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In case you are considering breaking your piggy bank to spring for NVIDIA's new high-end GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards you may have to wait. But that gives you some time to read up on them, as the...

Publisher Thirdverse and developer inXile entertainment announce open beta plans for Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds. They say players will be able to check out their upcoming team-based multiplayer...

Publisher THQ Nordic and developer Digital Arrow announce an October 16th release date for Aquanox Deep Descent, the latest installment in this underwater shooter series. A new Release Date Trailer...

Massive Damage and Raw Fury celebrate the launch of Star Renegades with an Accolades Trailer. They also offer a road map (star map?) of what to expect for the game now that it's available: "Here's...

V Publishing announces October 22nd is the release date for the PC edition of Fallen Angel, developer Matrioshka Games' story-driven action/RPG. They are also working on a Switch version, which they...

Early Access to Gone Viral is now underway on Steam, offering the chance to infect yourself with this "over-the-top action game with heavy roguelite elements" from developer Skullbot Games and...

Wolf Team Patch Notes 24th of September.

Larian Studios offers new details about romance and companionship mechanics in Baldur's Gate 3 as the good news to go along with the bad news that Early Access to the RPG sequel is being delayed by a...

Rocket League is now available on its new home on the Epic Games Store at its new price point of zero dollars. A post on the Rocket League Website has word on the free-to-play release. The motorized...

A new post from SuperData has their analysis of the worldwide digital games market in August 2020, saying this is up 18% year-over-year compared with August 2019. Interesting tidbits include how Fall...

A tweet from Spellbreak announces this free-to-play battle royale has spellbound more than five million players since it broke out around three weeks ago on the Epic Games Store and consoles. Here...

You guys have a chance to check out The Guise in advance of the launch of this metroidvania game on October 20th. There's now a playable Windows demo on Steam offering 29 levels with an estimated...

A playable Windows demo of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is now available on Steam, offering a way to check out this upcoming narrative RPG from publisher 101XP and developer Sever. Word is: "P...

Sernur.tech announces Trigon: Space Story will come to Steam Early Access later this year, offering a roguelike adventure game set in space, where no one can hear you ask what a trigon is. Here's an...

Open beta testing has concluded for collectible card game Mythgard, and is now officially available as a free-to-play release for Windows and macOS on Steam as well as on mobile. The official launch...

The promised Origins Update is now live in No Man's Sky, "dramatically" expanding the universe in Hello Games' space exploration game. Here's a Launch Trailer for version 3.0. In celebration the...

A tweet from Chuck's Challenge announces that Chip's Challenge 1 for Windows is now free to keep on Steam (thanks Polygon via Neutronbeam). This is a top-down puzzle game originally released for the...

Halo 3: ODST is now available for Windows. This can be found on Steam as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection there and on the Microsoft Store as part of their offering of The Master Chief...

Frictional Games announces that the source code for Amnesia: The Dark Descent is now available as a GPL v3 open source release (thanks ResetEra). Here's the deal: "Modding has been a huge part of...

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw for Windows is now available on Steam, following the launch of Double Damage's open-world space combat prequel last year on the Epic Games Store. Here's a previously released...

Deep Silver and Tripwire Interactive announce that Maneater has sold more than one million copies since its launch. They also reveal plans for the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 versions of the...

Charlie INTEL has details on the latest teasing for Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, as Activision continues to coyly dribble out information about the next installment in the series. Treyarch sent...

Paradox Interactive announces Battle for the Bosporus, new DLC for Hearts of Iron IV that will come to the World War II real-time strategy game on October 15th. This country pack adds new National...

Activision offers this blog post with details on Season 6 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, saying this will kick off on September 29th. The new season will introduce two familiar faces...

Ubisoft announces the launch of title update 11, kicking off Season 3 for Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Warlords of New York, offering a Season 3 Launch Trailer to illustrate the news. They are...

Epic Games announces they checked behind their sofa cushions and found $15 million to invest in Manticore Games: "Manticore Games has closed $15 million in funding, led by Epic Games and validating...

NACON announces Tennis World Tour 2 is now available in North America while they hold serve on this sports sim for the rest of the world until Thursday. Here's a previously released Gameplay Reveal...

The long wait for The Long Gate is over, as the once delayed first-person puzzle game for Windows and macOS is now available on Steam. You can take a good long look at this in the Launch Trailer and...

Excalibur has been removed from the stone, as inkle now offers the release of Pendragon, their narrative RPG with an alternate take on the legend of King Arthur. This is available for Windows and...

Publisher Leonardo Interactive announces Seed of Life, saying this third-person, sci-fi puzzle/platformer is in development at Madlight Studio. Word is: "Set in a beautiful dystopian semi-open world...

The quest for revenge begins on October 20th with the release of DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge, Augmented Irreality's vertical shoot-em-up. This is coming to Steam, so here's the previously...

A story on Dexerto notes a couple of reports on Twitter stating that as many as 500K accounts for Call of Duty players have been compromised (thanks Forbes via Ant). For their part, in this tweet...

A tweet from EA Sports says that FIFA 21 will not be getting a playable demo, a break from tradition for the association football/soccer series (thanks VG247). Here's word: "We aren't releasing a...

Bohemia Interactive announces CSLA Iron Curtain is coming later this year to Arma 3 as the second Creator DLC for their military shooter sequel. In development at CSLA Studio, this depicts an...

Filament Games announces that alpha testing for RoboCo will get underway on September 29th, for their high-tech, engineering sandbox game. This is expected for full release on Steam early next year...

In July it was announced that Remothered: Broken Porcelain was being delayed to October 20th after previously being planned for an August release. Now publisher Modus Games announces Stormind Games'...

Publisher Nordcurrent and developer Max Mraz announce Ocean's Heart, a top-down RPG coming early next year to Steam. You can get a look at the game's throwback, pixelart aesthetic in the Announcement...

Epic Games announces another crossover event for Fortnite, saying Korean boy-band BTS will debut their new music video from within their battle royale/survival/music television game on Friday. Word...

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John Carmack tweets a response to the news that Microsoft is buying ZeniMax. The deal includes id Software. Since the former id technical director left the company when it was decided he couldn't...

A post from NVIDIA discusses the GeForce 3080 launch fiasco. They explain that the impact of bots and scripts on the quick sell-out of their new graphics cards is being over-stated, as many of these...

Blizzard announces a save the date for their postponed digital edition of BlizzCon from February 19-20. They have re-dubbed the event BlizzConline. Here's bit on the plan: "Attune your chronometers,...

A post on Steam explains Valve's latest Steam Labs Experiment is a new personalized news hub: "Steam Labs Experiment 009: News Hub is nearing completion. As a big step toward its full launch, this...

A new Story Trailer from Serious Sam 4 helps set the stage for the release of Croteam's first-person shooter prequel on Thursday. You can preorder the game on GOG.com and Steam. In the meantime, here'...

Publisher Graffiti Games and developer Guin Entertainment announce an October 8th release date for Adventures of Chris, their platformer for Windows, macOS, and Linux via Steam as well as for Switch....

ExoCorps was supposed to enter Early Access on Steam last week, but that obviously did not happen. Developer/publisher Gingerbred says the new Early Access day for their stealthy jetpack shooter is...

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Microsoft announces they are acquiring ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks for $7.5 billion in cash. This will make Microsoft owner of Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of Baldur's Gate II, BioWare's D&D Forgotten Realms RPG sequel. To celebrate, the game is on sale on GOG.com for 50% off. A bunch of other RPGs are...

Also on GOG.com is the re-release of Freedom Fighters, which marks the first digital distribution of IO Interactive's alternate history third-person shooter. This 2003 release has been stripped of...