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Outland 17 - A Colonial-Punk Tactical RPG by Outland 17 Kickstarter. "Outland 17 is a Tactical RPG based on the American Revolutionary War. Inspired by XCOM but with its own unique visual flair &...

Valve provides the following list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: Grand Theft Auto V Star Wars Collection - 2015 Killing Floor 2 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive DiRT Rally...

A facebook update from WBIE adds some details to the announcement of a Season Pass for Batman: Arkham Knight, revealing this will include a prequel campaign playable as Batgirl (thanks Polygon). Here'...

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Broken Age Act Two on IncGamers. Drakensang Retro on RPGWatch. Kitty Powers' Matchmaker on Christ Centered Gamer. Mortal Kombat X on DSOGaming. Order of Battle: Pacific on Armchair General. Pillars...

Thanks Ant. Congress, Crypto and Craziness. Thanks Linux Security. Judge Tosses United Airlines Lawsuit Over Hidden City Tickets. Thanks Slashdot.

Thanks Ant. Antivirus Company Qihoo Censured for Cheating in Lab Tests. Thanks DSLReports. To Evangelize Security, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone. Thanks Linux Security.

PC prices to go up later this year, Gartner warns. Thanks HARDOCP. Human Pros Dominating Poker AI. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Debian 8: Linuxs most reliable distro makes its biggest change since 1993....

Future of wearables unknown, but things are looking good.

Steam News announces that preloads are now available for those who have pre-purchased Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, MachineGames' alternate-history shooter prequel that's due for release on Tuesday....

Survivor Squad: Gauntlets is now officially available on Steam for Windows, OS X, and Linux following a five-month run as an Early Access release. A launch trailer shows off the strategic top-down...

Xbox 360 Free Multiplayer Weekend (May 1-3).

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.

Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball on Steam. Save 40%. Ubisoft Sale on The Humble Store.

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,...