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A thank you post from Nightdive Studios celebrates the news that the System Shock remake on Kickstarter has achieved its initial funding goal of $900,000 (thanks nin). This leaves 18 days for the...

Thanks Ant and j.c.f. Smartwatches not secure, give away PIN numbers. Best practices for managing the security of BYOD smartphones and tablets. Google hopes to thwart quantum computers from cracking...

Five reasons to upgrade to Windows 10. Five reasons not to upgrade to Windows 10. LGR - Building a 486 DOS PC. Thanks Ant.

The great tablet gold rush is over. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Nintendo stock price up 9% after Pokémon Go launch. Gamer finds dead body while testing Pokémon Gos GPS features.

No More Halo 5 Monthly Updates, But More Content Coming.

Dota 2 Update - July 8th, 2016. Team Fortress 2 update released.

An update to the Team Fortress 2 blog discusses the admittedly rough launch of casual mode in Team Fortress 2, Valve's multiplayer shooter. They offer a new patch to address some issues and remove...

Though the Splash Damage website and Twitter account are silent on the topic, press release from the Hong Kong exchange indicates that Paul Wedgewood is in the process of selling Splash Damage to...

Following recent indications from Monolith founder Jace Hall about the possibility of a Blood revival, Jace posted a photo to Facebook to fuel whatever speculation this news generated. The photo...

Kickstarter Gets NSFW With Discarded Angel - Cliqist. Why Your Game Demo Is Hurting Your Kickstarter Campaign.

Digital Extremes offers a new Specters of the Rail update for Warframe, bringing significant changes to their free-to-play, third-person shooter just in time for tomorrow's TennoCon 2016 convention....

Battle.net announces Season 6 for Diablo III will end on July 22nd, and that Season 7 for the action/RPG sequel will commence on August 5th. They outline the process and try to make sure everybody is...

Finally admitting they don't know what PC gamers want, Microsoft has launched a Windows Insider Program PC Gamers Survey to help get them back on track (thanks GameSpot). Here's what they hope to...

Patch #7 is now available for Rise of the Tomb Raider, updating the Windows action/adventure to version 1.0.668.0. Among the other changes and fixes, the new version implements DirectX 12 multi-GPU...

The Starbound blog announces that Starbound will leave early access on July 22nd, wrapping up Chucklefish's five year mission to create their space game. Here's word: In case you missed it, Starbound...

The Positch website announces that the ballots have been cast, and Democracy 3: Electioneering is now available, offering an expansion for Democracy 3, the politics simulation sequel. The Windows and...

Publisher tinyBuild announces the release of BOID out of early access on Steam, offering an RTS game with no resource management or base building. An interesting twist this the base multiplayer game...

Charter Puts End to Home Working at Time Warner Cable. Thanks Ant.

Red Dead Redemption Now Playable on Xbox One with Backward Compatibility. Kerbal Space Program Launches July 12 on PS4.

Team Fortress 2 Meet Your Match update is live. Team Fortress 2 update released. Team Fortress 2 update released.

ESL One Cologne 2016 broadcast expands to TV stations worldwide.

Neil Young taught us that rust never sleeps, and true to that, Facepunch Studios announces a major change to Rust adding an experience and leveling system to the survival game (first TF2 adds...

Kotaku reports a "significant" number of layoffs have hit Turbine Studios, the WBIE-owned studio behind Lord of the Rings Online. They have a statement explaining that this is part of the company's...

Trion Worlds announces a free week is underway for Atlas Reactor, offering everyone the chance to check out this turn-based battle arena that's currently in closed beta testing. The game is playable...

Frontier Developments announces that Elite Dangerous: Arena is available for free this weekend, and everyone who downloads a copy from the Frontier Store or Steam between now and 1:00 pm EDT Monday...

World of Warcraft Legion Developer Q&A- Thursday, July 14.

Broforce on Steam. Save 60%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 07.08 - 07.11. MXGP2 - The Official Motocross Videogame on Steam. Save 30%.

Dota 2 Update - July 7th, 2016. Heroes & Generals Everhart Update - Changelog. Steam Client Update Released. TERA Aces Wild update now live.

Meet Your Match Update Day 2 on the Team Fortress 2 website declares "all out war." It's not as dramatic as all that, but it does outline a vote that's underway between the Pyro and the Heavy to...

Epic Games offers this trailer to help introduce Greystone, a new Paragon hero that will join their early access MOBA on July 12th. This update has more on the character, and oddly the entirety of...

Codemasters announces that F1 2016 multiplayer support will accommodate up to 22 racers per game, and will introduce features such as the formation lap and manual starts. This post has the details...

AMD now offers new Radeon Software Crimson Edition version 16.7.1 drivers for AMD accelerators. Two of the three notes they highlight relate to fixes for the issues that could cause RX 480 graphics...

Sean Murray tweets the news that development of No Man's Sky is complete, illustrated by a photograph of the development team and the gold master disc. It was announced in May that the procedurally...

Xbox Ultimate Game Sale Offers Big Discounts on Ubisoft Games. Terraria update breaks Xbox One version's online multiplayer. PlayStation Store: Junes Top Downloads.

Dave Grossman talks Day Of The Tentacle - gamesTM. The good one, not the "murder simulator" dude.

The Week in StarCraft II Esports (July 7 - July 10).

Fallout 4 1.6 update live on PC. Overwatch Patch Notes July 6, 2016.

SteamHammerVR - Virtual Reality Steampunk Experience by GamestormVR Kickstarter. "SteamHammerVR is a beautifully designed, steampunk-themed, story-based, smash 'em up Virtual Reality gaming...

Rockstar Games announces that the "Cunning Stunts" update will come to Grand Theft Auto Online on July 12th, bringing naughty wordplay and an "over-the-top evolution to racing" in the multiplayer...

Headup Games announces July 28th is the release date for SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell, a game right up Ricky Bobby's alley. They also announce that in the month since the release of the playable demo...

The Evolve countdown continues to tick away while 2K reveals more about the Evolve rework that was revealed last night, saying the asymmetrical shooter will now be known as Evolve Stage 2, and...

A playable demo for 10 Second Ninja X is now available on Steam and the game's official website, offering the chance to sample this upcoming platformer. They call this the "prepare to buy" edition,...

A playable demo for the Windows edition of Trials of the Blood Dragon is now available through Uplay, offering the chance to sample this recently released installment in the Trials series. This can...

Open beta testing is now underway for Riders of Icarus, basically a soft launch for this MMORPG featuring airborne mounted combat. You can pick up the client through Steam and the Nexon Launcher. A...

Boss Key is planning a third closed alpha testing session for LawBreakers this weekend from noon to midnight EDT on both Saturday and Sunday. Testing will include the Promenade map that was revealed...

Even though the countdown on the Evolve website mentioned this morning is still running, a post on the Turtle Rock Forums reveals the news that the asymmetrical shooter is going free-to-play,...

Following previous indications that a support/sniper named Sombra will be the next hero added to Overwatch, this tweet goes another step towards confirming this is the plan for Blizzard's multiplayer...

New version 368.69 WHQL-certified Windows GeForce drivers are now available for NVIDIA graphic cards. Word is these are game-ready drivers for DiRT Rally VR, an updated edition of DiRT Rally coming...

The Team Fortress 2 blog introduces the gaming world to a brand new concept they call "matchmaking." It's pretty outrageous stuff, apparently the idea is to create matches in the multiplayer shooter...

GameSpot has a video showing off some ace piloting of one of the biplanes in Battlefield 1, DICE's upcoming shooter set during World War I. The clip runs about seven minutes "in glorious 2K...