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Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon on the App Store on iTunes.

Deus Ex writer responds to 'mechanical Apartheid' controversy. Thanks VG247. Fallout 4 Devs Have 'No Plans' For Paid Mods. But do they plan to make plans?

This thread on the Guild Wars 2 forums is filled with complaints from players over the recently revealed pricing for the upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion for Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet's MMORPG sequel....

All Roads Lead to BlizzCon. ESA: E3 Attendance reached 52K this year. Road to BlizzCon: North America Open Qualifiers Schedule & Results.

The Rescue the game website offers the release of Rescue 2 - Everyday Heroes, a strategy sequel that once again tasks players with the responsibility of responding to fires from small outdoor...

Battle.net outlines the Diablo III-themed content that will added to Heroes of the Storm over the course of the Eternal Conflict update for the MOBA, which could have prevented a lot of frame-by-fram...

Thanks Ant. 10 terrifying extreme hacks. Thanks Linux Security. SAP Hana users warned of security vulnerability. Huge Samsung Galaxy security flaw (updated with Samsung statement).

Guerrilla Games Announced New IP - Horizon: Zero Dawn. Tour de France 2015 is Now Available for Xbox One. Halo 5: Guardians is Now Available for Digital Pre-order on Xbox One. Destiny: The Taken...

EA: "We have to start building new IP that might feel like a big risk today" - GamesIndustry.biz Stars Beyond Reach Interview with Arcen Games - SpaceSector.com.

cats! Cats! CATS! on Humble Weekly Bundle. Napoleon: Total War on Humble Store. Save 87% and help charity. The Steam Monster Summer Sale Day 8.

Another E3 2015 trailer for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege shows off co-op gameplay from the upcoming tactical shooter, captured showing five players teaming up against the AI. Here's word from the...

More gameplay from Overwatch is on display in this new trailer showing off the Widowmaker character sniping away at the enemy in Blizzard's upcoming team-based shooter. Here's the accompanying...

This video offers 25 minutes from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, including a first look at gameplay accompanied by commentary from Steve Szczepkowski, Executive Audio Director on the upcoming action/RPG...

Focus Home Interactive officially announces Vampyr, though they revealed development of this vampire-themed RPG from Dontnod via a tweet earlier this year. They say this is expected in 2017 for...

This video is the E3 trailer for Dirty Bomb, titled "Scrubs," which offers a cinematic look at Splash Damage's first-person shooter that recently entered open beta testing. Here's word on the clip,...

RuneFest 2015. October 3rd. Tobacco Dock in London, England. Too Many Games. June 26-28 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

PC Invasion - The PC Gaming Show: The Good, The Bad, and The AMD. "Chris Roberts turned up in a video recording to remind people that Star Citizen had made an awful lot of money. A couple of people...

Link of the Day: Pouring Molten Metals into Water. COOL! (Aluminum, Thermite, Lead + More!). Thanks HARDOCP. R.I.P.: R.I.P. Rick Ducommun Passes Away At Age 58. Thanks nin.

Gentlemen, start your pedals, as Focus Home Interactive announces the release of Pro Cycling Manager 2015 for Windows, celebrating the running of this year's Tour de France in a couple of weeks....

2K announces plans to evolve Evolve with a new monster and four new hunters coming to the four-versus-one multiplayer shooter individually or as part of a Hunting Season 2 package. The bundle will...

Serious games for emergency preparedness: Evaluation of an interactive vs. a non-interactive simulation of a terror attack. Thanks Slashdot via Ant… Anti-Feminist Frequency pamphlets appear...

Secret Service agent who stole $820K from Silk Road pleads guilty.

'Anonymous' says it cyberattacked Canadian federal government to protest Bill C-51. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. False flags, red herrings and wild goose chases- Why unmasking hackers is harder than...

The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly. Reddit to fully encrypt traffic. Thanks HARDOCP.

Trends in Chinese mobile UIs. Thanks Ant.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End frame rate targeting 60fps for multiplayer. The Last Guardian development 'going very well,' no plans for visual overhaul. SMITE Xbox One open beta next month. Halo 5's...

Elite: Dangerous developers talk to Ars about Planet Coaster. Fallout 4 Director: "Graphics Matter." Fallout 4 is so expansive, even its creators haven't seen everything.

Here is the teaser trailer for American Truck Simulator that SCS Software brought to E3 to show off their upcoming big rig sequel. A Steam Community Group Announcement (thanks Cutter) also notes that...

Square Enix celebrate next week's release of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward with the launch trailer for the MMORPG. Here's the deal: "FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward releases on 23rd June 2015 and...

This E3 trailer shows off the tech demo of the Dawn engine powering Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the upcoming action/RPG. All they say is: "This is the official Dawn Engine Tech Demo from the E3 2015 PC...

IO Interactive offers this video with the first gameplay footage from HITMAN, the next installment in their assassination-for-hire series. They offer this explanation: "The target is Viktor Novikov,...

The Dota 2 blog announces that the beta version of Dota 2 Reborn is now available for download: The Reborn beta is now available for everyone to download and play. Check out the update page for...

This trailer is another new gameplay clip from Overwatch, introducing the Winston character in Blizzard's upcoming teamplay shooter. They say: "Witness Winston's primal rage in this complete,...

Publisher Devolver Digital announces co-op support for Enter the Gungeon, their upcoming bullet hell dungeon-crawler. Here are a couple of co-op screenshots, and here's word: "Making its debut at...

Here's the E3 2015 trailer for Total War: Warhammer, titled "Rule the World." The video looks back at the extensive history of Creative Assembly's strategy series and offers a look at the first in-eng...

Why would you spend $3000 on Clash of Clans? Thanks Ant.

Kerbal Space Program confirmed for PlayStation 4. Thanks nin. PlayStation wont be following Xboxs lead with backwards compatibility.

Dark Souls 3 isn't the last game in the series, Miyazaki clarifies. Cliff Bleszinski says PC is "the only way to go" for first-person shooters. I guess that's why he stopped making them? Xbox chief...

Good Game Well Played 7: The Nintendo World Championships Round-Up.

NCSOFT and ArenaNet announce they are now accepting pre-purchases of Guild Wars 2: Heart of the Storm, saying fans at E3 were "delighted" to learn of the opportunity. This page is where the MMORPG...

Bohemia Interactive announces plans to begin beta testing of Take on Mars this summer, offering the chance to get your ass to the red planet in a prerelease version of their sci-fi survival game. In...

Bohemia Interactive offers a Tanoa reveal trailer showing off the terrain and other aspects of the environment in an Arma III expansion they plan to release in the first half of next year. Here's...

The StarCraft II website announces Whispers of Oblivion, a three mission prologue to bridge the gap between the previous Heart of the Swarm and upcoming Legacy of the Void expansions. At the E3 PC...

The Rising Storm 2 website teases the announcement of plans for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, and an announcement trailer shows off this upcoming Vietnam War shooter from Tripwire Interactive, and offers...

Hello Games announces No Man's Sky is coming to PC as well as PlayStation 4, saying they plan a simultaneous launch on both platforms for the ambitious procedurally generated space game. This...

Square Enix announces a December 1st global release date for Just Cause 3, the upcoming continuation of Avalanche Studios' action-packed action series for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. "Just...

Here's an E3 2015 trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which reveals a release window, as it concludes saying the next installment in the action/RPG series will be released some time in 2016, in...

Frontier Developments announces the project announced as Coaster Park Tycoon is now named Planet Coaster. Here's an E3 trailer celebrating the rebranding.

Blizzard announces they are calling the previously announced Eternal Conflict update an expansion for Heroes of the Storm, based on what it will add to their free-to-play MOBA beginning on June 30th....