News archive
January 2015
Filter
256 articles
- January 31
- January 30
-
- Divinity: Original Sin patch enables cloud saves, greater mod customization
- Life is Strange launch trailer sets the scene for time-traveling teens
- Quake Live reports intermittent outages due to DDoS attack
- Watch big castles go boom in this Medieval Engineers video
- Evolve gets a free-to-play match-3 companion app
- Watch the first footage of Sid Meier's Starships
- Battlefield Hardline trailer is all about new toys
- Hearthstone’s Team Archon releases Hosty hours after cheating allegations
- Veteran Counter-Strike: GO mapmaker details new work
- January 29
-
- Try your hand at zombie survival with free Dead State demo
- Samurai Gunn gets a major, free update
- Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered is now on Steam
- This Is the Police is a stylish, risky crooked-cop sim
- "Make Arma Not War" competition finalists announced
- Battlefield Hardline open beta starts next week
- Take On Mars expected to leave Early Access in June
- Final Fantasy XIV offering free weekend for lapsed players
- Steam Workshop creators have made over $57 million since 2011
- Starbound releases first stable update in almost a year
- January 28
-
- InXile says Torment: Tides of Numenera won't be slowed by new Bard's Tale project
- Nvidia working on driver update to address GTX 970 issues
- Mortal Kombat X's Reptile crushes skulls in new trailer
- Offworld Trading Company gameplay shown in debut trailer
- CD Projekt explains why The Witcher 3 has 16 hours of sex scene mo-cap data
- EVGA expands TORQ mouse line with four new models
- The Music of League of Legends is free to download (and really good)
- Ken Levine teases sci-fi PC game
- System Shock Infinite 2.0 mod updates with new difficulty options
- World of Warcraft 6.1 hits PTR, contains selfie camera
- Dragon Age: Inquisition had most successful launch in Bioware history
- Second Far Cry 4 DLC pack adds new missions and weapons
- Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier hit with redundancies
- January 27
-
- Dragon's Dogma Online is a free-to-play RPG due later this year
- Modder is restoring original Resident Evil voices to HD remake
- Nvidia GTX 960 roundup
- Tour a virtual Paris apartment in stunning Unreal Engine 4 tech demo
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel update causing crashes
- Hearthstone's Undertaker nerfed at last
- CD Projekt says it's "making a statement" with free Witcher 3 DLC
- 868-HACK arrives on Steam, has great trailer
- Brutal Doom v20 footage shows yet more gore
- Valve's economist is Greece's new finance minister
- American Truck Simulator devs release an hour of alpha footage
- Here's 15 minutes of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt footage
- Minecraft is already making lots of money for Microsoft
- January 26
-
- Valve bans seven CS:GO pro players from tournament play for match fixing
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 appears on Steam Greenlight with a new teaser
- Gearbox is recruiting for 'the next Borderlands'
- Dragon Age: Inquisition tavern music is free to download for a limited time
- Valve announces $250,000 prize pool for CS:GO at Katowice 2015
- Why Nvidia's GTX 970 slows down when using more than 3.5GB VRAM
- Ubisoft says canceled Uplay game keys were "fraudulent"
- Kerbal Space Program will leave Early Access next update
- What happens if Shadowrun: Hong Kong raises $1 million?
- Planetside 2 breaks world record for most players in an FPS battle
- Homeworld Remastered release date announced
- January 25
- January 24
- January 23
-
- Play The Sims 4 free for 48 hours with Origin Game Time
- Peter Molyneux warns Microsoft against "over-promising" with Windows Holographic
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt gets new teaser ahead of hands-on previews
- What to expect from the next generation of RAM
- Dying Light's "Be the Zombie" multiplayer mode goes free for everyone
- CS:GO player 'Flex' banned during ESEA league livestream
- Starr Mazer is part shmup, part point 'n click adventure
- Grow Home is Ubisoft's minimalist exploration game
- Minecraft's Ender Dragon is getting an overhaul
- Watch John Romero play the first episode of Doom
- January 22
-
- New Galactic Civilizations 3 beta introduces the "Battle Viewer"
- Mojang says it has not been hacked
- Telltale teases second Game of Thrones episode
- Ronin is a turn-based action platformer with a familiar look
- Rogue Squadron 3D and Rebellion added to GOG's Star Wars catalogue
- Her Story is a live-action crime story, now on Greenlight
- Nvidia release GeForce GTX 960 mid-range Maxwell
- Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic trailer takes it back to the '80s
- Children of Morta brings family drama and dungeon crawling to Kickstarter
- Someone is making Dark Souls' Lordran in Minecraft
- Steam ISP stats lay Australia's dire internet connectivity bare
- January 21
-
- Nosgoth classes shown off in open beta launch trailer
- Microsoft: Windows 10 will not be sold as a subscription
- World of Warships adds aircraft carriers for upcoming beta weekend
- Remember Me studio reveals Vampyr, a new action RPG
- Windows Holographic and Microsoft HoloLens announced
- Fable Legends coming to PC
- Microsoft announces Xbox One game streaming to Windows PC and tablets
- Windows 10 upgrade free for owners of Windows 7 and 8.1
- Soul Axiom trailer shows sci-fi adventure, spatial puzzling
- STRAFE sidles onto Kickstarter, has interesting trailer
- The Elder Scrolls Online drops subscription
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailer shows 'Exo Zombies' footage
- Heroes of the Storm Founder's Pack grants immediate access to beta, for a price
- January 20
-
- League of Legends installer infected with malware in some Asian regions
- Theme Hospital is Origin's latest "On the House" freebie
- Valve investigating scary sounding Steam bug on Linux
- Dark Souls multiplayer region problem fixed on Steam
- Project CARS trailer is pretty and full of cars
- Pneuma: Breath of Life brings its philosphical puzzling to Greenlight
- Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado expansion announced
- X-Wing sequels head up GOG's latest batch of Star Wars classics
- Walk, don't run, with Dragon Age: Inquisition's third PC patch
- Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first-person puzzler about magnets
- SpaceChem developer's Infinifactory arrives on Early Access
- Dark Souls speed run record completes the game in less than 50 minutes
- Steam Broadcasting and FPS overlay is now available to all
- January 19
-
- League of Legends "Nemesis Draft" mode goes live on the PBE
- Blizzard investigating "major lag" complaints in Diablo 3
- New evidence of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match fixing
- Alchemilla is a Silent Hill mod for the Source engine
- Sid Meier's Starships announced, is set in "Beyond Earth" universe
- Not Everything Is Flammable is a free game about burning
- Carbine reveals Wildstar's 2015 roadmap
- World of Warcraft ten year subscribers are getting a fancy statue
- Here's how long it will take to play through your Steam backlog
- January 18
- January 17
- January 16
-
- SOE offering refunds on H1Z1 for those upset with airdrops
- Pre-order GTA 5 from Rockstar and get another game for free
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada announced
- Total War: Attila trailer catches up with the Goths
- Watch an hour of new Pillars of Eternity footage
- This weekend, play Saints Row IV and Civ: Beyond Earth for free
- Australians should pirate Hotline Miami 2 following ban, says dev
- January 15
-
- Phil Robb of Turtle Rock responds to criticism of DLC, pre-purchase options
- Fitlet mini-PC is a quad-core machine in the palm of your hand
- SteelSeries' new keyboard switch offers mechanical durability with membrane feel
- First "significant update" to Elite: Dangerous planned for February
- Twitch introduces royalty free music library
- Devolver Digital respond to Hotline Miami 2's Australian classification
- Final Fantasy XIV trailer reveals return of Gold Saucer
- Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty release date announced
- Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin free patch detailed
- Hotline Miami 2 has been effectively banned in Australia
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 delayed
- January 14
-
- Mortal Kombat X video shows Kitana and Kung Lao having an argument
- Armello is a procedurally generated strategy RPG coming to Early Access
- Dying Light delivers 3D printable figurine and new Harran City site
- Nosgoth open beta begins next week
- Dolphin now has native GameCube controller support with Wii U adapter
- G.Skill sets new DDR4 overclock world record of 4,255MHz
- Battlefield Hardline going back into beta soon
- Pillars of Eternity release date announced
- Nuclear Throne developer takes weapon design to the extreme
- Assassin's Creed Unity: Dead Kings is out and free
- Drift Stage reaches Kickstarter target
- Total War: Warhammer appears to be on its way
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn video introduces Before the Fall
- Banner Saga composer faces union expulsion over refusal to pay fine
- January 13
-
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC detailed in new trailer
- Turtle Rock unveils Evolve's biggest monster and the PC Monster Race Edition
- Alien: Isolation DLC Safe Haven introduces the "Salvage Challenge"
- EA wants you to go down to the woods today (for a Sims 4 game pack)
- World of Warcraft 6.1 patch notes appear, include Twitter integration
- GTA 5 delayed on PC
- Grim Fandango Remastered pre-order listing appears
- Far Cry 4 DLC out today, trailer shows us what it's all about
- Razer is currently offering 50 per cent off all of its gaming gear
- Writers Guild of America names video game nominations
- Telltale Games has an 'original IP' in the works
- Humble Bundle one-click Steam key redemption phased out
- January 12
-
- Double Dragon Trilogy hits the PC this week
- Heroes of the Storm closed beta starts this week, check out the additions here
- H1Z1 is now listed on Steam, Early Access launch happens this week
- Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons arrives on Steam
- Awesome Games Done Quick raises over $1.5 million for cancer research
- Blizzard runs into Overwatch trademark trouble
- Volume trailer shows enemies, teases Serkis
- Minecraft to let players change their in-game name
- Planetside 2 players are organising a record breaking battle
- Evolve system requirements announced
- Amnesia mod Penumbra: Necrologue creeps onto Steam Greenlight
- Glorious Leader! Kickstarter campaign cancelled following hacks
- January 11
- January 10
- January 9
-
- Life Is Strange serves up system requirements and first dev diary
- Smite trailer shows overhauled Conquest map
- Saints Row Weekend Sale underway at the Humble Store
- Rockstar re-confirms Grand Theft Auto V launch date
- Skyrim mod Skywind trailer shows off remade Sheogorad region
- Elder Scrolls Online reportedly removed from retail shelves amid free-to-play rumours
- Here's 90 minutes of gruesome Dying Light gameplay
- Pro Hearthstone players experiencing delays receiving prize money
- January 8
-
- Transistor has sold over 600,000 copies
- Evolve goes gold, Turtle Rock and 2K Games donate $23,000 to charity
- GOG explains the presence of passwords inside installers, then removes them
- Intel's Compute Stick is a $149 Chromecast-sized PC
- Beamdog confirms that a new Baldur's Gate game is in the works
- Technobabylon, Wadjet Eye's new adventure, is coming in the spring
- DayZ fan film is a well-made tale of sombre survival
- Zombie Army Trilogy announced by Rebellion [Updated]
- First screenshots released for Tale of Tales' Sunset
- Watch Doom running on an Intel Edison chip
- Blacklight: Retribution devs Zombie Studios to close after 21 years
- January 7
-
- Aliens: Colonial Marines and Alien vs Predator are back on Steam
- Grimoire: Manastorm alpha test is now open to all
- Crucial unveils performance- and budget-minded successors to the MX100 SSD
- Valve announces dates for The International 2015
- Seagate celebrate 35th anniversary with world's thinnest 500GB HDD
- Origin Omega is a gaming beast disguised as a home theater receiver
- Double Fine confirms retail version of Broken Age will be safe from solar flares
- Valve skips Steam Dev Days for 2015
- IGF Awards 2015 nominees announced
- Minecraft player creates word processor out of redstone
- The Witcher 3 system requirements announced
- Dirty Bomb planted on Steam, still in closed beta
- Origin packs desktop Core i7 CPUs into new EON17-X and EON15-X laptops
- Another college to offer scholarships for League of Legends players
- January 6
-
- Batman: Arkham Knight Limited Edition may have dropped a big spoiler
- Borderlands 2 director moves over to Orcs Must Die! studio
- League of Legends players earn a "mystery gift" for good behavior in 2014
- Samsung unveils super-portable 1TB SSD
- BioWare's Shadow Realms reportedly "rebooted," pushed back to 2017
- Nearly 2400 MS-DOS games are now playable in your browser
- Assassin's Creed: Unity gets Dead Kings DLC trailer and launch date
- Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes' base recreated in Far Cry 4
- Riot plans to optimise the internet for League of Legends players
- Guild Wars 2 trailer teases end of Living World Season 2
- Razer wants to build an open-source ecosystem for virtual reality called OSVR
- Razer takes on living room streaming with Forge TV and Turret lapboard
- Gunpoint creator starts Game Maker tutorial series
- Frictional Games says SOMA has been "crazy hard" to make
- HP unveils 4K, 5K, curved display, and virtual reality monitors
- Minecraft developer teases coming name-change option
- January 5
-
- Space survival sim Into the Stars launches on Kickstarter
- Survarium open beta begins in Europe, American players can try their luck too
- Frontier investigating Elite: Dangerous exploiters
- Blitzkrieg 3 video talks you through eight minutes of multiplayer
- Ubisoft poll hints at future Far Cry settings
- Gabe Newell shopkeeper arrives in Dota 2 Workshop, looks magnificent
- Humble launches AGDQ Bundle
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 appears to be on its way
- Get Battlefield 4, Medal of Honor, Mass Effect 3 and Dead Space 3 for $25
- January 4
- January 3
- January 2
-
- Battle.net authentication servers suffering major slowdown, cause unknown
- Steam begins 2015 with a new peak concurrent user record
- Black Mesa: Source-affiliated website initiates emergency broadcast teaser
- Square Enix's MMOs aren't doing great... but they're not dying
- Steam Holiday Encore Sale ends today at 6pm UK/10am PST
- January 1
