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Bethesda.net announces signups are now underway for Quake Champions. Signups are underway on the game's new official website. Here's the news: Its almost time to return to the Arenas, so dust off...

Hanako: Honor & Blade on the official website. Dev Update March 2017.

Warren Spector traces Deus Ex's development back to a game of D&D.

Hearthstone February 2017 Standard Ranked Play Season Final Rankings.

Paradox Interactive announces the release of the Monks and Mystics expansion for Crusader Kings II. This can be picked up through the Steam or the Paradox Store, though Steam is involved either way....

SEGA has acquired the remnants of Crytek Black Sea and renamed it Creative Assembly Sofia. Gamasutra has this word on plans for the Bulgarian developer formerly known as Black Sea Studios: "Going...

Replying to a question about distribution plans for post-release multiplayer maps in Mass Effect Andromeda, BioWare's Aaryn Flynn tweets that these will be free (thanks PCGamesN). It was already...

The GeForce website announces Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is now available for Windows, giving NVIDIA another chance to brag about the NVIDIA GameWorks effects supported by the new third- and...

The BattleTech forums reveal the backer beta for the new BattleTech game is delayed, attributing this to a "series of unfortunate events" (thanks El Pit). Harebrained Studios goes into detail on...

Switch sets new 48-hour sales record for Nintendo hardware in the Americas. LEGO Worlds Is Now Available For Xbox One. ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 Is Now Available For Xbox One. WRC 6 FIA World...

Comcast: Symmetrical Cable Broadband Coming in Next 24 Months. 1.7 Million Cable TV Users Cut The Cord in 2016.

Vikings Wolves Of Midgard Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One. PS Vue- Watch Multiple Channels at Once with Multi-view, Out Today on PS4.

Devolver Digital Sale on The Humble Store. Save up to 85%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 03.07 - 03.10. Pillars of Eternity on Steam. Save 60%. Poly Bridge on Steam. Save 40%. Spring...

Dota 2 Update - March 6th, 2017. Heroes of the Storm PTR Patch Notes - March 6, 2017. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void 3.11 Patch Notes. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Balance Update -- March 7,...

House Flipper -- Steam Greenlight. "Ultimate goal of house flipping business is profit. Are you a risk taker? Do you like to invest? Estimate profit and find best risk/reward ratio for you. House...

AMD Support now offers new version 17.3.1 Crimson ReLive drivers for AMD graphics cards. These offer support for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands and address some issues along the way. Here's a...

Funcom announces they've sold almost a half-million copies of Conan Exiles during early access to their survival game. They also restate their previously announced commitment to increase their...

This video from Boss Key Productions features Cliff Bleszinski and Rohan Rivas with "a 2017 studio update," though they probably don't mean to imply it will be a year between updates. This post...

The Race to Sell True Quantum Computers Begins Before They Really Exist. ATSC 3.0, in Layman's Terms. Thanks Ant. Smart garbage can turns trash into a game. Thanks Hypothermia. New York State to...

AT&T Blames Subscriber 'Volume' For DirecTV Now Issues.

Alright, lets talk about Switch hardware issues: dead pixels, blue screen bricking, screen scratching.

Matt Chat 369: David Wesely on the True Origins of D&D. Thanks Ant.

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...