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Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-less OLED With 25% Less Power. Why You Should Think Twice About a Gaming Laptop for School. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Tom Henderson tweets an image of the PlayStation Store showing that the official reveal of Call of Duty: Vanguard will be Thursday at 1:00 pm EDT. Word is the unveiling of the next installment in...

Intel reveals its new discrete GPUs are now known as Intel Arc, and that new Arc graphics cards should start arriving in Q1 of next year. Word is: "Intel Arc graphics products built on gaming-first...

A tweet from Friday by Phil Spenser has word from the head of Xbox that Valve's upcoming Steam Deck mobile PCs will support Xbox cloud gaming (thanks Gadgets 360). Word is: "Was @valvesoftware this...

With Humankind set to arrive tomorrow, reviews are showing up how this stacks up against Civilization, the juggernaut of the genre: Humankind review: "Refreshes the 4X genre" - GamesRadar+. Huamnkind...

Ubisoft unveils Crystal Guard, the third season of year six for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. This will go live tomorrow on the test server for the tactical shooter, and Osa, the game's first...

Succubus has suffered another delay, and your chance to step into the nearly naked skin of the protagonist in this action/RPG spin-off of Agony will now come to GOG.com and Steam on October 5th....

Ziggurat Interactive announces September 9th as the official release date for BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites, the remake for Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch. Ten years ago the original...

Indie French developer DigixArt is announces that Road 96 is now available for Windows via the Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and Steam, as well as for Switch. There is also a Road 96 Hitchhiker Bundle...

1C Entertainment announces Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2, saying the action/RPG sequel will arrive on Steam for Early Access on October 28th. This continues where the first game leaves off, putting...

HYPERVIOLENT is a first-person shooter in the works at developer Terminist Arcade and publisher 1C Entertainment for release on Steam next year. As can be plainly seen in the game's Realms Deep 2021...

Forgive me Father is a third game unveiled at Realm's Deep by publisher 1C Entertainment. This is a retro first-person shooter with a horror theme in the works at Byte Barrel. This is inspired by...

A Burning Bridges With Bridgeburner – #06 John Romero on the Art of Level Design is a video interview with famed game designer John Romero. Just after the 42 minute mark he is asked what he is...

Steam now offers a playable demo for Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual! (thanks Frans). As the title states, this is a virtual reality game, so sampling the upcoming return of the Freelance Police...

There's also now a playable demo for No Man's Island on Steam, providing the chance to test your wilderness survival skills in this action/adventure from Rif Game Studio and ManyDevStudio. This...

Publisher 3D Realms and developer Jasozz Games unveil CULTIC, a first-person shooter that's "coming soon." In this heyday of throwback game tributes, the CULTIC Reveal Trailer shows off gameplay...

Here's the new rundown from Valve of the nine or 10 bestselling titles on Steam for the week ending yesterday: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT. Pre-purchase Back 4 Blood. Save 15% on Car Mechanic Simulator 2021....

A tweet from EA's lead community manager addresses the videos leaking from the Battlefield 2042 technical alpha (thanks Eurogamer). Players are warned that breaking the NDA in the test could get...

A tweet from Tom Henderson has a tease from the leakmaster general. There's not much, just an image, while the tweet says "2023." The image shows off Sweet Tooth and his ice cream truck. The clear...

Cloud Imperium Games announces a free fly event for Star Citizen will get underway on August 18th. We don't see this mentioned on the Roberts Space Industries Website, so here's all we have on this...

A new Summer Update 2021 is now available on Steam for Secret Neighbor, the Hello Neighbor multiplayer game. This adds a brand-new map to the game, introducing the Golden Apple Amusement Park,...

Here's a Realms Deep 2021 Reveal Trailer for KVLT, a retro shooter "set in a obscure and grim version of WW2." All we have to go by for the moment is the description of the clip: "KVLT is a Retro...

The ending of Warzone games has changed to include a teaser for Call of Duty 2021. Introducing Steam Deck. Official trailers. Content creator videos. Firearms Expert Reacts To TimeSplitters...

Microsoft Flight Simulator August 12th, 2021 Development Update. Thanks Console General.

Battlefield 2042 PS5 Tech Test Cancelled; Cites "Critical Issue Identified."

Footage from the Battlefield 2042 has been appearing online since the start of the technical alpha test for the military shooter sequel. But they are disappearing almost as quickly, as EA works to...

New financial reporting Remedy Entertainment is now online, offering the latest results from the Finnish developer. The headline is: "Remedy drives growth with moves towards publishing and new games....

A tweet from Mat Piscatella lists the 20 bestselling games in the US across all platforms for July 2021. For completeness, the NPD Group exec also offers another tweet listing the 10 bestselling...

THQ Nordic Official - Expeditions Franchise Daily Deal live now! - Steam. No More Robots 4th Anniversary Sale - Steam. Save 70% on Frostpunk on Steam. Save 60% on Football Manager 2021 on Steam....

Halo Theme - Acappella Style. Thanks Ant.

Weird West Q&A - The Immersive Sim Goes Isometric, Supernatural, and Westward.

GamesIndustry.biz - FFXIV shows a toxic community isn't an inevitability - Opinion. "Honestly, it's almost depressing to realize that what Square Enix did to achieve this is... precisely nothing...

Back 4 Blood Beta Issues and Workarounds - Turtle Rock Studios.

It turns out there was a little drama to be found in the QuakeCon 2021 Schedule mentioned yesterday. Though it was quickly edited to remove the reference, XboxEra notes that for a few minutes after...

Pet Project Games offers an Official Trailer to show off Ripout, a horror co-op first-person shooter coming to PC next year via Steam and the Epic Games Store. The clip shows off the game's Unreal...

Retro publisher SNEG announces plans to release an updated edition of Blade of Darkness in October, offering another hack at this hack-and-slash action/RPG. Also known as Severance: Blade of...

Here's more of what's old becoming new again, as Accelerate Games and Signal Studios announce Toy Soldiers HD, a remastered version of Toy Soldiers coming to PC and consoles on September 9th. Word...

The rise of the arcade pirate game genre continues, as Will Winn Games announces Early Access to Plunder Panic will arrive on PC on September 17th and on consoles in Q1 of next year. As seen in the...

The freedom loving folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation offer an analysis of the recently proposed bill that would regulate how companies like Google and Apple handle business in their app...

Weekend Sale: games with rich stories up to 90% off - GOG.com. Save 21% on The Bone & The Blade Bundle on Steam. Save 80% on Europa Universalis IV on Steam. Humble RPG Bundle: Mutant Chronicles with...

Blade Assault - Darcy is here. Call of Duty: Warzone Season Five Patch Notes.

Rebel Galaxy is now available for free on the Epic Games Store as this week's promised giveaway. This sci-fi RPG from developer Double Damage is yours to keep as long as you claim it over the coming...

Rockstar is working on remastered editions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, reports Kotaku. The news is not confirmed, but the site is...

The Back 4 Blood beta is now open to all, and you can pick up a copy of the Windows client on Steam. Here's word in this spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead from L4D developer Turtle Rock Studios: "Ba...

A report on Bloomberg (may require registration or subscription) has word that Amazon has altered a policy that limited options for employee-developed video games projects, even if they were created...

Valve announces the second annual Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, saying this will run from October 21st-25th. This year will feature a particular focus on RPGs, though all digital tabletop games are...

Faraday Protocol is now available for PC and consoles. and you can find the Windows edition of this sci-fi adventure on GOG.com and Steam with a 10% launch discount. Here's a Launch Trailer and the...

Hasbro and GameMill Entertainment announce NERF: Legends, a first-person shooter coming to PC and consoles in October of this year. This will offer solo gameplay and support for up to eight player...

Tetragon is out for Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch, and the PC edition is available on Steam. This is a puzzle/platformer where one can manipulate the game environment by rotating the map by...

Data miners have found an artwork and a logo for Call of Duty: Vanguard in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War game update, confirming plans for an Open Beta for the new installment in the series,...