Blue's News

Time Warner Cable raises rates after NY approves merger. Thanks HARDOCP. The Science of Internet Trolls. Thanks Ant.

Texting while driving: Does banning it make a difference? Thanks Ant. New Galaxy Note 5s have a fix for the stuck S-Pen issue. Oddworld: New n Tasty Arrives on PS Vita January 19th. Iron Maiden...

EU competition commish: We 'pay' for search and social media with our data. LastPass in 2FA lock down after 'fessing up to phishing attack.

More than 200 Million Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays to be Sold by 2020, According to Tractica. Apple evacuates European HQ after bomb threat. The world's first 13TB SSD is here. Just $1K/TB....

Google API spring cleaning ends after four and a half years. Orange is the New Black and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returns dated by Netflix. Jessica Jones is returning for a second season, Netflix...

Rocketbirds 2: Evolution Coming to PS4, PS Vita.

Far Cry Primal: Welcome to the Cave - win the wildest night of your life. First prize is a night in a cave. Is second prize two nights?

Woman Starts Fundraiser After Exhausting Funds To Buy Powerball Tickets. Thanks ViperFour.

The Sims 4 return to their accustomed spot at number one on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 U.K. PC games sales chart for the week ending January 16th, kicking Football Manager 2016 into the number two...

Blazing Griffin announces plans for The Ship: Remasted (it's a pun, not a typo), a modernized version of The Ship, the unusual floating mystery game first released in 2006 after its humble beginnings...

Crucial Ballistix Sport LT White DDR4 Memory on Hardware Slave. Gunnar Optiks RPG Eyewear on Christ Centered Gamer. Kollea Google Cardboard Virtual Reality 3D Glasses DIY Kit on Technogog....

Microsoft's HoloLens will be 'totally wireless' with up to 5.5 hours of battery life. Thanks HARDOCP. AMD Slams SYSmark Benchmark - Calls it Biased and Unreliable. Thanks HARDOCP. Fedora Linux Might...

Apple investigating inaccurate battery percentage bug in iPhone 6S.

Does Diablo 3 patch 2.4 impact console performance? The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 1/19/2016.

Company of Heroes 2 - The British Forces on Steam. Save 75%. The Wolf Among Us on Steam. Save 75%.

Valve reports the following nine titles are the ten bestsellers on Steam for last week: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Pre-Purchase (ROW) Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tom...

Apple will start charging for iTunes Radio on January 28th. Thanks HARDOCP. AOL considering brand change. Thanks HARDOCP.

The CONSORTIUM free weekend we mentioned on Friday rolls along on Steam. This is actually more generous than we first reported, however, as it's not just for this weekend. Word is "Anyone who gets...

AMD's Vulkan Driver Will Only Work With The AMDGPU Kernel Driver.

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Racist, violent video game shut down thanks to petition. Or, Media Outlets Lie About Survival Island 3; Game Gets Pulled From iTunes, Google.

PSA: More Free Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games Now Available.

Matt Chat 323: Styg on Underrail and RPG Mechanics. Thanks Ant.

Battle.net announces that Season 5 of Diablo III is now underway. Here's word: Season 5 will offer unique rewards and new challenges for players, including new cosmetic items, an exclusive...

ZDNet has word that Microsoft has figured out another way to strong-arm users into adopting Windows 10, saying some upcoming new CPUs will require Windows 10 (or, you know, Linux). Microsoft...

Vivendi announces the "unwinding of hedge and disposal of Activision Blizzard shares." The financial relationship between the two companies is probably too complicated to be understood by non bean-co...

Steam News announces the release of Echoes Of Aetheria, saying the retro-styled RPG for Windows is 15% off for the first week. Here's word on the game: Two nations finally achieve peace, marked by a...

Steam News announces that Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is now available as promised for Windows. Word is: "The next exciting chapter in the Dragons Dogma franchise delivering a huge brand new area,...

Among the Sleep on Steam. Save 60%. Weekend Promo: Worlds Collide on GOG.com.

The Humble Store Winter Sale is underway. CONSORTIUM version 1.25 is here. Dota 2 Update - January 14th, 2016. Fallout 4 version 1.3 Beta Update. Thanks GameSpot. Zombasite version 0.915. Here's what'...

Another new trailer from Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is online, paving the way for next week's release of the land-based installment in the Homeworld series. "The Transmission" trailer offers a look...

Square Enix tweets that they are celebrating the life of David Bowie by giving away keys for free copies of Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Quantic Dream's 1999 adventure game featuring Bowie music as well...

Steam News announces this weekend you can play CONSORTIUM for free all weekend, offering the chance to sample this "first person science-fiction role-playing experience." Here's word on the game,...

John Romero tweets that he has created his first new level for DOOM in 21 years: "It's been 21 years since I made a DOOM level. Here's my version of E1M8 using DOOM1.WAD. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2x2...

Intel Reports Full-Year Revenue of $55.4 Billion, Net Income of $11.4 Billion. Thanks HARDOCP.

How Twitter quietly banned hate speech last year.

Should you install Linux on a gaming laptop? Thanks Linux Today via Ant.

Toki Tori 2+ coming to PS4 next month, with added telepathic frogs.

Blood Bowl 2 World Cup next month. Wrong kind of football, but Super Bowl is a trademark.

UbiBlog announces plans to test The Division, saying the closed beta for the upcoming shooter/RPG will be a 24 hour exclusive on Xbox One before it launches for Windows and PlayStation 4 on January...

The Roberts Space Industries website announces a new version 2.1 alpha of Star Citizen is now available for backers of Cloud Imperium's space combat game. Word is this is more stable than the...

An unconfirmed report on MMORPG.com outlines problems with development of Heavy Gear Assault, the crowdfunded MMO mech game. They quote a couple of anonymous sources saying the developers of the game...

Zero-Day FFmpeg Vulnerability Lets Anyone Steal Files from Remote Machines. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

2015 in Games on Kickstarter: Kittens, Zombies, and Kung Fu. Video games attract $46M in pledges. Moor - A 3D dungeon crawler game -- Steam Greenlight. inspired by Delver. Thanks Indie Retro News....

Humble Weekly Bundle: Full Motion Video (pay what you want and help charity). League of Legends 2016 Season kickoff sale. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 01.15 - 01.18. Oceanhorn- Monster...

Steam News announces that the OS X and Linux/SteamOS editions of Medieval II: Total War and Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms are now available. That covers most of the brief post: Both Medieval II:...

Devolver Digital announces plans to publish OmniBus for Windows, OS X, and Linux this spring, presenting a new backstory for the throwback crowdfunded title, saying it was intended as a launch title...

A new trailer from Dying Light: The Following shows off ways you can pimp your ride in the upcoming expansion for Techland's zombie expansion. Dirt buggy customization options include mundane options...

IO Interactive has cancelled their complicated rollout plan for their new Hitman game, announcing the assassination sequel will instead be released in familiar episodic format throughout 2016...

Mojang announces a February 2nd release date for Cobalt, following news last year that the platformer would come in February. This is coming to multiple platforms, and the post has some specifics...