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Overwatch took Game of the Year in the 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards held last night at the Game Developers Conference. Epic Game's Tim Sweeney received the Lifetime Achievement Award,...

By the flood of reviews that popped up just as we went to "press" here, we're guessing that 9:00 am EST was when the embargo expired for evaluations of AMD's new Ryzen processors. Here's a quick...

The Overwatch website has a preview of Orisa, the next character coming to the multiplayer shooter. Orisa is a female four-legged robot designed by an 11-year-old who is a brilliant engineer, so...

Feral Interactive announces the release of the Linux edition of DiRT Rally, Codemasters' rally racing game. This can be picked up from Feral Interactive or via Steam, where it is a free addition for...

A new trailer from Agony introduces the demons in this upcoming first-person survival/horror game set in hell. They accompany this with another trailer showing off some demon gameplay. The...

Toygeddon -- Steam Greenlight. "Toygeddon is an online Battle Arena Racing (R.O.B.A) inspired by several more popular MOBA , with the addition of mechanical racing fun. It tells the story of some...

UbiBlog has word that the recent beta tests for Ghost Recon Wildlands broke some Ubisoft records:The recent beta phases for Ghost Recon Wildlands gave players a taste of what itll take to fight the...

A new environment showcase trailer from Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III shows off some of the locales in the upcoming real-time strategy sequel. SEGA and Relic offer the following explanation of...

Rockstar Games announces the release of 15 new stunt races for GTA Online along with cash and reputation boosts for stunt racing for the next two weeks (thanks Mordecai). The update also includes a...

Epic Games has released Robo Recall for free, offering a fast-paced first-person shooter designed for virtual reality on the Oculus Touch. Here's the deal: Built with Unreal Engine 4, Robo Recall...

UploadVR has hands-on impressions from GDC 2017 on the recently revealed "next generation" VR head-mounted display in the works at LG (thanks HARDOCP). There is not yet an indication of when to...

Codemasters and Deep Silver announce a day one edition and a special edition coming to DiRT 4, their upcoming rally racing sequel. A new trailer accompanies the news, featuring drivers Petter Solberg...

Paradox Interactive announces Steel Division: Normandy 44, a World War II strategy game in the works at Eugen Systems. There are screenshots and details for the game on the new Steel Division website,...

Twitter engineer vents about 'making ends meet' in SF on $160K salary. Thanks Kxmode.

Hearthstone March 2017 Ranked Play Season Lets Get Kraken.

Stage Presence is now available on Steam for Windows and VR HMDs. This launch trailer shows off what's described as "the anti-guitar hero," a comedy/horror/karaoke mash-up where you must ad lib to...

Here's a GDC trailer showing off Snow Moto Racing Freedom, the crowdfunded snowmobile game in the works for PC and PS4. The clip is accompanied by some details on the game: Snow Moto Racing Freedom...

Blizzard announces the new version 1.8.0 patch is now available for Overwatch, kicking off the fourth competitive season in the multiplayer shooter along with a new game browser. This post has all...

Desync is now available on Steam, offering a single-player first-person shooter with a stylized untextured look (thanks Mike). This trailer offers a look at this, and here's an outline. Here's word:...

This IGN First video shows off 17 minutes of gameplay footage from Mass Effect Andromeda, showing off Peebee's loyalty mission. This is a 4K clip that runs at 60fps, and word is it is edited to avoid...

The GeForce website has the expected announcement of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, a new flagship for their line of gaming video cards. They claim the founder's editions for these will be available...

Aragami on Steam. Save 40%. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada on Steam. Save 50%. Heroes of the Storm Weekly Sale- Feb 28 - Mar 7, 2017. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam. Save 75%. Humble ARMA Bundle...

For Honor version 1.03 released. Hearthstone Update February 28.

This trailer offers a first look at Mass Transit, an upcoming expansion for Cities Skylines. This seems to have an odd focus on b-list forms of transportation like blimps, ferries, and cable cars....

Funcoms Fourth Quarter Financial Report for 2016 is now online, touting the success of Conan Exiles, and saying the company will increase its investment level in the game over the next couple of...

Basilisk Games celebrates the news that Eschalon: Book I is 10 years (and three months) old by making the first installment in the series free to own (thanks RPGWatch via Acleacius). They are also...

Rebellion and 2000AD announce plans to remaster Rogue Trooper for the upcoming release of Rogue Trooper Redux. Here's a teaser trailer, and here are the details on the return of this third-person...

UbiBlog announces the release of the Last Stand DLC for Tom Clancy's The Division along with a free trial version of the action game. Here is the not crystal-clear explanation of the scope of the...

Bretonnia is now available on Steam, offering the promised free expansion for Total War: WARHAMMER, the fantasy strategy game. They also say a new Total War: WARHAMMER - Old World Edition is now...

FCC chairman says his agency won't review AT&T's Time Warner purchase. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Netflix CEO Hastings: In Twenty, Fifty Years, We May Be Entertaining A.I.

Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges. WSJ says iPhone 8 will have a curved display, but Im not buying...

Torment: Tides Of Numenera Is Now Available For Xbox One. Ghost Blade HD Is Now Available For Xbox One. This Weeks Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale + EA Publisher Sale.

A tweet from Minecraft has the latest sales milestone for Minecraft. They say the sandbox game has now sold more than 122 million copies (thanks VideoGamer). They offer some fun statistics to try and...

UbiBlog announces Ubisoft's plans for a new PC and console game based on Avatar, cashing in on James Cameron's vintage science fiction film. They don't say when this is expected, but note that there...

PCGamesN says a new hero will be announced for Heroes of the Storm at this weekend's IEM Katowice tournament. They say the reveal will probably come on the official HotS Twitch channel on Friday,...

The Steam page for Middle-earth: Shadow of War is now online, offering system specifications for the just-announced action/adventure sequel (thanks VG247). They are also accepting preorders for three...

Torment: Tides of Numenera is now officially available, offering a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment. This is available on GOG.com and Steam, with upgraded Legacy and Immortal editions also...

Oculus on wireless VR - Its compressed, its not perfect and its expensive. New $10 Raspberry Pi Zero comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Better Late Than DEAD on Steam. Save 80%. ICEY on Steam. Save 25%. IGF Awards Sale - The Humble Store. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 02.28 - 03.03. Spec Ops: The Line on Steam. Save 80%.

Dota 2 Update - February 27th 2017. Heroes of the Storm Balance Update February 27, 2017. League of Legends Patch 7.4- Chos Fancy Feast.

A new story trailer from Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition shows off the remastered version of People Can Fly's first-person shooter. Here's an excerpt from the clip's description: Step into the boots...

Paradox Interactive announces the road to Utopia will end on April 6th with the release of the Utopia expansion for Stellaris, their sci-fi strategy game. Here's a new trailer along with the news:...

Stories Untold is now available, offering a throwback interactive text adventure for Windows. That said, this trailer offers a look at why this isn't your father's Zork. You can find more on the game,...

Terrible Toybox announces March 30th is when to expect Thimbleweed Park for Windows, OS X, Linux, and Xbox One. This is a new adventure game from a team led by Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion...

WBIE officially announces Middle-earth: Shadow of War, following the leaked revelation of plans for the sequel. Word is this is coming on August 25th, and they only specify Windows 10 as a PC target,...

Blizzard announces UnGoro, a new expansion coming to Hearthstone in April, bringing 135 new cards to the game. This page is home to the project, and the announcement has some pertinent details: Are...

With the Game Developers Conference getting underway today in San Francisco, Valve announces that LG Electronics is at the show with a prototype virtual reality head-mounted display. Word is LG's...

The Sims 4 remains number one on GFK Chart-Track's Top 30 chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for last week. Halo Wars 2 and Football Manager 2017 swapped places from the previous chart,...

Here's Valve's accounting of the 10 bestselling games on Steam for last week. The results have been carefully guarded by the accounting firm of Pricewaterhouse Coopers: Grand Theft Auto V FOR HONOR...

THQ announces that Red Faction 2 is now legal to openly sell in Germany, as it is no longer listed on the country's "index" of games restricted from sale due to violent content. The emancipation of...