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Today marks the end of the review embargo for Intel's latest CPUs. Here's a roundup: The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review: Skylake We Go Again - AnandTech. Intel Core...

We gave brief mention last night to the latest rumors from Twitter and YouTube saying Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War will be the title of the next CoD game, which meshed with previous rumors about...

XPRIZE announces XPRIZE Connect, "a new learning initiative that will democratize access to learning through technology, and allow a new generation of innovators to follow their interests and develop...

TiMi Studios announces veteran game designer Scott Warner has joined this North American subsidiary of Tencent Games. Scott will not be TiMi's Lord of the Underworld, but he will serve as the studio's...

Early Access to Brimstone Brawlers is now underway on Steam, offering the chance to try your hand at this Victorian-era arena brawling game. This post from developer/publisher Ategig welcomes new...

Toadman Interactive announces a June 18th release date for Westmark Manor, a Lovecraftian puzzle adventure developed by one of their staff. This will be released on GOG.com and Steam, and the...

Curved Space is an arcade shooter planned for release this autumn by husband and wife development team Only By Midnight. This is coming to Steam and consoles, and they say they will be launching a PC-...

After a tease and some leaks, 2K officially announces the Mafia: Trilogy, revisiting this trio of organized crime games. They are working backwards with an increasing level of reworking. Therefore a "...

A new patch is now live in Overwatch, updating Blizzard's competitive shooter to version 1.48 and adding a bunch of new skins in celebration of the game's fourth anniversary. Despite the incremental...

The VALORANT banhammer is still getting a workout, as Riot Games anti-cheat chief Phillip Koskinas tweets the latest on rooting out malfeasance in their beta shooter (thanks The Loadout). Here's the...

SEGA announces May 27th is the North American release date for the Windows edition of Phantasy Star Online 2, the free-to-play online action/RPG. The announcement mentions the version coming to the...

Iron Meat is a side-scrolling arcade shooter coming to Steam from Russian solo developer Ivan Suvorov. Word is: "Iron Meat is a classic run-and-gun platform shooter, with graphic pixelated violence,...

Publisher The Irregular Corporation and developer Foxy Voxel announce plans to get medieval on your ass with Going Medieval, an upcoming alternate-history simulation of the bad old days. This will be...

Humble BANDAI NAMCO Bundle 4 (pay what you want and help charity).* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

Driftmoon receives an update to Enhanced Edition - GOG.com. Fallout 76: Update 19 Patch Notes – May 19, 2020. Sky Cannoneer - version 1.2.0 Game Update - Multiplayer is here.

BANDAI NAMCO announces Dark Souls III has sold more than 10M copies on all platforms since the release of From Software's action/RPG sequel (or soulslike, if you prefer). Here's word this milestone...

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game is now available for Windows on Steam. This free-to-play turn-based strategy game is from CD Projekt RED, so it's naturally made a home on CDPR's own GOG.com, but it is...

With Crucible due tomorrow, a preview embargo expired at precisely 9:00 am EDT this morning. Here's the game's Steam Listing and here's everything you want to know about Amazon's new free-to-play...

SKYHILL: Black Mist is due for release on Steam on May 28th, offering a second installment in this action/adventure series. Publisher Klabater and developer Mandragora offer a new Story Gameplay...

Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is now available on Steam, offering supernatural adventure for Windows and macOS in the near-forgotten FMV genre. The previously released Official Trailer has...

Medal of Honor: Airborne Redux Mod released, features FOV options, better leaning, tweaked AI & more.

Gamasutra Q&A: Making XCOM tighter and more focused with Chimera Squad. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 remaster will feature classic pro skaters at their current ages - Polygon. Thanks Neutronbeam.

War of Ashird by Igrasil Studio — Kickstarter. "War of Ashird is a unique combination of classic turn-based and grid-based RPGs. In it, you can command your soldiers in strategic battles, conquer...

An update on the Epic Games Store has word on some changes coming to the shop. Following the revelation of partial refunds on game's purchased shortly before they go on sale they unveil their full...

Achievement Plans Revealed An update on the Epic Games Store has word on some changes coming to the shop. Following the revelation of partial refunds on game's purchased shortly before they go on...

A tweet from Geoff Keighley announces the opening night ceremony for gamescom/Gamescom 2020 will be August 27th, kicking off a three-day digital version of the games show. The gamescom Website has...

In this blog post Valve announces beta testing for Artifact version 2.0 will get underway this week. Admitting testing of the original release of the card game was too brief, they say they will...

General Mills announces the release of Chex Quest HD, perhaps the most unlikely game remaster yet. Now available for free on Steam, this is a remake of a non-violent DOOM-engine game released in...

Ubisoft announces Operation Steel Wave, the second season of year five for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. They don't specify when this update will officially launch, but they do say the test server...

A new This Week in Call of Duty Briefing has the latest on what's going on in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone. Word is: "This week in Modern Warfare play a new Multiplayer map...

VECTORLORD is now available on Steam, offering what developer NerveQuake Software calls a "modern arcade shooter." This seems like an odd description for a decidedly retro game that they also note...

Humble Book Bundle: Learn You Some Python by No Starch Press (pay what you want and help charity)* *Blue's News may receive a commission on sales of this item.

A tweet from Joshua Boggs indicates Epic Games is now offering partial refunds to those who buy games from the Epic Games Store shortly before those games go on sale (thanks VG247). The store has not...

System Shock 3 may have found a savior in Chinese giant Tencent following reports of layoffs at developer OtherSide Entertainment amid financial difficulties. VGC reports both the SystemShock3.com...

The new registration of princeofpersia6.com a couple of weeks ago was apparently fake news. Though it initially appeared to have been registered by Ubisoft, DSOGaming notes that the registration...

Private Division and European Space Agency announce a free Shared Horizons update coming on July 1st to Kerbal Space Program for Windows. The console versions of the space sim will get this update...

Flamebait Games announces they will be showing off Forge and Fight in the Steam Game Festival Summer Edition from June 9-14. At that time they will be launching beta testing of this multiplayer...

GOG.com. Weekly Sale: games featuring strange creatures up to 80% off. The Witcher series up to 85% off - GOG.com.

MachiaVillain Plague update and donation to fight Covid. This Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play with lightsabers.

Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath - Official Friendships Trailer. Thanks Gematsu. New gameplay teaser video released for Fallout New Vegas Remake in Fallout 4, Fallout 4: New Vegas. M01 finished (for now)...

Grey Dog Software announces the release of Total Extreme Wrestling 2020, the first new installment in their series of wrestling promoter games since the release of Total Extreme Wrestling 2016. You...

In a lengthy update on Steam Ghost Ship Crew lays out a roadmap (starmap?) for Deep Rock Galactic, their co-op first-person shooter set in space, where no one can hear you pew pew pew. The game just...

The Minecraft Website reveals that Mojang is celebrating Minecraft's 11th birthday with a new name, and they will be henceforth known as Mojang Studios. This is going to take a lot of getting used to,...

Nine entries make up this week's list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: Halo: The Master Chief Collection Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition Scrap Mechanic Red Dead...

PCGamesN busted out a calculator to figure out the value of all the games given away for free on the Epic Games Store during their promotional freebies spree. This added up quickly, as we are...

The Witcher 3 Redux V2.7 released, brings numerous gameplay fixes, tweaks, reworks and additions.

HeroStorm Ep 73 "Boss Loss." Thanks Ant.

SCS Software's blog: Trucks World Cup 2020 - The Next Phase.

The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game for Windows is currently free to keep on Steam if you claim your copy over the coming week. This offers the chance to play as a minifig ninja without any chance of...

Four Kings One War is now available for free on Steam (thanks SteamDB). This chess-inspired strategy game for Windows and macOS is yours to keep if you pick it up between now and Tuesday. Here's what...