Blue's News

Matt Chat 376: Tim Lang on How to Be a Level Designer. Thanks Ant.

Rise of Mooncrest -- Steam Greenlight. "The Rise of Mooncrest (RoM) is a TRPG inspired by the long running Japanese series Langrisser (the first game was translated and released on Sega Genesis as...

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Pixel Night announce the release of Empathy: Path of Whispers, a first-person adventure game for Windows. This is available on Steam with a 20% launch...

There's a Letter to ACE COMBAT Fans on the BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America website revealing a delay to Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, saying this is now expected to take off in 2018. Here's most of...

UbiBlog announces the launch of For Honor Season 2 Shadow and Might. They offer details on all that this adds after the following overview: Season 2 of For Honor starts today, which means a new...

A Steam Blog update outlines changes Valve is making to Steam Trading Cards to curtail fake developers taking advantage of the system to farm trading cards for profit. Here's part of the explanation...

The Microsoft Store now offers the re-release of Phantom Dust for Windows 10 as a free download. This offers various improvements over the original console action/strategy game with cross-play...

Ubisoft's Full-Year 2016-17 Sales and Earnings figures are online, reporting a third consecutive year-on-year rise in non-IFRS operating margin, record-high digital revenue and back-catalog sales,...

HTC wants you to squeeze its new phone.

Elite: Dangerous Touches Down on PS4 June 27. The Crew And Trackmania Turbo Is Now Available For Xbox One. The Surge Is Now Available For Xbox One. Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Wildlands and Tom Clancys...

Gillette Bolsters its esports Roster with EDward Gaming (EDG) Team Partnership. Not sure any of them are old enough to shave. 42% of esports fans don't play the game they watch, 70% watch only one...

MechWarrior Online Patch Notes - 1.4.115. Thanks Rhialto. Survivalist version 64.1 patch. Thanks Acleacius.

A new "Resist" trailer from Sundered shows off this upcoming crowdfunded platformer from Jotun developer Thunder Lotus Games. The clip features gameplay, as it "showcases dramatic footage from...

Open beta testing of Dreadnought is getting underway today, offering the chance to play this multiplayer spaceship combat game. This is a soft launch, as this is a free-to-play game, and the optional...

Microsoft seems to be planning an entry into the MMO space using "mixed reality" (VR and AR) headsets. This is revealed via a Microsoft Careers listing that indicates this will support Windows and...

Slitherine and Black Lab Games announce Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, a space combat strategy game coming to Windows and consoles this summer. To be clear this is a rush to cash in on the 2004...

Devolver Digital to Host All-New Indie Picnic Event Across the Street from E3 2017, Free to All E3 Attendees. No word on whether there'll be schoolgirls. Mech_Con 2017 is coming to Vancouver on...

Command & Conquer Franchise on Steam. Save 75%. Crusader Kings II on Steam. Save 75%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale: 05.16 - 05.19. May Madness on Bundle Stars. Save up to 99%.

Dota 2 Gameplay Patch 7.06. Team Fortress 2 update released.

Developer Piece of Cake Studios is now offering open beta access to Hacktag, their co-op stealth infiltration game. This gives a hands-on preview of the game's early access, which is expected to come...

Ubisoft announces the Fallen Ghosts expansion for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is soon coming to the first person shooter. This will come to season pass owners on all platforms on May 30th, and...

WBIE, TT Games, the LEGO Group, Marvel Entertainment, and probably Stan Lee announce LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2, the upcoming sequel to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, the brick and comic-inspired...

704Games and NASCAR announce NASCAR Heat 2, a new arcade stock car racing game coming to Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 12th. This is a sequel to last year's NASCAR Heat Evolution,...

Steam News announces the release of The Surge, a Windows action/RPG for Windows featuring mechanized combat with high-tech exoskeletons. The game's launch trailer that came out last week offers a...

Google Tracker 2017All the stuff Google has in the works ahead of Google I/O. VideoLAN VLC version 2.2.5.1. Thanks Ant.

WGA Contract- Streaming Services Will Pay A Lot More Residuals In New Deal. Thanks HARDOCP. FCC halts public comments on Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality Update: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web...

Report: The Legend of Zelda is coming to mobile. Asus reportedly killing its ZenWatch line of Android Wear watches.

Dreadnought gets PS4 co-op mode, where youll die without teamwork.

Production Line PC Interview - GameWatcher.

Football Manager 2017 kicks Prey out of the top spot on the top 30 chart of the 30 bestselling PC games in the U.K. for the week ending May 13th. Arkane's shooter drops to number three while The Sims...

Cliffski's Blog now offers video developer blog #27 from Production Line, explaining that this will be the last such diary before the strategy management game launches into early access, which is...

Feral Interactive announces Linux users can expect the release of Linux editions of Total War: SHOGUN 2 and Total War: SHOGUN 2 Fall of the Samurai on May 23rd. Though this is just a week from...

Wcry ransomware is reborn without its killswitch, starts spreading anew. Cyberattack hit more than 100,000 groups in at least 150 countries, Europol says. NHS was repeatedly warned of cyber-attack,...

Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs. Thanks Hypothermia. [M] Intel X99 Benchers Memory Battle. Western Digital: Sales of Helium-Filled HDDs Accelerating, 15M...

Apple invests $200 million in Corning to innovate on Gorilla Glass. Thanks HARDOCP.

Street Fighter Pro Brings Down The Champ At Compete Event.

As mentioned Friday, Alan Wake will be removed from sale tomorrow due to a music licensing issue. Remedy Entertainment says they hope to return this soon, but do not have any definitive plans for...

A post on reddit claims to leak an exclusive Steamworks secret in revealing a June 22nd start date for this year's Steam Summer Sale (thanks PCGamesN). This is unconfirmed, but it won't be a big...

Mass Effect: Andromeda on Origin. Save 33%. Thanks David.

Valve reports the following nine games were the bestselling titles on Steam for last week: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Prey Counter-Strike: Global Offensive DOOM DARK SOULS III Grand Theft Auto V...

Hearthstone April 2017 Wild Ranked Play Season Rankings.

China Is on Track to Fully Phase Out Cash. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Lian Li Launches ASUS ROG-Inspired PC-O11WGX Case: Two Chambers, E-ATX, USB-C.

"Arrested Development" S5 Films This Summer. Thanks Ant.

Sleep it off: What you can and cant learn from sleep tracking wearables. How Automakers Are Making Cars More and More Like Smartphones.

MLB The Show 17 doles out big comps for server problems. The people at Madden are evil geniuses who want The Curse to continue: A conspiracy theory.

The Binding of Isaac website has details on a bunch of new booster content now available for this indie roguelike (thanks Kotaku). Designer Edmund McMillen also uses the update to tease his next...

PULSAR- Lost Colony Beta 14.6 Release Notes. Thanks Ant.

IGN offers a video interview for Darksiders 3, offering the first gameplay footage from the upcoming hack-and-slash action/RPG (thanks PCGamesN). Word is: "Gunfire Games President David Adams sits...

Bio Menace on GOG.com. Save 100%. Thanks Ant. Furi on Steam. Save 40%. Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars on Humble Store. Save 75%. PLAYISM 6th Anniversary Sale. SMITE Mothers Day Sale - May 12 15....

Left 4 Dead 2 - Update.