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Portal 2 Update. EAW Remake 3.0 (updated) file - Empire At War Remake- Galactic Civil War mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. Street Fighter V New Mod Introduces Huge Netcode...

Rock of Ages 3 Dev Diary #1- Rock Solid Foundations. Trials of Mana Character Spotlight Trailer- Charlotte & Kevin (2/3).

Gamasutra: Jori Hamilton's Blog - The Prevalence of Occupational Burnout in the Gaming Industry. "A major step towards diminishing the rate of burnout is acknowledging the taxing nature of the work...

CES 2020 RTX Giveaway Update. Annual giveaway cancelled due to shenanigans. Hearthstone Masters Expands in 2020 with DreamHack, ESL. Brenda and John Romero headline Interactive Futures 2020. High...

Xbox Wire announces Sea of Thieves has stolen the hearts of over 10 million players since the launch of Rare's online pirate game. They say this makes the Xbox One and Windows 10 game "the most...

IO Interactive now offers a January Content Calendar for HITMAN 2. Word is: "In 2020, well be focusing on Featured Contracts, Elusive Target Reactivations and Curated Contracts for our HITMAN 2 live...

Steam Daily Deal - Bulletstorm- Full Clip Edition, 75% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Crypt of the NecroDancer, 80% Off.

Disintegration: 32 Minutes of Story Mission Gameplay. DRAGON BALL Z- KAKAROT Character Progression.

Destiny's Sword presents a double-edged dilemma.

GLAAD reveals nominees for Outstanding Video Game at 31st annual Media Awards.

Paladins Season 3 Begins with New Champion Release, Community Battle Pass - Xbox Wire. How Arcade Racer Touring Karts Plays Best on PS4 and PS VR. Xbox Ambassadors Pledge to Make Gaming Fun for...

U.S. outlines strong support for self-driving cars at CES. ASUS Launches Ultralight 14-Inch Project Athena ExpertBook B9450 - Just 865 Grams.

A tweet in Portuguese from PlayStation Brazil seems to reveal that Blizzard plans to release Overwatch 2 sometime this year (thanks VG247). This was deleted after it was posted, which may be because...

The gungeon must be getting pretty crowded, as Dodge Roll Games tweets that Enter the Gungeon has now surpassed three million sales on all platforms since the release of the bullet hell roguelike in...

Legal website Lexology has details on U.S. Patent no. 10,275,947, which it says was issued on April 30, 2019 to Electronic Arts. This explains this is a patent for changing the appearance of user-cre...

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...