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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)...

A post to the Heroes of the Storm Forums has word that the Mastery Taunts introduced in the version 2.0 update for the MOBA are temporarily disabled while Blizzard investigates desync problems they...

A Status Report on the DayZ website from earlier this week outlines progress on the open-world zombie survival game (thanks PCGamesN). This seems to indicate that the next patch to update DayZ to...

Things travel fast these days. After going from unconfirmed to leaked to officially announced in a single day earlier this week, Darksiders III now has an extended gameplay video. This is available...

Prey Is Now Available For Xbox One. PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds developer already looking to port the game to Xbox One. Bit Dungeon Plus Is Now Available For Xbox One. Dreamfall Chapters Is Now...

Age of Heroes VR by Omnigames Kickstarter. "Age of Heroes is a multiplayer combat VR game that emphasizes physical and intense boss battles. Pick up your weapons, team up with other players, and...

We don't know either, but UbiBlog announces The Crew has passed the 12 million player mark on consoles and PCs. They offer personal reflections on the milestone from a dozen members of the...

The Dota 2 blog announces this year's version of The International Battle Pass is now available, offering all sorts of perks for the Dota 2 player that also helps build the prize pool for the big...

Technical issues with Dishonored 2 raised concerns in advance of today's release of Prey, the new shooter from Dishonored and Dishonored 2 developer Arkane. Earlier this week they noted that Steam...

Steam News announces another free weekend is underway on Steam for Rocket League, the motorized sports game that rewards ballsy driving. For those who enjoy their test drive, the game and its DLC...

Steam News announces the release of Prey, Arkane Studios' new take on this science-fiction shooter series. Here's the recent official launch trailer, and here's word on the release: In Prey, you...