TVs in 2016. Thanks Devicer. Using 3D Print Technology to Restore a Childs Nose. Thanks HARDOCP. ASUS Introduces ROG Maximus VIII Formula with Pre-Installed Water-...

Tor Project launches bug bounty program. Thanks HARDOCP.

The 110 Most Useful URLs for Kindle Owners.

This Week On Xbox December 31, 2015. Happy New Year ! - Xbox Live's Major Nelson.

Major League Gaming's Assets Reportedly Sold to Activision Blizzard. Hearthstone® January 2016 Ranked Play Season You've Won My ♥-Stone.

Zombasite version 0.913. Here are patch notes.

Here's more Oculus news, as the Oculus Blog announces a second game to be bundled with Oculus Rift on release, saying Lucky's Tale will come with the VR headsets as well as EVE: Valkyrie (thanks...

The Oculus Rift Blog announces the release date for Oculus Touch controllers has slipped, and they will not ship as planned alongside the release of the Oculus Rift headsets (thanks HARDOCP). While...

Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack- former employees. Thanks HARDOCP.

Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down. Thanks HARDOCP. 2015 was the year that Adobe's Flash finally began to die.

PSA: Last Chance to Get These Free Xbox Games. Nintendo Download Highlights New Digital Content for Nintendo Systems. Xbox One Elite Controller Shortages Expected Through March 2016. PlayStation...

Star Citizen Composer Interview: Chris Roberts Is Very Hands-On With The Score - One Angry Gamer. Meeting the stars of Star Citizen - PC Gamer.

The Shanghai Major Teams - Dota 2.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 01.01 - 01.04. Steam Winter Sale - Day 9 - 12/30.

Japanese publisher Sekai Project announces plans to release Rabi-Ribi on Steam early next year, capitalizing on a slow news day to get more notice than this might typically receive. Rabi-Ribi is a...

SQUARE ENIX reveals plans to bring FINAL FANTASY IX to PCs and smartphones, saying this RPG revival is "COMING SOON" to Japan, though it's not clear what plans there are to bring this westward. (thank...

Brian Krebs criticises PayPals security as authentication flaws exposed. John McAfee rattles tin for password replacement tech.

Steam News has an official statement on the problems on Steam on Christmas, explaining why some users were able to see details from other accounts. They explain the incidents stemmed from issues with...

2015- Apple's year in beta. Thanks OS news via Ant. As 2015 comes to a close, Windows 10 surpasses 200 million installs. Thanks HARDOCP. Seven Tech Trends From 2015. Thanks HARDOCP.

U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years. Thanks HARDOCP. Mozilla Firefox version 43.0.3. Thanks Frans.

T-Mobile- We're Not Throttling YouTube, We're 'Optimizing' It. Thanks HARDOCP.

Beatsplosion For Kinect Is Now Available For Xbox One.