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New game in town- NBA tips off NBA 2K League with draft. Overwatch League All-Access Pass has emotes, skins and ad-free Twitch.

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Nemesis Bundle 7 on Fanatical. Save nearly $170 on 14 Steam games. Steam Daily Deal - Finding Paradise, 33% Off.

Ripstone Games announces The Spectrum Retreat, an upcoming first-person narrative puzzle game coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch this year from designer Dan Smith, who won the 2016...

It's time to talk about mental illness in indie development on Engadget talks with Kate Edwards and Mike Wilson about their work publishing independent games (thanks Kxmode). They discuss what's...

In a new blog post Ubisoft discusses their efforts at addressing toxic behavior in Rainbow Six Siege, saying managing this will be a priority they will be focusing on for the next few years. They...

Far Cry 5: Inside Edens Gate is now free to watch on YouTube, offering a 30 minute prequel movie for Far Cry 5 (thanks PCGamesN via RedEye9). On a related note, Ubisoft announces the shooter sequel...

A new patch is now available for Sea of Thieves, updating Rare's swashbuckling adventure game to version 1.0.2. This addresses some bugs, and adds a couple of changes related to respawns, including a...

Blizzard's Battle.net launcher is now touting plans to reveal a new hero for Heroes of the Storm tomorrow at PAX East. They promise this will start at 12:30 pm EDT. The post is a link, but Blizzard...

Blizzard Is Trying To Teach Computers To Spot Overwatch Jerks. Not as tricky to teach people. It's not a question of if, but a question of when - As Fortnite Battle Royales meteor gets closer,...

Fortnite - v3.4 Content Update - Vending Machine. Every other version in their new cadence will be a content update like this that doesn't require a client patch. Sunless Skies gets a second region...

Steam now offers THE KING OF FIGHTERS '97 GLOBAL MATCH, a Windows remake of the 20-year-old fighting game. Here's word on the new version of this cult classic: The final chapter in the KOF Orochi...

Developer iLLOGIKA announces Subaeria will surface from Early Access on April 24th, when their aquatic action/puzzler will be officially released for Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. A release...

Early Access to THE DAY Online is now available through Steam, offering a new entry in the ever-more-crowded MOBA market from Korean developer Reloaded Studios. This is a free-to-play offering for...

The League of Legends Website announces that Irelia is now available as the newest legend in the extremely popular MOBA. Word is: "The Blade Dancers performance has commenced. Dash and slash through...

A post by Valve's Pierre Loup seeks to keep us in the loop on the status of Steam Machines after it was recently noticed that Valve removed the link to the program from the Steam menu. Initially this...

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces an agreement with IO Interactive to publish and distribute the HITMAN series, beginning with the retail release of the HITMAN: Definitive Edition for...

Steam Midweek Madness - ELEX, 50% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Full Metal Furies, 15% Off. Heroes of the Storm Heroic Deals: April 3 9, 2018.

Dota 2: The Feast of Abscession Update. League of Legends Patch 8.7 notes.

A new video for Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an extended PC gameplay reveal trailer taken from the GDC demo for the upcoming sc-fi thriller. Here are the details provided with the 17-minute clip:...

Here's a new trailer from The War Machine, the upcoming second DLC for Call of Duty: WWII. This will arrive first a week from today for PlayStation 4, so it will probably be about five weeks before...

Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Kitty Calis now offer Minit, a minute new adventure played in 60-second slices. The exactly one-minute launch trailer takes a look at the game in flipbook...

Blizzard announces plans to drop support for DirectX 9 and 32-bit clients in Heroes of the Storm this summer. They say that most of those playing their MOBA are using the 64-bit client under DirectX...

Ubisoft announces more than 10 million players have accepted the challenge of taking on the cartel in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands. They celebrate with the news that year two of the shooter...

Steam News announces that This War of Mine is currently on sale for 70% off. And for those still on the fence, the Windows, macOS, and Linux survival game is free to play for the next four days....

Spotify's NYSE debut reignites debate over Wall Street's IPO machine. Spotify stock begins trading at $132 a share, placing company valuation at $23.5 billion. Facebook wants a social media supreme...

New GeForce GTX Laptops Launching Soon. ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces the Zephyrus M (GM501). Cell Phone Carrier Internet Speed Rankings Through Q1 2018. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Schools wont...

TERA: Console Launch Trailer. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare joins Xbox One backwards compatibility lineup. God of War features a performance boost for PS4 Pro owners. TERA Is Now Available For Xbox...

Magic: The Gatherings head designer reveals exclusive new cards from the Dominaria set.

Blood Bowl World Cup. $10,000 in prizes. American tackle football game competition named after association football/soccer tourney a side-effect of French publisher and developers? Celebrate The...

13AM Games announce Double Cross, a platformer/adventure game coming to PCs via Steam and to Switch this summer. The reveal trailer offers a look at gameplay and the game's environments. Here's what...

Steampunk Tower 2 is set to launch on Steam on April 19th, so developer/publisher DreamGate offers a release date trailer to get everyone excited about the action/strategy sequel. Word is: "STEAMPUNK...

Intel announces plans to bring new eighth generation i9 CPUs to the mobile market with what the chipmaker calls "the best gaming and creation laptop processor Intel has ever built." They say these...

GOG.com Weekly Sale- A little less conversation - Up to -90%. Steam Daily Deal - Epistory - Typing Chronicles, 66% Off. Steam Daily Deal - Expeditions- Viking, 50% Off. League of Legends Champion...

A new Developer Update video for Overwatch sheds more light on Blizzard's recent tease of the return of the King's Row Uprising event for their multiplayer shooter. It turns out there's more content...

The SpyParty team announces their game will enter Early Access on Steam on April 12th. The game is currently offered through the official website, and they celebrate the news with new content for...

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition Season 3 Balance Update.

Dead Drop Studios announces the release of Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles on Steam, an episodic take on the survival/horror of Outcast for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The initial purchase includes...

A post on the Breakaway Reddit from Amazon Game Studios officially declares the demise of Breakaway, their planned multiplayer brawler (thanks GamesIndustry.biz). In October the team said they were...

A post on the WB Games Community Website announces that WBIE and Monolith are dropping microtransactions from Middle-earth: Shadow of War (thanks Kotaku). Here's word: We want to thank all of the...

Steam News announces the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, which brings Bethesda's RPG into the world of virtual reality. This supports Oculus Rift as well as HTC Vive, which is a surprise...

Niantic Settles Pokemon Go Fest Class Action Lawsuit for Over $1.5 Million. Got crypto? Heres how to avoid an audit from the IRS.

How Cambridge Analyticas Facebook targeting model really worked. Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Saks and Lord & Taylor Customers.

Recommended 4K TVs That Can Effectively Be Used As Desktop PC Monitors. Badly implemented AI could jeopardize democracy, says French president Emmanuel Macron.

Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service. Apparently not an April Fool's joke? Thanks Thinus. The Profile Engine has now been donated to the Internet Archive (31st March...

An actual gaming Easter egg was unlocked on an Atari Jaguar cartridge today. Thanks Ant. Chasm Lands on PS4, PS Vita This Summer.

Astro Royale Update- April 1, 2019 Patch Notes. Is it meant to be dated next year? Thanks David. Coming Soon: Renowned Explorers - Daring Dates DLC. Thanks MeanJim. Introducing the New T-Mobile...

It seems the era of the Steam Machine is drawing to a close, not with a bang but with a whimper, after arguably failing to pick up much steam. GamingOnLinux noticed that at some point Valve removed...

Twitch announces five free games are the new April reward for Twitch Prime subscribers, which includes Amazon Prime customers. Once claimed, these will be yours to keep, but you have to get in on...

Final Fantasy XV on TweakTown.