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Gatherings & Competitions
World of Warcraft Pet Battle Bonus Event Dec. 30 Jan. 4.
Evening Patches
Team Fortress 2 Update Released.
Morning Safety Dance
When it comes to bugs, the Adobe Flash Players cup runneth over. Thanks HARDOCP. AVG Forcibly Installs Vulnerable Chrome Extension That Exposes Users' Browsing History. Thanks Slashdot via Ant....
Morning Tech Bits
Thanks Ant. 15 technology trends for 2016. Top Linux Distributions To look Forward To In 2016. Thanks Linux Today. Intel's Core i7-6700K CPU In Short Supply.
Morning Consolidation
Holiday PlayStation Sale Week 4: Final Week Brings Fallout 4, Dark Souls II.
Op Ed
War Is Boring - The Witcher 3 Understands War. Thanks JDreyer. "Many video games are power fantasies, and most that involve warfare depict the glory of combat and put the player in the lead role....
Descent Royalty Dispute
There's another story brewing about game comings and goings on GOG.com besides the above and the recent report of the imminent departure of Duke Nukem games. A post on reddit notes that though the...
Morning Metaverse
Complaint factory: Angry Internet subscribers tee off against Comcast, Verizon, AT&T. Happy New Year- Dish, DirecTV-AT&T, Time Warner Cable All Raising Rates In January Because They Can. Thanks...
Morning Mobilization
Google confirms next Android version won't implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs. Thanks Slashdot.
TrickStyle Rerelease; More Old Acclaim Titles Coming?
GOG.com announces the rerelease of TrickStyle, an arcade hoverboard racer first released for in 1999 for windows and as a SEGA Dreamcast launch title. Gamasutra has the explanation for the game's...
On Sale
Happy New Year with Interplay on GOG.com. Steam Winter Sale - Day 8 - 12/29. Tomb Raider- Anniversary, Legend, and Underground all added to the Humble Square Enix Bundle 3.
Evening Legal Briefs
Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFFs Stupid Patent of the Month award.
Evening Safety Dance
Google probes AVG Chrome widget after 9m users exposed by bugs. Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key. Thanks Slashdot.
Evening Tech Bits
Intel launches new desktop and mobile CPUs. Thanks HARDOCP.
Evening Metaverse
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 44. Thanks Ant. Twitter Rules updated. Thanks HARDOCP.
Evening Consolidation
The Iron Banner Returns Today in Destiny- The Taken King.
Gatherings & Competitions
Players Choice - Indie of the Year 2015 feature - Indie DB. Players Choice - Mod of the Year 2015 feature - Mod DB. Here's the game lineup for GDC 2016's Alt.Ctrl.GDC showcase.
Battleborn Character and Unlock Details
A new feature on IGN with a first look at a couple of the characters in Battleborn, the teamplay shooter in development at Gearbox Software for release in May. These are Ghalt, "the veteran...
Morning Tech Bits
Four Key Things to Keep an Eye On in Virtual Reality in 2016. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Ford Patents The Batcycle Back Tire.
Morning Metaverse
Editorial: Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia, to sciences detriment. Updated Adobe Flash Player. Thanks Ant. TigerDirect Has New Owner, Wont Accept Returns. Thanks HARDOCP. Report: Holiday...
Morning Mobilization
For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program.
Morning Consolidation
The first 15 Apple TV games you should play. Thanks Ant. Xbox Stores Countdown Week 2 List Of Official Deals. PlayStation Developers Name Top 2015 Gaming Moments.
Morning Interviews
10 for the Developers - Roberts Space Industries.
Morning Crowdfunding Roundup
Psychonauts 2 now has $3 million in the vault with two weeks of crowdfunding to go.
Morning Patches
Dota 2 Update - December 29th 2015.
Mass Effect: Andromeda Departure
A tweet from last week from Chris Wynn reveals he has parted ways with BioWare where he had been serving as Senior Development Director on Mass Effect Andromeda. He says: "It is with heavy heart...
Evening Safety Dance
Internet-connected homes open the door to hackers. Thanks HARDOCP. University of Connecticut Information Security Incident. Thanks j.c.f. Cisco wins U.S. patent dispute over wifi technology. Thanks...
Evening Tech Bits
The Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Continued Evolving In 2015.
Evening Mobilization
New Google Glass model hits the FCC website, images included.
Evening Consolidation
New Rock Band 4 DLC on Dec 29.
On Sale
League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.29 - 01.01. SEGA Midweek Sale on The Humble Store. Steam Winter Sale - Day 6 - 12/27. Steam Winter Sale - Day 7 - 12/28.
Evening Crowdfunding Roundup
G Prime -- Steam Greenlight. "In your role as sounding officer onboard Ptolemy Station, you are tasked with launching sub-etheric reconnaissance rockets into increasingly challenging gravity fields...
Red5 Misses Payroll
There's news of more trouble at Red5 following their layoffs last month, as GameInformer says the developer of the Firefall MMORPG missed payroll last week, making for a rough holiday for their...
Deathsmiles PC Plans
Degica announces plans to bring Deathsmiles to Windows PCs via Steam in Spring 2016, which will offer another way to play CAVE's bullet hell shoot-em-up. A teaser website is online for the project,...
Gatherings & Competitions
New report shows how eSports is rivaling plain ol' sports.
Game Reviews
Just Cause 3 on Just Adventure.
Morning Legal Briefs
Regulators have a warning for ads that masquerade as real content. Thanks HARDOCP. Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $40K.
Morning Tech Bits
How to Destroy a Hard Drive--Permanently. Thanks HARDOCP. Destruction can be temporary? Mysterious collector opens worlds largest private Apple exhibition in Prague. PopTrayU 5.2.6 Released. Thanks...
Morning Metaverse
How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
Morning Mobilization
The App-ocalypse- Can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete? Rumor: Samsung Galaxy S7 will cost you more money, but comes with an iris scanner. Thanks HARDOCP. Samsung Gear S2 Issues With Water.
U.K. Sales Charts
The industrious folks at GfK Chart-Track did not let a holiday weekend derail their weekly rundowns on the bestselling games in the U.K. There certainly isn't much movement to report, however, as the...
Duke & Free Dragonsphere Leaving GOG.com
A post on GOG.com warns that the end of the year will also mark the end of their sale on various Duke Nukem games, and that they will cease offering their DRM-free versions of these games shortly...
Sunday Mobilization
How to Track Data Use, and Choose the Right Smartphone Plan. Thanks HARDOCP.
Sunday Interviews
How Blizzard turned a costly failure into the highly anticipated 'Overwatch' - LA Times.
Gatherings & Competitions
Hearthstone December 2015 Ranked Play Season Ending Soon.
Steam Top 10
Valve offers the final listing of the year of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for the preceding week: Grand Theft Auto V Fallout 4 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege...
Hardware Reviews
Cougar 450K Keyboard & 450M Mouse on Hardware Canucks.
Sunday Tech Bits
Are Registry Cleaners Still Needed on Windows 10? Microsoft Says They're Not. Thanks Ant. Why PCs are failing. Thanks HARDOCP.
Sunday Safety Dance
Chip Cards Take So Long, Some Retailers Disabled Them For The Holidays. Thanks HARDOCP.
Rise of the Tomb Raider Next Month
Over the summer Square Enix said Rise of the Tomb Raider for Windows will arrive on Steam early next year. Now Steam News narrows the release window for the continuation of the action/adventure...
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