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Only 39% Of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Alaskas last 2 Blockbuster stores are closing, leaving just one in the U.S.. Russell Crowe's jock couldn't save them....

Best Buy somehow came up with the best way of charging Xbox game controller batteries.

Speaking of toxic language, a post on the Overwatch Forums from Jeff Kaplan touts Blizzard's progress in fighting abusive chat in Overwatch. Responding to complaints about the LFG and Endorsements...

A conversation on Twitter discusses a ban a Rainbow Six Siege player earned by dropping a racial slur in chat. PC Gamer notes that this is in line with an updated RAINBOW SIX SIEGE CODE OF CONDUCT...

A story on ResetEra highlights a post on Mod DB that suggests some of the problems with unintelligent AI in Aliens Colonial Marines may be the result of a typo in the code, where the addition of a...

Open offices are as bad as they seemthey reduce face-to-face time by 70%. EVGA X299 DARK - BIOS 1.08 Released! Includes OC Robot + CPU Stress Test. LEDs cut seabird death toll from fishing by 85...

Banned Twitch streamers defend slurs, but say language has evolved. The Twitter Purge: here's who lost the fewest and the most followers. We gained one follower here.

The 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard doesn't seem to improve reliability, and that's not great. Thanks RedEye9.

Steam Daily Deal - Youtubers Life, 55% Off.

Visceral had some cool ideas for Dead Space 4 Eurogamer.net. Interview - Matthieu Richez talks Dead in Vinland - GOG.com. Interview - Audrey Leprince talks Furi - GOG.com.

Codemasters offers a new trailer from F1 2018 with a reveal of the lineup of classic racecars that will be part of the next installment in the Formula One racing simulation. This blog post has more...

A new video from Epic Games discusses what's new in Fortnite's battle royale mode in the just-launched Season 5. Word is: "Season 5 is here and we're talking weapon and Storm changes, updates to...

Activision and Treyarch announce two different beta tests on three different platforms will be part of the run-up to the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 on October 12th. They are planning a...

Earthfall Is Now Available For Xbox One. Insane Robots Is Now Available For Xbox One. The Spectrum Retreat Is Now Available For Xbox One. Gekido Kintaros Revenge Is Now Available For Xbox One....

Call of Cthulhu on AusGamers.com.

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New Borderlands 2 Unofficial Community Patch released, features over 100 fixes/changes.

The Battlefield Twitter feed announces that Second Assault is available for free to all Battlefield 4 owners who pick up the DLC pack between now and July 17th. Likewise, they also announce the...

Speaking of Left 4 Dead, four-player co-op is one of the features publisher Perfect World Entertainment announces for Remnant: From the Ashes, is in the works at Darksiders III developer Gunfire...

Earthfall is now officially available for Windows on Steam, as the co-op shooter popped up a day before its planned release today. The launch trailer shows off the game's Pacific northwest setting...

AMD Support now offers new version 18.7.1 Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition drivers for AMD graphics cards (thanks Bill). These add support for Earthfall, promising significant performance...

Early Access to Outpost Zero is underway on Steam, and this multiplayer survival FPS for Windows carries a 20% discount to celebrate the occasion. There's also a new Outpost Zero quickstart tutorial...

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is now available for Windows and Linux on Steam, offering a 4X strategy game using Games Workshops science fiction setting. This is also available on GOG.com,...

Kickstarter Update for The Bards Tale IV: Barrows Deep announces the launch of the backer's beta for the upcoming RPG sequel. Additionally, inXile entertainment reveals September 18th as the release...

The Steam Blog announces ways Valve is attempting to make the "Upcoming" tab on Steam more relevant to the interests of each individual gamer by tailoring the list of upcoming games to some of the...

Steam is offering a free weekend to play Nova Nukers!, a multiplayer action game for Windows. This celebrates a new patch that updates the game to version 1.2.0, adding new content, and it is also...

Steam News announces the chance to get Hacknet for free, simply by adding it to your Steam library between now and July 14th at 1:00 pm EDT (thanks Steam Database via Ant). This supports Windows,...

Kalypso Media announces the acquisition to the full rights to the Commandos series, saying they now own the rights to all past a future releases for the mostly real-time tactics series. Here's the...

James Ohlen tweets that he is retiring from BioWare after 22 years: After 22 years I have retired from BioWare. I've loved my time with Anthem, Star Wars, Dragon Age and Dungeons and Dragons. But I...

Ticketmaster breach 'part of massive card-skimming campaign'.

Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful? Thats an Easy One. Thanks Puttwhacker. Apple worked with Blackmagic on a new external GPU. Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies. Mac...

RSS Has Already Won. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Our (likely) next Supreme Court justice doesn't get the internet.

WhatsApps new forwarded label: Everything you need to know. Thanks Ant. Ubers head of HR resigns reportedly after discrimination probe. Thanks Puttwhacker. Einride's T-log is an autonomous truck,...

Switch Reportedly Getting Hardware Patch to Stop Hackers From Utilizing Piracy Exploit. Dolby Vision is coming to Xbox One.

Meet the people bringing Japanese video games to life in English - The Guardian. Thanks Puttwhacker.

This trailer introduces the story for Dark Devotion, though the cinematic presentation does not show the hand-drawn art style that earned this upcoming Roguelike RPG nominations for Best Graphics and...

The new update is now live in Fortnite, bringing Epic's survival shooter to version 5.0 and kicking off the game's fifth season. The Season 5 announce trailer shows off what's new and the version 5.0...

Mafia 3 once had an opening so controversial all trace of it had to be erased Eurogamer.net. There will be another Witcher game, says CD Projekt's CEO - PCGamesN. From a Polish interview.

Steam Daily Deal - Banished, 66% Off.

Desperados now updated to shoot straight on modern systems. Dota Plus Summer Update. Dota 2 Update - July 11th, 2018. Elsword patch adds two new dungeons. Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Update...

The Culling 2 officially launched yesterday on Steam, despite lingering concerns from users about the original The Culling. This offers a second bite at the battle royale apple, but according to...

IGN offers a video from Darksiders III with 11 minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming hack-and-slash sequel. They say this is part of a month-long look at the game, and promise the video...

Frostkeep Studios announces July 31st as the Early Access release date for Rend, a team-based survival game with a Norse mythology theme from this developer formed by Blizzard and Riot veterans. The...

An interview on Bankier.pl talks with Adam Kicinski in Polish about what the future holds for CD Projekt RED. He confirms for them the unsurprising news that this will involve a return to The Witcher...

The Overwatch League is moving on up, as ESPN announces the eSports league is coming to the ESPN, Disney and ABC family of networks, saying this includes The Overwatch League Playoffs, which begin...

Thanks Ant. Consumer interest in VR is declining according to sales data trends. New York's MTA only had one IT guy capable of rebooting the system.

UK government wants every home to get ultrafast full fibre broadband by 2033. China Internet Report 2018. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Google's refreshed Chrome design is nearly here. Perfectly balanced:...

Is iOS 11.4 draining your iPhone's battery? Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Olio, the app that lets you share unwanted food items with your neighbours, picks up £6M Series A.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Is Now Available For Xbox One. 20XX Is Now Available For Xbox One. Super Destronaut DX Is Now Available For Xbox One.