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The latest freebies are now available on the Epic Games Store, where you can pick up Rising Storm 2: Vietnam and ABZU for nothing. As per usual, these are yours to keep if you grab your copies over...

Tom's Hardware summarizes today's AMD Zen 3 announcement of the Ryzen 5000, saying this promises 19% better instruction per cycle throughput and "1080p gaming dominance." In their All We Know post...

Season 2 of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is now underway, offering new content and challenges in the battle royale platformer. This is live for Windows on Steam as well as for the console editions....

Blaston is now available for Oculus Quest, offering a PvP virtual reality shooter from Resolution Games, the developer that recently bolstered their shooter cred by hiring Tom Hall (Wolfenstein 3D,...

I Am Dead is now available for Windows and Switch, with the PC editions of this posthumous puzzle game available through both the Epic Games Store and Steam. Here's a Launch Trailer and here are the...

The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition rolls on. Tonight the tide rolls in with still more game demos for your sampling pleasure: Accident Become a journalist who researches old car accident cases....

Humble Book Bundle: World of Warcraft's Legends Library by Blizzard Publishing (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes - October 7, 2020. PULSAR- Lost Colony -- Beta 29.97 Release Notes. Star Citizen Alpha 3.11 - High Impact. Here's a trailer. STAR WARS: Squadrons - Pilots!...

CD PROJEKT RED tweets that a fourth installment in their Night City Wire series will come one week from today. This will reveal some hard-driving details about the vehicles in Cyberpunk 2077, their...

AMD will unveil their Zen 3-powered Ryzen CPUs in a Livestream on YouTube today at noon EDT. Word is: "Join AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su as she details the highly anticipated AMD Ryzen™ desktop processor...

The Star Wars movies are all about the sequels, but a post on Upload VR quotes EA as saying they have no plans for DLC for Star Wars: Squadrons, their newly released starfighter game (thanks VG247)....

If you smell burning rubber, it's because RIDE 4 is now available for Windows and consoles. The PC edition of the motorcycle racing simulator can be found on Steam. Publisher/developer Milestone...

Panoptic is now available on Steam, offering a local multiplayer virtual reality game for Windows. This is for VR only, requiring either an Index, Rift, Vive, or Windows Mixed Reality headset. Rest...

Warner Bros. Games announces Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, an update for the latest installment in the storied fighting series that will arrive on November 17th. This is primarily to help usher in the...

Here are some more of the bazillion demos that are currently offered on Steam as part of The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition, including samples of Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice and...

Steam Client Update Released.

A Case Scheduling and Pretrial Order for the Epic Games lawsuit against Apple sets a May 3, 2021 date for the trial to begin (thanks The Esports Observer). Here's the schedule: NON-EXPERT DISCOVERY...

In response to a question about PC and console players being able to stream Xbox Game Pass games, Phil Spencer tweets that this is something they hope to implement down the road (thanks VGC). Here's...

Here are some demos from The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition. Our hopes for less of a mess are dashed, as this lengthy list only represents a fraction of the hundreds of demos this involves to...

Apt Games announces a launch date for TERROR SQUID saying they will release the Kraken on October 15th for PC on Steam and for Switch. This is frenetic bullet hell shooter that requires a controller,...

Humble Manga Bundle: Terrifying Tales by Kodansha (pay what you want and help charity).* GOG.com Midweek Sale- games featuring an immersive art up to 90% off. The Sims 4 is celebrating Hispanic...

Baldur's Gate 3 - Hotfix #1 - The Journey Begins! New Features Added in Mafia: Definitive Edition Update. Thanks Gematsu.

Assassin’s Creed Lore Guide Volume 1 – The Assassins Order. Destiny 2: Beyond Light – Weapons and Gear Trailer. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege - Tachanka Rework - Gameplay Trailer. Pretending to be...

Successful game industry pros talk about their struggles with depression.

Developer Larian Studios says they are listening to player feedback on Baldur's Gate 3, which just launched into Early Access on GOG. com and Steam. In response to reports of multiplayer issues with...

NVIDIA now offers new version 456.71 GeForce drivers for Windows, saying these are the game-ready drivers for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War beta. These will optimize the performance...

Steam Chat Filtering is now officially available following a period of experimentation as a Steam Labs feature this summer. This is now available for all users, allowing them to use the kind of chat...

Schmidt Workshops says October 15th is the official release date when Paradox Vector will leave Early Access on Steam. As implied by the title, this first-person shooter features vector graphics,...

As election season rages on here in the U.S., Cliffski's Blog announces Democracy 4 is now available in Early Access, offering the chance to engage in your own simulated political campaign. If you...

Speaking of politics, 1C Entertainment announces Realpolitiks II for PC will arrive on Steam on November 5th, just two days after Election Day here in the U.S. Here's the previously released...

Insurgency: Sandstorm - Update 1.8 Operation- Breakaway Now Live. Here's a trailer. Duke Nukem 3D Total Conversion Mod for Doom Version 1.06 Released.

Aquanox Deep Descent - Weapons Trailer.

A post on the Call of Duty Website outlines "everything you need to know" about the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War open beta, including the chance to earn a reward for the release version of the...

Watch Dogs: Legion is to be released on October 29th, and today Ubisoft announces plans for a free game update that will come on December 3rd to add an online mode to the third-person hacking sequel....

Ubisoft announces the launch of Season 2: Aftermath of Hyper Scape, their battle royale game. They say: "In Season 2: The Aftermath, Hyper Scape introduces new content including a hack, weapon, Hyper...

Perfect World Entertainment announces a new season called House Shattered is now live in Star Trek Online, Cryptic Studios Trekkie MMORPG. They accompany the news with the announcement that the free-t...

Early Access is now underway for Primordials of Amyrion on both the Epic Games Store and Steam. This is a tug-of-war strategy game for Windows from WIREGAMES Publishing and GD ENTERTAINMENT. Here's...

9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is now available for Windows, consoles, and mobile, and the PC edition has dawned on Steam. Word is: "A 2D open world RPG and “collect-a-thon” dungeon crawler packed...

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Civilization-building game Before We Leave launches free update. Drox Operative 2 version 0.819. Here is a write-up. XTHRUST adds easy mode.

Larian Studios announces the launch of Early Access to Baldur's Gate 3 for Windows and macOS on GOG. com, Steam, and Stadia. This is the first act of the D&D RPG sequel, offering about 25 hours of...

A tweet from Xbox News says a new AAA IP has been in development since at least 2018 at ZeniMax Online, saying this is making use of a brand-new engine. A Twitter reply from Alex Tardif more or less...

Money for the Vultures - Part 2: Five Steps Ahead is now available on Steam as the latest DLC for Desperados III, the Windows, Linux, and macOS strategy game set in the wild, wild west. This is also...

Spiderweb Software announces a Q1 2021 release window for Geneforge 1 – Mutagen, their crowdfunded fantasy RPG remake for Windows, macOS, and iPad. You can keep up with the game on the official...

SquarePlay Games announces it's full steam ahead for Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up, as their mass transit simulator for Windows departs the station of Early Access and is now officially available on...

Publisher Headup announces an October 23rd release date for Pumpkin Jack, so this 3D platformer developed by Nicolas Meyssonnier will arrive just in time for Halloween. This will come to Windows via...

Untale: King of Revinia is a medieval visual novel for Windows and Linux that's planned for release later this year. This is coming to Steam where there's a playable demo you can experience right now....

Parallel is a first-person RPG from solo developer Rodrigo Banzato, who plans to launch it next year on Steam. The first Official Trailer creates a creepy atmosphere without giving away too much of...

Disc Room - October 22 - Nintendo Switch and PC. Starbase Alpha News: Material Selection, New Asteroid Field, Mining Updates, Audio Signal Device. The Quake Remastered Soundtrack on Vinyl unboxing....

This post has the not unexpected announcement of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, saying that this will roll out on November 6th for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Switch version...