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Imperiums: Greek Wars is a 4X grand strategy game that will launch on Steam soon, as it carries a spring 2020 release window. Here's the game's elevator pitch: "Imperiums: Greek Wars is a unique...

Watch Dogs and The Stanley Parable are now available for free as this week's promised giveaways on the Epic Games Store. As always, these are yours to keep provided you pick them up before the...

Microsoft announces DirectX 12 Ultimate, which will bring new technology they've developed for Xbox Series X to PC. This includes inline ray tracing, variable rate shading, mesh shaders, and sampler...

A free open beta weekend is now underway for Circle Empires Rivals, offering the chance to check out this multiplayer real-time strategy game between now and Sunday. You can get a key by joining the...

Informa Tech announces GDC Summer will take place from August 4-6 in San Francisco as a replacement for the gathering portion of the Game Developers Conference, which is currently underway in virtual...

Nacon, the publisher formerly known as Bigben, announces WRC 9, saying latest version of this official game of the FIA World Rally Championship is in development at KT Racing. This is planned for...

A World Betrayed is now available on Steam for Total War: THREE KINGDOMS, offering new Windows DLC for the historical strategy game. As noted in this announcement this comes alongside White Tiger Yan,...

Slitherine now offers the release of Panzer Corps 2, a World War 2 strategy sequel for Windows centered on armored combat. This is also available on GOG.com and Steam. Here's the announcement with a...

TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2 is now available, offering a motorcycle racing simulation for Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 from publisher Nacon and developer KT Racing. You can find the PC...

This post on Steam announces the release of the promised Resident Evil 3: Raccoon City Demo on Steam. This Windows demo is a sample of the upcoming Resident Evil 3, the survival/horror remake that's...

The MapleStory 2 Website announces Nexon's free-to-play MMORPG sequel will go offline on May 27th. They are refunding purchases made after December 11, 2019 through the Nexon Launcher or their...

With so many forced indoors by the global COVID-19 outbreak, Games to help you stay inside on itch.io is a lengthy list of titles on this indie game marketplace that are free or carry big discounts (t...

GameStop tweets an announcement that they will begin selling DOOM Eternal today in advance of the official release date for id's shooter sequel, which is tomorrow. They explain this is to avoid...

Untitled Goose Game is Game of the Year winner from the 20th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, which were announced during an online stream after COVID-19 cancelled the in-person ceremony. You...

A Short Hike is the winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game from the 22nd annual Independent Games Festival. This took place along with the Game Developers Choice Awards,...

We first mentioned Riftbreaker after it was shown off at last year's PAX West, revealing EXOR Studios' base-building survival game with action/RPG elements, saying it's coming sometime this year....

EGOSOFT announces a March 31st release date for the X4: Foundations 3.0 update and the Split Vendetta expansion for X4 that will add the next chapter to the Foundations storyline in the space...

Duke3D - Fatal Mode (Atomic). This 4.5GB 8K HD Texture Pack for Skyrim Special Edition brings landscapes textures created with 3D Scans.

The Steam Blog announces the Steam Interactive Recommender is now available for all users. This was previously known as Steam Labs Experiment 002: Interactive Recommender when it was in the testing...

This tweet confirms recent speculation about a new hero announcement for Overwatch. Blizzard reveals the omnic Echo will soon join the competitive first-person shooter. This video says Echo is "coming...

Gabe Newell Opens Up About Valve's Past, Present, and (Unexpected) Future on IGN is a video interview with the Valve boss who is joined by Robin Walker to discuss Valve, the Half-Life series, and in...

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.