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An AMA on reddit hears from Jeff Kaplan, game director on Overwatch, Blizzard's multiplayer shooter. Thanks PCGamesN, where they highlight a couple of answers of interest, including Jeff's outlook...

A post on reddit by the For Honor team reveals they are banning players for AFK farming in For Honor (thanks VG247). This is not as drastic as it sounds, as they say 1,500 players received three-day...

Devolver Digital announces a May 9th release date for STRAFE, the upcoming throwback first-person shooter (apologies for saying this was "next month" in our original headline). About a year ago we...

Steam now offers early access to Phantom Halls, an action/adventure for Windows using a side-scrolling perspective. They note that today is the 30th anniversary of the premiere of Evil Dead 2, and...

Paradox Interactive announces an April 6th release date for Mandate of Heaven, a detail that apparently wasn't set when the Europa Universalis IV expansion was announced less than two weeks ago. They...

This post on the QuakeCon website explains some limitations that will be placed on the show this year due to its change in venue to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. They say that due...

A free week is now underway on Steam for ORION: Prelude, offering an extended free sample of TREK Industry's dinosaur survival adventure for Windows. This will run until next Monday, at which time...

Early access to Overload is now offered on Steam, allowing a first crack at this new six-degree-of-freedom shooter from the creators of Descent. This is available for Windows, OS X, Linux, and...

The Rocket League website has details on a new Dropshot update coming to Rocket League on March 22nd, adding a new game mode and more to the automotive sports game. This trailer drops your first shot...

A PlayStation.Blog post says Sony plans to bring PlayStation 4 titles to their PlayStation Now service this year. As this excerpt describes, this will allow PS4 games to be played on Windows PCs: As...

Devolver Digital announces a May 9th release date for STRAFE, the upcoming throwback first-person shooter. About a year ago we were told to expect this early this year, but they call this a slight...

Intel to Acquire Mobileye for $15 Billion. Millennials fuel increasing usage of mobile payment systems. Thanks HARDOCP. Sprint Debuts Gigabit LTE Wireless in New Orleans. T-Mobile CFO Promises LTE...

Why Nintendo Switch games are ending up more expensive.

Slime-san on Christ Centered Gamer.

Outlast 2 Composer Talks Shaping The Sound Of Horror - One Angry Gamer.

Huge Enemy - Worldbreakers -- Steam Greenlight. "HUGE ENEMY is a 2D horizontal shooter game, with dynamic game-play, using FRONT and DEPTH Weapons with a VIEWFINDER to target everything on screen."...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands does not appear on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for last week, where The Sims 4 retains the number one spot. Wildlands...

Frontier Developments announces plans for a spring update coming to Planet Coaster in about a month, on April 11th. This update will add a bunch of free content to the theme park simulation,...

A playable demo for Halo Wars 2 is now available on the Microsoft Store, allowing Windows 10 users to sample the real-time strategy sequel (there is an Xbox One demo as well). Here's the deal: Real-ti...

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Performance Testing - LanOC Reviews.

The World Wide Web's inventor warns it's in peril on 28th anniversary. Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA. Smart meters can overbill by 582%. Meter readers can overbill by infinity.

SD Association Announces UHS-III (up to 624 MB-s), A2 Class, LV Signaling. Infineon Shows Off Future of eSIM Cards- -1.65 mm2 using 14 nm FinFET. AT&T Introduces an Awful New -Unlimited- Prepaid...

Project Scorpio will deliver enhanced Xbox graphics to 1080p TVs. Thanks Hypothermia. No Man's Sky on PS4 Pro delivers the 1080p60 dream.

12 Smash Tournament Organizers Quit After Leader Accused Of Multiple Acts Of Sexual Harassment. Thanks Hypothermia. Washington D.C. sponsoring major esports team, and building esports arena.

World of Warcraft Hotfixes: March 7. Thanks Ant.

Here's Valves list of the bestselling titles on Steam for last week, half of which were Ghost Recon Wildlands: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands H1Z1: King of the Kill Counter-Strike: Global...

Dead Mage Games announces Tale of Ronin, an upcoming game where the player gets to live the life of a disenfranchised samurai (thanks PCGamesN). They have also released the game's debut trailer with...

Thanks Ant. SPACE-FRIGHT is now available for Windows on Steam. We believe this may be the first time someone has every used the description "cute stealth horror game"… Fallout 4: The Atomic...

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Prozessor on Technic3D. German. Arozzi Arena Gaming Desk on Nikk Tech. Corsair K70 LUX RGB Cherry MX Gaming Keyboard on Benchmark Reviews. Tesoro Zone Balance Gaming Chair on APH...

Judge dismisses lawsuit accusing Oculus of using confidential info. Family of technician slain by factory robot sues everyone involved. Google's Waymo and Uber Go to Court Over Allegedly Stolen Self-...

How GPUs and Deep Learning Are Fueling the Financial Industry. Thanks Hypothermia. AMD Ryzen and the Windows 10 Scheduler - No Silver Bullet. Setting Up A Better VR Space For SteamVR Linux Gaming....

PlayStation Blogcast 241- Suffer Us Now.

Warren Spector, Harvey Smith, and fellow devs examine the value of the immersive sim -- Gamasutra.

American Dota 2 Team Moves To Southeast Asia For Qualifier, Loses Every Match.

Torn Banner Studios offers this new trailer to show off more of Mirage: Arcane Warfare, their upcoming melee-heavy first-person shooter. The description includes an outline of beta and release plans...

Invisible, Inc. on Steam. Save 70%. Six Sides of the World on IndieGameStand. Today's pay what you want indie game deal. Slitherine Weekend Deal on Steam. Save up to 75%.

Paradox Interactive celebrates the second anniversary of the launch of Cities: Skylines, promising free DLC for the urban planning game. They say Colossal Order's game has sold more than 3.5 million...

Dota 2 Update - March 10th 2017. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands patch 1.1.5 released. Winning Putt: Golf Online patch notes 03/09/2017.

Steam offers early access to Streets of Rogue, a Roguelike action/adventure for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This carries a 10% launch discount, but is also free-to-play for the weekend to offer a...

Here's the PAX East trailer for Dauntless, offering a look at this co-op action/RPG in the works at Phoenix Labs. The accompanying word explains the clip and mentions plans for beta testing this year:...

Mass Effect: Andromeda is not due for more than a week, but BioWare now offers the official launch trailer for the new installment in the spacey action/RPG series. This includes a brief blurb on the...

NEXT JUMP- Shmup Tactics -- Steam Greenlight. "What would happen if the pillars of the "shmup" genre were translated into a "Tactics and Strategy" game? NEXT JUMP is a love letter to shmup's [Shoot '...

Quake Champions will be a free-to-play game, id Software's Tim Willits tells Polygon. They note there will also be a premium option, something that's part of most F2P games. Here's word on the plan:...

NVIDIA's GTX 1080 Ti is paving the way for a new Titan this year. This Isn't An Operating System, It's An RPG. Thanks OS news via Ant.

2Dark Is Now Available For Xbox One. Clicker Heroes Is Now Available For Xbox One. Heres What Happened Before Nier- Automatas Story Began. Table Top Racing: World Tour Is Now Available For Xbox...

Interview with Bill Tiller -- Just Adventure.

EverSpace version 0.4.2.30747. Heroes & Generals - Update 1.04 Engine Room ishere. Sorcerer King: Rivals version 2.1 is now available. Steam Client Update Released.

Dead Exit -- Steam Greenlight. "Dead Exit is a zombie apocalypse based card game where each player manages a base and tries to out maneuver their opponents and survive the evacuation of a city....

The Steam Blog announces further changes coming to Steam user reviews. Valve explains that they will no longer count scores submitted by users who did not pay for their copies of the game in question....

A new launch trailer from Styx: Shards of Darkness paves the way for the stealthy assassination sequel to sneak out next week. The game is due on Tuesday for Windows and consoles, and there is still...