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Here's this week's list of last week's bestselling titles on Steam. We now see an enhancement to how these are listed to help understand when the same game is shown more than once: Fall Guys:...

WarCrafts 3 Ep 9 -Last March of the Ents. Thanks Ant.

Scalpers are selling preorders of Super Mario 3D All-Stars for up to £200. EA removes ads from UFC 4 following backlash.

Thanks j.c.f. VW Outdoes Tesla With Its Electric Car Battery Breakthrough. Thanks Max. Is Charging Your Phone All Day Really That Bad? Google, Apple unveil built-in COVID-19 exposure notifications....

Mystery seeds: Amazon bans foreign plant sales in US. Facebook blocks livestream of an ill French man who wanted to broadcast his death. How Adobe is using an AI chatbot to support its 22,000 remote...

Epic has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction asking the courts to force Apple to return Fortnite to the App Store (thanks Eurogamer.net). They call out Apple for "monopolistic conduct" and...

A post on VGC about CD PROJEKT RED's conference call with investors notes the indications that Cyberpunk 2077 is still on track for its planned November 19th release date. They also quote the...

This post on Twitter mentions a new type of bot that's on the prowl in Team Fortress 2 games to hunt down and terminate cheaters (thanks PCGamesN). Here's what's going on: "there is a new type of...

Developer Reptoid Games and publisher Way Down Deep announce Fire Tonight, a narrative puzzle game coming to Windows and macOS via Steam and to Switch in Q1 2021. This follows a couple’s journey to...

Predator: Hunting Grounds Patch Notes 2.03. Thanks MP1st. Wasteland 3 Version 1.1.0. Fallout New Vegas gets a 16GB Upscaled 4X HD Texture Pack. Here is an impressive Doom mod for Super Mario 64 PC.

Teaching your girlfriend how to play - Guardian.

This Week on Xbox: September 4, 2020.

Galaxy Z Fold 2 finally makes a good case for foldable phones. Thanks RedEye9.

A free weekend is underway for Warhammer Underworlds: Online for Windows on Steam, offering the chance to enter the arena in the "ultimate PvP dice-and-cards strategy combat game." You have two days...

Also free this weekend on Steam is the chance to experience SoundSelf: A Technodelic, for free this weekend. This is described as an "exhilarating journey into altered states of consciousness,...

Derek Yu Tweets that September 29th is the release date for Spelunky 2 on Steam (thanks Gematsu). Here's the official description of this platformer sequel: "Spelunky returns in this greatly-expanded...

There's an Update on Competitive Scene on the Dota 2 Blog discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the Dota Pro Circuit and where things will go from here. In addition to a look back over the past six...

Alt254 is now available for Windows on Steam and through the September Humble Choice* (*Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item). This is an unusual open-world action/adventure...

Doodle Derby is now available for Windows on Steam, offering what developer Studio Erikson and publisher Headup brag is "the least realistic car game ever." This physics platformer involves solving...

Jumpala: Tryouts Edition is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux on Steam, offering a free sample of Jumpala, the upcoming competitive platformer. The full game is expected to enter Early...

Humble Choice (Formerly Humble Monthly) - Humble Bundle.* "All Humble Choice subscribers will also get a new Humble Original, Alt254. Plus, an exclusive demo of Carto, a new Humble Games published...

Marvel's Avengers is now available for Windows and consoles, with the PC edition of Square Enix's and Crystal Dynamics' new action/adventure offered through Steam as well as Stadia. Here's the...

Here's a roundup of evaluations of the new Marvel's Avengers game, including the couple that were already mentioned here this morning: Review- Marvel's Avengers - Destructoid. Marvel's Avengers Beta...

CD PROJEKT RED announces plans for a next-generation update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X which will include ray tracing support and faster load times. This...

A post on Reddit features a six-plus minute video showing off multiplayer gameplay from Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. This is some sort of leak, so it's possible it will be pulled down at some...

Summer News Roundup on the Maximum Fun Podcast has a seeming confirmation of the recent leak of plans for a Prince of Persia Remake (thanks DSOGaming). According the reliable game journalist Jason...

A listing on the Microsoft Store leaked a December 3rd release date along with some screenshots from Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Ubisoft's recently renamed action/adventure formerly known as Gods and...

Activision announces the development grind is complete for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2, and the remade skateboarding combo is now available worldwide for PC and consoles. The Windows edition can...

It looks like "will it run Crysis Remastered" will not reach the same legendary meme status as "will it run Crysis." The Epic Games Store now offers the system requirements for Crytek's first-person...

GOG.com Weekend Sale: set off on an adventure with games up to 80% off.

Apex Legends Season 6 Evo Armor Updates. Thanks Rhialto. Democracy 4 gets awesome new update, and coming soon on steam. Steam Client Update Released.

Epic Games Store now offers Into the Breach for free, as the Windows Mech game is their latest giveaway. Thus they literally go once more into the breach, as they also handed out free copies of this...

Spellbreak is now available for Windows and consoles, and the Spellbreak Website offers links to where to pick up this free-to-play battle royale, which is the Epic Games Store for PC users. Here is...

The Last Show of Mr. Chardish: Act I is now available for Windows on Steam, offering a free prologue to The Last Show of Mr. Chardish, which is due in a few weeks. Here's word on the prologue: "The...

Vaporum: Lockdown is set to launch on September 15th on Steam, offering a steampunk dungeon-crawler RPG that's a prequel to Vaporum (thanks Indie Retro News). Here's a Release Date Announcement...

Harmonix tweets that they've lit the fuse for Fuser, saying their next music/rhythm game will come to PC and consoles on November 10th. Word is you can now preorder the game here: "Headline #FUSER's...

Bethesda.net announces new patches to update DOOM and DOOM II that gives Steam users the re-releases, adds widescreen support, adds a crosshair (which was considered a major cheat back in the day),...

Humble Super Simulation Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).* Steam Publisher: 505 Games Sale. *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Drox Operative 2 version 0.814.

WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship is now available for Windows on the Epic Games Store as Standard Edition or a Deluxe Edition, and the game is also available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Here's...

Diabotical is now available on the Epic Games Store, offering a free-to-play competitive arena shooter for Windows. Here's a Launch Trailer showing off why developer GD Studio calls this a spiritual...

Funcom is now running a countdown timer on the Conan Exiles Website ticking off the seconds to an announcement one week from today. It looks like this will hit zero at 8:00 am EDT on September 10th,...

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - The Furious Wild is now available on Steam, offering a new expansion for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS. This adds a new culture, more than 25 new units, and an expanded...

Xbox Wire announces that with over a million players to date, Microsoft Flight Simulator is the biggest game launch in Xbox Game Pass for PC history: "Just over two weeks ago, Microsoft Flight...

With the day of re-reckoning for Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning coming next Tuesday, THQ Nordic offers a Choose Your Destiny Trailer showing of sorcery in the RPG remake. This comes along with a...

Bleeding Moons is now available for Windows on the Phoenix Online Store, GOG.com, and Steam offering an interactive adventure novel that sounds like a horrifying medical condition. Here's the launch...

20 Years of astragon Entertainment – Publisher Sale on Steam. Save up to 80%.

The Last Campfire is now available on the Epic Games Store, as we failed to note the release of Hello Games' adventure game last week. That's goes along with how we missed how this became an Epic...

Related to the above, Hello Games founder Sean Murray talks with Polygon about their next game, which will be a much bigger project than The Last Campfire. He's not ready to reveal details, but he...

Borderlands Website announces that those who own Borderlands 2 on the Epic Games Store are now entitled to download a free copy of the Commander Lilith & the Fight for Sanctuary DLC. You have a...