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A recently completed Kickstarter for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon raised over $6.2 million for this story-driven RPG, which is reportedly the fourth highest total ever raised by a tabletop game...

GFK Chart-Track's working another holiday, offering their word of 2018 on game sales figures in the U.K. They may be celebrating already, however, as their write-up of the week's activity is...

Fortnite v7.10 Content Update #2. Adds structure destroying big-bada Boom Box. PREY Real Lights plus Ultra Graphics Mod Version 1.3 is available for download.

Gamasutra - Best of 2018- Gamasutra's top games, devs, events and trends. PCGN alternative game awards 2018. Engadget - Our favorite games of 2018. Fortnite - The High Explosives 50s LTM is here....

Atlus Teases Persona 5 R, Promises More Details in March. CEMU 1.15.1 available for download to Patreon backers, comes to everyone on January 6th.

Here's how to get a Lyft discount on New Year's Eve. Drone to watch over New Year celebration in New York. The Chinese government is putting tracking chips into school uniforms to watch every move...

10 social media New Year's resolutions that will make your online life a little better. Every Show Netflix Canceled In 2018. I ordered a box of crickets from the Internet and it went about as well...

A new video from Capcom reveals plans for a collaboration between Monster Hunter: World and Assassin's Creed (thanks Siliconera). This follows news from a couple of weeks ago about a planned...

Here's Valve's list of last week's 10 bestselling games on Steam. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS was number one on the first Steam top 10 of the year, and the battle royale game ends the year in the...

GZDoom 3.7.0 Released. Thanks Ant.

TinyPi Pro preview - Kickstarter campaign - Less than 44 hours to go.

Rocket League 2XP Holiday Weekend ends on Monday, December 31 at 10 AM PST. The year of the C64 - A 2018 Roundup and GOTY Nominees. Thanks Ant.

PlayStation Developers Choose Their Most Anticipated PS4 Games for 2019 and Beyond. Atlus Teases Persona 5 R For PlayStation. Soulja Boy Pulls Consoles From Store Amid Potential Nintendo Lawsuit.

The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018. Mining company says first autonomous freight train network is fully operational. Ask Engadget: Which hybrid smartwatch should I buy?...

Jack Blacks Gaming Channel Hits 1 Million Subscribers. TV antennas are making a comeback in the age of digital streaming. Thanks Ant. Hackers defeat vein authentication by making a fake hand. We'll...

A new GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 417.58 is now available with some fixes for NVIDIA's reference drivers (thanks Hypothermia). Being a hotfix, you probably should avoid this unless you are...

A post on Steam offers a captain's log for ATLAS, the just-released pirate-themed MMOG (thanks PC Gamer). The game suffered some delays before it came out, but the launch still experienced some...

After 9 years, Half-Life 2- MMod is available for download, improves graphics, AI, VFX, Sound & more.

Going Dumb: My Year With a Flip Phone. Android Messages is getting a new feature to help fight spam.

Thanks Ant. In Spite Of Its Efforts, Facebook Is Still The Home Of Hugely Viral Fake News. Thanks Digg. 342.4 Million Top Level Domains Now Populate the Internet. Thanks Linux Today. Best home...

Thanks Neutronbeam. How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games. How Chip Makers Are Circumventing Moore's Law to Build Super-Fast CPUs of Tomorrow. Mozilla Labs is back....

Microsoft Is Making It Harder To Mess With Windows 10's Built-in Antivirus. The most interesting and important hacks of 2018. Thanks Linux Security.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on DSOGaming.

Epic Games Store now offers Super Meat Boy for free as an incentive to check out their new shop and launcher. This is open to anyone with an account, and those are free as well. This post has the...

4Gamer.net has an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki where the From Software president reveals the Dark Souls developer is working on two different unannounced games. At least we trust that he does,...

Blizzard tweets that the next hero for Heroes of the Storm will be Imperius, who will be available on the Play Test Realm on January 2nd. Imperius is from Diablo III, where he is known as the...

Blizzard Entertainment announces an experiment that requires users to link their Battle.net accounts to Twitch in order to participate in Twitch chat in Overwatch Path to Pro tournaments (thanks...

Following yesterday's release of the 2018 Steam charts, the Steam Blog now offers the promised follow-up, lists of best controller-friendly games. The plural is because this is broken down by...

Soldak Entertainment Games on GOG.com and Steam.

PlayStation Developers Pick Their Favorite PS4 Gaming Moments of 2018. Editors Choice 2018: Why God of War is One of 2018s Best Games PlayStation.Blog.

Delivery Drones Cheer Shoppers, Annoy Neighbors, Scare Dogs. Thanks [H]ardOCP. The Essential Phone is effectively discontinued.

With about a week to go in their Winter Sale, GOG.com celebrates with another giveaway, offering SOMA for free for the next 48 hours or so. They also outline the latest developments in the sale...

A new video from IGN is taken from MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries to show off the fog of war as well as the water of war with a look at water and fog effects as well as the destructible environments...

Players Choice - Mod of the Year 2018 feature - Mod DB. Players Choice Indie of the Year 2018 feature - Indie DB.

Serious Sam Collection PS4 and Xbox One Edition Rated by ESRB.

Wearable sensor can detect imminent opioid overdose. May replace Patek Philippe as the go-to junkie watch.

Were all Just Starting to Realize the Power of Personal Data. Most shoppers mistrust influencers, says survey. The Internet can't decide if Grover is throwing the F-bomb or not. The internet is...

Here's what 2019 holds for Paint.NET. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Thanks Ant. It's the end of 2018, and this is your year in security. Thanks DSLReports. 18 Months Later, WannaCry Still Lurks on Infected Computers. Thanks DSLReports. Evidently time is not an...

Gamasutra reports Eugen System fired six employees today, claiming the move is unrelated to a pay dispute that stretches back to February when developers working on Steel Division II briefly went on...

The Steam Blog takes a look back at this past year with some "best of 2018" lists, covering the Top Selling Games, Top Selling New Releases, Top Selling VR Titles, Top Early Access Grads, and one...

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney took to Reddit to address some questions and criticisms of Epic's new games store (thanks Hypothermia). He describes their approach as "very pro-competitive," saying it's up to...

Bloodstained- Ritual Of The Night Will Only Appear On Windows PCs.

Developer Jade Raymond Confirms She Was Working on New Splinter Cell Game Concept Before Leaving Ubisoft. Here's the full interview.

BioWare founders awarded the Order of Canada for 'revolutionary' impact on videogames. Ars Independent Festival Submissions are now underway. Zeldathon for charity is underway, and planned to last...

ACA NEOGEO THE KING OF FIGHTERS 2002 Is Now Available For Xbox One.

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman accidentally funded fake news. Instagram accidentally rolls out horizontal scrolling timeline update in botched test.

A Cliff Bleszinski tweet drops the other shoe on his recent tease of new career news that is "not game related at all." Now the former Bosskey and Epic Games designer pays off on that with the...

Many gamers have long complained about the use of Denuvo in games, saying the DRM software's anti-piracy check harm performance and can cause other issues. Now Ars Technica points the way to a new...

MINImax Tinyverse is now available on Steam, offering what developer Ool Blue calls a "real-time tower-rush god-game" for Windows. This trailer shows off what such a thing looks like, and if you are...