Earthlink from Charter-Spectrum is Dead: No New Customers Allowed. Thanks reddit via Ant. Ripple overtakes Ethereum as the second largest cryptocurrency. 'Black Mirror' season four is here to ruin...

The most annoying things about Apples apology for slowing down iPhones. Android Parallel Tasks Incoming With Chrome OS 64. Thanks [H]ardOCP. Before Self-Driving Cars Become Real, They Face These...

Rumor- Danish Retailer Leaks Red Dead Redemption 2 Release Date. PlayStation Game Creators Pick Their Standout Characters of 2017. 5 Tips and Tricks For Your Xbox One.

HuffPost - World Health Organizations Junk Diagnosis For 'Gaming Disorder' Trivializes Mental Illness. "The WHOs proposal has been in the works for a couple of years and has already generated...

The Elder Scrolls III- Morrowind Multiplayer V0.6.2 is now available, featuring script enhancements and fixes. Opposing Force 2: Lost is an unofficial sequel to Half Life- Opposing Force, demo now...

Just a couple of months ago CCP announced they were dropping virtual reality development amid layoffs. Now there's a more positive omen in this job listing for their London studio suggesting a new...

The remarkable success story of PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS continues to add new chapters (thanks DSOGaming). The Steam Game and Player Statistics page now shows the battle royale shooter has...

Cheap 75-144Hz FreeSync- AOC Unveils G90 Gaming Monitors from 179. PC Perspective Podcast #479 - NVIDIA Titan V, AMD Adrenalin, and more.

Thanks Frans. Mozilla Firefox version 57.0.3. Mozilla Firefox ESR version 52.5.3. Google will continue to let sites opt out of showing in search results. Man is reunited with lost wages following...

Apples response to battery controversy- have a new one for $29. MoviePass Reaches One Million Subscribers. Thanks Ant.

Gran Turismo 6 Online Shutdown of Servers Dated. PlayStation Developers Pick Their Favorite Gaming Moments of 2017.

Steam Winter Sale 2017 Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.29 - 01.01.

Battlestate Games announces they are conducting load testing for Escape from Tarkov as they gear up for an open beta for this "hardcore realistic story-driven online multiplayer game that combines...

Battle.net has details on "The Darkening of Tristram," an event that will kick off in Diablo III on January 1st to celebrate the anniversary of the action/RPG series. Here's what to expect: Diablos...

BattlEye tweets that an eye-opening number of players have been banned from PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS by their anti-cheating service (thanks MP1ST). People must really like chicken dinner by the...

Minnesota Will Also Sue The FCC for its Net Neutrality Repeal.

License expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch. A list of tech companies in trouble. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB of RAM is on the way. Tim Cook now required to fly private as AAPLs 2017...

Instagram adds 'Recommended for You' feature to your feed. Twitter bans 'Impostor Buster' bot that ID'd Nazi trolls. Bitcoin Drops as South Korea Says It Could Close Exchanges.

While Uber Burns, Its Self-Driving Car Project Carries On. Qualcomm approved to test self-driving cars in California. AT&T Applies to Conduct 3.5 GHz Wireless Broadband Tests.

How Bomber Crew's devs found outsized success with a permadeath flight crew sim - Gamasutra.

Players Choice Indie of the Year 2017 feature - Indie DB. Players Choice - Mod of the Year 2017 feature - Mod DB.

+Mpact Games celebrates Hanako: Honor & Blade winning the best multiplayer game in Indie DB's Indie of the Year 2017 awards with a new trailer showing off combat from the early access action game (the...

This Steam post has details on PC 1.0 update #1 for PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, which is now live in the battle royale shooter. Changes include a new balanced map-selection ratio, a change to...

These experts figured out why so many bogus patents get approved.

Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns. Thanks [H]ardOCP. FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say. Thanks [H]ardOCP. Putin wants to...

Green tech will be everywhere in 2018. SilverStone Announces TP02-M2 M.2 Heatsink Kit. Thanks Hypothermia.

Internet Archive gets $1 million donation from bitcoin fund. Will Smith's 'Bright' is terrible, but that doesnt matter to Netflix. Fiber Broadband Sees Record Growth. Anti-adblock is a lot more...

Big titles must wait as Nintendo pushes back 64GB Switch game card rollout. January PlayStation Plus Lineup Includes Telltale's Batman And Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. PlayStation Developers Pick Their...

Weekly Sale- Last-minute gift ideas, deals up to -85% - GOG.com. Steam Winter Sale 2017 Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards.

2K Games introduces Chandragupta Maurya of India, another of the new factional leaders coming to Civilization VI in the upcoming Rise and Fall expansion for the turn-based strategy sequel. They offer...

The Federal Communications Commission has issued the waiver extension that was recently requested by the Entertainment Software Association to postpone a requirement that videogames comply with...

Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options. The state of Linux security in 2017 - Linux Audit. Thanks Linux Security via Ant. Hackers Can Rickroll Thousands of Sonos and...

World's coolest chip runs at near absolute zero. How Blockchain Technology is Redefining Trust. 10 Tech Products That Are Next to Impossible to Repair. The 1970s Xerox Conference That Predicted the...

WeChat poised to become Chinas official electronic ID system. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Google's new Doodle is dedicated to Marlene Dietrich.

Elon Musk vows to build Tesla pickup truck 'right after' Model Y. WhatsApp will ditch Blackberry OS and Windows Phone by New Year's.

Super Meat Boy Switch Arriving On January 11 With Exclusive Race Mode. NES Golf Easter Egg Made Inaccessible From Switch Firmware.

Die Young on Gaming Nexus.

Q&A: Battlefront 2 writer Mitch Dyer discusses forceful narrative design - Gamasutra.

After days off for Christmas and Boxing Day, GfK Chart-Track now offers their charts tracking last week's game sales in the U.K. As noted in their summary there are no new entries, but Call of Duty:...

Whistleblower Guardian for Spies Escorted Out of Intelligence Agency Building. Thanks Boing Boing.

Pico Neo - Premium all-in-one VR headset. Now available for preorder. Cash Might Be King, but They Dont Care. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Networking 101- Pros and Cons of Powerline Networking.

Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress. Thanks [H]ardOCP. Comcast Jacks up Price of Standalone Broadband to $75. Bitcoin price in 2018 could hit $60,000 but another crash is coming....

Driverless cars became a reality in 2017 and hardly anyone noticed.

Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 Is Now Available For Xbox One. Zen Studios Shares Tips for PS VR Titles Pinball FX2, CastleStorm VR, More. This Weeks Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.

Bethesda Founder Christopher Weaver on Video Games - Rolling Stone.

The Humble Store- DRM-Free Holiday Sale. Save up to 90%. Steam Winter Sale 2017 Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.26 - 12.29.

A blog post on the League of Legends website discusses how Riot comes up with the names for the champions in their MOBA, poking holes in the popular "spill some Scrabble tiles" theory. Here's an...

Bitcoin rises 10 percent, recovers from last week's brutal selloff. Leeroy Jenkins creator releases never seen before cut to raise awareness about net neutrality. Julian Assanges Twitter account...

2018 Is the Year Electric Cars Really Catch On. Sprint Claims 65% Network Speed Boost Over Last Year. Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand. Thanks [H]ardOCP. New Jersey...

HyperX Ready to Play, Mavs Gaming NBA 2K Team Announced.