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A new patch is now available for Homefront: The Revolution on Steam, updating the first-person shooter to version 1.06 and adding the game's first mission pack with two new missions for Resistance...

UbiBlog highlights a significant change from the upcoming version 3.4 patch for Rainbow Six Siege that will punish players for excessive team kills. They outline a list of penalties that escalate...

A patch is now available for DOOM, updating id Software's first person shooter with support for the Vulkan low-level graphics API, a fitting move since part of the fluid gameplay of the original DOOM...

Thanks j.c.f. iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck. D-Link Vulnerability Affects over 120 Products, 400,000 Devices. New "Patchwork" Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Copy-Pasted...

Mysterious Castle on Christ Centered Gamer.

Xiaomi prepares to take on GoPro with its Xiaomi Yi 4K action camera. Sonnens new battery for solar self-consumption could succeed in US. Samsung deals out microSD-crushing faster fingernail flash...

HTTPS is not a magic bullet for Web security. Comcast Expands Usage Caps, Again.

Verizon, AT&T Working on VoLTE Interoperability. Pokémon Go troubleshooting page mentions inbound fixes for battery life and more. Pokemon GO is a huge opportunity for small businesses right now....

The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 7-12-2016.

Just Cause Multiplayer forums announce "the indefinite halt of JC3-MP development," which sounds like a death knell for this multiplayer modification for Just Cause 3 (thanks DSOGaming). The good...

The Sims 4 remains number one on the GfK Chart-Track PC top 30 chart of the bestselling games in the U.K. for the week ending July 9th. That chart is pretty similar to last week's, and so is the all...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » Cologne 2016 Champions. CS-GO player numbers down 25%, viewership down 37% since March. Mysterious League of Legends posters are appearing across European...

Amped Wireless Athena-EX AC2600 Wi-Fi Range Extender on TweakTwon. Synology DiskStation DS916+ on Legion Hardware.

Streaming Password Sharing Now A Crime? Led Zep lawyers want $800k for defending Stairway to Heaven lawsuit. Is it ironic that this song lambastes greed?

Thanks Ant. How the Media Screwed Up the Fatal Tesla Accident. Thanks The Flying Penguin. Amazon's Chinese counterfeit problem is getting worse. Thanks Slashdot. Paint.NET version 4.0.10.

Lesbian brawler Valkyrie Drive will bare it all in the US and Europe this year.

Team Fortress 2 update released.

Cliffski's Blog - Why valve should give jobs to journalists. "I think if you want to keep reviews you have to accept that the only real way to fix 1) 2) and 3) is to have at least some paid reviews....

Here are the 10 bestselling titles on Steam for last week according to Valve: Grand Theft Auto V Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dead by Daylight DOOM INSIDE ARK: Survival Evolved The Witcher 3:...

A thank you post from Nightdive Studios celebrates the news that the System Shock remake on Kickstarter has achieved its initial funding goal of $900,000 (thanks nin). This leaves 18 days for the...

Thanks Ant and j.c.f. Smartwatches not secure, give away PIN numbers. Best practices for managing the security of BYOD smartphones and tablets. Google hopes to thwart quantum computers from cracking...

Five reasons to upgrade to Windows 10. Five reasons not to upgrade to Windows 10. LGR - Building a 486 DOS PC. Thanks Ant.

The great tablet gold rush is over. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Nintendo stock price up 9% after Pokémon Go launch. Gamer finds dead body while testing Pokémon Gos GPS features.

No More Halo 5 Monthly Updates, But More Content Coming.

Dota 2 Update - July 8th, 2016. Team Fortress 2 update released.

An update to the Team Fortress 2 blog discusses the admittedly rough launch of casual mode in Team Fortress 2, Valve's multiplayer shooter. They offer a new patch to address some issues and remove...

Though the Splash Damage website and Twitter account are silent on the topic, press release from the Hong Kong exchange indicates that Paul Wedgewood is in the process of selling Splash Damage to...

Following recent indications from Monolith founder Jace Hall about the possibility of a Blood revival, Jace posted a photo to Facebook to fuel whatever speculation this news generated. The photo...

Kickstarter Gets NSFW With Discarded Angel - Cliqist. Why Your Game Demo Is Hurting Your Kickstarter Campaign.

Digital Extremes offers a new Specters of the Rail update for Warframe, bringing significant changes to their free-to-play, third-person shooter just in time for tomorrow's TennoCon 2016 convention....

Battle.net announces Season 6 for Diablo III will end on July 22nd, and that Season 7 for the action/RPG sequel will commence on August 5th. They outline the process and try to make sure everybody is...

Finally admitting they don't know what PC gamers want, Microsoft has launched a Windows Insider Program PC Gamers Survey to help get them back on track (thanks GameSpot). Here's what they hope to...

Patch #7 is now available for Rise of the Tomb Raider, updating the Windows action/adventure to version 1.0.668.0. Among the other changes and fixes, the new version implements DirectX 12 multi-GPU...

The Starbound blog announces that Starbound will leave early access on July 22nd, wrapping up Chucklefish's five year mission to create their space game. Here's word: In case you missed it, Starbound...

The Positch website announces that the ballots have been cast, and Democracy 3: Electioneering is now available, offering an expansion for Democracy 3, the politics simulation sequel. The Windows and...

Publisher tinyBuild announces the release of BOID out of early access on Steam, offering an RTS game with no resource management or base building. An interesting twist this the base multiplayer game...

Charter Puts End to Home Working at Time Warner Cable. Thanks Ant.

Red Dead Redemption Now Playable on Xbox One with Backward Compatibility. Kerbal Space Program Launches July 12 on PS4.

Team Fortress 2 Meet Your Match update is live. Team Fortress 2 update released. Team Fortress 2 update released.

ESL One Cologne 2016 broadcast expands to TV stations worldwide.

Neil Young taught us that rust never sleeps, and true to that, Facepunch Studios announces a major change to Rust adding an experience and leveling system to the survival game (first TF2 adds...

Kotaku reports a "significant" number of layoffs have hit Turbine Studios, the WBIE-owned studio behind Lord of the Rings Online. They have a statement explaining that this is part of the company's...

Trion Worlds announces a free week is underway for Atlas Reactor, offering everyone the chance to check out this turn-based battle arena that's currently in closed beta testing. The game is playable...

Frontier Developments announces that Elite Dangerous: Arena is available for free this weekend, and everyone who downloads a copy from the Frontier Store or Steam between now and 1:00 pm EDT Monday...

World of Warcraft Legion Developer Q&A- Thursday, July 14.

Broforce on Steam. Save 60%. League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 07.08 - 07.11. MXGP2 - The Official Motocross Videogame on Steam. Save 30%.

Dota 2 Update - July 7th, 2016. Heroes & Generals Everhart Update - Changelog. Steam Client Update Released. TERA Aces Wild update now live.

Meet Your Match Update Day 2 on the Team Fortress 2 website declares "all out war." It's not as dramatic as all that, but it does outline a vote that's underway between the Pyro and the Heavy to...

Epic Games offers this trailer to help introduce Greystone, a new Paragon hero that will join their early access MOBA on July 12th. This update has more on the character, and oddly the entirety of...

Codemasters announces that F1 2016 multiplayer support will accommodate up to 22 racers per game, and will introduce features such as the formation lap and manual starts. This post has the details...