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Here are the bestselling titles for last week on Steam, according to Valve: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Grand Theft Auto V They Are Billions Human: Fall Flat Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

The Steam Game and Player Statistics Page shows that last night Valve's online service hit another new milestone for concurrent users. In mid-November we reported a new high-water mark of 17,686,886,...

This video shows off an Overwatch-inspired map called Cairo created in Unreal Engine 4 by Joshua Llorente, who describes himself as a fine arts student and self-taught 3D artist." His amateur effort...

The Epic Games Forums have an explanation for why some users are reporting problems trying to play Fortnite, blaming issues on the patches they've had to install on their servers to defend against...

This pdf apparently represents Cloud Imperium Games' response to the report a few weeks ago that Crytek was suing them over terms of their agreement to use CryENGINE for Star Citizen (thanks reddit's...

Warrantless phone, laptop searches at the US border hit record levels. Thanks Ant. UK.gov admits smut age checks could harm small ISPs and encourage risky online behaviour. US border cops told to...

Thanks Ant. Qualcomm joins Intel, Apple, Arm, AMD in confirming its CPUs suffer hack bugs. Security hole in AMD CPUs' hidden secure processor revealed ahead of patches. Pro-Russia Twitter Trolls Take...

Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown. Thanks [H]ardOCP. The CES secret few talk about: Past hits can fizzle with consumers. LG's new CLOi robots will serve you at shops in the...

A place to memorialize the domain names you let lapse. Thanks Ant. Smart faucets join the Internet of Things.

Google is surveying Pixel 2 owners directly from the phones settings menu. Department Of Defense Wants Bat-Like Drones Powered By Lasers. Hopefully attached to their heads.

Nintendo Switch eclipses Wii U lifetime sales in Japan. Elder Dragons enter Monster Hunter: World, Free Update details and final Beta revealed. The Drop- New PlayStation Games for 1/9/2018.

A new short trailer from Civilization VI: Rise and Fall shows the rise of the Statue of Liberty, one of the wonders in the upcoming turn-based strategy expansion. This will probably inspire less...

Cloud Imperium Games offers a new roadmap (starmap?) for the near future for Star Citizen, their crowdfunded space game, looking back at the recent launch of Alpha 3.0, and ahead to Alpha 3.1. They...

App revenue climbed 35 percent to $60 billion in 2017. Menlo, Benchmark, First Round sold Uber stakes worth hundreds of millions. GoPro cuts hundreds of jobs in its drone division: report. Glu...

This Week On Xbox- January 05, 2018.

Breath of the Wild & Horizon Zero Dawn lead GDC 2018 Choice Awards nominees. Watch Live on Steam - Paladins World Championships. Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 Event Schedule. Hearthstone HCT 2018:...

Deus Ex to Dishonored (Harvey Smith) - Noclip Sessions. Thanks Ant.

Save 80% on Planetary Annihilation: TITANS on Steam.

BANDAI NAMCO offers a new trailer showing off SSGSS Vegeta in DRAGON BALL FighterZ, the brawler set to launch later this month. Apparently in this universe, you either die a villain, or live long...

Publisher THQ Nordic and developer Rainbow Studios announce a March 27th release date for MX vs ATV All Out, their "complete off-road racing and lifestyle experience." They celebrate the news with a...

Outbreak: The New Nightmare is now officially available on Steam, following a few months of Early Access to this Windows co-op survival/horror sequel that seeks to live up to the legacy of games like...

Mark Zuckerberg is right to explore the potential of the blockchain for Facebook. A USB power cable for Amazon's 4K Fire TV now exists. Netflix had very few wins and too many failures in 2017.

Samsung teases next-gen roll-up tablets, fit in your pocket. Average Wireless User Now Consumes 31.4 GB.

Burnout Paradise HD reports gather pace. Switch Version Of NBA Playgrounds Relaunches With Enhanced Edition. The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On...

Endless Space 2 Modding Contest Ends January 14th. How Not ToStop Your Nerdy Child From Becoming A Pro Gamer. How not to make your headline less confusing with a double negative.

Team Fortress 2 update released. Team Fortress 2 update released. Until None Remain version 1.3 patch notes. Adds ranked leaderboard and additional localization. Unreal VR brings the classic 1998...

A new trailer from Injustice 2 introduces Enchantress, who will be released for the DC Comics brawler as early January 9th. Only time will tell if her game depiction will live up to the dynamic...

A post on Battle.net discusses changes coming to Overwatch that can now be found on the Public Test Realm for the first-person shooter. Word is they are nerfing Junkrat and making yet another round...

AMD Support now offers new Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 Alpha drivers for AMD graphics cards. These alpha drivers are specifically to address recent reports of crashes running certain...

Xbox Live Currently Experiencing Issues With Game Purchases. OK K.O.! Lets Play Heroes Arrives January 23 on PS4.

Overview of Esports. Online course offered by UC, Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Watch Live on Steam - SMITE World Championships.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale: 01.05 - 01.08. Save 50% on Phantom Brave PC - ファントム・ブレイブ PC on Steam.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic, 2005) Multiplayer Patch Update. Thanks DSOGaming. Zombasite version 1.019.

The Dota 2 Blog announces the 2018 Galaxy Battles tournament will no longer be considered a "Major," and the Dota 2 tourney will have to continue without any involvement from Valve. They explain this...

A cinematic trailer from Total War: Thrones of Britannia introduces Alfred The Great, the first playable faction leader Creative Assembly is revealing for their new A Total War Saga series. Here's...

Jagex announces they are celebrating the fifth anniversary of Old School RuneScape with the launch of Dragon Slayer II, an epic grandmaster quest that comes just 16 years after the first Dragon...

Hi-Rez Studios announces Paladins Battlegrounds, a new battle royale mode coming to Paladins, their free-to-play multiplayer shooter. PlayStation Universe has details from the Hi-Rez Expo, saying: "Th...

AT&T will launch real mobile 5G in 12 cities this year. Samsung Announces New 9810 SoC- DynamiQ & 3rd Gen CPU. Bosch joins Intel, BMW, Audi, and Mercedes, buys stake in mapping company Here. Dell...

Nintendo Switch Becomes the Fastest-Selling Home Video Game System of All Time in the U.S. Metal Gear Survive is getting a beta later this month, but it's only on consoles.

ADL takes fight against hate, bias to next level with first game jam.

WBIE announces details about a new Champions pack coming to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 that will add characters from Marvel's Champions comic series to the action/adventure sequel. This can be...

Sabotage Studio announces The Messenger, a "Metroidvania-style" ninja adventure game coming later this year to Windows and consoles. This features a twist on the throwback concept, as gameplay...

Cats are said to have nine lives, and that apparently applies to mad catz as well, as peripheral maker Mad Catz announces their return, less than a year after closing down amid a Chapter 7 bankruptcy...

Developer David Mulder announces Paradox Wrench, a first-person puzzle game coming to Steam on January 16th, to be published by Red Splat Games (paradoxically not Paradox Interactive). This features...

The Verge has details from French technologists the Blade Group on their efforts at making streaming PC games from the cloud more viable. This has arguably failed to live up to the hype that...

France says anti-fake news election law incoming.

Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws threaten PCs, phones and servers. How to protect your PC against the major Meltdown CPU security flaw. We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU...

Windows 10 Intel Security Update is now available, six triple-A games tested in CPU-bound scenarios. Lenovo Announces ThinkVision P32u LCD- 32-inch, 4K, TB3 with Daisy Chaining. In Win Rolls Out 305...

Blade thinks its cracked PC game streaming with the Shadow cloud computer. Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6. Hive's new home monitoring camera isn't bound to its base. Tivos new...

Star Citizen raised more money than every other video game on Kickstarter combined in 2017.