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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...

Steam News announces the release of new crossover DLC for both PAYDAY 2 and Goat Simulator, coinciding with a 75% off sale on each title: Save 75% on PAYDAY 2 and Goat Simulator as part of this week's...

Thanks j.c.f. Three XSS Bugs Found on Mozilla's Add-ons and Support Portals. IoT Devices Easily Hacked to be Backdoors: Experiment. Evil OpenSSH servers can steal your private login keys to other...

The Great PC Decline Isn't As Bad As It Looks. Thanks HARDOCP. Tested- Oculus Rift vs HTC Vive Pre. The OpenGL Speed & Perf-Per-Watt From The Radeon HD 2000-3000 Series Through The R9 Fury. CES 2016:...

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US government announces $4 billion self-driving car program. Thanks HARDOCP. HARVEST MOON- Seeds Of Memories on the App Store.

Xbox Live Gold Members Can Play Every Game In EA Access Free Next Week Only On Xbox One. Nintendo Kicks Of Winter Warm Up eShop Sale. Rock Band 1 Export Now Available For Rock Band 4 On PlayStation...

Details and qualifier information for CS-GO at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice. ARK: Survival Evolved International Modding Contest. ESPN now has its own dedicated eSports zone. Titan shuts down when...

iThrive and the University of Utah Announce Empathy Games Competition.

Umix and Cyanide announce the release of Pro Basketball Manager 2016, allowing you to take on the role of GM and coach of an international basketball team. This is offered via digital distribution...

Here's When Xbox One Background Music Is Coming at the Earliest. Street Fighter 5 Gets 3GB PS4 Update.

Shut Up and Talk: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman Part 1 and Part 2. Todd Harris on SMITE's-Hi-Rez's Community, Growth, and Company Culture - Ten Ton Hammer.

A Steam Community Group Announcement offers a release date for Five Nights at Freddy's World, saying the RPG based on the jump-scare game will arrive on February 19th (thanks The Escapist). Developer...

Paradox Interactive now offers There Be Dragons, a new expansion for Knights of Pen & Paper II, their meta-RPG sequel. You can pick this up on the Paradox Interactive Store, where they have all the...

Frontier Developments announces Elite: Dangerous has sold 1.4 million copies just over a year since launch of the space combat sequel. The announcement has more on the success of this release:...

A post from Battle.net community manager Spyrian outlines the latest changes Blizzard has implemented to matchmaking in Heroes of the Storm. This is intended to address complaints that pre-made teams...

Momoka: An Interplanetary Adventure on the App Store. Smurfs Epic Run on the App Store and Google Play. Samsung Announces 14LPP Mass Production.

Blackbird Interactive offers a new video developer diary with a behind-the-scenes look at Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, the upcoming down-to-earth installment in the Homeworld series of sci-fi...

The GeForce website now features a new beta version of the GeForce Experience which adds windowed capture modes, advanced microphone controls, and more. The summary recaps all that's new: This months...

Game Jolt takes further steps towards being an independent alternative to services like Steam by offering a pre-release version of their own Game Jolt Client. Here's word: A Client to install games,...

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Dota 2 Update - January 13th, 2016. Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars version 1.1.1 released. Steam updates automatically, all others should use this patch. League of Legends version Patch 6.1 notes....

Battle.net announces the alpha for World of Warcraft Legion is back online. This is invitation only, but word is that testers will be allowed to blab all they want: Our gnomish engineers have...

A pinned community announcement on Steam explains that the Windows Metal Gear Online beta is temporarily offline while Konami prepares a hotfix to address a possible exploit (thanks Polygon). Here's...

World of Tanks on PlayStation 4 Release Date Announced. Hitman Pre-Purchases Canceled On PlayStation Store Due To Significant Configuration Changes. Metroid: Zero Mission Coming To Wii U Soon....

DOOM on GameInformer.com. Hands-on with Doom's single player.

Satoru Iwata to be honoured with posthumous DICE Lifetime Achievement Award. Heroes of the Storm Preseason Leaderboards: December 2015. League of Legends 2016 ranked season kicks off soon.

Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Lead the 19th D.I.C.E. Awards with Eight Nominations.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.2.3 Hotfixes- January 6 - 12.

Dome City -- Steam Greenlight. Early concept not yet actually in the Greenlight process. This video shows seven minutes of pre-alpha footage. Quest: The Story of Sierra On-Line - Indiegogo....

This trailer shows off Human: Fall Flat, a physics-based puzzle game coming to PCs later this year, though this can be purchased right now as a playable prototype on the No brakes games websites....

Gone Home: Console Edition Is Now Available For Xbox One. Rebel Galaxy Is Now Available For Xbox One. Hyperdrive Massacre Is Now Available For Xbox One.

OVERKILL Software announces Goat Simulator Heist DLC for PAYDAY 2 is coming tomorrow, offering a tie-in for the heist game with the surprise hit sim. A thread on reddit shows this is another...

The Ubisoft Forums offer details on a new patch that's now live in Rainbow Six: Siege, updating the first-person shooter sequel to version 1.3, and the UbiBlog has further word. The patch notes...

Kalypso Media announces Tropico 5 - Complete Collection, a reworked bundle of the island dictator sequel along with both its expansions and all 10 previously released DLC packs. This is coming to...

A lengthy Champion Reveal for League of Legends introduces Jhin, the Virtuoso, the newest addition to Riot Games' MOBA. They offer lots of details on his kit, and extol the virtues of his slow attack...