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Digital Foundry Retro: Quake - The Game, The Technology, The Ports, The Legacy.

Randy Pitchford: Creating LGBTQ+ understanding through games - VentureBeat. Interview: Amy Johnston On Video Game Stunts, Eating Faces In The Last Of Us, And Being An Elephant - TheGamer.

WIRED: It’s Tough to Defend ‘Overwatch,’ but It's Still Unparalleled (may require registration or subscription). Thanks Neutronbeam. "In September 2020, Blizzard finally changed course and has been...

Saints Row, Dead Island, and TimeSplitters Parent Company Koch Media Announces Pre-E3 Showcase. Activision Blizzard, Cannes Lions, and OS Studios Team Up For Cannes Classic. Computex 2021 - NVIDIA...

A New Nintendo Switch Pro listing has been spotted on Amazon.

Little Nightmares is now free on Steam, offering the chance to own this adventure from developer Tarsier Studios and publisher BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment (thanks Console General). The game is yours...

Ubisoft followed through on its promise to reveal details about Far Cry 6 yesterday, revealing the shooter sequel will be released on October 7th for PC and consoles. It looks like the Windows...

A post on the Microids Website reveals the company is mourning the death of long-term art director Benoît Sokal, who passed yesterday after a long battle with illness. The post offers a short...

Epic vs Apple - Week Three In Review: Who will the judge find in favour? Epic vs. Apple: The (predicted) verdict is in.

A few tweets from Mat Piscatella reflect the latest market research from NPD Group. This tweet has the top selling video games in the US across all platforms for April 2021. Here's the top 10: "...

There's a Call For Artists on the Official Bioware Gear Store soliciting those who might be interested in creating BioWare swag for fun and profit: "Between your awesome ideas and awesome fan art,...

Nearly $1.2 million raised to assist with COVID-19 Relief! - Humble Bundle Blog. Weekend Sale: games featuring giant robots and Electronic Arts titles up to 90% off - GOG.com. Save & Sound - An...

Microsoft Flight Simulator Release Notes (1.16.2.0) Sim Update IV Now Available. Cuts base install size in half.

A video from Space Quest Historian reveals that Ken and Roberta Williams are returning to game design. Ken and Roberta co-founded the company that eventually became Sierra Entertainment, and are...

A new financial presentation from Digital Bros. has indications from the parent company of 505 Games that a sequel is in the works for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the metroidvania developed...

Kung Fu Jesus is now available on Steam, offering a "genre-busting" fighting game where you travel the world preaching from the gospel of whoopass. This is a Windows game, but it has no keyboard and...

Publisher Big Sugar and developer BerserkBoy Games announce Berserk Boy, an action/platformer coming by the end of next year to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. The look...

Four former employees of People Can Fly have formed a new studio called Gruby Entertainment, reports GamesIndustry.biz. The developer was founded last year by Grzegorz Michalak, Karol Szyszka, Paweł...

Save 50% on Sea of Thieves on Steam. Save 75% on Absolver on Steam. Save 15% on Maneater on Steam.

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Warzone players beg for changes to Season 3 Reloaded ground loot. How to fix Modern Warfare Error Code 38.

Among Us is now available for free for Windows on the Epic Games Store as this week's giveaway. This will be a permanent addition to your library if you claim it between now and next Thursday when a...

SEGA and Relic Entertainment are commemorating the US's Memorial Day Weekend with a giveaway of Company of Heroes 2, the World War II real-time strategy sequel. The freebie comes along with an...

The Ubisoft Website offers the chance to play Ghost Recon Breakpoint for free all weekend on PC, PlayStation 4, and Stadia. The site says the event runs from May 27-31 in the heading, while later...

Dying 2 Know- Episode 1 is a video following through on Techland's promise to start releasing more details about Dying Light 2 Stay Human, the zombie game follow-up. This includes an official...

GamesIndustry.biz has word that Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz has left CD PROJEKT RED, where he was appointed design director for Cyberpunk 2077 two years ago. Word is that role is being assumed by Gabriel...

The Esports Observer reports that a Federal Judge in Washington threw out a motion from Valve to nullify the $4 million verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit from controller maker SCUF over the...

SEGA announces Sonic Colors: Ultimate, an upcoming remastered version of Sonic Colors. In addition to the console versions, this will finally fulfill long running speculation of a PC edition of the...

EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS is now available, offering a new installment in the EDF series that attempts to save Earth from invading aliens with the power of voxels. This is available for PC,...

Sony's Investor Relations Day 2021 Presentation seems to spill the beans on plans to bring Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to PC (thanks Gematsu). Included in the slides is one outlining "new growth...

A new announce trailer from SQUARE ENIX reveals plans for Dragon's Quest XII: The Flames of Fate, a new installment in the JRPG series formerly known as Dragon Warrior. The company also offers this...

The Apple-Epic trial was absurd. Apple really might lose it.

The Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC is now available for MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries for PC and consoles. Piranha Games' single-player, BattleTech action game (and the new DLC) can also now be...

Isle of Siptah is out of Early Access, and this expansion for Conan Exiles is now officially available for Windows on Steam. This comes along with a patch to update the base edition of the Hyborian...

Today's forecast calls for storm ground, as Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is now available for PC and consoles, with full crossplay support across all platforms. The Windows edition of this "...

Breaker 1-9! The Windows edition of Truck Driver is now available on the Epic Games Store and Steam, offering PC gamers the chance to get behind the wheel of a virtual big rig in SOEDESCO's hauling...

Save 72% on Generation Zero on Steam. Save 30% on The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos on Steam.

A post to the BlizzCon Website has Blizzard's announcement it will not to hold a BlizzCon this year. In outlining the pros and cons of an in-person show, the post notes that the guidelines for...

A toxicity progress report on the Call of Duty Website discusses efforts that have been made to eliminate toxic behavior in online Call of Duty games. Word is over 350K accounts have been banned for...

Early Access is now underway for GRAVEN, the throwback first person shooter developed by Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment. The Windows game is offered on GOG.com,...

Respawn tweets that problems have caused it to temporarily disable the leaver penalties for Apex Legends that were just added for arena matches. Word is the kinks should be worked out in time for...

SEGA announces Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game will arrive on PC and Consoles on June 22nd. As the year in the title reminds us, this game was announced in 2019 for release in...

Publisher NACON and developer Eko Software announce Rugby 22, a new installment in the biennial sports simulation series. This will come to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox in January 2022, so you have...

Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards is now available for Windows on Steam and on Switch (other consoles to follow), offering an action/RPG based on based on Incan mythology from Digiart Interactive and N-Fu...

1C Publisher Sale 2021 on Steam. Save 50% on Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game on Steam. Killing Floor 2 on the Epic Games Store. Save 75%. Humble Guilty Gear Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)...

The Unreal Engine Website announces that Early Access is now underway for Unreal Engine 5, the newest iteration of Epic's game development platform. This video introduces the release. The post...

This SEC Filing reveals that Larry Probst is preparing to retire from his role as Chairman of the Board of Electronic Arts (thanks GameSpot). Probst, who turns 71 on June 3rd, has been with EA since...

Judge digs into Apple app store policies as Epic Games trial ends. Apple and Epic Games spar in closing arguments over 'Fortnite.'

Publisher Leonardo Interactive and developer Invader Studios announce Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle, a survival/horror game coming to PC and consoles in 2022 as a prequel to Daymare:1998. An Official...

Publisher Headup announces Escape from Naraka, a speedrunning survival/platformer in development at XeloGames for release in Q3 of this year on Steam. This is appropriate for those who consider...