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Oculus Rift preorders are now underway on the Oculus website, finally revealing pricing for consumer versions of the VR headsets, which will be $599.00, though as previously announced, credit cards...

Kalypso Media announces Agatha Christie The ABC Murders, saying they will publish the boxed edition of the new mystery game for Windows and consoles. Here's word on the adaptation featuring the...

With Oculus Rift preorders set to begin in less than two hours on the Oculus website, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey offers reassurances that there is no danger they will sell out, and that they are...

A Steam community announcement unveils details on Sky Fortress DLC for Just Cause 3, the "air" portion of the Air, Land and Sea expansion pass announced a few months ago (thanks Videogamer). The post...

GameInformer has word that Square Enix is closing down Shinra Technologies, the cloud gaming service they announced in September 2014.They quote a press release translated by Gematsu saying a lack...

Wi-Fi HaLow: Long-Range, Low-Power Wi-Fi for Internet-of-Things Devices. uBlock Chrome extension. Adblock alternative. Thanks Phusion.

The Counter-Strike blog has word that some indefinite bans from last year for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match fixing have been made permanent. Here's part of the update:Back in January and...

HTC unveiled an updated version of their VIVE Pre headsets at CES, saying the enhancements in the developer units will eventually find their way into the consumer edition of the VR headsets. Fortune...

A Kickstarter update for Oculus Rift backers announces Oculus is saying "thank you" for their support by giving them free retail versions of Rift headsets to go along with the developer units they've...

Samsung Announces New Gear S2 Models And iOS Support. Samsung Unveils The Galaxy TabPro S. Apple Watch- Get ready for cheating in the classroom. Thanks HARDOCP.

Finish the Fight With EA SPORTS UFC 2 Starting March 15. PlayStation Store Update. 40+ PS3 Exclusives Added to PS Now Subscription Today. This Weeks Xbox Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.

Dota 2 Update - January 5th, 2016.

Dungeons 2 on Steam. Save 75%. The Fruit of Grisaia on Steam. Save 50%. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam. Save 75%. Heroes of the Storm Weekly Sale- Jan 5 12, 2016.

Brian Fargo and inXile Entertainment announce that a beta version of Torment: Tides of Numenera will be released on January 17th for Kickstarter backers of the RPG and that the game will appear on {st...

PS4 sales hit 35.9 million units. The coveted 35.9 million mark. Sony promises to extend PS Plus and PS Now subs after last nights outage. Celebrate The New Year With New Xbox One Bundles. PayPal...

Endless Legend PC Interview - GameWatcher. 10 for the Chairman - Roberts Space Industries.

SMITE World Championship 2016 starts this week. Here's a cinematic trailer celebrating the news. Team Fortress 2 72 hour winter jam.

PayPal backers frozen out over Shenmue 3 Kickstarter rewards. Legends of Callasia by Boomzap Entertainment Kickstarter. "An epic strategy game of world conquest with simultaneous turn-based...

A new teaser trailer from 3D Realms titled "old friends" shows off some cinematic action from Bombshell, the upcoming action game from undead publisher/developer 3D Realms. The title refers to the...

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announces they will induct Hideo Kojima as the 21st member to its Hall of Fame during the 19th D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony on Thursday, February 18, 2016 in...

Following news that the PC edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider is coming this month, Square Enix announces January 28th is the official release date for the Windows version of Lara Croft's latest...

Paradox Interactive announces a February 16th release date for Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 2, the conclusion of the first expansion for Obsidian Entertainment's RPG. They offer a new...

Yahoo yanks Yahoo Screen hub, scatters original content across sites.

Changing the Game: Tobii Eye Tracking in MSI notebook, Assassins Creed® Syndicate, Tom Clancys The Division. Apple Watch is $100 off, but here's why you shouldn't buy one. T-Mobile throttles all...

Unepic Xbox One Version Arrives This Week, Trailer Revealed. G Prime Dated on Xbox One, Video and Screens. PSA- Sony Confirms Ongoing PSN Outage. Gears of War 4 beta coming spring 2016, ReCore...

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 01.05 - 01.08. True Detectives Sale on GOG.com.

The super-flashy Minecraft statistics page shows a new milestone for Mojang's sandbox game that got everybody digging voxels again. This reveals the PC edition of Minecraft has now sold more than 22...

A post on the Xbox Wire outlines release plans for various games in 2016, revealing plans to bring ReCore to Windows 10 (thanks VG247). There are no further details, they just now list Windows 10...

Kotaku reports a rumor that the next installment in the Assassin's Creed series is a game codenamed Empire set in Egypt, and that this will not launch until 2017, as the negative reaction to...

Activision Blizzard announces the acquisition of Major League Gaming, officially confirming reports that first emerged last week, saying the league will serve as the foundation for their own esports...

Matt Chat 322- Styg, Designer of Underrail. Thanks Ant. Q&A: Jonathan Blow on The Witness and the state of indie games - Gamasutra.

Football Manager 2016 retains a toehold on the top spot on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 PC U.K. game sales chart for the week ending January 2nd. The same titles occupy the top 10 this week, and the...

A story from last week's Fortune has some speculation on Star Wars Battlefront sales numbers from professional speculator Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities. According to his estimates,...

AMD sets a new course for Radeons with its Polaris architecture - The Tech Report. AMD's next-gen Polaris GPU architecture unveiled, arrives in mid-2016. Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious...

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.270. Thanks Ant.

New York is finally installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi. Thanks HARDOCP. Acer announces USB Type-C monitors alongside new premium laptops. Acer Announces the Iconia One 8. Lenovo Launches...

Ark Reaches 1 Million Downloads on Xbox One, Daily Players Higher Than PC. No word on what they're high on. Rainbow Six 1 TB Xbox One Bundle Spotted on Amazon.

The Oculus blog announces preorders for Oculus Rift VR headsets will begin on Wednesday (thanks Devicer). They outline what you need to know when this happens approximately 48 hours from now: Today,...

Most Americans Are OK with Warrantless Internet Surveillance. Thanks HARDOCP.

GamesDoneQuick 2016 now underway.

Thanks Ant. 32-bit vs 64-bit browsers- which version has the edge? Thanks HARDOCP. How the Internet changed the way we read. Thanks Slashdot. IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent...

Thanks Ant. Sayonara, subsidies- AT&T ends two-year phone contracts. LG Display, Samsung Display to supply OLED screens for iPhones - report. Thanks HARDOCP. Boy, 7, racks up £4,000 on dad's iPad...

Chris Avellone Talks Games, Obsidian, And Christmas Sweater Etiquette.

Steam Winter Sale - Last Chance.

Valve lists the following ten games as the bestselling titles on Steam for last wee: Grand Theft Auto V Fallout 4 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ARK: Survival Evolved...

A post on reddit notes there are details in this Twitch interview with Adam Isgreen on plans to bring Killer Instinct to PCs. A PC version of the fighting game remake with cross-platform support with...

Garry Newman tweets about the continued success of Garry's Mod, Cinderella story Source mod mod tool, saying that over the weekend it sold its 10 millionth copy on Steam (thanks reddit). This is an...

Steam Winter Sale - Day 11 - Happy New Year.

Get 'Kung Fu Panda' free when you buy something from Amazon. Thanks Ant.

Samsung Invents a Foldable Smartphone with Integrated Hologram & Projector Features. Thanks HARDOCP. Samsung's new bio-processor tracks your health in 5 different ways. The 20 best iOS games of 2015....