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To celebrate next month's launch of Insurgency: Sandstorm next month, New World Interactive announces they are giving away the original Insurgency on Steam. For the next two days players who add the...

Facebook news chief to media: Work with Facebook or die. Ruby Rose exits Twitter amid Batwoman casting backlash. I'm joining the campaign to deactivate my Twitter account on August 17. Prank 'Give...

Samsung may suspend operations at China mobile phone plant. Chromebooks could dual-boot Windows 10 soon. MoviePass Now Restricted To Two Films. Samsung's new mesh routers use Plume's WiFi...

Former Dallas Fuel Overwatch pro xQc suspended again, might miss World Cup. NVIDIA to Open GeForce Esports Boot Camps in Munich, Shanghai. Thanks Hypothermia.

Unofficial Community Patch at Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Nexus. Thanks DSOGaming. The Elder Scrolls Online Wolfhunter DLC Game Pack & Update 19 Now Live on PC/Mac.

A new trailer from Total War: THREE KINGDOMS shows off how ancient China is depicted in the upcoming installment in Creative Assembly's strategy series. This is a cinematic clip, but it's created...

Publisher SOEDESCO and developer Kyodai announce a September 6th release date for Elea, the science fiction, first-person adventure that entered Early Access on Steam back back in April. The game...

Ubisoft announces a free weekend for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege will get underway on Thursday. This will offer free access to all the operators and maps in the tactical shooter. They also say...

The Steam Game and Player Statistics page shows the PC edition of MONSTER HUNTER WORLD, is regularly attracting well over 300,000 concurrent players since launching last week. VG247 reports that a...

Thanks Ant. Bitcoin and Ethereum Fall Substantially in $18 Billion Crypto Market Wipeout. Thanks Slashdot. Teen Television Consumption Drops by Half in 5 Years: Study. Amazon may have to ditch its 'ne...

Adshir enables real-time ray tracing on mobile devices. General Magichow tech superfriends assembled, dreamt up smartphones, and failed.

Fallout 76: here's extra details on PvP straight from the QuakeCon 2018 panel. How Fallout 76 Turns Griefers into Wanted Murderers and Interesting Content.

PS2 Blue Shift - Final release news. Thanks Ant.

Steam Daily Deal - Sherlock Holmes- The Devil's Daughter, 70% Off.

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...