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Save 70% on Patron on Steam. Save 25% on Smalland: Survive the Wilds on Steam. Save 25% on The Wandering Village on Steam. Save 30% on Stolen Realm on Steam. Myst & More Redux- 30 Years of Myst (pay...

Thanks Ant. Baldur's Gate 3 - Release Teaser. The Crew Motorfest- New Gameplay Reveals Porsche Playlist, EV Supercars, And A Tour of Hawaii. Official trailers. Content creator videos. Blue zone...

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name further details story, characters, and organizations. Thanks Dan. The Wandering Village- Creating Onbu, The Giant, Walking Ecosystem.

As expected, the US Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn its case against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard following the agency's defeat in court. Word is: "On July 18, 2023, counsel...

A post on GOG.com alerts users to technical issues on the backend of the online store. A storage outage and related problems are interfering with the ability to download the games in your library...

Homeseek is now available for Windows on Steam, offering a survival/strategy game "set on a dystopian, resource-strapped Earth at the beginning of the next century," presumably different from the...

Whispike Survivors - Sword of the Necromancer is now available on Steam for Windows and on consoles, offering a top-down survival game for Windows. The Announcement Trailer shows how this differs...

Developer Action Square and publisher HIKE announce ANVIL will graduate from Early Access next week and will officially launch on Steam on July 27th. This reveals a name change for the top-down...

Brewpub Simulator is now available for Windows on Steam, offering the chance to decorate and operate your own bar. We'd say this isn't your grandfather's brewpub, but it literally is. It's published...

Richard 'Lord British' Garriott still wants to make Ultima Online 2- 'All we need now is to buy EA.' We need a Lord British/Peter Molyneux collaboration. Activision Blizzard Deal's Imminent Closure...

Official patches. Microsoft Flight Simulator July 20th, 2023 Development Update. Team Fortress 2 Update Released. Team Fortress 2 Update Released. World of Warcraft Hotfixes- July 20, 2023.

Bloomberg (may require registration or subscription) has word that the US Federal Trade Commission is prepared to pause its in-house trial over the Microsoft/Activision Blizzard merger and discuss a...

Ubisoft Reports First-Quarter 2023-24 Sales, saying its Q1 performance is "ahead of target" despite being down across-the-board compared to last Q1, which is blamed on a lack of new games releases....

Ubisoft announces more details about Ocelotl, the new hero coming next week to For Honor, the melee combat game. Word is he will arrive in an update that brings a Performance Mode that will gives...

Valve alerts everyone to the coming of the Steam Stealth Fest, saying this celebration of sneakiness will emerge from the shadows on Monday. A new Official Trailer is here with a sneak peak at all...

Punch Club 2: Fast Forward is now available for Windows on GOG.com* and Steam and for consoles, offering a fighter management sequel from Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild. Apparently the original got...

This post on Steam announces the release of LISA: Definitive Edition for PC and consoles, bringing updated versions of point-and-click RPGs LISA: The Painful and LISA: The Joyful. This is a free...

Save 35% on Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense on Steam. Save 25% on Smalland- Survive the Wilds on Steam. Save 55% on A Plague Tale Bundle on Steam. Save 70% on The Ascent on Steam. Exclusive...

The Division 2: Together in Pride - The Importance of Inclusive Writing (video).

It's time to put on your Thursday Best snagging outfit and head over to the Epic Games Store, where this week's giveaways are up for the taking. As promised, everyone is now entitled to free copies...

Remnant 2 won't launch until next week, but the review embargo for the third-person shooter expired today. Here's a roundup of evaluations of the sequel to Remnant: From the Ashes: Review: Remnant 2 -...

A post on the Dolphin Blog has more on the recent postponement of the launch of the Dolphin Nintendo emulator. This involves legal issues, so the team wisely consulted with an attorney before making...

GameMill Entertainment announces Skull Island: Rise of Kong, an action/adventure based on the enduring story of King Kong. This outing builds on Merian C. Cooper's King Kong, a 2005 novel based on...

Tiny Football is now out of Early Access, and version 1.0 of this itty-bitty association football/soccer game is now available on Steam. Everything that's changed for the release version is outlined...

The Breach Studios and MY.GAMES announce alpha testing gets underway tomorrow for Project ST, an upcoming free-to-play online "party shooter." An Alpha Playtest Trailer illustrates the news with a...

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition is now available for Windows on Steam and for consoles, offering an updated version of this puzzle/RPG. This carries a limited-time 15% launch...

NSFW Sale with deals up to -90%, new Succubus VR title, and 2 MediBang games joining the catalog! - GOG.com.* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Addresses Plans To Stick Around After Microsoft's Acquisition. Corsair Gaming to Report Q2 2023 Financial Results on August 3.

Diablo 4 players plan to boycott Season 1 after out of touch" 1.1.0 update.

Early Access to Blackout Protocol is now underway on Steam. Besides waking up with a hangover and trying to figure out what you did last night, Blackout Protocol is also a co-op twin-stick shooter...

Blizzard News announces Blizzard is bringing a selection of its games to Steam, starting with the Steam launch of free-to-play FPS Overwatch 2 on August 10th. Blizzard's games have been cloistered...

Intel now offers new Arc Graphics Windows drivers, saying these support next week's launches of both Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Remnant II. Here's what the new drivers bring to these games: "Bot...

Skybound Games reveals plans for The Walking Dead: Betrayal with a new Announce Trailer from this upcoming social deception game based on the zombie-infested comic book/television property. This is...

Whimsy & Wonder: A Cozy Games Collection (pay what you want and help charity).* Save 40% on Abalon (formerly Summoners Fate) on Steam. Save 85% on Hacknet on Steam. Crashlands Franchise Celebration....

THE WITCHER - Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan Break Down the Shaerrawedd Fight Scene (Netflix) (video). Thanks Ant.

Microsoft will deliver improved HoloLens combat goggles to Army testers this month.

Official trailer. For Honor: Ocelotl Hero - Reveal Trailer.

Activision Blizzard Announces Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results, outlining the business that Microsoft is trying so hard to acquire. This was a record quarter for the company with over $1...

Good Shepherd and Rebellion announce a partnership to create games based on the 2000 AD comics universe. The British weekly anthology was futuristic when it chose its name 23 years before the turn of...

FARSIDERS is now available, offering a hack-and-slash RPG for Windows from Gambit Ghost Studio. A new announcement calls this release a beta, but there is no indication on Steam that this is anything...

Steam now offers a playable demo Kill The Crows in advance of next month's launch of this top-down arena shooter set in the wild west. Developer 5minlab Corp explains: "While the demo is brief, we...

Developer Strollart and publisher Apogee announce Below the Stone, a roguelike coming to PC Early Access later this year and to consoles in 2024. But there's a playable Windows demo to check out...

Early Access to Gunsmith Simulator is now underway on Steam, offering the latest installment in publisher PlayWay's campaign to simulate every profession on Earth. The Release Trailer shows that...

Report: Resident Evil 9 Aiming 2025 Release; "Big Capcom Game" to be Announced Later This Year.

Overwatch 2 Engagement and Player Investment Is Declining, Activision Blizzard Admits. Activision says development of Call of Duty 2023 is proceeding well.'

Taking advantage of not having to fit the title on a box, Frontier Developments announces Execution Force, a second DLC pack for Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters that will arrive on July...

Ember Knights is out of Early Access on Steam, marking the official launch of this co-op action/roguelite that's already met with "overwhelmingly positive" reviews. This post discusses the launch and...

With his new autobiography released, famed game designer John Romero took to Reddit for an AMA about his career. The interview includes the expected fawning as well as the expected snark. Some of the...

PC Early Access to REMEDIUM: Sentinels has concluded, and version 1.0 of the Windows edition is available on Epic Games Store and Steam. This also marks the launch of this roguelite auto-shooter for...

Look North World announces its existence as a new community-focused game studio creating Unreal Engine for Fortnite (UEFN) games. The first of these, called Outlaw Corral, is now available, offering...