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StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm both have showstopper grand finals at IEM Katowice.

The Sims 4 keeps the number on spot on the GFK Chart-Track chart of the 30 bestselling PC games in the U.K. for the week ending March 4th. The top new entry on this chart is Torment: Tides of...

CI Games announces the latest delay for Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, saying the sharpshooting game will need a few weeks of additional travel time before striking the target on April 25th. The game was...

SEGA and Relic announce April 27th is the official release date for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, the next installment in the real-time strategy series. They mark the occasion with this trailer...

Sharing Of Nude Photos Of Female Marines Online Prompts Pentagon Investigation. 1.37bn records from somewhere to leak on Monday. Advanced de-faking: using public sources to trace the true age of a...

Donkey Kong's failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines. Thanks The Flying Penguin…

Corsair K95 RGB Platinum Gaming-Tastatur on Technic3D. German.

Riot Games Wins $10 Million Lawsuit Against Bot-Scripting Website. They'll just pay off out of petty cash.

Valve reports the following were the bestselling titles on Steam for last week: H1Z1: King of the Kill Blackwake FOR HONOR Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 7 Days to Die Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon...

Battle.net has word that Season 9 in Diablo III will draw to a close on March 17th, Saint Patrick's Day, and the new competitive season for the action/RPG will commence on the final day of the month....

Dota 2 Update - March 3rd, 2017. PULSAR: Lost Colony beta 13.4 release notes. Thanks Ant.

The Switch Pro Controller Contains A Hidden Message. Gamers can't stop licking the bitter, sour Nintendo Switch cartridges. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Tim Sweeney- Microsoft UWP is still 'woefully inadequate.' Woeful adequacy such a lofty goal. Thanks HARDOCP. Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible...

What the World Wide Web of the 1990s can teach us about Internet policy today. Thanks Ant.

Pixel boss Rick Osterloh- Pixel 2 is coming this year and staying premium. Thanks HARDOCP.

How Many 5 FT Drop Tests Can NINTENDO SWITCH Survive? Ultimate Drop Durability Test!! Thanks Hypothermia.

Dota 2 Winter Treasure III.

Unbeliever -- Steam Greenlight. "This is a 2d action platformer with metroidvania elements. A difficult one. Inspired by Castlevania and modern classics like Dark Souls, Unbeliever ramps up the...

NieR was originally announced only for PlayStation 4, but Square Enix announces this action/RPG is also coming to Steam on March 17th. Here's the plan: SQUARE ENIX® today announced that the upcoming...

Steam offers a new Overload Playable Teaser version 2.0, offering an updated sample of Overload, a new six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent (thanks Ant). Here's a rundown on the...

Shroud of the Avatar website now offers a free trial version of Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, the new RPG from a team led by Richard "Lord British" Garriott (thanks PixelRage). The post...

Amazon Gives up on Selling Broadband After Awful ISP Reviews.

How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide.

Just Dance 2017 Now Available for Nintendo Switch. Rich Whitehouse's Twitter has some unreleased content from the Final Fantasy 15 disc, including some nudity. This Week On Xbox- March 03, 2017.

Republic of Gamers Announces Sponsorship of PSG eSports. Thanks Hypothermia.

Dad Quest Early Access on Excalibur Games. Save 25%. Fable Anniversary on Steam. Save 75%.

A new trailer from Mass Effect Andromeda offers a look at exploration and discovery in the upcoming shooter/RPG sequel in part three of their official gameplay series. Also, an IGN First video shows...

There's a new article on the GeForce website with technical details about Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, NVIDIA GameWorks support, along with a 4K 60fps video from a couple of days ago. There's...

There's a patch preview on Battle.net of an upcoming update for Heroes of the Storm showing interface improvements coming to the MOBA. Blizzard is adding party frames to the UI, offering an...

Middle-earth: Shadow Of War Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. Bloons TD 5 Is Now Available For Xbox One. Eekeemoo Splinters Of The Dark Shard Is Now Available For...

For Honor: Ubisoft answers the big questions Eurogamer.net.

Acer Hosts Predator Prime Talk at Intel Extreme Masters Season 11 Grand Finale.

winSPMBT: Main Battle Tank version 11 upgrade (2017). winSPWW2 version 10 upgrade (2017).

A new Styx: Shards of Darkness trailer actually starts out with singing, but we're pretty sure it's not Dennis DeYoung. The clip shows off some co-operative multiplayer assassination, as it shows off...

A new FINAL FANTASY video from GDC 2017 shows off FINAL FANTASY XV from a developer's standpoint. Of interest is how this highlights NVIDIA hardware. Square Enix has not announced a PC edition of...

Ars Technica reports that Hello Games revealed a couple of new projects they are planning at GDC, though details are scant, and only one is said to be "in development" at this time. They say the...

1C announces Codex of Victory, a sci-fi, turn-based strategy game coming to Windows, OS X, and Linux in just a couple of weeks. This is in development at Ino-Co Plus (Warlock, Majesty 2, and Elven...

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero & Case West now backwards compatible on Xbox One. Clicker Heroes Mashes Its Way Onto PS4 March 7.

Rock Band VR on Harmonix Blog. First setlist reveal, scoring details announced. StarCraft II on Battle.net. Patch 3.11 Preview: Dead of Night.

Dota 2 Kiev Major Invites. Hearthstone Standard Heroic Tavern Brawl Returns. No Man's Sky GDC Award That No-one Accepted.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale: 03.03 - 03.06. SportsBar VR on Steam. Save 30%. Wargame Franchise on Steam. Save up to 75%.

Ubisoft announces plans for post-release content and a season pass for Ghost Recon Wildlands, which will include a free PvP update for the tactical shooter. Here's a trailer covering the news, and...

You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage, I'm trying to tell you now the Sabotage DLC is now available for the Windows and Xbox One editions of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, following its release...

Reacting to the outrage of Overwatch players over Bastion improvements in the latest patch, forum post by Jeff Kaplan promises to return some of the suckage to the bullet-spewing robo-turret. He...

Paradox Interactive announces Mandate of Heaven, a new expansion coming to Europa Universalis IV, their grand strategy sequel. This focuses on the major nations of East Asia, as shown in this trailer....

Torn Banner Studios announces closed beta testing for Mirage: Arcane Warfare will begin this month as they progress with development of this sequel to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. The beta will begin...

A blog post from BioWare describes live multiplayer sessions for Mass Effect Andromeda at GDC and PAX East, but also announces the planned multiplayer beta is not longer happening (thanks PC Gamer)....

Thanks Mordecai for the nudge noting we failed to mention the release of River City Ransom: Underground on Steam earlier this week. Steam News has details on this remake of what they call "one of the...

Battlegoat Studios announces Supreme Ruler: The Great War, taking on the topic of World War I in a continuation of their geopolitical strategy/wargame series. Or maybe this heralds World War III,...

The System Shock Kickstarter page has a "shocking" announcement from Night Dive Studios from GDC (thanks K 2 the W). They say their crowdfunded remake of System Shock is switching to Epic's Unreal...