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Germany will no longer allow pre-orders of items that have what a machine translation of a German article on Heise Online calls "vague" release dates. This was spurred by a complaint over a cell...

Independent Audit Declares AMD Most Stable Graphics Driver in Industry. The last footnote is where to find the word that AMD commissioned this independent audit. Why rock star chip architect Jim...

Thanks Puttwhacker. Amazon Prime Day- Worker strikes and a site crash dent the online shopping bonanza. Amazons share of the US e-commerce market is now 49%, or 5% of all retail spend. Netflix...

SmartNews app reaches 10 million monthly users as it counters fake news. Stock of MoviePass Parent Plunges Again to Record Low. Instapaper is independent again 2 years after Pinterest acquisition....

Steam Daily Deal - Celeste, 20% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Maelstrom, 25% Off. OOTP Baseball half-off for the all-star break. GOG.com Weekly Sale: Pulling no punches - Up to 90% off. League of Legends...

Dota 2 Update - July 16th 2018. Hunt: Showdown -- Update #2.1, 16th July, 2018.

Riot Games offers this video to show off the rework coming to Akali: The Rogue Assassin. This is accompanied by this post on the topic that includes a few shorter videos showing off her abilities....

VentureBeat has details on almost $9 million in funding raised by Klang Games for Seed, "an artificial intelligence-driven massively multiplayer space colonization online simulation." On a related...

Indie Finnish developer Rival Games announces the launch of Thief of Thieves: Season One for Windows on Steam. This kicks off with the first two installments in a four-chapter action/adventure based...

Happy Prime Day, as Amazon will go all Amazonian on us today. We've got our new affiliate code for the occasion, and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to present their links, so any...

Another Saudi child dies from suicide after playing 'Blue Whale' game… Overlord II released on GOG.com. DRM-free and on sale for a week… Fortnite player pulls off successful loop using...

Biostar B360GT3S Motherboard on ThinkComputers.org. Deepcool Gamer Storm Castle 240 RGB CPU Cooler on Vortez. Fnatic FLICK2 And Fnatic Retro Asphalt on Vortez. Kingston UV500 240GB (M.2) SSD on APH...

Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars on PC Gamer. Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity on Christ Centered Gamer.

'Data is a fingerprint'- why you aren't as anonymous as you think online. Thanks Puttwhacker. Kodak Bitcoin mining 'scam' evaporates.

It walks, it talks, it falls over a bit. Windows 10 is 3. Roku wants to make your smart TV sound better with its new Wireless Speakers. Apple won't repair 2016-2017 MacBook Pros with 'quieter' 2018...

NVIDIA Unifies GeForce NOW Service Across PCs and SHIELD TV STBs- 200+ Games Supported. Why Some of Instagram's Biggest Memers Are Locking Their Accounts. Thanks Puttwhacker.

This Steam announcement reveals addition of a new Blitz mode to the Grimmwood Open Beta which is in the process of vetting this social strategic RPG from Big Moustache Games. The beta announcement...

Intel's Spectre 'Variant 4' Performance Tested- Speculative Store Bypass. The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones. Thanks RedEye9.

Why techs favorite color is making us all miserable. Thanks Puttwhacker. Photos- Graffiti targeting Amazon and Jeff Bezos illustrates animosity toward tech giant in Seattle. Thanks Slashdot via Ant....

As SVOD Rises, Channel Surfing Is Dying. Major League Baseball is going crypto. Thanks Ant. A look at Chromes new tab design. The downfall of Theranos, from the journalist who made it happen.

Fortnites Summer Skirmish kicks off today, with $8 million prize pool.

Dota 2 Update - July 14th, 2018.

Steam Daily Deal - IL-2 Sturmovik- Battle of Stalingrad, 66% Off.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS drops to number two after weeks of dropping a number two on the rest of the chart: Monster Hunter: World PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale...

Long-time backers of the Star Citizen project are no longer able to secure refunds from Cloud Imperium Games, reports Attack of the Fanboy. They note a Reddit post from a customer who sued to get a...

The Russia Investigations: 6 Key Insights From The Cyberspy Indictment.

Thanks Ant. Your 2018 guide to cyber insurance is here. Hackers are selling backdoors into PCs for just $10. Finnish fitness tracker Polar accused of spilling data on UK and US military personnel.

The rise of the electric scooter- why the new breed is taking over our streets.

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.

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS -- Event Pass Bonus XP Events. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS -- Upcoming PGI Skins and How to Get Them.

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...