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Trump pushes to expand high-speed internet in rural America. Thanks Slashdot. Jamie Dimon says he regrets calling bitcoin a fraud.

Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why cant you put itdown? Thanks SoylentNews via Ant. Wireless charging nears unification as Powermat cedes to Qi. Thanks Slashdot....

The Station Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. OK K.O.! Lets Play Heroes Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. Xbox One Do not...

Overwatch League now has an official app.

A post on Steam outlines a new patch for PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS that includes a bunch of tweaks as well a two new microtransaction crates. Here's word: We will also be testing the new crate...

First access to the Enchantress is now available in Injustice 2 for those who own Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Injustice 2 Ultimate Pack, or Fighter Pack #3. This will be for the next week, and...

Unknown Worlds announces January 23rd will be the release date for Subnautica, their underwater action game. This game has traveled at least 20,000 leagues under the seas since its "earliest access"...

In March 2016 EA filed to patent a pair of gaming concepts that have just come to light. One of them is pretty straightforward, as it outlines dynamic difficulty adjustment to promote player...

GEs latest kitchen appliance is a 27-inch tablet. The Nest x Yale lock is coming out after two years. Remember Dogecoin? The joke currency soared to $2 billion this weekend.

Samsung introduces autonomous driving platform called DRVLINE. Oculus Go is built by Xiaomi and has a Snapdragon 821 processor. Pop-Up Mobile Ads Surge as Sites Scramble to Stop Them.

Sony expects 130 PlayStation VR games this year. PUBG Xbox One patch adds first-person mode, fixes crashes.

Why Insomniac blew up the moon - GamesIndustry.biz.

Aid your resolve with the New Year's Resolutions sale - GOG.com. Save 40% on Home Sweet Home on Steam. Save 34% on Witch It on Steam. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 01.09 - 01.12.

Publisher The Station announces The Station, a first-person sci-fi mystery game from developer The Station, a sentence that reminds us to pour out a 40 for our homie Hodor. The Station Website offers...

More virtual reality, as Valve announces they are showing off SteamVR Tracking 2.0 for the first time at the HTC Vive booth at CES this week. In October they announced plans to expand coverage by...

HTC announces the VIVE PRO Upgrade And Wireless VIVE Adaptor as well as plans to upgrade the Viveport user experience. The VIVE Pro will incorporate dual-OLED displays for a combined resolution of...

The Station Comes to PS4 on February 20.

Kevin Unangst Interview Article - Gaming Nexus. Matt Chat 393: Chuck Sommerville on Chip's Challenge. Thanks Ant.

GFK Chart-Track announces that FIFA 18 has finally kicked Call of Duty WWII out of the top spot in their latest charts tracking game sales in the U.K. for the week ending January 6th. In contrast,...

BANDAI NAMCO announces Goku Black Rose is another of the fighters that will populate the roster of DRAGON BALL FighterZ when the brawler is released later this month. This trailer offers a look, and...

Booming Games announces beta testing will begin this month for Conqueror's Blade, their sandbox medieval warfare game. They opened signups for the beta last month, so if you're interested, you should...

NVIDIA announces that beta testing of the Windows edition of their GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is now underway. Here's a bit: All you need to play is the GeForce NOW app, a compatible PC or Mac,...

NVIDIA announces the BFGD (Big Format Gaming Display), a gaming monitor planned for release this summer that boasts a mind-boggling 65" screen size and built-in Shield streaming. They promise a "butte...

The GeForce Website announces the release of new GeForce Game Ready 390.65 WHQL drivers, saying these are specifically tuned for Fortnite, Epic's survival game. They say part of this is to support an...

Here comes faster 802.11ax Wi-Fi. Acer adds three thin, powerful laptops to its lineup.

Dusk on GameWatcher.

Awesome Games Done Quick is now underway.

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.