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E-sport popularity mushrooms but money lags behind. Dota Scheduling Clash Leads To Two No-Show Forfeits. Text Adventure Competition Reports A 36% Spike In Entries. Hearthstone Pro Leaves It All Up...

Randy Pitchford on Twitter (12-part post, because Twitter). Thanks Playstation Lifestyle "I am generally very much against predatory monetization schemes in F2P games for consumable goods and even...

Save 40% on Last Day of June on Steam.

Thanks to duplicate entries, there are only seven different titles on the list of last week's bestselling titles on Steam: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Call of Duty: WWII Football Manager 2018 Nioh:...

If you had the Deadpool game in your Steam dead pool, you are about to win, as Steam News announces that it is going to be "retired" from their service on Thursday, November 16th. The game will...

Steam now offers Warlock Revenge, a Windows first-persons shooter with graphics and gameplay that would have been pretty current in 1993. But it's priced appropriately, and has garnered positive...

Sorry, James is now available on Steam, offering a text-based puzzle game for Windows with a non-linear story where you play as James Garner (no relation). Here's a trailer with a look at the game's...

The Journey Down: Chapter 3 on Just Adventure. JYDGE on PXA Peeks. Need for Speed Payback on Polygon. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on Game Over Online.

Equifax's CEO isn't sure whether they've finally started encrypting their servers yet. New Microsoft Word attacks infect PCs sans macros. Connected sex toys recorded intimate sessions without...

Intel Releases Graphics Drivers for Windows 15.60- HDR10 and Windows Mixed Reality. Samsung Honored for Outstanding Design and Engineering with 36 CES 2018 Innovation Awards. Thanks [H]ardOCP....

One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week. Thanks Slashdot. Alibaba smashes its Singles Day record once again as sales cross $25 billion.

The Weekend In Esports: Rocket League World Championships.

Battle.net announces that Season 12 for Diablo III is now underway, offering new incentives and rewards for replaying the action/RPG again. This previously posted preview has all the details on what...

WBIE announces plans for Fighter Pack #3 for Injustice 2, the DC Comics fighting game. This will add The Atom and The Enchantress, and will also tap heroes from a different comic company with the...

In addition to the LawBreakers free weekend and the Squad free weekend, here's a reminder that the For Honor free weekend Ubisoft announced last week is also now underway. The post from the time has...

Nintendo to ship almost 50 million Switch units by April 2019. Oddly almost specific. Destiny 2 update to deliver 4K, HDR on Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. Todays Call of Duty- WW2 patch screwed things up...

CCP dev: "Virtual reality doesn't need a killer app" - GamesIndustry.biz. Seems an odd comment in light of them dumping VR development.

Klei weekend sale on Steam. Save 80% on Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force on Steam.

Dota 2 Update - November 10th, 2017.

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment now offers The Hideaway, the second chapter in the three-part Secrets of the Maw expansion for LITTLE NIGHTMARES, adding more adventures to the adventure game. The Windows...

Frozenbyte announces a new free expansion is now available on Steam for the Windows edition of Has-Been Heroes, their lane-based roguelike. They provide this as a gift to fans, and perhaps to draw...

EA and Maxis announce The Sims 4 is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next month. They also announce human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, as the Cats & Dogs expansion is...

The Decksplash website has word from Bossa Studios that their experimental free first-week launch of Decksplash was not a success. They offered a no-cost early version of the skateboarding game with...

Yes You Can Absolutely Play Nintendo Switch In VR, But Not In The Way You're Thinking.

Donating 100% of Democracy 3 steam profits to charity this week.

Rocket League Patch Notes version 1.39. Includes NVIDIA Flags.

THQ Nordic announces that Painkiller and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell are no longer indexed in Germany, and can be sold there in their uncensored forms. Both first-person shooters had been deemed...

Nexon announces the acquisition of Pixelberry Studios, a "leading developer in interactive narrative mobile games." They also announce "record breaking" third quarter results. Here are some details...

THQ Nordic announces the release of Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy for Windows, macOS, and Linux on GOG.com or Steam with a 34% launch discount. It's been a long road out of the desert for this title,...

Steam News announces that Football Manager 2018 is now available on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux, offering the latest installment in this sports management series, which had been in early...

Electronic Arts announces the launch of Need for Speed Payback for Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. This launch trailer offers a look at the game's high-octane, open-world action, and the...

Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Croteam now offer Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE on Steam, offering a virtual reality take on the newest installment in the hectic shooter series. This supports...

Bohemia Interactive unveils new Tac-Ops DLC coming to Arma 3 on November 30th, saying this will add three new single-player missions to their military shooter sequel. Here's the big picture: The...

Publisher astragon Entertainment and developer Deck13 Hamburg announce the promised release of TransRoad: USA, their new business sim that travels the highways of the USA for fun and profit. The...

Blizzard announces next week they will hold another free weekend for Overwatch, their multiplayer shooter: Attention, recruits! If you haven't already had the opportunity to suit up and save the...

Steam is holding another free event this weekend, announcing everyone has access to Squad through Sunday afternoon. The early access multiplayer shooter is also on sale for half-off for the duration....

The promised free weekend is now underway for LawBreakers on Steam, offering the chance to play Boss Key's shooter, pick up a copy for half-price, and perhaps win a copy of the Collector's Edition....

GOG.com is holding a free giveaway the first Syberia game to celebrate the launch of Syberia 3: The Complete Journey. The new bundle includes the adventure sequel and all its post-release content,...

Electronic Arts announces plans to acquire Respawn Entertainment, developers of the Titanfall series. It looks like the deal is worth between $315 million and $445 million, with $151 million of that...

PS5 And Next Xbox Are "Minimum Of Two Years" Away, Ubisoft Predicts. Psychic publishers network. Black Friday 2017: Walmart deals include PS4 Slim, Xbox One S discounts. Nintendo Download: Snip Your...

Pulling back the curtain on Overwatch's development process - Gamasutra.

Blizzcon - Most Epic Cosplays. Hearthstone - Say Gday to the Sydney Inn-vitational. WRECKFEST - AUDIODRAFT GAME MUSIC CONTEST.

Nioh: Complete Edition Update Information 1.21.01 (11/09/2017). Thanks DSOGaming. Star Wars: The Old Republic United Forces Update Now Live. Team Fortress 2 update released. The Wizards Update 1.2:...

Kakao Games announces plans to publish the western release of Ascent: Infinite Realm, an MMORPG currently in development at Bluehole, the South Korean studio behind TERA and PLAYERUNKNOWN'S...

The GeForce website now offers NVIDIA's assessment of the performance you can expect from their graphics cards to run Star Wars Battlefront II, the upcoming Star Wars action sequel. They also point...

How The New Call Of Duty Reinvents Old Battlegrounds on Newsweek hears from Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg about Call of Duty: WWII, the just-released military shooter that revisits its original...

A tweet from Obsidian seems to tease a new game announcement, as it lays out the developer's resume to date with a conspicuous line of question marks apparently signifying their next project (thanks...

Humble Extra Life Bundle 2017 (pay what you want and help charity). Three+ days remain. Save 34% on 20XX on Steam.

Dota 2 Update - November 8, 2017. This texture pack adds Ultra high resolution textures to id Software's classic Doom games.

Deckard Cain is back for Overwatch's Blizzard World and it's one of the highlights - PCGamesN. Actually sounds a little depressing. Patch Chat with the League of Legends Playtest Team about...