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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...

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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...

An Year-end Report 2020 from Paradox Interactive has the latest financials from the publisher/developer. Word is: "2020 was the best year in Paradox’s history, with strong growth in revenue, profits...

SuperData now offers January 2021 worldwide digital games market analysis, saying earnings were up by 15% compared with January 2020. Other points of interest are a rebound in player count and...

New Docklands DLC is now available on the Epic Games Store for Anno 1800, kicking off Season 3 in Ubisoft's historical strategy game. This is also available as part of a Season 3 pass. Alongside the...

The update of the day on Season Two for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone covers the Battle Pass. Word is: "Get to know all 100 Tiers of the Season Two Battle Pass System, including the...

Curse of the Dead Gods is now out of Early Acces and officially available for Windows and consoles. You can get the PC edition from the Epic Games Store. Here's a Launch Trailer for this action/rogue...

Developer Razbury Games announces Wastenauts is the new title for their upcoming collectible card game formerly known as From Rust. This means the title will no longer be confused with Rust,...

Humble Tales of Love & Adventure Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).* Save 50% on Destroy All Humans! on Steam. Here's a Destroy All Humans! - Midweek Madness Trailer. Save 75% on Dead...

A Development Update on the Bloodlines 2 Website reveals another delay to Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Paradox Interactive also announces they are removing Hardsuit Labs from the project,...

A post on Reddit details how Journey to the Savage Planet users are now stranded on that Savage Planet without proper support (thanks Kxmode). The game's developer, Typhoon Studios, was acquired by...

Sony tweets that Days Gone will be coming to PC this spring, offering a new way to play this survival game. There's an interview with PlayStation’s Jim Ryan on British GQ (thanks Gematsu) saying...

AMD Support now offers new version 21.2.3 Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Drivers for AMD graphics cards running under Windows. These fix a couple of issues and offer support for the new DIRT...

Persona 5 Strikers is now available for Windows and consoles, offering an action/RPG that mashes up Persona 5 with the Dynasty Warriors series. You can find the PC edition on Steam where there is...

Two Point Hospital: A Stitch in Time is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux on Steam, offering a new expansion for the madcap medical game. This offers the chance to go back to the future...

NVIDIA announces the upcoming implementation of NVIDIA Reflex in Rainbow Six Siege, making Ubisoft's tactical shooter the next addition to the list of products that support this latency reduction...

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe announces the acquisition of a minority stake in Limbic Entertainment. Word is the deal was actually struck at the end of last year: "BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment...

The Chicago Sun-Times reports efforts by an Illinois state legislator to ban the sale of violent video games, with a seeming particular focus on the depiction of car-jackings, such as those seen in...

Epic Games received a setback today in its legal battle against Apple over App Store royalties. The United Kingdom antitrust tribunal ruled Epic will not be allowed to protest Apple's removal of...