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A new May Roadmap and the Road Ahead has details from IO Interactive on upcoming HITMAN 3 plans. This starts with a roundabout confession that the launch of the promised Freelancer mode is being...

IGN reports that The Day Before is making a switch, and will now use the Unreal Engine 5. Experience gamers know what this means, and sure enough this also includes the news that what IGN calls "Stea...

Gunzilla Games announces Off the Grid, a cyberpunk, third-person battle royale coming to PC and consoles next year. This will emphasize the game's narrative, a natural outgrowth of the pedigrees of...

Total Mayhem Games announces a May 10th release date for We Were Here Forever for PC and consoles. So this new installment in the co-op puzzle series will hit the Q2 release window announced when it...

The Feral Store and Steam both now offer the macOS edition of Total War: WARHAMMER III on , the latest installment in the fantasy strategy series. This is a free addition for those who already own...

New Ragnarök campaign DLC is now available for Zombie Army 4: Dead War, Rebellion's first person shooter. This sounds like meme dream team of a World War II/zombie/Viking game, but this Ragnarök is...

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is at the center of a new shareholder lawsuit filed by New York City pension funds against the video game giant, reports Axios. If successful, this would open...

A new video from NoClip offers an extended look at gameplay from Ravenholm, the cancelled Half-Life game that at one time was in development at Arkane Studios. Word is this was recorded during the...

Dark Quest: Board Game is now available in Early Access for Windows on Steam. As implied by the title, this allows you to play a tabletop game on your computer, complete with virtual miniatures,...

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is now available for Windows on the Epic Games Store, the Humble Store*, and Steam, offering the chance to make your bones as a paleontologist. Pyramid Games calls this "a...

Sony Buying WB Interactive Would be “Really Smart” Says Pachter as Sale Rumors Resurface. Pach attack!

Game Over, T1D: Games with Links to the Diabetes Community (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Roblox introduces flexible working options.

Official patches. Call of Duty: Warzone Season Three Patch Notes.

A tweet from Crysis announces there will be no leadership crisis for the recently announced game unofficially titled Crysis 4. Word is Mattias Engström will be the Game Director on the next...

Techland tweets about more new content coming to Dying Light. Word is tomorrow the zombie game will go back in time with a new Dieselpunk DLC pack. Here's a Dieselpunk Bundle Trailer with a look at...

NPD's Mat Piscatella tweets the latest analysis from the NPD Group showing a decline in game hardware and software sales in the US in Q1 2022. He adds that the market "continues to trend well above...

You can't tell the Warhammer 40K games without a scorecard, so here's a handy roundup of reviews for Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters: Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate DaemonHunters Review "Buy,...

Blow & Fly is now available for Windows on Steam, offering a puzzle/platformer that sounds like a discount travel plan. In this you play as a blowfish, so naturally gameplay involves rolling up in a...

Publisher Asmodee Digital and developer Event Horizon announce Dark Envoy. This "guns n’ sorcery" single-player and co-op RPG is coming this year to PC and consoles. The game combines magic power and...

Publisher Asmodee Digital and developer Event Horizon announce Guns N’ Sorcery is coming this year to PC and consoles. This is a single-player and co-op RPG. As the title suggests, the game combines...

Square Enix lost $200,000,000 on Marvel games - Avengers will continue.

Midweek Sale- games that won’t take you long to beat up to 90% off - GOG.com.* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

This tweet announces that Ubisoft Montréal is taking the development reins of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. Last year it was revealed the game's release was being delayed into the...

Time to fuel up the Loot Boat, as Loot River has come around the bend, and is now available for Windows on Steam. Developer straka.studio calls this an action/roguelike, offering a Launch Trailer...

Sniper Elite 5 is targeting a May 26th release date for PC and consoles, so Rebellion offers new details on what to expect from the next installment in the sharpshooter series. Here's a new Features...

A new patch is now available for Sifu, which includes the spring content update for the martial arts action game. This is available for Windows and for PlayStation, which gets a physical version in...

Activision Blames Disappointing Call Of Duty Sales On WW II.

Humble Choice - Humble Bundle.* Free games to keep this month include Command & Conquer Remastered and Planet Zoo. New Warcraft Products Now Available in the Gear Store. *Blue's News may receive a...

The industry has embraced remote working. Now what? Epic Games & Apprenti announce new Unreal Engine apprenticeship initiatives.

Official patches. Destiny 2 Hotfix 4.0.1.2.

Axios reports that Activision Blizzard is advising shareholders to vote against a proposal by New York State that Activision Blizzard issue an annual report on workplace abuse, harassment, and...

Publisher Team17 and developer OverBorder Studio announce Thymesia will arrive on PC and consoles on August 9th. This action/RPG was without a release date after it was delayed last year. But you...

Oaken is now available in Early Access for Windows and macOS on GOG.com* and Steam. This roguelike is also part of Steam's Going Rogue Festival, so there's a playable demo, though this is only for...

Here's another demo from the Steam Going Rogue Festival, as you can find a sample of Airoheart on Steam. This is inspired by classics of days gone by, as you can see in the previously released Teaser...

Saber Interactive and 34BigThings announce Redout 2 will arrive for Windows and consoles on May 26th, offering a new game in the venerable anti-gravity racer genre. A new Release Date Trailer...

Publisher 1C Entertainment and developer Blini Games announce plans to go blabbing about H.P. Lovecraft's secrets with the release of Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2 on May 17th for Windows, macOS, and...

Blizzard is “evaluating” new Diablo Immortal classes. There are currently ‘no concrete plans’ for Shenmue 4, says Yu Suzuki.

Official patches. No Man's Sky Outlaws 3.89. PUBG- BATTLEGROUNDS -- Patch Notes - Update 17.2. Spire of Sorcery - CHAPTER 4 HAS ARRIVED. Steam Deck Client Update: More Keyboards Layouts. World of...

Steam has officially gone rogue with the launch of Going Rogue (a festival of persistence), the promised week-long celebration of roguelike and roguelite games. For fans of other related games which...

Here's a random selection of demos that are available as part of the Steam Going Rogue Festival mentioned above. As is always the case with these fests, many of these will only be available for the...

Turning over a new page on the calendar means finding some disc space for Prime Subscribers, as Prime Gaming now offers the May lineup of free games. In addition a bunch of new in-game items and...

Official patches. Eldest Souls - Major Free Expansion ‘Depths of the Forgotten’ out NOW. Ghostwire: Tokyo Update Notes – May 2, 2022. Steam Client Beta.

Content Of The Week - 28 April - For Honor. Official trailers. Content creator videos. Trapped in a First Person Video Game. Thanks Ant. 10 Hidden Video Game Bosses You Weren't Supposed To See.

Matt Chat 485: Bruce Nesmith of Bethesda and TSR (video). Thanks Ant.

Vintage Computer Festival East Raises The Bar Again. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Now PlayStation is also hiring for an acquisitions manager.

Embracer Group announces a deal with Square Enix to acquire Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, and Square Enix Montréal for USD$300 million in cash. This includes a large catalogue of IPs from each studio,...

Steam now offers a playable demo for FALLING OUT, an upcoming roguelite platformer for Windows. As of this writing, the demo link calls this the "Pyramid Plunge Demo." That's because somewhere along...

The title of Forsaken World becomes officially ironic with the announcement from Arc Games that the MMORPG will shut down in November. The game launched in March 2011, so its run lasted more than a...