Blue's News

Harvard Study: Community-Owned ISPs Offer Lower, Clearer Prices. Thanks Ant. NBC brings two Winter Olympics preview shows to Netflix. Hulu is now the exclusive streaming home for 'ER.' Game changer....

MacBook users claim Apple overstates standby battery life and resists repairs. Thanks [H]ardOCP. Google's museum app finds your fine art doppelgänger. Was not impressed with my results.

Retro-bit brought brand-new Sega accessories to CES. Don't get your hopes up for Netflix on Switch.

A French news report details (in French) troubling accusations of a toxic workplace culture at developer Quantic Dreams, accusing leaders David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière of inappropriate...

Neocore games announces the biggest content update yet for Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor, adding a new terrain setting to the Early Access action/RPG, along with a playable class and the first chapter...

Publisher gamigo announces open beta testing for Ironsight will begin on February 1st, which will offer a chance to check out the western version of this multiplayer first-person shooter. They also...

Developer Warcave announces Warparty, an upcoming real-time strategy game they describe as using a "stone age setting," though we question its historical accuracy, as it is clearly more of a fantasy...

The Usenet Deep Space 9 recapper that helped inspire modern TV criticism. "Dynamite" Cancelled & "Liar" Renewed.

For The First Time In 11 Years, The Japanese Console Game Market Has Grown. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Xbox outsold PS4 in December but Switch sold the most units overall.

Awesome Games Done Quick Comes To A Close, Raising Over $2 Million. How to keep a charity gaming marathon going for 160 hours straight. League of Legends Fantasy LCS is live.

Fallout 4 You Only Live Once modification. Thanks Ant.

Save 50% on Town of Salem on Steam.

Valve reports the following titles as the bestsellers on Steam for last week: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS They Are Billions Human: Fall Flat Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Divinity: Original Sin...

Speaking of Fortnite, Epic Games is taking further legal action over exploits for the survival shooter, as TorrentFreak as word that they are suing someone for allegedly developing an exploit to...

A new video developer diary for Fortnite reveals changes coming to the Battle Royale mode in a map update coming this week to the survival shooter (thanks VG247). The description provides this brief...

How to protect Windows Server from Meltdown and Spectre. Thanks Ant. Apples China iCloud data migration sweeps up international user accounts. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Let's Encrypt plugs hole that...

Western Digital Unveils New Solutions to Help People Capture, Preserve, Access and Share Their Ever-Growing Collections of Photos and Videos. Thanks Hypothermia. Google Assistant had a good CES. Saw...

Google temporarily bans addiction center ads globally following exposure of seedy referral deals. Did Twitter engineers just admit to shadow-banning conservatives? Nope. The history of the Internet's...

Spectre patch in iOS 11.2.2 is slowing down iPhones. Amazons flop of a phone made newer, better hardware possible. The Gaming Laptops Of CES 2018. Thanks Hypothermia.

PUBG Update for Xbox One Released, Here's What's in It. See the long-lost NES prototype of SimCity. This Week On Xbox: January 12, 2018. PlayStation Blogcast 276: Youre a Wizard, Harry.

Matt Chat 394: Chuck Sommerville on Chip's Challenge 2, M2, LED Wizardry, and More.

new trailer introduces Hit, another of the playable characters from DRAGON BALL FighterZ, BANDAI NAMCO's upcoming brawler. How can you miss with a name like that? The description of the clip is extra...

IGN has an explanation from Activision about the removal of Activision's Transformers games from sale late last year. Unsurprisingly, this is due to the end of a licensing deal: Activision's suite...

DRAGON BALL FIGHTERZ Open Beta Is Now Available For Xbox One. The original Xbox's oversized Duke controller has been revived, and returns this March. The Drop- New PlayStation Games for 1-16-2018...

Horizon Zero Dawn Leads with Ten Nominations for the 21st D.I.C.E. Awards. Call of Duty World League Takes over New Orleans.

Humble Monthly this month offers Sid Meier's Civilization® VI + 2 DLC packs "with more to come" for subscribers. Infinite Space Games on The Humble Store. Save 75%. Save 50% on Killer Instinct on...

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Head Start Patch Notes v74.8154 - The Beamblog

The 2018 Writers Guild Awards Nominees have been announced. Here are the videogame nominees, which surprisingly honor the writing in the latest Madden game: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider,...

A tweet from PLAYERUNKNOWN responds to the campaign to get China region-locked in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS to address cheating by reminding everyone they are already working on segregating games...

Publisher Deep Silver/Koch Media and developer Bigmoon Entertainment announce Dakar 18, a rally racing game coming to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this year. This is an officially licensed game of...

That's me in the spotlight, losing my Re-Legion. 1C company announces Re-Legion, a cyberpunk real-time strategy game they say will launch for PCs later this year. Word is: "The upcoming cyberpunk...

Facebook says it plans to transform the News Feed to promote meaningful posts. Just 14 years after launching. PewDiePie is using Logan Pauls drama to repair his own reputation. Never could have...

Apple Delays iPhone 6 Plus Battery Replacements Until March-April Due to Limited Supply. Thanks Ant. Samsung Galaxy S9 box leak hints at variable aperture camera. Autonomous car: GM wants to test...

Microsoft says Xbox One outsold the PS4 in the US last month. Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China Is Now Available For Xbox One. Artifex Mundi First Encounter Bundle Is Now Available For Xbox One.

Heroes of the Storm 2017 Ranked Season 3 Rewards Update.

XSEED Games announces Zwei: The Arges Adventure is due for release for Windows PCs on January 24th. The news comes with a launch date announcement trailer with a look at what to expect along with the...

Frontier Developments takes to Steam to announce details for Elite Dangerous: Beyond, season three for the space combat game (thanks K). They say chapter one of the season will begin beta testing on...

A new Destiny 2 Development Update has details from Bungie on plans to update their first-person shooter sequel (thanks GameInformer). This is about action, saying "were not just listening, we are...

The Entertainment Software Association has stepped into the fray with President Trump after his widely reported comments about immigration where the POTUS allegedly decried those who emigrate from "sh...

Publisher tinyBuild announces Outpost Zero, a multiplayer survival first-person shooter from Symmetric Games. Word is: "Imagine playing Starcraft as a multiplayer Survival FPS. You land on a new...

The Rainswept website is home to an indie murder mystery game featuring stylized graphics that's coming to Windows, macOS, and Linux this year (thanks Rock, Paper, Shotgun via RedEye9). Word is: "RAIN...

Riot announces the 2018 season for League of Legends will get underway on January 16th. Here are the details: Ranked As in previous seasons, your rank will be soft-reset at the start of the season:...

TAITO Corp announces Space Invaders Extreme, a return to the seminal arcade game expected on Steam next month. This remake demands the joke that it isn't your grandfather's Space Invaders, but the...

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment makes the predicted announcement that DARK SOULS: REMASTERED will come to PCs on May 25th when it's released for Switch and other consoles. Sadly, the eschewed the chance...

Paradox Interactive announces Stellaris Apocalypse, a new expansion for Stellaris expected to launch for the space exploration game early this year. This will add Space Marauders, Planetary...

SQUARE ENIX announces a Windows edition of FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE is set to launch on Steam on February 1st. The announcement trailer celebrates the news with a look at the RPG sequel. Here...

This announcement on Steam informs PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS players how they will be compensated for the mess-up in distributing BP following the launch of version 1.0 of the battle royale...

Over 400,000 viewers tuned into the Overwatch League on its first day. No Overwatch League Team Signed The Game's Most Notable Female Pro To Their Roster. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » ELEAGUE...

Operation White Noise - Mid-Season Reinforcements. Goes live today.

This teaser trailer promotes an upcoming four-part video series coming from DONTNOD to show off Vampyr, their upcoming vampiric role-playing game. Word is the first full video in the series will...