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Besides the lawsuit story above, there's more bad press today for Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg (may require registration or subscription) has details on how a focus on the bottom line was one of...

The 21st Annual Game Developers Choice Awards Results are online. In case there was any doubt, Hades took top honors, cementing its position as the darling game of the year. Here are all the winners:...

Publisher Slitherine and developer Black Lab Games now offer the release of Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, a turn-based strategy game set in the Games Workshop science fiction universe. If you want...

Urban Trial Tricky Deluxe Edition is now available for PC and consoles, and you can hop onto the Windows edition of this stunt-riding game through GOG.com or Steam. Here's a Launch Trailer with a...

Frozenbyte announces Starbase will enter Early Access on Steam on July 29, offering the chance to check out this space-based MMOG. If you're playing the closed beta or just interested in where the...

Amazon is now offering Battlefield 1 for free on Prime Gaming, the gaming perk that's free for Amazon Prime subscribers. The World War I shooter is yours to keep on Origin if you claim it between...

Raphael Lacoste tweets that he is departing Ubisoft, where he served as art director on the Assassin's Creed series. There's been some staff turnover at Ubisoft amid the company's harassment scandal,...

Waves of Steel Early Access is underway on Steam, offering the chance to get your feet wet with this Windows arcade naval combat game. This starts with the ability to design your own warships and...

Super Sami Roll is now available on Steam, offering a 3D platformer for Windows where you roll, bounce, and tongue (you read that right) your way through a variety of levels. Here's a look at...

Nexon announces PROJECT MAGNUM, an upcoming third-person looter-shooter in development at subsidiary NAT GAMES for release in "most major markets worldwide." Our hope is that this involves a...

Humble Hearts of Iron Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).* Playway Publisher Sale 2021 - Steam. Save 25% on Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 on Steam. *Blue's News may receive a commission...

Apex Legends Patched. Call of Duty: Warzone Patched. Steam Client Update, July 21.

Company of Heroes 3: Battle Briefing - RTS Boot Camp. Company of Heroes 3: Battle Briefing: Dynamic Campaign Map. Fallout 76 – Radio Play Part 1- K.D. Inkwell in Escape from the 42nd Century.

Konami announces that eFootball is the new official title of the series formerly known as Pro Evolution Soccer (PES). This will be free-to-play, and will support crossplay for all platforms. There's...

A thread on Reddit has reports from gamers who have found their RTX 3090 graphics cards bricked after playing the closed beta of New World, Amazon's upcoming MMORPG. Sorting through them it seems the...

A new free update called Butcher's Banquet is now available for Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 on all platforms. CI Games calls this a "massive" content update. Here's a Butcher’s Banquet Trailer,...

Here's a roundup of reviews of Death's Door. Is the corvine adventure dead on arrival? Read on to find out: Death's Door: Review - Attack of the Fanboy. Death's Door Review – Reaping The Rewards -...

Electronic Arts announces that EA SPORTS PGA TOUR will include licensed LPGA women's golf. What platforms the golf simulation will come to when this tees off in the spring are not yet revealed, so...

Promising this is the "future of game monetization," Playthora is a new service offering virtual item exchanges in video games. Most games that disallow item trading or sales do so via term of...

Poker Quest is now in Early Access on Steam, offering a card-based roguelite for Windows and macOS. While card mechanics are now commonplace in such games, the unusual twist here is the use of...

Publisher Assemble Entertainment announces Sphere - Flying Cities, a sci-fi city building game in the works at Hexagon Sphere Games for release on Steam Early Access later this year. As seen in the...

Ubisoft announces Q1 2021-22 sales results, calling them "in line with expectations." Word is: "First-quarter 2021-22 net bookings totaled €326.0 million, slightly exceeding the target of around €320...

Valve announces the next installment in the Steam Next Fest series will get underway on October 1st: "Steam Next Fest is back with a new batch of upcoming games to celebrate! The October 2021...

Bethesda announces Fallout Worlds, a new custom server program for Fallout 76 that allows control over many of the settings in the post-apocalyptic RPG. This will officially launch in September, but...

A post on The Recorder (may require registration or subscription) reports that Epic Games was hit with a Trademark suit in California Northern District Court yesterday filed by Nreal Technology Ltd.,...

RimWorld - Ideology is now available on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux, offering a new add-on for RimWorld, the colony simulator from Ludeon Studios (which is required). Here's a launch trailer...

Microids announces Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases, a mystery/adventure game coming to PC and consoles on September 28th. As the name suggests, this features a younger Hercule...

A post on The Wrap has a letter Netflix sent to investors explaining its gaming ambitions (thanks GamesRadar+). Word is things will start with mobile games included at no additional cost with...

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The SAMURAI WARRIORS 5 Website reveals that a playable demo is now available for the latest installment in KOEI TECMO's tactical action series. The console editions can be found on each respective...

A post on twitter notes that there was an error in Valve's Steam Deck announcement (thanks PC Gamer). It seems the listing of dual-channel RAM support should have been quad-channel. This has now...

Cris Tales is now available for Windows via GOG.com and Steam as well as for Stadia, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch. The Launch Trailer accompanying the news...

Digital Matters Publishing and developer Redcatpig announce KEO, a team-based vehicular MOBA. This is driving towards Early Access later this year and the full game will release in September (which...

We seem to have arrived at death's door, as Death's Door is now available for Windows and Xbox, offering a corvine action/adventure from publisher Devolver Digital and developer Acid Nerve. The PC...

A new post from NVIDIA has the latest on efforts to bring NVIDIA DLSS technology to more games. Word is Back 4 Blood is one of four game releases getting DLSS support (but the beta will start in...

A new post from NVIDIA has the latest on efforts to bring NVIDIA DLSS technology to more games. Word is Back 4 Blood is one of this month's four game releases with DLSS support. The post includes...

Steam now offers a playable demo for Parasight, a Windows 2D action/RPG with a souls-like bent. Here's a trailer with some insight into Parasight and a look at its offbeat style. The interesting...

Rogue Company is now available for Windows on Steam, exactly a year to the day since the tactical third-person shooter launched into Early Access on the Epic Games Store. To smooth out the process,...

An IO Interactive Job Listing seeks an AI Programmer for Project 007 (thanks GamesRadar+). We only know so much about the upcoming James Bond game, but this seems to educate us a bit more. The...

The Protagonist: EX-1 is now available on Steam, offering a turn-based RPG for Windows where you play as the protagonist. Okay, maybe that's not so unusual. Here's an Official Trailer with a look at...

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Pushed out a small patch for Apex Legends earlier this morning.

Tom Clancy’s XDefiant- Exclusive Developer Interview (video).

Global Top Round 2021 conference taking place in Singapore.

Thanks Console General. Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha (2108.210716-2200). Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Skip-Ahead (2108.210716-2200).

Tor Browser version 10.5.2. Thanks Console General.

Ubisoft pays off on its teasing with the announcement of XDefiant, a new free-to-play first-person shooter coming to PC and consoles with full crossplay support. Interestingly, the only PC platforms...

CNBC reports that Chinese internet behemoth Tencent has wrestled out an acquisition deal with the Sumo Group. This increases an existing stake in the British game developer, and is said to have sent...

NVIDIA announces the release of new GeForce 471.41 WHQL drivers, which are game ready for NVIDIA DLSS support in Red Dead Redemption 2. The post includes this trailer with a look at how this...

NVIDIA is attending the Game Developers Conference to show off its technology running on ARM hardware, though its attempted ARM acquisistion seems to remain in regulatory limbo. The Official NVIDIA...