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The Settlers Cancellation and Champions of Anteria Catch-up
A post on UbiBlog discusses plans for Champions of Anteria, alerting us to the fact that we overlooked this announcement of the cancellation of The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria that explains a new...
Morning Mobilization
Paint it black- Revisiting the Blackphone and its cloudy future.
Morning Tech Bits
A First Look At Apple's macOS Sierra. Jaguar Land Rover to have fleet of 100 driverless cars on roads by 2020.
Morning Metaverse
Google gets land for its futuristic headquarters, thanks to LinkedIn deal.
Morning Consolidation
Pharaonic Is Now Available For Xbox One. VIDEOBALL Is Now Available For Xbox One. KYUB Is Now Available For Xbox One. The Solus Project Is Now Available For Xbox One. Rivals of Aether (Game Preview)...
Valve on Game Item Gambling
Valve sent the following statement addressing some of the concerns raised by the recent scandal involving Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin gambling. They clarify that they have no connection to...
Overwatch 21:9 Support Follow-up
A post on NeoGAF follows up on the news that Overwatch is adding support for 21:9 monitors (thanks DSOGaming). This turns out to be a thanks for nothing situation, as Blizzard has decided it is...
Splinter Cell for Free
Ubisoft continues to celebrate their 30th anniversary with the free release of the original Splinter Cell, as the stealth/action game is available for a limited time to download and keep for anyone...
Orcs Must Die! Unchained Adds Hero
A new patch is now available for Orcs Must Die! Unchained, updating the tower defense sequel to version 1.3. In addition to the usual sort of changes and fixes a new version will bring, this also...
Morning Safety Dance
Thanks Ant. The world's most secure smartphones - and why they're all Androids. Meet Riffle, the next-gen anonymity network that hopes to trounce Tor. Nukeware: New malware deletes files and zaps...
On Sale
Five Nights At Freddy's Franchise on Steam. Save 66%.
Evening Patches
Hearthstone Update July 12, 2016. League of Legends Patch 6.14 notes.
Evening Crowdfunding Roundup
EXO ONE -- Steam Greenlight. "Exbleative is proud to announce EXO ONE, a surreal, exoplanetary exploration game currently in development for PC. A teaser video is available using entirely in-engine...
Ghostbusters Game Released
A new Ghostbusters game is now available on Steam, offering a Windows action/adventure set after the events in the new Ghostbusters movie. Word is: Ghostbusters is a third-person action role-playing...
Paragon Adds Hero
Greystone is now live in Paragon, becoming the newest hero to join Epic's MOBA that's currently in paid early access. This video offers an overview of the character, and this post has all the detail...
NECROPOLIS Released
Steam News announces the release of NECROPOLIS: A Diabolical Dungeon Delve, a procedurally generated action/adventure from Harebrained Schemes featuring perma-death, prompting them to call it a...
Heroes of the Storm Patched
A new patch is now live in Heroes of the Storm, updating Blizzard's MOBA/team brawler to version 19.0. This brings a bunch of promised changes and new features, including the new hero Gul'dan,...
Overwatch Adding Support Sniper, 21:9, and Competitive Hero Limit
New Overwatch PTR patch notes are now online, outlining changes being tested for Overwatch in a patch that will probably go live for the teamplay shooter in a week or two. There are some major...
Morning Crowdfunding Roundup
Detective Hayseed - Hollywood -- Steam Greenlight. Pint-and-click adventure. "The list of Oscar winners has been stolen as part of a nefarious plot to overturn the established Hollywood order. Our...
Morning Patches
Survarium 0.43 is Live. Play Now.
Grand Theft Auto Online Cunning Stunts Released; Stunt Editor Coming
Rockstar Games announces the release of the promised Cunning Stunts update for Grand Theft Auto Online. This updates the multiplayer side of Grand Theft Auto V with Stunt Races, Premium Races, new...
Starfall Tactics Testing This Week
A public "pre-alpha" test for Starfall Tactics will begin on Thursday before they turn their attention to adding a lot of the game's MMO content. The Starfall Tactics website has details on how to...
Gas Guzzlers Extreme Adds DirectX 11 Support
A new patch is now available for Gas Guzzlers Extreme on Steam, offering changes and improvements for the combat racing game, including DirectX 11 support. This post has word on version 1.8.0.0: New...
Arma 3 Apex Post Redux
A formatting error obscured our report last night on the release of the Arma 3: Apex new expansion for Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive's military shooter sequel. The post has the details and the launch...
Rocket League Crate Plans
A semi-recent post on reddit has a confirmation from Psyonix of plans to add loot crates to Rocket League to provide cosmetic drops for the motorized sports game (thanks Gamasutra). They call these...
New AMD Crimson Drivers
AMD support now offers new version 16.7.2 Crimson reference drivers fro AMD graphic cards. These offer support for the new Vulkan support for DOOM and a couple of other changes. Here's word: Radeon...
Evening Metaverse
What if Comcast's X1 Deal Gives Netflix Cap-Exempt Status? Verizon to Begin Boston FiOS Build in September.
Evening Consolidation
Blade Ballet Whirls onto PS4 August 9. SMITE Console: Mid Season Update - 3.12 Patch Notes.
Arma 3: Apex Released
The Arma 3 website announces the release of Arma 3: Apex, the new expansion for Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive's military shooter sequel. They offer a launch trailer and the following explanation:...
Gatherings & Competitions
Link your Twitch and Battle.net Accounts for Two Fall Season Portraits. GamerMania officially cancelled but new event set for 2017.
On Sale
Block'hood on Steam. Save 30%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 07.12 - 07.15. Sakura Swim Club on Steam. Save 50%.
Homefront: The Revolution Mission Pack
A new patch is now available for Homefront: The Revolution on Steam, updating the first-person shooter to version 1.06 and adding the game's first mission pack with two new missions for Resistance...
Rainbow Six Siege Punishing Teamkillers
UbiBlog highlights a significant change from the upcoming version 3.4 patch for Rainbow Six Siege that will punish players for excessive team kills. They outline a list of penalties that escalate...
DOOM Adds Vulkan Support
A patch is now available for DOOM, updating id Software's first person shooter with support for the Vulkan low-level graphics API, a fitting move since part of the fluid gameplay of the original DOOM...
Evening Safety Dance
Thanks j.c.f. iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck. D-Link Vulnerability Affects over 120 Products, 400,000 Devices. New "Patchwork" Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Copy-Pasted...
Game Reviews
Mysterious Castle on Christ Centered Gamer.
Morning Tech Bits
Xiaomi prepares to take on GoPro with its Xiaomi Yi 4K action camera. Sonnens new battery for solar self-consumption could succeed in US. Samsung deals out microSD-crushing faster fingernail flash...
Morning Metaverse
HTTPS is not a magic bullet for Web security. Comcast Expands Usage Caps, Again.
Morning Mobilization
Verizon, AT&T Working on VoLTE Interoperability. Pokémon Go troubleshooting page mentions inbound fixes for battery life and more. Pokemon GO is a huge opportunity for small businesses right now....
Morning Consolidation
The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 7-12-2016.
Just Cause 3 MP Mod Halted
Just Cause Multiplayer forums announce "the indefinite halt of JC3-MP development," which sounds like a death knell for this multiplayer modification for Just Cause 3 (thanks DSOGaming). The good...
U.K. Sales Charts
The Sims 4 remains number one on the GfK Chart-Track PC top 30 chart of the bestselling games in the U.K. for the week ending July 9th. That chart is pretty similar to last week's, and so is the all...
Gatherings & Competitions
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » Cologne 2016 Champions. CS-GO player numbers down 25%, viewership down 37% since March. Mysterious League of Legends posters are appearing across European...
Hardware Reviews
Amped Wireless Athena-EX AC2600 Wi-Fi Range Extender on TweakTwon. Synology DiskStation DS916+ on Legion Hardware.
Sunday Legal Briefs
Streaming Password Sharing Now A Crime? Led Zep lawyers want $800k for defending Stairway to Heaven lawsuit. Is it ironic that this song lambastes greed?
Sunday Tech Bits
Thanks Ant. How the Media Screwed Up the Fatal Tesla Accident. Thanks The Flying Penguin. Amazon's Chinese counterfeit problem is getting worse. Thanks Slashdot. Paint.NET version 4.0.10.
Sunday Consolidation
Lesbian brawler Valkyrie Drive will bare it all in the US and Europe this year.
Sunday Patches
Team Fortress 2 update released.
Op Ed
Cliffski's Blog - Why valve should give jobs to journalists. "I think if you want to keep reviews you have to accept that the only real way to fix 1) 2) and 3) is to have at least some paid reviews....
Steam Top 10
Here are the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week according to Valve: Grand Theft Auto V Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dead by Daylight DOOM INSIDE ARK: Survival Evolved The Witcher 3:...
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