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Thanks Neutronbeam. Best Buy just laid off 5,000 workers and will close more stores. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Covid vaccine: Google pledges $5 million to address disparities in Covid vaccinations....

Pearl Abyss is offering the chance to own Black Desert Online for free. You can claim your complimentary copy of the MMORPG on Steam between now and March 10th. Here's what you get for your...

In addition to the Dying Light free weekend mentioned earlier, there are five other games you can try for free on Steam this weekend, including Deep Rock Galactic (thanks SteamDB via Ant). Here's a...

A couple of new articles are online with a look at what's going wrong with Stadia, Google's high-profile cloud gaming service. Recent Stadia setbacks include Google closing its internal development...

Coincidental to the story above, a Terraria State of the Game Forum Post includes word that the version of Terraria for Stadia that was cancelled over Google account issues is once again in the works...

A New Home is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux on GOG.com and Steam as "massive" new DLC for CrossCode, the sci-fi 2D action/RPG from developer Radical Fish Games and publisher Deck13....

Cardaclysm is out of Early Access and is now officially available on GOG.com and Steam, offering a Windows collectible card game with action/RPG elements. This is a premium game which includes no...

Developer DANG! and Devolver Digital announce Boomerang X, the word's first (as far as we know) FPB (First Person Boomeranger). This will launch in the spring for Windows and Switch. This trailer...

Shattered Spacebridge is now available on Steam, providing new DLC for TRANSFORMERS: BATTLEGROUNDS, the strategy game based on the toy and cartoon franchise. This transforms the base game with new...

A free weekend is now underway for Anno 1800, allowing the chance to play Ubisoft's historical strategy sequel with no obligation until March 1st. The Anno 1800 Free Weekend Website explains: "Welcom...

Techland celebrates the sixth anniversary of Dying Light with a free weekend on Steam for the post-apocalyptic survival game. This post has a 6th Anniversary Trailer and an outline of a special...

A court order issued Wednesday grants Apple's request for Steam sales data (thanks The Verge). Apple made the request as background on market conditions for its ongoing legal battle with Epic Games....

An interview on FanByte reveals that Capcom has plans to bring Monster Hunter Rise to PC as well as Switch (thanks Gematsu). Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto explains this should arrive early next year: "Mon...

Zen Studios announced Star Wars Pinball VR, a virtual reality adaptation of their Force-powered pinball game coming to Steam VR, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, and PlayStation® VR on April 29th. The...

Developer Sloclap announces Sifu, a kung fu combat game that's a sequel to Absolver coming this autumn exclusively to the Epic Games Store and PlayStation. Sifu is described as "an artful and true-to...

Serenity Forge announces Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse will be released on March 11th, offering a crowdfunded point-and-click adventure based on the webcomic series. This will come to PC via...

The Steam Listing for Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace now carries a March 23rd release date for this digital adaptation of the Lovecraftian board game (thanks RPGWatch via CthulhuFan). A new Madness...

Sunless Sea is now available for free on the Epic Game's Store as this week's promised giveaway. Pick this up in the next week, and it's a permanent addition to your game library. Next Thursday a new...

A story on Bloomberg states that Electronic Arts is changing course on BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age game. It says "people familiar with the matter" reveal all multiplayer content is being removed...

There's another scoop on Bloomberg from Jason Schreier, who's got the goods on Electronic Arts canceling the game codenamed Gaia after almost six years of development at its Motive studio in...

A playable demo is now available for OUTRIDERS, the sci-fi, co-op shooter for 1-3 players from publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly. This offers the complete opening of the game, and...

A tweet from American McGee reveals the former id Designer is working on a multimedia take on the original Oz books called OZ: Adventures (thanks IGN). Apparently this will come to both games and...

Early Access is now underway on Steam for Fights in Tight Spaces, a close-quarters combat game that looks a bit like a hand-to-hand version of SUPERHOT. Here's the Early Access Launch Trailer and...

Ubisoft announces Hyper Scape Season 3 gets underway on March 11th for Windows and consoles. This will bring new content to the vertically unchallenged battle royale shooter, including a revamped...

An announcement on Steam says Trion Worlds is shutting down both Defiance and Defiance 2050, the two games that outlived the television show they tied into by quite a stretch (thanks Kotaku). Word...

Nightdive Studios is now accepting preorders for their remake of System Shock on the Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and Steam in advance of the release of the updated action/RPG this summer. A playable...

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs officially launch at noon EST today. Here's a new article covering the launch and this previous article has all the technical details. And while it's extremely...

Related to the GeForce RTX 3060 launch mentioned above, NVIDIA now offers new GeForce Game Ready 461.72 WHQL drivers for Windows. These include game-ready support for the new GPUs as well as the...

Former Xbox CPO Marc Whitten has left his post as Amazon VP of Entertainment Devices and Services to become Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unity's Create Solutions department. As noted...

Dungeons and Dragons Online was released 15 years ago this Sunday, and the official website for the MMORPG announces how the anniversary is being celebrated (thanks Dave). These version 48.4 release...

PULSAR- Lost Colony -- Beta 30.4 Release Notes. Thanks Ant. Valheim version 0.146.8.

HUMANKIND Feature Focus- Art of War. Paradise Lost - Story Trailer. Thanks DSOGaming. Watch composer Yuzo Koshiro play his iconic chiptunes through an NEC PC-88.

Diablo 4 - Inside the Rogue Reveal - AusGamers.com. Diablo 2: Resurrected is An Impressive Remaster, Here’s Everything You Need to Know - AusGamers.com. World of Warcraft: Shadlowlands BlizzConline...

An Anthem Update on the BioWare Blog announces that the efforts to save Anthem revealed a year ago will cease, and they are no longer working on the Anthem NEXT update to resurrect the multiplayer...

A series of tweets from CD PROJEKT RED announce that the release of the promised version 1.2 patch for Cyberpunk 2077 is delayed until the second half of next month. This is part of the Fallout of...

Team17 is going rogue with the announcement that Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is now available for Windows on Steam as well as for Switch. This is a throwback action/adventure for one to four...

A post on Steam explains how Valve is helping developers and publishers to better understand their audience by providing new reporting on what sort of controllers are being used in their games. This...

Humble Software Bundle- Learn Front-End Web Development (pay what you want and help charity).* Humble Books Bundle- Unf*ck Your Life by Microcosm (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News...

Call of Duty: Cold War Black Ops Season Two Details and Patch Notes. Hunt: Showdown -- Test server now live with Update 1.5.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Iberia Gameplay Video #2 (TrackIR). Brawlhalla - Battle Pass Season 3 Launch Trailer.

EA Is Putting the Future of its Franchises, Including Titanfall, into its Studios' Hands - IGN.

A tweet from Tom Henderson says a separate Call of Duty zombies game is in the works (thanks GameRant). Tom is an ongoing source of such details who has been called "credible" by no less credible...

A post on Steam announces the meteoric success of Iron Gate's Viking survival game continues, as Valheim has now surpassed four million players just 22 days following its launch. Here's word: "When...

A Steam Listing is now online for the just announced PC edition of Days Gone. They outline what to expect from this version of the action/adventure, as well as some PC-specific features: "PC...

Geneforge 1 – Mutagen is now available, offering the latest fantasy RPG from indie developer Spiderweb Software. The Windows and macOS editions are available through the Epic Games Store, GOG.com,...

A new Jiu Feng Smuggler Pack is now available on Steam for PAYDAY 2, the Windows and macOS heist sequel. This comes along with a version 203 update for the base game, and this post has the details...

Unity announces the release of their 2020 Gaming Benchmark Report, saying this reveals how the pandemic changed player behaviors. They say this is free on their website, but the link they provide...

Thunderful announces the acquisition of German game publisher and developer Headup (thanks Gamasutra). Here are the financial details: "Thunderful will pay EUR 5 million in cash upfront. In addition,...

Oracle Trials is now available on Steam, offering a 2D platformer for Windows which, despite the title, has nothing to do with the Oracle Law Firm. Those who recall the abs-of-steel epic 300 will be...

VentureBeat has details on a class action lawsuit Bethesda is facing over the lifetime Season Pass for Fallout 4. In 2015 Bethesda offered the pass for $30 to entitle purchasers to all the DLC ever...