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Valve's report of last week's bestselling titles on Steam is 30% Monster Hunter World, as CAPCOM's new game sold well as a Deluxe Kit, in all caps, and even in upper/lower case: MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD...

Eurogamer follows up yesterday's report of Bethesda preventing the sale of a copy of The Evil Within 2 on the Amazon Marketplace. We mentioned this was a "used" game sale, but the shrink-wrapped...

SQUARE ENIX released a new trailer on Friday to show off some jungle gameplay in Rise of the Tomb Raider, the upcoming return of Lara Croft (thanks Dark Horizons via Ant). The clip also includes...

Bethesda defends its legal threat against a man who tried to resell a "new", sealed copy of The Evil Within 2 on Amazon Marketplace.

Ethiopia internet shutdown in eastern Somali region. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Twitter admits Infowars tweets broke rules, but the account stays up. Facebooks David Marcus Quits Coinbase to Avoid Ap...

Former Nexon marketer cancels game expo panel trashing Lawbreakers. "Lawbreakers: How I Blew Millions Marketing the Biggest Flop of 2017." Closing in on The International - Dota 2.

After five years, total conversion mod Half-Life- Echoes is available for download. Thanks RedEye9.

NVIDIA offers GeForce Hotfix Drivers Version 398.98 (thanks [H]ardOCP). These are to address two specific problems: This is GeForce Hot Fix driver version 398.98 that addresses the following:...

Let It Die is coming to PCs via Steam this autumn, reports GameSpot. For PC gamers who paid no attention to Grasshopper Manufacture's free-to-play action/RPG when it was a PlayStation 4 exclusive,...

IGN now has a new Dead Cells Review to replace the one removed earlier this week amid allegations of plagiarism. There is a note at the end of the new review about the situation, but they have...

Polygon reports that Bethesda Softworks has intervened to prevent a seller on Amazon's Marketplace from selling a used copy of The Evil Within 2 which had never been opened. It is noted that this...

The promised open beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now underway on Battle.net, Blizzard's gaming service. This allows anyone with a free account to check out Activision's upcoming first-person...

Rage 2 won't have multiplayer but will have "a social component" Eurogamer.net. DLC: Can games change people's minds? - GamesIndustry.biz. Culture clash: Why Arena of Valor is struggling in...

GOG.com - Weekend Sale: Store in a cool, dry place, up to 85% off. Steam Daily Deal - West of Loathing, 33% Off.

Bethesda also announced an expansion called Isle of Madness is in the works for The Elder Scrolls Legends. Details are scant for now, as they want us to wait for more: Announced at QuakeCon 2018,...

Gearbox Publishing announces We Happy Few is out for PC and consoles, with the Windows version available on GOG.com and Steam, with a the game's 15% preorder discount carrying over through the...

Bethesda.net offers an Eden Assault Extended Gameplay Trailer from RAGE 2, showing the QuakeCon demonstration of the upcoming shooter sequel. The post has a detailed explanation of what this shows,...

The cross-platform support in Fortnite allows players to play together using different systems. This can lead to some obvious controller inequities, and Epic is considering changing this by making it...

Bethesda.net also has id's reveal video for DOOM Eternal, offering over 15 minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming first-person shooter sequel. IGN has details on the story and gameplay from...

At QuakeCon today id Software announced that Quake Champions is now free-to-play, bringing the multiplayer shooter full circle to its original launch price. Bethesda.net explains they still consider...

An Iron Harvest DevBlog #4 from KING Art Games announces that backers of this crowdfunded RTS game now have access to a playable alpha to check out progress on the game. They explain: "Alpha 1...

Goblinz Studio announces a March 2019 release window for Robothorium, their turn-based, cyberpunk RPG set during one of those robot uprisings you hear so much about these days. The game is currently...

Barely a week after launching the open alpha of Blood Ancestors on Steam, Snowpeak Studio announces August 16th is when the game will officially launch into early access. Since that open alpha is...

Publisher astragon Entertainment and developer Misc Games announce the release of new Line and Net Ships DLC for Fishing: Barents Sea, their Windows open-water fishing simulation. This adds five new...

Tiny Hands Adventure is now available on Steam, offering a Windows adventure game that may or may not have been inspired by the most recent U.S. presidential primaries. This trailer shows off...

Yesterday's launch of MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD on Steam has proven to be a monster success. A post on Steam Charts says the game had 290K players at peak, and USgamer says this makes it the biggest...

Studio MDHR announces the continuation of the phenomenal success story for Cuphead, saying the difficult 1930s-style platformer is "triple platinum" after selling more than three million copies. Here'...

EA SPORTS announces the official release of Madden NFL 19 for all, with the new installment in the tackle football series returning to the PC for the first time in years through Origin. "This is my...

Codemasters and Deep Silver offer a new video developer diary 3 for F1 2018, the upcoming Formula One racing sequel. This features Senior Car Handling Designer David Greco discussing car handling, so...

Deck13 and Radical Fish Games announce that CrossCode will be officially released on Steam on September 20th for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The throwback 2D action/RPG is now wrapping up its three-plu...

Steam now offers a new Rise of the Republic Campaign Pack for Total War: ROME II. As noted on Steam this comes alongside an Ancestral Update, saying, "make sure you opt out of the Ancestral Update...

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer LGM Games announce the release of the Endpoint DLC for Starpoint Gemini Warlords, saying this is the fifth and final DLC for the Windows spaceship combat...

The Path of Exile has details on a new Delve expansion coming to Grinding Gear's action/RPG, along with a timer counting down to its release on August 31st (thanks PCGamesN, where they have a preview)...

The Overwatch Website has word that this year's Summer Games are underway in Blizzard's multiplayer first-person shooter. This includes the return of Lúcioball in a new stadium, a whole bunch of new...

Crytek announces a free weekend is underway for Hunt Showdown, their Early Access bounty-hunting first-person shooter. South American players will be pleased to see that the announcement includes...

Electronic Arts offers details on a second Battlefield V closed alpha test that's getting underway on August 14th. They say codes are going out soon to a small group of players, and those with a...

Fortnite Weapon and Building Balance 8/9. Train Valley 2 -- Update #9.

The Discord Blog announces a Discord Store Beta is now live, as the chat provider seeks to sow discord in the digital distribution world. This is rolling out today to about 50,000 Canadian Discord...

There's a post on the Future and Battlerite Royale on the Battlerite Website announcing that Battlerite Royale is becoming a new standalone game, rather than a new game mode for Battlerite. They say...

Twitch now offers the August set of free games for Twitch Prime subscribers, which includes Amazon Prime members. Redemption requires the use of the Twitch standalone client, and as always, they say...

There's now a playable demo on Steam for PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019, the new installment in the association football/soccer series that's coming out at the end of this month (thanks Frans). Konami...

Focus Home Interactive and New World Interactive channel their combined interactivity to announce the launch of the promised preorder beta for Insurgency: Sandstorm, their upcoming first-person...

The Windows edition of MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD is now available on Steam, offering PC gamers the latest installment in CAPCOM's monster-hit console action series. Updated drivers for this are already...

Perfect World Entertainment announces Torchlight Frontiers, saying the new installment in the Torchlight series will be a shared world experience for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Taking the...

The Overwatch League's problems can't be papered over with rainbows. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Weekly Event -- War Mode: Dodgebomb.

The Phoenix Project Rises Phoenix Point.

Nogalious is now available on Steam, offering a retro-styled platformer for Windows. This trailer shows this off in all its 8-bit glory, and the announcement covers the news, making mention of this...

Unavowed is now available for Windows and macOS on GOG.com and Steam, offering a new supernatural adventure set in New York City from Wadjet Eye Games. The previously released launch trailer shows...

Developer Refract Studios announces September 18th is when Distance will fully launch out of Early Access. They now call this spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush a "car parkour survival racing game,"...

Remedy Entertainment offers a new video developer diary for Control, their upcoming Maxwell Smart-free supernatural action/adventure ("Miss Jackson if you're nasty!"). This takes a look at the game's...