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Thanks Ant. E-sports could become as popular as football. EGX Rezzed 2016 dates, location announced. Inside the World's Biggest 'Magic: The Gathering' Tournament. Valve is 'not exhibiting' at E3....

The Das Tal Kickstarter page announces they are offering free access to the current build of this sandbox PvP MMOG for 24 hours, beginning today at 9:00 am EDT as their campaign enters its final...

Drop that donut and grab a Napoleon, as Matrix Games now offers Scourge of War: Waterloo, a strategy game they ambitiously claim "is by far the most detailed game about the final battle of the War of...

Chris Avellone tweets his departure from Obsidian, saying "I have officially left Obsidian Entertainment to accept a sudden opening as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts." The...

GOG.com announces they have kicked their DRM-free summer sale into overload for 24 hours, which includes additional deals and freebies. Here's what's happening: It's the 2015 DRM-Free Summer Sale #De...

An open letter on the Witcher website from CD Projekt RED co-founder Marcin Iwiński reveals that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sold more than four million copies in the first two weeks of the release...

Digital Extremes and n-Space announce plans for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 editions of Sword Coast Legends by the end of this year, also specifying a September 8th release date for the previously...

Wargaming announces they are resurrecting Master of Orion, saying they are working on an updated version of the MicroProse strategy classic for a modern audience. This is in the works in Argentine-bas...

Metal Gear Solid V on Ars Technica.

PS4 1TB spotted on Amazon EU, release date and price noted.

Fortnite on The Escapist.

Old School RuneScape competitive tournament. Twitch Details Latest Attractions for TwitchCon 2015.

D4: Dark Dreams Dont Die "Season One" on Steam. Save 10%. The Night of the Rabbit on Steam. Save 80%. Triple The Fun bundles on Bundle Stars.

The Bethesda Blog announces physical disc copies of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood will arrive in North American stores on July 21st. Here's the news: News Flash: By popular demand, were releasing a...

CapCom Unity now offers screenshots and a new trailer for Resident Evil 0, the upcoming survival/horror remake. Here is the accompanying text:Yes, as previously announced in brief, the atmospheric...

Obsidian Entertainment announces a second wave of early access testing for Armored Warfare will begin on Wednesday, as they continue to put their upcoming tank combat game through its paces prior to...

Epic Games offers a new Fortnite gameplay trailer showing off the upcoming Unreal Engine 4 zombie game. This was released at WWDC today along with the announcement that in addition to the previously...

Don't buy a Steam Machine - The Verge. The official Steam Machines run SteamOS, which is basically Linux with Steams Big Picture Mode. Even though Valve is working to bring more games to Linux,...

The Auro Quest Expansion by Keith Burgun Kickstarter. "Bringing Auro (PC/Android/iOS) to the next level with a new story-driven campaign mode, new spells, new monsters, and much, much more!" Also...

The Witcher III: Wild Hunt falls to number three on the GfK Chart-Track PC top 30 for the week ending June 6th as The Sims 4 remains on top. The new Witcher continues to bewitch the all platforms...

DSOGaming notes that tweets from Qwiboo and Puppygames offer perspective on Steam's recently expanded refund policy, showing this can be tough on small developers offering inexpensive short games,...

The OHIM website, home of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, reveals an EU trademark filing for a project called Mirror's Edge Catalyst. This is not the only hint about the title of...

CapCom Unity announces the Mega Man Legacy Collection, coming this summer to Windows and current-gen consoles, offering enhanced versions of the original six 8-bit games in the series on new...

A post on the GeForce website discusses NVIDIA GameWorks support in Batman: Arkham Knight, showing off some NVIDIA-specific hardware effects in a new. trailer. Here's word: Batman: Arkham Asylum,...

A new mostly Japanese Figureheads website is online, revealing development of Figureheads by Square Enix with this video. Most of the text and voice-overs are Japanese, and the techno soundtrack...

Warside on Gaming Nexus.

New Xbox One Update Out Now. No Chance of Fallout 4 on Xbox 360 or PS3. Unreleased graphical C64 adventure will see the light of day. Thanks Ant. Looks like Forza 6 is getting the features series...

Rock Band 4 vs Guitar Hero Live.

Bloodwood Reload on Just Adventure.

Matt Chat 294- John Cutter on Casual Gaming, Dogs, and VR. Thanks Ant.

The real scars of Korean gaming. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Neptune Flux by Zoxide Games Kickstarter. "Explore the ocean, discover lost treasure, and unlock the secrets of an ancient mystery." Also on Steam Greenlight.

Valve announces the following items are the bestsellers on Steam for last week. We'd normally say these are the ten bestselling games, but there are two pieces of hardware on this week's list: ARK:...

The Deus Ex blog promises a gameplay reveal for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided next week during E3. Here's all they're saying for now about plans to show the action/RPG sequel: "Watch the Deus Ex: Mankind...

YouTube now offers the Heroes of the Storm launch event as a three-plus hour video recorded from yesterday's livestream celebrating the launch of Blizzard's MOBA, though the first 30 minutes of the...

Possible Dish-T-Mobile merger could be trouble for AT&T and Verizon. Uber celebrates its fifth birthday with tears. Thanks HARDOCP. Uber's adding 'hundreds of thousands' of new drivers monthly....

I am Bread is coming to PlayStation 4. Why the music on the Sega Genesis sounded so great.

Why XCOM 2 Had to be PC Exclusive IGN.

Berserk Games announces that Tabletop Simulator has graduated from Early Access, and this recreation of many classic physical games is now officially available on Steam for Windows, Linux, and OS X,...

An E3 Debate trailer is a live-action dealie promoting Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the upcoming continuation of the action/RPG series. This is an odd comedy-heavy exercise which offers interactive...

Steam now offers a playable demo for Football Tactics, the Early Access turn-based strategy game based on the real-time sport of association football/soccer Here's all they say about the demo, which...

A sponsored post on Gamasutra reveals that Amazon is gearing up to develop its first PC game (we don't do sponsored posts, we're passing along out of the goodness of our hearts). Amazon is not being...

Battle.net reminds us a three-hour livestream event is coming this afternoon on YouTube to celebrate the launch of Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's new team brawler/MOBA. Things get underway at 3:00...

Skype for Web opened up in US and UK with plugins.

Dead State- Reanimated - Interview with Brian Mitsoda - Hardbloxx. Good Game Well Played 5- Hingers Chats to Chris Sigaty from Blizzard. Thanks Ant. Paid betas hurt Early Access - Tripwire -...

Colonies Online version 0.11.0.

Atari Weekend Sale on The Humble Store. Cities in Motion Collection on Mac App Store. Save 50%. Scribblenauts Unmasked on Steam. Save 75%.

The Skyforge website introduces the Kinetic, one of the classes in Obsidian's upcoming MMORPG, offering a gameplay trailer showing the character in action. Here's the accompanying explanation: "The...

Publisher BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe and developer Slightly Mad Studios announce Project CARS has now sold more than one million units: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe and Slightly Mad...

The Witcher website has word that the promised patch is now available for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, updating the RPG sequel to version 1.05. For the past couple of hours the patch notes read "504...