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Halo Infinite Battle Royale?
A post on Reddit has what's said to be a translation of a Japanese store listing for Halo Infinite. According to this, the upcoming installment in the shooter series will include a battle royale mode....
Xbox Game Pass Becoming Just Game Pass?
A tweet from Xbox Game Pass shows a new logo that apparently renames the service as simply "Game Pass." There is a similar tweet from Xbox Game Pass For PC. These are noted in a tweet from Cassim...
Steam Top 10
Wake the kids, phone the neighbors, the new Steam Top 10 is here. The following is Valve's accounting of the bestselling titles on their service for last week. Remember, this is for entertainment...
Sunday Patches
Skater XL Version 1.0 Launches For PC And On Consoles. Thanks Ant.
Sunday Multiplex
The Rise and Fall of Dead Rising - GVMERS. Thanks Ant. Democracy 4 Developer Video Blog#18- Alpha Build.
Gatherings & Competitions
Amateur CoD event goes ahead covertly despite announcing it was canceled. Thanks Neutronbeam.
Disintegration Free Weekend
A free weekend is underway on Steam for Disintegration, providing the chance to sample this recently released Windows first-person shooter with RTS elements (thanks SteamDB via Ant). Word is: "Play...
Barony Free Weekend
A free weekend for Barony is also now underway on Steam, allowing you to play this "first-person roguelike RPG with cooperative play" for nothing. This is also on sale for 80% off, but It bears...
//HEX Released
//HEX is now available on Steam, offering a hacking simulator for Windows that allows you to experience the lucrative career of a hacker who bypasses security systems to rob banks. Here's a Teaser...
Banners of Ruin Early Access
Banners of Ruin is now available on Steam, offering a deckbuilding game from publisher Goblinz Studio and developer MonteBearo. Here's the Early Access Trailer. Here's what's in the cards for those...
Saturday Patches
New HD Texture Pack for Skyrim Special Edition removes compression artifacts & bad bicubic upscaling. Thanks Neutronbeam.
Saturday Multiplex
Land of War - Warsaw 39 scene. TEKKEN 7 – Season 4 Announcement. Absurd Mission Objectives - Battle Plan. Thanks Ant. Diablols 2 Ep 3 "Going Rogue."
Gatherings & Competitions
The Outer Worlds wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game. Twitch is aiming to build an esports league specifically for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. League of Legends World...
Saturday Mobilization
Netflix will let you control its playback speeds on Android.
Halo Infinite F2P Multiplayer Confirmed
A the Halo Twitter has an official confirmation from 343 Industries of the leaked news that the multiplayer mode for Halo Infinite will be free-to-play. Here's the tweet: "Halo is for everyone. We...
Rocket Arena Free Weekend
Celebrating the launch of Rocket Arena Season 1, publisher Electronic Arts and developer Final Strike now offer a free weekend for Rocket Arena, their recently launched multiplayer shooter. They are...
QuakeCon Quake Giveaway
Bethesda is promising all Bethesda.net members who tune in for QuakeCon a free copy of Quake. If their charity initiative hits their first goal, these members will also receive a free copy of Quake...
Anthem Rework Loot Status Report
The BioWare Blog discusses loot and equipment goals as BioWare continues with their promised Anthem rework. This offers details from a discussion that started on Twitter, offering a "peek behind the...
Grounded Soars
Xbox Wire informs us that over one million players have checked out Grounded between Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview: "We want to thank the community for showing support for the recent...
Carrion Carryin' Its Weight
Keep calm and Carrion. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Phobia announce that Carrion has scared up over 200,000 sales since the launch of this reverse horror game. Here's a new live-action...
PC Yakuza Kiwami 2 Released
Yakuza Kiwami 2 is now available for Windows 10, offering PC gamers the chance to live the life of crime in this game first released for PlayStation 4 (it's also now available for Xbox One). Here's...
Riot Dealing with League of Legends Griefers
In a Behavioral Systems August 2020 Update, Riot explains plans to detoxify League of Legends a bit with griefer punishments (thanks The Loadout). Here's the plan for dealing with idle/AFK players in...
Halo: Infinite May Feature F2P Multiplayer
Xbox sleuth Klobrille tweets a screenshot of a since-deleted retail listing stating that Halo: Infinite will include a free-to-play multiplayer component (thanks VG247). This is unconfirmed, but here'...
Quantum League Free Weekend
A free weekend is underway on Steam for Quantum League, offering the chance to take a quantum leap into this Early Access competitive shooter and experience its time manipulation mechanics. If you...
Battletoads Returns Next Month
Xbox Wire announces Battletoads is making a return after 26 years, and this revival of Rare's beat 'em up will come to Windows and consoles on August 20th. Here's an Official Release Date Trailer...
QuakeCon at Home Stream Schedule
Bethesda now offers a Full QuakeCon at Home Stream Schedule with what to expect when the 25th annual QuakeCon gets underway next week as a virtual installment in the series. Here's the overview: "Beca...
SEGA on Origin Access
Electronic Arts announces a new partnership to bring some of SEGA's games to Origin Access Premier, EA's subscription game service. They've started off by rolling out Sonic Mania, which is now also...
WHAT HAPPENED Released
What had happened was WHAT HAPPENED is now available on Steam, offering a psychological horror game for Windows from publisher Katnappe and developer Genius Slackers. You can get a look at what to...
Core Defense Released
Core Defense is now available on Steam, offering a roguelike tower defense game for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The game's modest 2D graphics are on display in the Launch Trailer, and the previously...
Flight Catastrophe Announced
Trigger Labs announces Flight Catastrophe, a game that will trigger your fear of flying by putting you in charge of managing crises aboard passenger planes. As of now this is scheduled to take off on...
EA Financials
Electronic Arts Reports Strong Q1 FY21 Financial Results. How strong? Glad you asked. They say their net bookings for the trailing 12 months was almost six billion dollars. "This was an...
Epic Games Store Freebies
This week's new free offerings are now available on the Epic Games Store. There are three of them this time around, so if you grab them over the coming week, you'll get to keep your copies of 20XX,...
Epic Games Store Testing Mod Support
A tweet from the Epic Games Store reveals that another of their in-development features is in the first stages of rolling out. Word is they are testing preliminary modification support for...
Iron Harvest 1920+ Open Beta
This post on Steam announces the promised open beta test is now underway for Iron Harvest 1920+, the alternate history RTS game featuring lumbering dieselpunk mechs. This includes plans for an ESL...
Hyper Scape Next Month
Ubisoft announces August 11th is the official release date for Hyper Scape, their new vertically oriented battle royale shooter. As a result, the game's open PC beta test will draw to a conclusion on...
Hellpoint Released
Developer Cradle and publisher tinyBuild announce the release of Hellpoint, saying their crowdfunded action/RPG is now available for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The PC edition...
Fight Crab Scuttles Out
Fight Crab is now available for Windows on Steam. Of course the first rule of Fight Crab is you don't talk about Fight Crab, but some rules are made to be broken. Here's a Launch Trailer showing off...
Dauntless Updated
A new Clear Skies update is now available for Dauntless on all platforms adding new content and a new Hunt Pass. The Windows edition of this free-to-play action/RPG will update the next time it's...
Microsoft Flight Simulator Coming to Steam, Getting VR
In a post to Xbox Wire, Microsoft reveals the new edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator will launch on Steam on August 18th with TrackIR support. They also say they will be fulfilling the request for...
Microsoft Flight Simulator Impressions
They aren't reviews, since the game is in beta, but first evaluations of the new Microsoft Flight Simulator are starting to fly in: Flight Simulator hands-on- Microsoft looks different 20,000 feet in...
People Can Fly Announce AAA Title
Details are scant for now, but People Can Fly announces they are hiring for development of a new AAA game for PC and consoles (thanks ResetEra). Here's what the Bulletstorm developer has up their...
Epic Games Store Achievements First Look
A tweet from the Epic Games Store offers a first look at how achievements will work on Epic's marketplace. Here's word: "Certain games on the Epic Games Store may begin to display achievements as you...
Path of Exile for macOS Announced
Grinding Gear Games announces that a macOS edition of Path of Exile will be released in September along with the latest content expansion for their free-to-play action/RPG. They haven't revealed any...
Cardaclysm Early Access
Cardaclysm is now available in Early Access for Windows on Steam, where you can now get started in this deckbuilder with action/RPG. This has a story of biblical proportions, as you do battle with...
Bartlow's Dread Machine Early Access
Tribetoy and Beep Games have launched Early Access to Bartlow's Dread Machine on Steam, offering the first chance to play this twin-stick arcade shooter set in a parlor cabinet from a bygone era....
VR Shooter Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds This Year
Thirdverse and inXile entertainment announce Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds, a virtual reality post-apocalyptic PvP shooter coming this year to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index headsets. The...
Marvel's Avengers Beta Plans
Today's July Marvel's Avengers WAR TABLE session offered new details from Square Enix on plans to beta test Marvel's Avengers next month. They also mentioned a planned Fortnite cross-promotion and...
Star Citizen/Squadron 42 and Roadmap Update
The Robert's Space Industries Website now offers a lengthy post discussing the development status of Star Citizen and Squadron 42, the space games that CIG has crowdfunded to the tune of over $300...
New Dead by Daylight Content
Behaviour Interactive now offers a new Archive called Conviction for Dead by Daylight, which adds new content to the 1v4 multiplayer horror game. This page has the details on the release along with...
Blightbound Early Access
Early Access to Blightbound is now underway on Steam, offering the promised first crack at Ronimo Games' multiplayer dungeon crawler. This carries a 10% launch discount and there's also a three-pack...
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