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PS Plus: Free Games for January 2017.

Steam Winter Sale Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards.

Running With Scissors website announces the release of the source code for the original POSTAL as an open source gift to the gaming public. The top-down shooter was first released 19 years ago,...

Battle.net announces that Blizzard is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Diablo across several games. The game was first released on December 31, 1996, and they say to expect more news on their...

South Korea fines Qualcomm $854 million for violating competition laws. Thanks HARDOCP. Trio charged with $4m insider trading by hacking merger lawyers.

China renews calls for tighter cyberspace security: CAC. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. In an era of password leaks, Netflix tries extreme vigilancewith mixed results.

Intel Core i7-7700K Cracks 7 GHz Bench-Stable Overclock. Thanks Slashdot via Ant. Lenovo Launches New ThinkPad Accessories: Docking And Displays. Kaby Lake Systems With Intel Optane SSDs Coming Soon....

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and the Future of Disaster Response. Facebook Doesnt Tell Users Everything it Really Knows About Them. Thanks HARDOCP. Google in 2017- The Internet Giant Is Killing Off...

Lenovo Updates The ThinkPad Lineup: New Models, Welcome Changes.

Football Manager 2017 remains number one on the GFK Chart-Track chart of the 30 bestselling PC games in the U.K. for the week ending December 24th. Unsurprisingly, the end of year chart is pretty...

Steam News announces the release of Orc Hunter VR in early access after a couple of delays. This is a room-scale VR experience, and requires an HTC Vive headset to play. For anyone who owns a Vive, a...

GOG.com announces Airships: Conquer the Skies "in development," which is their awkward way of saying this strategy game is available in what other would call early access for Windows, OS X, and...

The 2016 Vaporware Awards are now online, revealing the titles WIRED is tired of waiting for. This annual skewering of broken or missed promises no longer has Duke Nukem Forever to kick around, but...

R.I.P.: Carrie Fisher, 'Star Wars'' Princess Leia, dies at 60. R.I.P.: Vera Rubin is dead- Famed astronomer passed away.

Humble Sierra Bundle: strikes again! (pay what you want and help charity). Steam Winter Sale Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards.

Mars Underground (demo available now!) - time loop adventure by Matt Sanderson Kickstarter. "Its Marss first day at a new school. Except every day is his first day at a new school. Every night...

If a Self-Driving Car Kills a Pedestrian, Who Is at Fault? Thanks HARDOCP. Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case (updated). Thanks HARDOCP.

DirecTV Could Lose 33 Stations in Latest Retrans Feud.

John Smedley tweets about being brokenhearted over the news on the Pixelmage Games website saying the developer is shutting down (thanks Polygon). This puts an end to development of Hero's Song, a...

A new patch is now available for Resident Evil 7 - Biohazard 7 Teaser- Beginning Hour, the recently released demo (thanks DSOGaming). This adds additional CPU support to this sample of the survival/ho...

Here's a TV set turned into a useless brick by Android malware.

Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide. Thanks HARDOCP. Recent Raspberry Pi projects to add to your To Do list. Thanks Linux Today via Ant. Panasonic Commits To...

Thanks Ant. Sony Music apologises to Britney Spears, fans after fake RIP tweet sent. Thanks Slashdot. The farmer who built her own broadband. Thanks Slashdot. CBS Streaming Service Tops 1.2 Million...

Flight Attendants Urge Ban on In-Flight Phone Calls.

This Weeks Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.

Unknown Realm: An 8-bit RPG for PC and Commodore 64 by Stirring Dragon Games Kickstarter. "Unknown Realm: The Siege Perilous is a new single player medieval fantasy role-playing game that will...

Computer Games from 1986 - BBPCGC VidCast (NSFW)… Battlefield: Korea 1.0 released. First version of this Battlefield 2 modification. Here's a trailer…

Linksys WRT3200ACM AC3200 MU-MIMO Gigabit Wi-Fi Router on Mad Shrimps.

Dutch Regulators Say T-Mobile Zero Rating Violates Neutrality. 'Game of Thrones' Most Torrented TV-Show of 2016. Someone just won their pirate rotisserie league. Thanks HARDOCP.

Thanks Ant. Solar cells with a dark side may be in your future. FreeDOS version 1.2 released. Thanks Slashdot. Standing Desk Starter Guide - TechSpot. Facing layoff at Carnival, IT employee makes...

38 must-know secrets and shortcuts for your Apple TV. Thanks Ant.

Brett Favre Returns to Madden in Ultimate Team. Xbox Exec Clarifies Comments About DLC Exclusivity and More.

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.27 - 12.30. Steam Winter Sale Continues! Plus, Vote For The Steam Awards.

A new DOUBLE DRAGON IV website is online as home to a new installment in the fighting series in the works at ARC SYSTEM WORKS. This is preliminary, and for now none of the menus work. There is,...

Thanks Ant. Worlds first solar road opens in France: Its ridiculously expensive. Solar freakin' roadways! Thanks HARDOCP. Worlds largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence....

YouTube Views Are Down, Analysis Says. Thanks HARDOCP.

Leaked files show what a Cellebrite phone extraction report looks like. Thanks DSLReports via Ant. Google will launch two flagship smartwatches early next year. Thanks HARDOCP. Louis CK's app gives...

Close Out 2016 With A New Xbox One S And A Free Gift.

Roots of Insanity -- Steam Greenlight. "This game is about the doctor, Riley McClein who has to deal with his epileptic attacks and survive on an unfamiliar environment of August Valentine Hospital."...

League of Legends Champion and skin sale- 12.23 - 12.26. SMITE Holiday Ultimate God Pack Sale.

Holidays notwithstanding, Valve offers an updated list of the 10 bestselling titles on Steam: Grand Theft Auto V ASTRONEER Planet Coaster Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Counter-Strike: Global Offensive The...

A post to the RSI Community Forums by Chris Roberts further discusses the just announced switch for Star Citizen from Crytek's CryENGINE to Amazon's Lumberyard engine (thanks DSOGaming). As noted,...

Thanks Ant. PC generated 442% more revenue than consoles in 2016. Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far. 100% consensus finally achieved. Thanks...

Virtual Reality Allows the Most Detailed, Intimate Digital Surveillance Yet. Facebook: "You had me at surveillance." Thanks HARDOCP. Netgear- Nothing to see here, please disperse. Just another...

Batman: Arkham VR on gamesTM. King's Quest: Epilogue on Just Adventure. The Little Acre on Just Adventure.

Battle.net offers a first look at what to expect from Diablo III Season 9, which gets underway in under two weeks on January 6th. They update the various challenges and rewards this will entail,...

Thanks Ant. Apple Loop: New iPhone 8 Leaks, Controversial AirPods Reviewed, Serious MacBook Pro Problems. Uber Tries To Explain Why It Still Tracks Users Long After Completed Rides. Because most...

Mozilla will support Firefox for Windows XP and Vista until at least September 2017. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

Three years later, the console wars are more confusing than ever. This Week On Xbox- December 23, 2016.

Cloud Imperium announces the release of Star Citizen Alpha 2.6 for all backers of the upcoming online space game. They celebrate the news with an updated Production Schedule Report to help us...