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Blizzard introduces a masked vigilante called Soldier: 76 as the latest hero in OverWatch, their upcoming teamplay shooter. They celebrate the news with no fewer than three new videos centered on the...

A community manager post to battle.net explains that all the maps are back in rotation in the Americas for Heroes of the Storm, and they should be restored in other regions for the MOBA now or soon....

With Windows 10 due at the end of the month, GOG.com announces their support for the new operating system, saying they hope to offer a "near-seamless transition" for the good old games offered on...

Almost a year to the day after announcing changes to Ghost Recon Phantoms to inspire more players to check it out, Ubisoft announces they are now offering version 2.0 of the free-to-play shooter...

GTA Online: Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 update is live now. No patch notes yet.

Xbox One Update for July 7, 2015. Kings Quest - The Complete Collection is Now Available for Digital Pre-order and Pre-download on Xbox One. Overkill is 'upset' about dropping support for Payday 2...

Humble Game Making Bundle on Humble Bundle. Surprise attack games on GOG.com. Save up to 75%.

Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide on GameWatcher.

Origin announces that Zuma's Revenge is now available for free on Origin as the latest title in their "on the house" program (thanks GameSpot). Here's word on how this arcade game puts the fun in the...

Game Critics Awards Best of E3 Winners Announced. Fallout 4 the big winner.

The Infinium Strike website now offers a playable Windows demo for Infinium Strike, the game developer Codex Worlds calls a "unique take on tower defense." The game has been approved by Steam...

The IL-2 Sturmovik Forum has details on a new patch that's now available for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, also announcing they are commencing early access to the first plane from IL-2...

Studio Wildcard announces the release of modification tools ARK: Survival Evolved, their dinosaur survival game currently in Early Access on Steam. They support this with the launch of a modding...

Mighty Rabbit Studios, Gun Media, Gambitious Digital Entertainment, and Devolver Digital announce Breach & Clear: DEADline is coming on July 21st, since it takes a village to make a release date. The...

Link of the Day: The Hustler - kid edition.

Good Game - Series 11 Episode 21. Thanks Ant… Borderlands Deluxe Statue Collection- Moxxi…

Drones to deliver medicine to rural Virginia field hospital. Thanks HARDOCP.

Showtime's Stand-Alone Service Now Live. Thanks Ant.

Mood-changing wearable tech sets pulses racing. Thanks HARDOCP. Desperate man with dying phone jumps on Broadway stage to revive it. Clandestine: Anomaly on the App Store on iTunes.

1TB PS4 dated, includes bundled PlayStation TV.

Rhino 2 -- Steam Greenlight. "Rhino is a turn-based tactical game, where you can hustle and bunt other players. Choose a character to your taste, improve it and win, invite your friends and create...

Chaos Reborn - Enter the Realms of Chaos - v0.28 Update. Thanks Eurogamer. Team Fortress 2 update released. World of Warcraft Patch 6.2 Hotfixes - Week of July 6.

This video offers an alternate playthrough of the E3 demo for METAL GEAR SOLID: THE PHANTOM PAIN, showing a different approach to the mission. The narration is Japanese, so it's possible an English...

Paradox Interactive looks to raise interest in next week's release of Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords with a new video developer diary for the add-on. Here's the outline of what we're seeing: "With...

A new patch is now live in MechWarrior Online, updating Piranha Bytes' MMO BattleTech game to version 1.3.410. The patch notes have the details on the changes, including new hero mechs and a...

The Steam listing for F1 2015 now offers system specifications for F1 2015, showing the racing game sequel requires a 64-bit OS and 4 GB of RAM (thanks DSOGaming). Here goes: MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7...

An IGN video shows off 18 minutes of "uninterrupted" gameplay footage from No Man's Sky, the upcoming procedurally generated space game (there actually are breakaways for audience reactions, and the...

Developer Three Phase Interactive now offers a playable Windows, OS X, and Linux demo on Steam for Defect to support the Kickstarter campaign for this game where you construct a spaceship and then...

Fnatic CS-GO takes home $100,000 thanks to ESL and ESEA. Hi-Rez capping Smite World Championship prize pool at $1m.

Kalypso Media announces the OS X edition of the Paradise Lost DLC bundle for Tropico 5 is now available, noting this collection of three DLC packs is also now available for the Xbox 360 edition of...

CD Projekt RED reveals they will not be offering free DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt this week as they finish up work on a version 1.07 patch for the RPG sequel (thanks VG247). This includes some...

Inafune: Kickstarter is "confidence-building" for Japanese devs. INFRA - Indiegogo. "INFRA is a first-person puzzle adventure game. While the main focus of the game is on puzzle solving, it also has...

Neverending Nightmares on Steam. Save 66%. Shadowgate (2014) on Steam. Save 80%.

Cloud Imperium Games announces they've opened a new studio in Frankfurt, the hotbed of CryENGINE development, to further support creation of Star Citizen, their upcoming space combat game. Here's the...

WBIE unveils the Mortal Kombat X Predator Bundle, a new DLC package coming to the fighting game sequel tomorrow. This trailer shows off the playable Predator and other features of the pack, and there...

Anandtech's AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review includes word that AMD has ceased further optimization for the Mantle low-level graphics API they introduced amid some fanfare less than two years ago (thanks...

Doom on Raspberry Pi (bare metal assembly). Doesn't look quite as authentic as they say. Thanks Doomworld via Ant.

Safari isnt the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is. Thanks OS news via Ant. Apple's new iPhone rumored to feature 4K-capable, 12-megapixel camera. How many iPhones does it take to...

Sony Reveals First Flight Crowdfunding Platform for Employees, Might Be Used for Video Game. PlayStation Now turned my awful Samsung Smart TV into a fun gaming system.

The LinkedIn profile of Alex Mayberry now lists Cloud Imperium Games as a previous employer, leading to speculation that he's no longer the Executive Producer on Star Citizen, though his current...

At the Mountains of Madness - Steam Greenlight. "...a Indie Lovecraftian PC game based in the novel by H.P. Lovecraft, currently under development." Redemption: Eternal Quest - Steam Greenlight. "......

Interdimensional Games offers a new gameplay teaser trailer from CONSORTIUM: The Tower Prophecy with a look at the Unreal Engine 4 graphics of this upcoming first-person shooter sequel. CONSORTIUM...

Interstellar Rift on GameWatcher. Video.

The Sims 4 slips back into the top spot on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for the week ending July 4th. Last week's number one FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward...

The LinkedIn profile of Alex Mayberry now lists Cloud Imperium Games as a previous employer, leading to speculation that he's no longer the Executive Producer on Star Citizen, though his current...

Why you might not want to upgrade to iTunes 12.2. Thanks Ant. They actually made this terrible software worse?

iOS 8.4 nixes Home Sharing for music, at least for now.

Fabled CD-playing, SNES-compatible Play Station prototype found in a box.

Todd Howard Explains How Skyrims Bugs Should Improve Fallout 4s Wasteland. Matt Chat 298- Richard Bartle on Female MUDders. Thanks Ant.

Minecraft convention breaks record for largest video game event.