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BlizzCon® 2015 ContestsLadies and Gentlemen, Start Your Preparations. CCP launches a PLEX for GOOD drive in EVE Online to raise money for victims of the Nepal earthquake. DmC: DE Style Tournament -...

Game-ref - The world's first hardware anti-cheat device by David Titarenco Kickstarter. "Cheating in online games sucks. Let's fix it." Thanks PC Gamer.

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This trailer is a "First Look Part 2" (since second look just doesn't seem dramatic) for Warhammer 40,000: Regicide, the turn-based strategy game coming to Early Access next week. Here's the brief...

Developer Roll7 and publisher Devolver Digital announce a one-week setback for the release of Not a Hero, saying the throwback-platformer is now due on May 14th. 60 FPS is the new black, and they...

Rockstar Games offers tips for getting your settings and controls right in the PC edition of Grand Theft Auto V, covering keyboard and controller bindings as well as various handy tips and commands...

Dragon Age website announces that on Tuesday BioWare will release a free DLC pack called Dragonslayer for Dragon Age: Inquisition, adding new content to the RPG sequel (thanks PC Gamer). Here's word...

Thanks Ant. FBI's crypto backdoor plans require them to win the war on general purpose computing. FBI slammed on Capitol Hill for 'stupid' ideas about encryption. Thanks Slashdot. Behold- the drop-dea...

Microsoft Details Windows 10 Staggered Release Schedule. AMD Crossfire Freesync Update: Delayed. Teslas new Powerwall home battery will cost $3,500 for 10kWh units. Microsoft can guess your age...

Thanks Ant. Comcast brings fiber to city that it sued 7 years ago to stop fiber rollout. Thanks Slashdot. Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy. Stunnel version 5.17. Grooveshark closed. Thanks...

Thanks Ant. iPad Continues to Lead Declining Tablet Market in First Quarter. Tattoos found to interfere with Apple Watch sensors. Thanks Slashdot. Apple, IBM to bring iPads to 5 million Japanese...

Xbox Game Streaming Demonstrated At Build. P.T. is gone, but you can still download it. Formula Fusion gets guaranteed PS4 release. Dragon Age: Inquisition Jaws of Hakkon PS4 release date revealed....

WIRED - The Era of Japan's All-Powerful Videogame Designers Is Over. It may not be a stretch to say that there will never be another Kojima, no one creator who holds such sway over a massive big-budg...

The Dota 2 blog offers details on The International Compendium 2015, this years set of activities to allow the Dota 2 community to help build the prize pool for Valve's upcoming mega-tournament for...

The NVIDIA Blog offers a tech demo video showing off DirectX 12, demonstrating the visuals possible with the upcoming update to the API (thanks HARDOCP). The result is very impressive, as is the...

Minor Scrolls tweaks - Test server. Prison Architect Alpha 32. Team Fortress 2 Update Released.

Activision Publisher Sale on Steam. Humble Weekly Bundle Presented by IGM. Saints Row Weekend Deal on Steam. Volgarr the Viking on Steam. Save 80%.

Firefly now offers Space Colony: Steam Edition on Steam, an enhanced version of their sci-fi real-team strategy game. Here's a trailer and here's the deal:In Space Colony players are blasted half way...

Steam News announces the release of R.B.I. Baseball 15, a revival of the baseball simulation. Here's word on what this brings to the plate:The legendary Major League Baseball franchise returns with...

Activision announces the release of the Ascendance DLC for the Windows and PlayStation 4 editions of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Here's the deal: "Ascendance, the second epic DLC pack for Call of...

A new patch rolled out today for the Windows edition of Grand Theft Auto V, updating the sandbox action game to version 350.1. Here are the patch notes: Vehicles in your garage can no longer be...

A post on reddit warns Dark Souls II players they are risking a "softban" in From Software's action/RPG if they use DS2Fix64, an injector recently recommended on Kotaku that fixes a number of bugs...

A Dead Island 2 tweet announces the zombie sequel is delayed until next year (thanks Shacknews), with Deep Silver providing this explanation:We have always set ourselves a big goal for Dead Island 2:...

PlayStation 4 lifetime sales pass 22.3m worldwide.

Phantasmal: City of Darkness is now available for Windows as an Early Access title on Steam, offering a first-person survival/horror game inspired by classics of the genre as well as the works of H.P....

Slitherine announces the release of Order of Battle: Pacific, offering what they call a "deep and challenging strategic experience in a WW2 Theater of Operations that is rarely covered." The game is...

Steam now offers the official release of Guns, Gore & Cannoli, a cartoon-styled, side-scrolling shooter for Windows and OS X where you play a mobster trying to get out of the roaring 20s alive. A...

GameArt Studio now offers a playable demo on Steam for Fermi's Path, their just-released music-driven arcade game set in the world of subatomic particles. This announcement explains what this...

There's a new Get Psyched Primer on the Bethesda Blog to pave the way for the release of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, MachineGames' occult military shooter prequel. They start with the basics,...

Steam has introduced a new system allowing game developers to ban individual users (thanks VG247). Here's how this works:Banned by Game Developer (Game Ban) Because nobody likes playing with cheaters....

Julien Risse's LinkedIn profile is pretty tame, but according to Videogamer this is because the Ubisoft programmer's résumé has been cleaned up following the discovery of a reference to Watch Dogs 2....

Heroes of the Dorm: The UC Berkeley Golden Bears Are Heroes of the StormTM Collegiate Champions. Stop the presses!

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Space Dust Racers by Space Dust Studios Kickstarter. "Intergalactic party racing mayhem featuring brutal-cute aliens, absurd weapon powerups, and smartphone controllers for up to 16 players."...

Creative Assembly announces the release of the beta version of the Assembly Kit, their mod tools for Total War: ATTILA. Here's a trailer showing off the beta, and here's word on how to access it:...

Endless Legend - Guardians is now available on Steam, offering the first expansion for Endless Legend, the 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game. The expansion is on display in this trailer, and here's...

Obsidian Entertainment announces plans for the first Early Access test for Armored Warfare, saying this will run from May 27th to June 3rd in their upcoming multiplayer tank combat game. They will...

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition, an expanded version of Monolith's Tolkien-inspired action game coming to Windows, Xbox One,...

The Scott Games website has a teaser image for what would seem to be Five Nights at Freddy's 4. This shows an animatronic bear, and the caption "The Final Chapter 10.31.15," suggesting a Halloween...

1 in 5 Steam Games Has Linux Support. Thanks Linux Today via Ant. After Nepal earthquake, people turn to ham radio.

Thanks Ant. Google Offers $164M To Support Quality Journalism. When AT&T promises broadbandbut delivers only 300Kbps. AT&T + AOL = $24,000 phone bill for one retiree. Opera 29 gains tab sync across...

Bloodborne Camera Glitch Turns RPG Into an Old School GTA Game. Ouya seeks quick sale as debts mount. PS4 with Silent Hills demo P.T. installed listed for £1000 on ebay. Shovel Knight is Now...

Chet Faliszek on virtual reality gaming- We're at the Pong level, we've only scratched the surface. European Team Fortress 2 League Kicks Off Season 21. ESL And ESEA Announce "World's Largest...

Empyrean Rule - Rise of the Ancients by Empyrean Rule Kickstarter. "A sandbox game in an open fantasy persistent world with real time tactical battles, strategy, empire management. Endless...

The Destructive Creations website announces a June 1st release date for Hatred, their upcoming shooter already notorious for its AO rating. The announcement is accompanied by a "Human Shields"...

Developer Scott Kevill posts to Steam to let us know that the just-released Steam edition of X-Wing Alliance and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter are supported out of the virtual box by GameRanger, the...

The Grand Theft Auto V PC subreddit has posts from users who have found themselves banned from playing Grand Theft Auto V due to the use of mods. There is some confusion about what constitutes a...

WBIE offers details on Batman: Arkham Knight Season Pass and the Premium Edition of the superhero game, both of which are now available for preorder. Word is the Season Pass will include a six month...

Boid r4: AI upgrade, workshop improvements. Carmageddon Early Access - The FINAL UPDATE. EVE Online - Patch Notes For Mosaic. Orcs Must Die! Unchained Closed Beta Patch 2.1 Notes. StarCraft II:...

Behind the Scenes: Part II - The Cast is a new trailer from Not A Hero (now with 57% fewer capital letters), the upcoming 8-bit styled action/adventure. A playable demo was released last week and...