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BioWare responds to a couple of fan questions following a post a few weeks ago on the BioWare Social Network Fan Forums revealing an "M" ESRB rating for Mass Effect Andromeda (thanks VG247). The...

NeoGAF has box art and details for Middle-earth: Shadow of War, an unannounced sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (thanks Kotaku). This is unconfirmed, but according to the post, this was...

Twitch announces you will soon be able to buy games directly through the service, saying this should kick off in the spring. This will involve a revenue share with partnered streamers, taking the...

CCP announces Sparc, a full-body physical sport played in virtual reality coming to "all major high-end VR platforms" later this year. They say this is the first wholly original IP from the developer...

Rare auctioning official Sea of Thieves-branded Xbox One S for charity Special Effect. Free Ghost Recon: Wildlands Xbox Avatar Costume Available Now.

AT&T Offers Some New, Better Unlimited Data Plans. Augmented reality lets cars communicate to reduce road rage. Thanks HARDOCP. Waze Now Comes In Your Car's Infotainment System. Nokia 3310 hands-on-...

Dish Still Promising a Wireless Network. Someday. Maybe.

New performance mode boosts Switch mobile clocks by 25 per cent. Thanks HARDOCP. The Video Game Industry Is Lobbying Against Your Right to Repair Consoles. The Red Ring of Lawyers. Thanks Slashdot...

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker on Just Adventure.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Steam. Save 50%.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 2.1 Update. World of Warcraft Hotfixes- February 21.

Early access to Blackwake is now available on Steam, offering a multiplayer FPS with a pirate theme. This trailer (NSFW) celebrates the news with a look at gameplay from the game, which was...

Rice Digital reports they've learned of plans for HD remakes of Shenmue and Shenmue 2, attributing this to "a trusted source close to Atlus USA." They also say they've been told it's "safe to assume...

Relic has a survey up for prospective testers of Dawn of War III. This asks some questions about your gaming experiences and preferences, and offers the possibility of being selected to test the...

BioWare tweets the news that they've completed development on the new installment in their space opera series. They say, "Mass Effect: Andromeda has gone gold," and offer an image to celebrate. Mass...

XSEED Interview + AMA- The challenges of bringing Japanese games to Western markets - GOG.com.

2K Catalogue on GOG.com. Save up to 75%. Rush for Glory on IndieGameStand - Today's Pay What You Want Indie Game Deal. Kawaii Sale on GOG.com. Save up to 75%. Styx: Master of Shadows on Steam. Save...

Steam News announces the launch of The Golf Club VR, a new version of the sports sim for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Here's word: The Golf Club VR is built off the foundation laid by HB Studios...

Early Access to Hellion is now underway on Steam, offering a science-fiction first-person online RPG. This post accompanying the launch explains Zero Gravity Games is temporarily lowering the number...

Origin now offers system requirements for the upcoming PC edition of Mass Effect: Andromeda (thanks DSOGaming). Here they are: MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and...

A tweet from Overwatch reports an attack at the Numbani airport. Word is: "[BREAKING] OR15 defense units destroyed in confrontation with unidentified assailant at Numbani airport. No civilian...

Hollow Knight is now available for Windows on GOG.com and Steam. Here's word on Team Cherry's action/adventure: Beneath the fading town of Dirtmouth sleeps an ancient, ruined kingdom. Many are drawn...

ZeniMax Media has filed for an injunction to remove Oculus virtual reality products from sale that use their code, reports GamesIndustry.biz. This is a follow-up to ZeniMax's recent court victory...

Why Boards Arent Dealing with Cyberthreats. Thanks Ant. Serious Cloudflare bug exposed a potpourri of secret customer data.

Thanks Ant. Microsoft Research developing an AI to put coders out of a job. Thanks Slashdot. Mossberg: TV is changing, but not fast enough. Thanks Royce Hamano.

Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

The Story Of The $10,000 Worth Of Missing Super Nintendo Games Has A Happy Ending. Xbox Achievements Get A New Update Today, Here's What It Does. Madden 17 Is Now Free On Xbox One With EA Access. A...

The 20th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Results are online, showing the winners of last night's ceremony. Overwatch was overall game of the year, and took home four awards in total. This press release has...

A new premium Australia DLC is now available for Sid Meier's Civilization VI, along with a new update for all players of the turn-based strategy game (thanks Kotaku). This page has the details on the...

Criminal Past is now available for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, offering the second story DLC for the action/RPG sequel. This trailer shows things off, and this post has word on a patch that this...

There seems to be a degree of irony to cheating in a game called For Honor, but UbiBlog has word that some miscreants are indeed bending the rules in their new melee combat game. They say they are...

UbiBlog has word that Steep owners may be able to see Russia from the new Alaska update that's now free to owners of the winter sports game. Here's a trailer and the scoop: The world of Steep just...

Unforgiven VR is now available in early access on Steam, offering a first-person virtual reality shooter set in the wild, wild west. You'd be forgiven for expecting Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman,...

A new trailer from Mass Effect Andromeda is part two of their official gameplay series. This week's clip covers "Combat Profiles & Squads" following last week's video on "Combat Weapons & Skills."...

Valve announces the launch of The Steam Audio SDK as a free beta. In spite of the name, this does not actually operate through Steam. Here's word: The Steam Audio SDK is available now via a free Beta....

Twitch announces they are gifting The Banner Saga 1 and 2 to Twitch Prime members, and donating money to the development of The Banner Saga 3 for those who play the first two games in the tactical...

Another free weekend is underway on Steam for NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4, which is also on sale for more than the duration of the event. The pitch on this game is almost shorter than...

Steam News announces a free weekend us now underway in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare along with a sale on the shooter sequel. Here's word on the game: Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game...

A Ghost Story Games website is online as home to the "studio formerly known as Irrational Games" (thanks IGN). Word is: "Were a Boston-area game development studio dedicated to making immersive...

Judge: No, feds cant nab all Apple devices and try everyones fingerprints. Republicans Are Trying to Let Internet Providers Sell Your Data.

At deaths door for years, widely used SHA1 function is now dead. Firefox certificate cache leaks user information.

Freshly FCC-approved LTE-U wireless rolls out on T-Mobile this spring. Thanks HARDOCP. Google Project Fi Begins Testing Voice Over LTE. Samsung's Galaxy S8+ reportedly has a 6.2-inch display. What...

Nintendo Switch won't have Virtual Console at launch. Injustice 2 - Shattered Alliances Part 1 trailer. The Hideo Kojima Death Stranding interview- Strands, Decima and Guerrilla Games.

Classic Tools Retrospective: John Romero talks about creating TEd, the tile editor that shipped over 30 games.

17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards - Nominee Trailer. Thanks Ant.

Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Gaming Minds Studios have busted out the thesaurus to announce Railway Empire, a new tycoon game centered on railroads starting in the early days of rail...

The promised open beta testing of Ghost Recon Wildlands is now underway. This will run through Monday, offering the chance to get your virtual boots on the ground in the latest installment in the Tom...

Xbox Live Games With Gold For March 2017. Leave No Grisly Clues Behind in Serial Cleaner, Coming to PS4. PlayStation at GDC 2017- Develop With Us. SMITE Console: King of the Kappa - 4.2 Patch Notes....

Host a Hearthstone Spring Tavern Hero Qualifier.

Blood Bowl 2 on Steam. Save 75%. Heroes of the Storm Weekly Sale- Feb 21 - 28, 2017.