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Just want to give a quick update on the status of the outage at the Blue Tower. We are still without power or cell phone access, and the power company is not offering a time when things are expected...

We had severe winds around the blue tower today as part of the heavy storms we've had in the area for the past few days. This knocked out the power this afternoon, as well as all cell phone service,...

GDC Summer is now underway, offering this year's virtual version of the annual Game Developers Conference. This runs between now and Thursday and they are still offering the chance to register and...

CD PROJEKT RED has kicked off a second season of the Journey system for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. This progression system offers the chance to earn new free rewards for the collectible card game...

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is now out for Windows and PlayStation 4, with the PC edition of this party game available on Steam. You can see some of the game's madcap action in the Launch Trailer...

Relicta is now available on Steam, offering a physics-based first-person puzzle game for Windows that sounds like it was named by a pharmaceutical company, though thankfully it does not come with a...

Someone notify Mulder that Skully is now available for PC and consoles, and the Windows edition of this adventure game can be found on Steam. Here's the Launch Trailer showing off how you play as a...

Bandai Namco announces that preorders are now underway for Project CARS 3, the next installment in their racing series. This requires a commitment before seeing the results of any test drives, so...

A new Esports Expansion is now available on GOG.com and Steam, adding new content to PC Building Simulator. The pretense here is that the building and maintenance of the PCs does more to secure...

Solo developer Daisy Ale Soundworks announces Lost and Hound, a canine adventure game where you play as an intrepid Corgi expected this year for PC on Steam. This boasts accessibility for the...

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Reports Strong Results for Fiscal First Quarter 2021. How strong? They report "GAAP net revenue grew 54% to $831.3 million, a fiscal first quarter record" and "GAA...

With Season 5 kicking off on Wednesday for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, Activision offers a new Official Season Five Trailer to show off what to expect. This includes the chance to blow...

Ubisoft announces a limited-time event called M.U.T.E. Protocol kicks off tomorrow as part of Year 5 Season 2 for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. Here's a new trailer with a look at what to expect as...

A new Games and Online Harassment Hotline is now online, a brainchild of Feminist Frequency founder Anita Sarkeesian, herself a lightning rod for online harassment. There's an interview with...

Fanatical Summer Games Sale. Humble Book Bundle: Game Design & Animation by Packt (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Fall Guys - Behind the Schemes (Mediatonic).

Pimp officially retires as a CS-GO pro to focus on content creation.

Sonyâs âReady for PlayStation 5â TVs are not, in fact, ready for PS5. Thanks Neutronbeam. Spider-Man Coming to Marvelâs Avengers Exclusively on PlayStation. Project CARS 3 Is Now Available...

The shockwaves from Ubisoft's sexual harassment scandal continue to reverberate, as Gamasutra reports the departure of executive Tommy Francois amid misconduct allegations. Francois, who served as...

Riot Games announces that the Act II update for Valorant will come tomorrow, bring a battle pass, in-game currency, a beta deathmatch mode, a new line of "Glitchpop" skins, and more to the battle...

As noted in this tweet, James Baldwin won the opening race of this season's British GT Championship Series. This was his first professional outing, as competing in the real-world race was part of his...

Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Crazybunch announce Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice a new installment in the series coming to Windows and macOS on October 15, 2020. That...

GfK Entertainment reports the top-selling games in the UK for the week ending August 1st: " # Title Publisher Last Week 1 - Ghost of Tsushima Sony Computer Ent. 1 2 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons...

Developer GoesSoft announces they've set up us the Chicken Bomb with the release of this top-down action game on Steam for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This is not to be confused with Bomb Chicken,...

GOG.com Weekly Sale: Pixel Art gems up to 80% off.

Road Rage Royale - Update 1. World of Tanks Update 1.10 is here. Here's a patch video. American McGee's Alice gets a 2GB HD Fan Remaster Mod.

A new MCC Development Update from 343 Industries has details on what they are working on for Halo: The Master Chief Collection (thanks PCGamesN). With Halo 3 now available for the PC, they list...

Digital Extremes wrapped up this year's digital version of TennoCon with the announcement of Heart of Deimos, a new open-world expansion for Warframe that will be simultaneously released for the PC...

A post on Reddit has what's said to be a translation of a Japanese store listing for Halo Infinite. According to this, the upcoming installment in the shooter series will include a battle royale mode....

A tweet from Xbox Game Pass shows a new logo that apparently renames the service as simply "Game Pass." There is a similar tweet from Xbox Game Pass For PC. These are noted in a tweet from Cassim...

Wake the kids, phone the neighbors, the new Steam Top 10 is here. The following is Valve's accounting of the bestselling titles on their service for last week. Remember, this is for entertainment...

Skater XL Version 1.0 Launches For PC And On Consoles. Thanks Ant.

The Rise and Fall of Dead Rising - GVMERS. Thanks Ant. Democracy 4 Developer Video Blog#18- Alpha Build.

Amateur CoD event goes ahead covertly despite announcing it was canceled. Thanks Neutronbeam.

A free weekend is underway on Steam for Disintegration, providing the chance to sample this recently released Windows first-person shooter with RTS elements (thanks SteamDB via Ant). Word is: "Play...

A free weekend for Barony is also now underway on Steam, allowing you to play this "first-person roguelike RPG with cooperative play" for nothing. This is also on sale for 80% off, but It bears...

//HEX is now available on Steam, offering a hacking simulator for Windows that allows you to experience the lucrative career of a hacker who bypasses security systems to rob banks. Here's a Teaser...

Banners of Ruin is now available on Steam, offering a deckbuilding game from publisher Goblinz Studio and developer MonteBearo. Here's the Early Access Trailer. Here's what's in the cards for those...

New HD Texture Pack for Skyrim Special Edition removes compression artifacts & bad bicubic upscaling. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Land of War - Warsaw 39 scene. TEKKEN 7 – Season 4 Announcement. Absurd Mission Objectives - Battle Plan. Thanks Ant. Diablols 2 Ep 3 "Going Rogue."

The Outer Worlds wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game. Twitch is aiming to build an esports league specifically for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. League of Legends World...

Netflix will let you control its playback speeds on Android.

A the Halo Twitter has an official confirmation from 343 Industries of the leaked news that the multiplayer mode for Halo Infinite will be free-to-play. Here's the tweet: "Halo is for everyone. We...

Celebrating the launch of Rocket Arena Season 1, publisher Electronic Arts and developer Final Strike now offer a free weekend for Rocket Arena, their recently launched multiplayer shooter. They are...

Bethesda is promising all Bethesda.net members who tune in for QuakeCon a free copy of Quake. If their charity initiative hits their first goal, these members will also receive a free copy of Quake...

The BioWare Blog discusses loot and equipment goals as BioWare continues with their promised Anthem rework. This offers details from a discussion that started on Twitter, offering a "peek behind the...

Xbox Wire informs us that over one million players have checked out Grounded between Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview: "We want to thank the community for showing support for the recent...

Keep calm and Carrion. Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Phobia announce that Carrion has scared up over 200,000 sales since the launch of this reverse horror game. Here's a new live-action...

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is now available for Windows 10, offering PC gamers the chance to live the life of crime in this game first released for PlayStation 4 (it's also now available for Xbox One). Here's...

In a Behavioral Systems August 2020 Update, Riot explains plans to detoxify League of Legends a bit with griefer punishments (thanks The Loadout). Here's the plan for dealing with idle/AFK players in...