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Just yesterday we had a link to a Valve News Network interview with Jeri Ellsworth where she dished about her time at Valve. Among the topics she discussed was her skepticism at Valve boss Gabe...

A post on Steam from remaster masters Nightdive Studios announces updates to SiN: Gold on Steam adding the Wages of SiN expansion along with a bunch of fixes. This is not all the news for Ritual...

In other Nightdive news, comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment announces a collaboration with the developer to create an updated version of Shadow Man. This modernized version of the 1999...

Serenity Forge announces plans to publish Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse, an upcoming point-and-click adventure game based on the popular Cyanide & Happiness webcomic series. The game is shown...

Humble Software Bundle: Best of Stardock 2020 (pay what you want and help charity). Save 75% on Warhammer- Vermintide 2 on Steam.

The promised Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition is now underway, offering free samples of a bunch of indie games. This will run until March 26th at 1:00 pm EDT. Word is: "The Steam Game Festival:...

SEGA announces that Football Manager 2020 is free-to-play for the next week on Steam, allowing Windows and Mac gamers seven days to kick around the latest installment in this association football/socc...

Publisher Raiser Games announces that you can pick up GOAT OF DUTY for free on Steam as their way of supporting social distancing to fight the spread of COVID-19. This first-person shooter featuring...

HTC announces their new VIVE Cosmos Elite VR headsets will come with a free copy of Half-Life: Alyx, similar to the bundle offered with Valve Index headsets, which are currently sold out. They say...

A post on GamingLeaksAndRumours on Reddit offers a leaked trailer for Tales of the Borderlands: A Telltale Series Redux, split into two halves (thanks ResetEra). Here's part one and part two, showing...

Fights in Tight Spaces is an upcoming action/strategy game that combines deck-building with turn-based tactics to create animated hand-to-hand combat sequences. This can be seen in action in this...

Megapop Games announces an Early Access launch date for Haxity, saying this deck-building game will launch on Steam on May 26th. The announcement notes that the game is designed with Early Access in...

A post on the Overwatch Forums has word from Jeff Kaplan that they are working on ways to reduce the possibility of being forced to repeatedly backfill in Overwatch quickmatches (thanks Dexerto via...

Xbox Wire announces Xbox Game Pass "Ultimate Perks" as well as new titles coming to the PC and Xbox Game passes. The new games coming to the Windows edition of this subscription service are...

Valve announces the 2020 Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition will kick off tomorrow at 1:00 pm EDT, offering free-to-play demos and announcements for new and upcoming games. Here's the plan: "The...

Speaking of Valve, My Best Valve Interview, So Far on YouTube (NSFW) is a Valve News Network interview with Jeri Ellsworth, who is currently working on an AR system called Tilt-5. This is based on...

With DOOM Eternal due for release on Friday, those who have pre-purchased id's shooter sequel on Steam can now pre-load their copy to be set when it goes live (thanks Rockn-Roll). This post has...

The Last Campfire Website reveals release plans for The Last Campfire, saying this adventure from No Man's Sky developer Hello Games that will come to Steam and consoles this summer. This page offers...

Ubisoft announces a free weekend for Assassin's Creed Odyssey will kick off on Thursday. This trailer promotes the news, which follows: "Today UBISOFT® announced that Assassins Creed Odyssey, the...

Exit the Gungeon is now available for Windows on Steam, offering the follow-up to the bullet-hell dungeon crawling of Enter the Gungeon. This previously came to Apple Arcade, so the post on Steam...

Steam News announces the official launch of Medieval Engineers on Steam after five years of Early Access for this sandbox game of medieval technology (stonepunk?). Word is: "Medieval Engineers is a...

The SCS Software blog announces Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Iberia, new DLC that will come to the transportation game on Steam. Here's word on the desert environment this will add: "The Iberian...

A post to the Activision Blog explains a new Solo mode that's now live in Call of Duty: Warzone, which bypasses the group dynamic in the free-to-play battle royale shooter. Here's how this works...

Paradox Interactive now offers The Federations, the new expansion for Stellaris, their 4X grand strategy game set in space, where no one can hear you say Erin go Bragh. You can pick this up for...

With DOOM Eternal due for release on Friday, it looks like 10:00 am EDT today marked the end of the review embargo. Here are the first evaluations of the latest installment in id Software's venerable...

A post on GOG.com rounds up the various games from their DRM-free marketplace that can be played for free as a self-promotional public service for those shut-in by efforts at combating COVID-19. Here'...

The Sims on Origin. Save up to 80%. Shrapnel Games Coronavirus Sale on Gamers Front.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey - 1.5.3 Patch Notes & Sneak Peek. Thanks Eurogamer via Neutronbeam. Fortnite Battle Royale v12.20 Update patch notes. Get to the choppa! Fortnite Save the World Homebase...

biped Official Gameplay Trailer. SnowRunner - Overview Trailer.

Occupy White Walls by StikiPixels Kickstarter. "Part a creative building game and part art platform of the future, OWW connects artists and art-curious players in new and original ways. In so...

College teams selected for UMG Overwatch Collegiate Clash. Breath of the Wild fans held $1K feed all the dogs race. Thanks Neutronbeam.

CD Projekt RED tweets that their staff is now working remotely in response to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 virus (thanks IGN). At this point they still anticipate completing development of...

A tweet from Overwatch prompts speculation that Blizzard is now teasing plans to add a 32nd hero to their multiplayer shooter. This is listed as from the "PERSONAL LOG OF DR. MINA LIAO" and dated...

Gearbox Software is now offering the chance to be the man (or woman) with the golden gun in Borderlands 3. You won't be able to have Hervé Villechaize as your butler, but you can pick up the...

As part of their Spring Sale mentioned earlier today, GOG.com is offering The Witcher Goodies Collection for free. This does not include any actual games, and to be honest, is not something we'd...

Alien Breed 3D for GZDoom (0.9 BETA) - A remake-slight reimagining of the Amiga FPS game Alien Breed 3D.

Manticore Games is building a "truly level playing field" for game development - GamesIndustry.biz.

Gamescom prep continuing as planned despite Cologne event ban. Reboot Develop Blue postponed to October. Torque Esports partners with FaZe Clan to create #Fight2Fund to combat COVID-19 pandemic.

Creature in the Well Bounces onto PS4 March 31. Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Skip-Ahead and Alpha (200314-0000).

Capcom Unity announces Resident Evil 3 Raccoon City, a playable demo for Resident Evil 3, their survival/horror remake. The full version of the game is expected on April 3rd, and this sample will...

With the face-to-face version of the Game Developers Conference postponed, Gamasutra has an outline of some of the show's activities that will stream online this week. The plan includes virtual game...

Publisher 505 Games and developer Remedy Entertainment reveal more details about The Foundation, the imminent expansion for Control. The add-on is coming to the sci-fi action/adventure on March 26th,...

GfK Entertainment offers the latest all-formats chart of the bestselling games in the UK for the week ending March 14th. Here's the top 15, which oddly lists Nintendo as the publisher of Minecraft: "...

Spring Sale on GOG.COM blooms with colorful game deals.

Brawlhalla New Legend: Onyx, the Gargoyle - Patch 3.58. A Matrix mod for Half-Life 2 is currently under development, and you can download its demo.

Borderlands 3 - -Guns, Love, and Tentacles- First 12 Minutes of Gameplay. DOOM Eternal Dev Diary- Unbox cool cosmetics and more with in-game Events. Play Every Half-Life in VR NOW. ONE PIECE PIRATE...

Matt Chat 444: Kevin Saunders on Torment: Tides of Numenera. Thanks Ant. Spawn Creator Todd McFarlane on Violence Linked to Gaming - "We cant let them control what we can create" - MP1st.

The records reported yesterday for concurrent Steam users and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players have already been topped. Yesterday 19,728,027 simultaneous users were logged in and 1,007,062...

An MCC Development & Flighting Update has details on plans to test the upcoming PC edition of Halo 2 Anniversary, which is coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection (thanks Wccftech). At this point...

The Wasteland 3 Fig Page announces closed beta testing will begin on March 17th for backers of the next installment in this post-apocalyptic RPG series (thanks Gaming Bolt via DSOGaming). Word is...