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Charter Backs Off Blaming Verizon For its Own Deployment Failure. Obama's tweet about Charlottesville is now the most liked tweet ever. Another Game of Thrones episode has leaked online.

Citadel: Forged with Fire on Gaming Nexus.

Matt Chat 384: Mark Lewis Baldwin on Drones, Space, and Board Games. Thanks Ant.

ArenaNet kicks off a week devoted to exploring the specializations in Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, the recently announced expansion. This gets underway with a new developer diary with a look at the...

Steam News announces the release of Nidhogg 2, a platfomer sequel for Windows and macOS. The game carries a 10% launch discount, and there's also a discount on a bundle of the game and its soundtrack....

An alpha teaser video from Decoherence reveals development of this upcoming action/strategy game in the works at independent Columbian developer Efecto Studios. Nothing says action like a twin-stick...

THQ Nordic announces Black Mirror, a gothic horror/adventure game in development at KING Art coming to Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on November 28th. One might assume this is directly based...

GOG.com is currently offering Deadlight: Director's Cut for free (thanks Ant). There's no explanation for the 100% discount, but we see indications it is temporary, so if this puzzle/adventure game...

ACE Team announces an August 28th release date for Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder, their rock and roll sequel. This was originally announced for release last autumn, but we're not going to throw...

SEGA announces Football Manager 2018 will kick off on November 10th, offering the latest installment in this association football/soccer series. Those who preorder for Windows, macOS, or Linux are...

Stardock announces plans to release a new patch for Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation next week, updating the real-time strategy game to version 2.4 and adding new co-op map pack DLC. This is...

GOG.com and Steam now offer the release of >observer_, a cyberwar horror game with a stylized title. The game features cyberpunk themes, and the participation of cyberpunk legend Rutger Hauer. Here's...

This announcement has word that Fragmented is now officially available on Steam, making it one of those survival games that managed to survive early access. The post outlines all that's changed over...

Bungie reaffirms that beta testing of the Windows edition of Destiny 2 will get underway on August 29th for everyone and 24 hours earlier than that for those who preorder the upcoming shooter sequel....

CCP announces EVE: Valkyrie - Warzone, an expansion for EVE: Valkyrie that will allow access to this space shooter without requiring a VR head-mounted display. This will also expand the game for VR...

Steam News announces the release of Agents of Mayhem, a new action game from Volition. This post refers back to yesterday's launch trailer, and here's the description, which refers to Agents of...

Madden 18: Release Date, Cover and Ultimate Team Details. Ken Folletts The Pillars Of The Earth Is Now Available For Xbox One. Agents of Mayhem Is Now Available For Xbox One. Ink Is Now Available...

The International Grand Champions - Dota 2.

Exzore- The Rising by Tiny Shark Interactive Kickstarter. "Exzore: The Rising is a third-person, open world, RPG game set in the fictional world of Eogaan, during the medieval times. Damien Clive,...

Funcom announces a TV series is in the works based on Funcom's MMORPG The Secret World, saying this is being produced by Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil in partnership with G4C...

Wizard Fu, a studio consisting of a lone developer, announces Songbringer will be released next month, coming to PC and Xbox One on September 1st and to PlayStation 4 on September 5th. This trailer...

Fair Weather Studios announces a September 21st release date for Ancient Frontier, their turn-based strategy game set in space, where nobody can hear about your hernia operation. They describe this...

UbiBlog announces Season 3 of For Honor gets underway today, offering more details on what to expect now from the melee combat game. This previously released trailer offers a look at the plan, and...

We joked about the illogic of an "unbranding campaign" when Blizzard announced plans to drop the name Battle.net from their online service. They made the switch earlier this year, and it's taken them...

Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series on Steam. Save 80%. Mini Metro on Steam. Save 50%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 08.15 - 08.18. Piñata Madness sale on GOG.com.

1C Company offers the Gamescom 2017 trailer which includes gameplay from Unknown Fate, Marslit Games' upcoming first-person adventure game. They say they will be at the show demonstrating the VR...

A post from Sledgehammer has details on plans for private beta testing of Call of Duty: WWII. Unfortunately, the PC requirements for this include being a PlayStation 4, so this will be a console-only...

Deep Silver offers the launch trailer for Agents of Mayhem, paving the way for tomorrow's release of the action game. Here's what to expect when project mayhem is in full effect: Devils Night. The...

UbiBlog announces new version 1.7 update is coming tomorrow to Tom Clancy's The Division, bringing free content to the open-world action game. This trailer shows off what to expect, and here are...

Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Harebrained Schemes announce a delay to BATTLETECH, saying the mech combat game is now expected in early 2018. They blame their backers the setback, saying...

The Blizzard Shop now offers the promised release of StarCraft Remastered. This brings their sci-fi RTS classic in line with current computer systems. Start working on building up your APM while you...

The GeForce website now offers new GeForce game-ready 385.28 WHQL drivers, saying these are the drivers for tomorrow's release of Agents of Mayhem, offering an NVIDIA Tech in Agents of Mayhem trailer....

A Year Later, You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free. Shuttles X1 Now Available: NUC-Like PC With a GeForce GTX 1060 GPU.

Instagrams Kevin Systrom Wants to Clean Up the Internet. Algorithm shows the data you give away when clicking suggested links. Netflix signs Shonda Rhimes away from ABC in huge coup. GoDaddy tells...

Sony offers 15 months of PS Plus for the price of 12. EA Teases More Nintendo Switch Games. PSN Maintenance Coming Up, Here's When And For How Long. Sci-Fi Action RPG Songbringer Comes to PS4...

OpTic Gaming Wins the Call of Duty World League (CWL) Championship 2017, Presented by PlayStation 4. For Honor Season 3 tournament showcases the games many problems, with players using exploits to...

Okinawa Rush - a platform-fighting game with RPG elements. by Steven Miller Kickstarter. "A martial arts, platform game with RPG elements, many items/weapons to collect, a 'parry-anything' engine...

Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy retains the top spot last week on the U.K. sales charts. This post from GfK Chart-Track has the details on the game's four-week run at number one. Here's the full top...

Dark Quarry Games announces early access for Deadhold will commence on August 25th. They seem to be de-emphasizing the MOBA elements they mentioned when this was first announced in 2014 for a 2015...

AMD announces the arrival of their Radeon RX Vega graphics cards. Word is: "Weve uncovered the coming extreme gaming era two weeks ago. We showed off the bundles you can get, to enter into a great...

LawBreakers on GameSpot. Pillars of the Earth on GBase.ch. German.

DMCA Used to Remove Ad Server URL From Easylist Ad Blocklist. Thanks [H]ardOCP. 24 hours later, ANOTHER massive Wells Fargo fraud scandal.

Researchers report -4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs.

Google warns 700 publishers digital ads will be blocked by Chrome update. Thanks [H]ardOCP. Amazon is refunding purchases of unverifiable eclipse eyewear.

Here are the winners of Valves $24 million 2017 International Dota 2 Championships.

Ballistic Overkill on Steam. Save 50%.

Valve reports the following are the bestselling titles on Steam for last week: PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Total War: WARHAMMER II Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...

The official launch trailer for Offensive Combat: Redux! celebrates plans for the this shooter reboot to launch on Steam on August 18th. The original Offensive Combat was a free-to-play Facebook page,...

Researchers create flexible battery that can run on salt water.

Vizio TVs add the Google Play video app. Fake negative reviews are a cheap way to screw up darknet drug marketplaces.