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Deck 13 announces they will summon the Kraken on January 16th, as that is when they will offer this new expansion for The Surge 2. They say this will come alongside a new Premium Edition of the...

Ahem! Speaking Simulator is clearing its throat in preparation for its release on January 30th for Windows, macOS, and Switch, with the PC editions coming via Steam. This is an unusual concept where...

Early Access to DEEEER Simulator- Your Average Everyday Deer Game is planned to begin on January 21st on Steam. Lest you think that title is an accurate description of the game, check out this...

Indie developer Arrogant Pixel announces Doris & the Dragon 2 will come to Windows, macOS, and Linux on February 7th, offering a follow-up to The Tale of Doris and the Dragon - Episode 1, which is...

RUNNER HEROES: The Curse of Night and Day is now available on Steam, offering an adventure platformer that challenges the player to control two characters at the same time. You can see this feature...

GamesIndustry.biz has some analysis of new game releases on Steam for 2019 based on data from sleuthy website SteamSpy. While more games came out on Valve's store/service last year than in 2018,...

The Independent Games Festival Website announces the finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival Awards. These will be handed out on March 18th during the Game Developers Conference, and the...

Swedish developer Early Morning Studio announces a January 31st release date for Vampire's Fall: Origins on Steam. This will be the PC edition of an RPG that's already available for mobile users on...

Steam Daily Deal - Driftland- The Magic Revival, 60% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Trine 4- The Nightmare Prince, 35% Off.

Dota 2 Update - January 7th, 2020. League of Legends Patch 10.1 Notes. Teamfight Tactics patch 10.1 notes.

A fresh trailer for Kentucky Route Zero Season Pass ACT V is here.

The Last of Us director Bruce Straley on ludonarrative dissonance - GamesIndustry.biz.

Blizzard doubles the number of Hearthstone Masters Tour events for the 2020 season.

A story on the Los Angeles Times outlines an effort by the Communications Workers of America to unionize employees of video game and tech companies. This involves what's called the Campaign to...

Platinum Games announces they are entering into a limited partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings. Here's word from Platinum's President and CEO Kenichi Sato on what this means to this...

Publisher Armor Games Studios and developer Glass Revolver announce ITTA, a bullet hell shooter coming this year to Windows and Switch. The game's Steam Listing and coming soon trailer show off the...

Quake II RTX 1.3.0 PATCH. New Mafia 2 mod makes Empire Bay look better than ever.

Game Designer Eric Zimmerman on the Future of Video Games - OneZero.

DreamHack and ESL Enters Three-Year Agreement With Blizzard Entertainment. DoA is the latest esports caster to leave the Overwatch League. Excel Esports Brings Aboard Former Fnatic CEO and Adidas...

Update - Not Real | First 360 degree look at Xbox Series X shown at AMD CES Conference. The official PS5 logo is here: wooo! Wake the kids, phone the neighbors. How Nioh 2s Open Beta Feedback is...

Alienware Unveils Concept UFO, A Handheld PC Prototype Heavily Influenced By Nintendo Switch. Dells G5 15 SE Gaming Laptop Gets 8-Core Ryzen 4000 & Radeon RX 5600M dGPU. Byton is putting a 48-inch...

The GeForce Website now offers new version 441.87 WHQL- certified Windows drivers for NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. Word is these are game-ready for Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Ray Tracing and...

The new GeForce drivers mentioned above tout Wolfenstein: Youngblood RTX support. The NVIDIA Website says this will come this week and offers more details on the plan along with a Launch Trailer....

Metro VR Studios announces Orion13, a first-person, hack-and-slash VR adventure game. This will kick off a planned trilogy when it is released on February 13th. The official website offers this...

Steam Daily Deal - Internet Cafe Simulator, 25% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Plane Mechanic Simulator, 40% Off.

How the Esports Player Transfer Market Differs from Soccer or the NBA.

Xbox Series X ports revealed at AMD's CES 2020 press event. Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Skip-Ahead (2004.200104-0000). Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha Ring (2002.200101-2000).

Lenovo Flaunts Its Foldable PC, The ThinkPad X1 Fold. ASUS Republic of Gamers Unveils New Gaming Lineup at CES 2020. AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs: 7nm, 8-core on both 15W and 45W, Coming Q1. ASUS ROG...

AT&T et al. fight against higher upload speeds in $20-billion FCC program. Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E Moniker for 802.11ax in the 6 GHz Spectrum. YouTube decides its easier to treat all...

Tweets from Masahiro Ito have word from the Silent Hill Art Director that he is working on a mysterious new title. Besides his hopes that this will not be cancelled, that's about all he has to say on...

NVIDIA gets a headstart on the CES festivities with the announcement of the ASUS ROG Swift 360 monitor, a new G-SYNC monitor with a 360Hz refresh rate. This is aimed at esports, where the lightning...

GOG.com Weekly Sale: Games for cozy winter evenings up to 90% off.

Mafia 2 gets a 2020 graphics overhaul mod that is available for download.

BioShock revisited: unpicking the complex, messy legacy of 2K's knockout franchise - TechRadar. Thanks VGC. Matt Chat 437: Colin McComb on Classic Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns.

MarketWatch - PC gaming is in a decline and deserves to be. Thanks RedEye9. "The reason is that the gaming industry has become far more focused on generating large profits than creating good...

Season 10 of League of Legends starts this week. Mitch Robinson Twitch stream, 24-hour charity stream for bushfire appeal, Lions wingman raises $15,000.

"Silent Hill" Art Director Masahiro Ito Announces A New Video Game.

The new year's first list of last week's bestselling titles on Steam looks like a monster week for Monster Hunter World. Here's what happened spanning the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020: The...

Steam Daily Deal - Planetary Annihilation- TITANS, 75% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Deadliest Catch- The Game, 25% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Beasts of Bermuda, 30% Off. Steam Daily Deal - G2 Fighter - á...

Vice City Remastered is a must-have mod for Grand Theft Auto 5, available for download right now.

Fortnite Winterfest is ending soon so don't forget to open up your presents 🎁. Rocket League Frosty Fest is ending on Monday. Make sure to get everything on your list from the Event Store! ...

The PS5s SSD could spell doom for next-gen PC game ports. Wait, what? Thanks Simon.

Its the network, stupid: study offers fresh insight into why were so divided. Disney+ Rep Explains Rotating Film Slate. Thanks Ant. The Witcher: 10 Things They Got Wrong About Jaskier In The...

Samsung sheds light on its 'artificial human' project. Das Keyboard's notification service leaves IFTTT on January 10th. Vizio's 4K TV lineup adds OLED and a new voice remote for 2020. Vizios new...

'Serious cyber-attack' on Austria's foreign ministry. Travelex scrubs UK homepage, kills services, knackers other sites amid 'software virus' infection. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

A legal memorandum from Crytek asks the courts for a voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games they filed two years ago (thanks RiSC1911 on Reddit via Eurogamer). Their...

A thread on the Lutris Forums has some users reporting they're now banned from playing Battlefield V via DXVK (thanks Slashdot via Ant). Lutris is a game manager for Linux-based systems and DXVK is a...

Steam now offers a playable demo for Wanking Simulator, the upcoming action/adventure game that is now overdue from its announced Q3 2019 release (thanks DSOGaming). As the name suggests, this is a...

How to update an Xbox One controller in 3 different ways. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Wi-Fi 6E defined- Up to 6GHz to compliment 5G. Thanks Neutronbeam. Samsungs next flagship Galaxy phone will probably be announced February 11. The cheapest phone in the world is a $9 watch.