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The Steam Deckbuilders Fest is now underway, kicking off a week-long celebration of the genre. If you play your cards right, this provides the chance to view presentations, play demos, get discounts,...

Bounties of Babylon is now available for Windows on Steam, offering an age-of-sail turn-based strategy game where you expand the map as you play. The Launch Trailer has an explanation from developer...

Palia is now free-to-play on Steam, offering the Windows edition of this peaceful farming and fishing game. In addition to those agrarian activities, this also includes the chance to make friends,...

Geoff Keighley on X: Judas Interview tomorrow.

Baldur's Gate 3 Director Reveals One Surprising Villain That Used to Be Playable.

Slice, Dice, & Everything Nice: D3 After Dark (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

A video from repair rights activist Louis Rossmann (thanks RedEye9) discusses recent changes to the Blizzard End User License Agreement, knowing most users will not end up reading them. Louis raises...

Slitherine Software and The Artistocrats announce the Urban Onslaught will begin in June with the release of the second DLC for Starship Troopers: Terran Command. This will add a new planet, an eight-...

A post from Capcom discusses plans to patch Dragon's Dogma 2 to address issues users are encountering in the action/RPG sequel. Most of the items listed relate to the console editions. Here are the...

Bethesda xeets a celebration of 30 years of The Elder Scrolls series. This looks back at the history of the role-playing franchise. There's also a very brief mention of the upcoming Elder Scrolls VI....

Early Access to Kdomon: Hyper Auto Battlers is now underway on Steam, offering the chance to vanquish your opponents in this roguelike without getting your hands dirty. This involves monster hunting...

Gore Doctor is now available on Steam, offering an action/adventure for Windows and Linux from Salient Games. In this you play a psychiatrist driven to madness, though the title could refer to your...

Steam now offers Early Access to ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, a 2D action/RPG for Windows from Adglobe, Live Wire, and Binary Haze Interactive. This is expected to fully bloom out of Early...

Legend of Zelda movie director teases -awesome idea- and says he wants to create something "serious and cool, but fun and whimsical." Thanks Ant.

Insider Gaming reports on XDefiant, with Tom Henderson exerting some of his signature insider knowledge. Focusing on the previous indication Ubisoft's free-to-play first-person shooter would launch...

At PAX East SQUARE ENIX revealed the release date for Dawntrail, saying the new Final Fantasy 14 will arrive in the MMORPG on June 28th in Early Access and on July 2nd in full. The announcement is...

Resident Evil 9 could be an open world game, it's claimed. Days Gone Studio's New IP Is a Live-Service Game.

How are CD Projekt's side quests so good? Cyberpunk quest designer says they reject "over 90%" of their pitches. Jack Thompson, The Man Who Tried To Ban GTA, Thinks Video Games Can Be Good, Actually....

Grumpy gran aged 75 is global Fortnite gaming sensation.

Tetris Reversed is unearthed after being forgotten for a decade. A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful. New book on LAN Parties. Thanks Slashdot via Neutronbeam. Old Vintage...

Apple Vision Pro To Launch In China Later This Year, Says CEO Tim Cook.

Content creator video. Blow the Man Down - Helldivers 2 Ep2 - Carbot. Thanks Ant.

A playable demo is now available on Steam for Serum, a co-op survival adventure in the works at Game Island and Toplitz Productions. The demo paves the way for Early Access, which is expected to...

Swen Vincke: I would like to clear up something. WOTC is not to blame for us taking a different direction. On the contrary, they really did their best and have been a great licensor for us, letting...

Layoffs and AI sour annual Game Developers Conference- The vibe is rancid.'

'Make a private hosted version of your game': Knockout City dev's top tip for studios shutting down a live service game is to give players the keys.

Official patch. The Settlers- New Allies Gears of Prosperity Update Brings New Buildings, Gameplay, and More.

Content creator videos. AI beats multiple World Records in Trackmania. Thanks Max. Firearms Expert Reacts To Hell Let Loose's Guns PART 3.

Android 15 is pulling the plug on apps built for Android Marshmallow. Apple Rolling Out Updated Firmware for AirTags [Updated]. Thanks Ant. Samsung to launch a microLED Galaxy Watch next year....

Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO. Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in.

A report on Bloomberg (may require registration or subscription) has more on the struggles of Overwatch 2, Blizzard's first-person shooter sequel. It explains how the game's developers ended up...

The possibility Grand Theft Auto VI could be pushed from its planned 2025 release has emerged, according to an unconfirmed report on Kotaku saying the open-world crime sequel is still planned for...

Windwalk Games and Team17 announce SWORN, a co-op action/roguelike coming this year to PC on Steam and to consoles. This is based on a twisted version of the Aurthurian legend where King Arthur is...

The Epic Games Store and Steam each offer a 10% launch discount on (booming voice please) Bears in Space, a Windows first-person shooter promising a visit to a retro-futuristic bullet hell. Word is: "...

Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian Working on Additional Evil Endings, and 'They're Really Evil.' 'Is Dave The Diver an indie game? I would say no,' says game director.

Back with a Vengeance: The Best of Boomer Shooters (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

World of Warcraft - Twitch Drop- Get the Fathom Pet - Now Live.

Preserving old games was seen as a non-commercial 'art project' until recently, says Nightdive director- 'They were great then and they're great now, and companies have begun to realize that.'

GOG.com announces that as part of its ongoing Spring Sale,* GOG.com is giving away free copies of Book of Demons, an action/RPG for Windows and macOS. You have three days to get your snag on, and...

Grinding Gear Games announces a delay to beta testing of Path of Exile 2. This was planned for June, but now the beta will be later in the year. Word is there will be an alpha test in June instead....

Metacritic's 2024 Game Publisher Rankings are online, revealing which companies are most and least likely to disappoint gamers with their offerings. This is a little more complex than just comparing...

A post on Steam, Capcom discusses the launch of Dragon's Dogma 2, addressing issues raised players about the action/RPG sequel. Word is crashes and bugs are being investigated and the option of...

IO Interactive announces yet another chance to kill Sean Bean in HITMAN, as the joke about the actor's frequent on-screen deaths becomes ever more meta. For a limited time Sean returns to the game as...

PlayFusion announces ASCENDANT.COM, a squad-based shooter with a URL for a name because reasons. This promises four-team combat, or as the announcement puts it, "3v3v3v3 PvP." This uses a "biopunk"...

Larian "not done with updating" Baldur's Gate 3. Larian CEO Swen Vincke: 'I've been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes.'

Mat Piscatella on X: February 2024 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. Resident Evil Director, Hi-Fi Rush Producer Shinji Mikami has Seemingly Started Another New Studio.

The Windows edition of Dragon's Dogma 2 is now available on Steam. The official release date for the action/RPG sequel is March 22nd, but it's already tomorrow (not to mention five o'clock) somewhere....

GOG.com has the announcement of INDUSTRIA 2, a sequel to the Cold War shooter, which also has listings on the Epic Games Store and Steam. This will feature a return to a parallel dimension East...

The promised second global beta test is underway for BATTLE CRUSH, NCSOFT's upcoming action brawler for PC, Switch, and mobile. You can request access to the PC testing on Steam. Here's a trailer and...

Deep Silver announces SoLa is coming to Dead Island 2, the zombie sequel that taught us Los Angeles is an island. But just because LA is now HELL-A after being overrun by zombies doesn't mean you can'...