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Devolver Digital announces the release of STRAFE, the new first-person shooter that takes its cues from the classics of the genre from the 1990s. This is available for Windows, OS X, and PlayStation...

UbiBlog announces TrackMania 2: Lagoon is coming on May 23rd, saying this expansion will add a 65-track solo campaign, six multiplayer tracks, and new track-creation options. They also announce an...

Eurogamer reports that "sources" confirm for them that a recent report on WWG.com is accurate in saying Assassin's Creed Origins is the next game in the Assassin's Creed franchise, as the title...

Electronic Arts Reports Q4 FY17 and Full Year FY17 Financial Results. "We generated record net sales and operating cash flow in fiscal 2017, driven by our ongoing transition to digital as well as...

1C Company announces Ancestors, a squad-based RTS game in development at Destructive Creations, the folks behind the controversial shoot-em-up Hatred. They say they plan to set a release date for the...

Intel Extreme Masters Season 12 Debuts in Sydney, Australia, with $200,000 Prize Pool. Thanks Hypothermia.

Stellaris Adams update 1.6.0 Released [checksum 7a87].

A third video developer diary for Total War: ARENA offers more on Creative Assembly's upcoming strategy game. The description sets the stage for this: In the third episode of Total War: ARENA...

Bandai Namco Entertainment America offers a new trailer from Project CARS 2, offering a look at the McLaren 720S tearing up the Long Beach Grand Prix street track. The clip uses in-game footage to...

U.K.-based publisher and developer nDreams announces Bloody Zombies, a new co-op virtual reality brawler that promises cross-platform gameplay between PCs and consoles with support for VR headsets....

Funcom announces Secret World Legends will launch on June 26th, offering a fully free-to-play reboot of The Secret World, their conspiracy-laden MMORPG. Word is: "Now reimagined as a shared-world...

Paradox Interactive notes the first anniversary of the release of Stellaris, their sci-fi empire builder. To celebrate, they announce a Digital Anniversary Edition of the game which bundles the game...

A Steam Blog post discusses Valves efforts to refine how Steam offers games, the first in a three-post series that will explain their thoughts on the store, and their plans for how Steam Direct will...

Human: Fall Flat on Steam. Save 50%. Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition on Steam. Save 75%.

Dota 2 Update - May 8th 2017. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Patch. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III Hotfix.

this trailer shows off customization options in MXGP3, the upcoming dirt-bike racing sequel. This shows how you can personalize your rider as well as your ride. Here's word: Now you can finally feel...

A new Franchise Force trailer from Agents of Mayhem shows that Operation Mahem is in full effect with a look at this upcoming third-person action game. The clip introduces Hollywood, Hardtack, and...

A new trailer from Deadhold shows off this real-time strategy game coming this summer to early access on Steam. The description of the clip contains a description of the game: Deadhold is a fast...

Activision announces Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles, a new Black Ops III DLC pack with undead content from previous games remastered for more modern systems. This is coming first to...

Bethesda.net announces a large scale tech test (which they are not calling an open beta) for Quake Champions will run from May 12th through May 21st, allowing everyone access to id Software's...

Blizzard now offers a new profile video for D.Va, the Overwatch tank that's the next character to join Heroes of the Storm. The clip gives her history, shows off her abilities, and offers an even...

It's been two and a half years of decline tablets aren't coming back. Feels like they were never really here. Thanks Ant. Qualcomm's own site accidentally confirms Snapdragon 845. Comcast, Plume,...

All The PS2-On-PS4 Games (So Far). Bloody Zombies is a Co-op Brawler Coming Soon to PS4 and PS VR. More Details And Footage Of The Canceled Sonic Skateboard Game Emerge. A New Xbox One System Update...

Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth PC Interview - GameWatcher.

OnlySP - Lovecraftian Lies: Why Video Games Cannot be "Lovecraftian." Now you tell me. According to the archive, I've only used the term here 25 times.

PULSAR: Lost Colony Beta 14.5 Release Notes. Thanks Ant.

Prey lands at number one on GFK Chart-Track's list of the 30 top-selling PC games in the U.K. for last week. Last week's number one, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, drops to number four. Mario...

The SCS Software blog announces plans to bring double-trailers to Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator (thanks Rock, Paper, Shotgun). They offer some details on the plan: Today we have...

NBA 2K website is accepting preorders of NBA 2K18, revealing details on a couple of Legend Editions of the basketball simulation and unveiling a September 19th release date. This year's throwback...

Debian GNU-Linux 8.8 Officially Released with 90 Security Updates, 68 Bug Fixes. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Facebook plans to launch its own TV shows in June, says report. Thanks Ant. Facebook Live murders: Algorithms are failing Facebook. Can humanity save it? Humanity? They're just for clicks.

Majority of U.S. households now cellphone-only, government says. Thanks HARDOCP. VAIO Launches Phone A- Snapdragon 617, 3 GB RAM, 5.5 FHD, Android.

Production Line Blog# 26 Compact cars and better GUI ( a bit).

PULSAR: Lost Colony on Steam. Save 50%.

ARK- Survival Evolved: Patch 257: Giant Bee, Daeodon, Liopleurodon, Kentrosaurus, Tek Cave & Ascension. PULSAR- Lost Colony Beta 14.4 Release Notes. Thanks Ant.

Here's the new list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Prey Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III H1Z1: King of the Kill...

The Battlefield website has details on a new map called Prise de Tahure coming to Battlefield 1 as part of what they're calling the "Summer of Battlefield," a somewhat incongruous twist on the 50th...

Even Apple can't make the Internet of Things tolerable. How Cloudflare Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web. Thanks The Flying Penguin.

Nintendo PlayStation Prototype Now Functional. PlayStation Blogcast 248: Spray and Prey.

StarCraft II WCS Austin 2017 Replays Available.

The SMITE website announces a "Double Everything Weekend" is now underway: We are seeing double! Earn Double Experience, Worshipers and Favor from Friday, May 5th to Sunday, May 7th! Grab some snacks,...

The Beamblog has a retrospective on development of Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition. They highlight some of the interesting things they came across while working with the source code for the...

As mentioned in the above story about Starbreeze, the publisher plans to hold a livestream event on Wednesday to discuss some of their projects, promising star guests and "exclusive announcements."...

Rain Games announces the release of World to the West, the promised standalone follow-up to Teslagrad. This 3D action adventure can be found on GOG.com, Humble Store, and Steam, and word is actual...

A press release on the Starbreeze website announces a delay to OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, saying the first-person shooter based on the zombie IP is now expected in the second half of next year (than...

LIMBO on Steam. Save 75%. Star Citizen Subscriber Flash Sale on the Roberts Space Industries website.

Outlast 2 new patch just released.

Space is big. Really big. This may help explain why Amplitude Studios named their space strategy series Endless Space. Or maybe it was knowledge that the series would continue. Either way, we digress...

A third video developer diary from RiME offers a further look at the upcoming puzzle exploration game in the works at Tequila Works (happy Cinco de Mayo!). The thing of it is that the developers are...

The TERA website celebrates the fifth anniversary of the launch of TERA, En Masse Entertainment's MMORPG. They offer a retrospective on the experience, including an infographic (suitable for framing)...