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February 29
- New trailer details the changes in X Rebirth: Home of Light expansion
- No microtransactions for The Division says Ubi, confusion follows
- New vampire game from Life is Strange dev gets some really dark screens
- EA withdraws "Ghost" trademark filing
- Flash sale: Get Rainbow Six Siege and the HyperX Cloud II headset for $70
- Microsoft promises to improve the Windows Store
- The Raspberry Pi 3 is on sale now
- Faster Raspberry Pi 3 Gains Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Still Just $35
- ESL and Intel launch esports diversity initiative AnyKey
- See humans obliterated in 12 minutes of Total War: Warhammer
- Minecraft 1.9, the Combat Update, is live
- Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition available to pre-order
- Dragon Front is the Oculus Rift's Yu-Gi-Oh
- New Shenmue 3 screenshots prove the game is still happening
- Adr1ft will come to other, non-Oculus Rift VR platforms
February 28
- Capcom vows to punish Street Fighter V rage quitters
- International pricing for the HTC Vive is here
- Embrace the dark side of sport with Corrupt Cup Contest
- Trailer for Sunless Sea's Zubmariner DLC details the Zee floor
February 27
- Copper Dreams is a cyberpunk cRPG - here's the first trailer
- There's a VR version of Superhot in the works
- Gabe Newell calls fired host of Dota 2 Shanghai Major an "ass"
- Battlefield 5 rumored to be set in World War One
February 26
- Consortium: The Tower's rescue plan revealed
- Ubisoft asks Canada to help head off hostile takeover by Vivendi
- Worlds Adrift trailer showcases up-close island exploration
- GTA Online gets new "Rhino Hunt" Adversary Mode
- Infiltrate a 1970s religious cult in The Church in the Darkness
- Samorost 3 gets lovely trailer and release date
- The 20 most brutal mods of all time
- Call of Cthulhu crawls from the abyss
- Truck Simulators to get Steam Workshop support
- You can play Black Ops 3 multiplayer for free this weekend
- The Witcher 3 composer confirmed for Cyberpunk 2077
- Procedurally generated racer Krautscape has exited Early Access
February 25
- The Division: New York Collapse teases a mystery wrapped in a survival guide
- Far Cry Primal preloading has begun
- Gearbox reveals three new Battleborn heroes
- Daedalic announces Deponia Doomsday, coming next week
- Battalion 1944 Kickstarter adds stretch goals, including a single-player campaign
- Necropolis delayed until summer
- Punch Club getting a free expansion: The Dark Fist
- The Batmobile is coming to Rocket League
- Remedy applies for Alan Wake's Return trademark
- League of Legends now has a smartphone app
- Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is getting a new port
- Disgaea PC is now available on Steam, but performance is shaky
February 24
- The first Doom level has been recreated in Unreal Engine 4
- Fallout 4 Survival Mode changes leak
- Postal Redux gets spring release and system requirements
- Frozenbyte's new stealth game demo is also a pricing contest
- Forge offers a simple way to capture and share gameplay video
- Ashes of the Singularity benchmark unites AMD and Nvidia under DX12—sort of
- New Dark Souls 3 trailer is as jaunty as it gets
- Play Death with The Division's 'end of society simulator'
- Riot standardises penalties for pro LoL players
- Hitman opening cinematic fills in the blanks
- Outlast, Sunless Sea, Door Kickers and more in Humble Indie Bundle 16
- Beavers and handcuffs come to Ark
- Valve fans have found some interesting hints in the SteamVR Performance Test
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition PC requirements have leaked
February 23
- Valve puts in $1 million for all future major CS:GO tournaments
- Capcom "looking into" adding an arcade mode to Street Fighter 5
- Zynga puts its San Francisco HQ up for sale
- Battlefield Hardline trailer shows off new Betrayal maps
- Grim Dawn goes into full launch later this week
- Styx: Shards of Darkness gets fresh screens
- Star Wars Battlefront update adds new map and Survival mission
- Darkspore will close for good next week
- Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch seeks crowdfunding support
- Insurgency coming to Unreal Engine 4
- Bob Ross voice pack brings calm to the chaos of XCOM 2
- Fallout 4 modding tools arriving April
- Rocket League's ranking system gets a tune-up
- True 3D Audio Based on HRTFs is Back, and VR Needs It
- John McAfee on his FBI iPhone hack offer: "Our government is illiterate in cybersecurity"
February 22
- Bus Simulator 16 system requirements and launch trailer are here
- Doom's Hack Modules will offer temporary multiplayer boosts
- Rainbow Six Siege patch will improve matchmaking in Ranked
- Microsoft won't release the HoloLens until "the world is ready"
- New Fallout 4 beta patch appears on Steam
- Warren Spector reveals why he's making games again
- Download the SteamVR performance test to see if your PC can run the Vive
- The Walking Dead: Michonne trailer is a reminder that people suck
- A Place for the Unwilling: Lovecraft meets Majora's Mask and Sunless Sea
- Stellaris dev diary explains Alliances and Federations
- The Black Death is a grim survival game set in medieval times
- Farming Simulator 17 announced
- Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet finally out next month
- The Unseen History of Portal dives deep into Valve's classic
- Iranian media mistakes Medal of Honor footage for real warfare
February 21
- Dying Light will get more DLC in 2016, Techland promises
- BioShock: The Collection rated for PC
- The HTC Vive will cost $799
- Get Gunstar Heroes, Viking and Renegade Ops for free
February 20
- See the Daredevil season 2 trailer deftly recreated in Fallout 4
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto spiritual successor First Wonder cancelled
- BioWare asks, "Would you play a Dragon Age Tactics game?"
- See the classic game Snake played on a keyboard
- New Adr1ft trailer teases zero-g gameplay and astronaut dreams
February 19
- Firaxis is "working very furiously" to fix XCOM 2 performance issues
- Hearthstone pro Hafu speaks out about sexist trolling on Twitch
- GPU deal: overclocked EVGA GTX 970 for $310 bundled with The Division
- This world-best Devil Daggers run will alter your sanity, self-esteem
- Might & Magic Heroes VII gets free Lost Tales of Axeoth DLC
- Valve fleshes out competitive TF2 beta plans
- Watch 50 Elite CMDRs make synchronous hyperspace jump
- Ubisoft explains how it's recreating the Stone Age behind-the-scenes
- John McAfee Says He'll Decrypt the Controversial iPhone
- STRAFE resurfaces with another seminal trailer
- Fallout 4 takes Game of the Year at the DICE Awards
- Hyper Light Drifter is now available for pre-purchase on GOG
- Assassin's Creed may not be annualised when it returns in 2017
- Here's what Hearthstone would look like on an 8-bit console
- Bethesda has three new "big and crazy" projects in the works
February 18
- Experimental 5D data storage could store 360TB of games for 13.8 billion years
- New Dark Souls 3 footage shows Knights and Clerics in action
- Street Fighter 5 mod restores R. Mika's ass slap
- Master of Orion trailer reveals a cast of sci-fi stars
- World of Warcraft: Legion system requirements are here
- Consortium: The Tower dev promises "radical plan" to save its Kickstarter
- Need for Speed system requirements published
- Just Cause 3 Sky Fortress DLC coming March
- Heroes slog it out in new Paragon footage
- Arma 3's Eden update is live
- Operation Wildfire comes to CS:GO
- Half-Life: Opposing Force successor Prospekt out now
- Tales of Symphonia port gets much needed improvements thanks to modders
- Need to Know is an NSA simulator, now on Kickstarter
February 17
- Obliteracers, formerly known as Space Dust Racers, is releasing next week
- Notch and Tracy Fullerton to receive GDC Awards honors
- Smite Oceania Pro League has a $100,000 prize pool in 2016
- ET Armies, a sci-fi FPS developed in Iran, is coming to Steam
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum to return as a handheld console
- Ark: Survival Evolved's "Explorer Notes" will bring its history to light
- WWE 2K16 is headed for the PC
- Chronicle: Runescape Legends open beta dated
- Warren Spector joining Otherside to lead System Shock 3
- Final Black Desert closed beta heralded by peculiar cinematic
- Impending Street Fighter 5 improvements detailed
February 16
- Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part 2 is out now, so here's a launch trailer
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 gets multiplayer-only pack on Steam
- Rebellion reveals Battlezone 98 Redux
- Jet Set Radio and Golden Axe are free on Steam
- Mass Effect: Andromeda lead writer confirms he has left BioWare
- The PC Gamer Show: Fallout 4, Quantum Break, and more
- Dolphin emulator sees big speed improvements with DirectX 12 support
- Dark Souls 3 season pass appears on Steam
- Wadjet Eye's new adventure Shardlight will be out in March
- Khronos launches version 1.0 of the Vulkan low-level API
- Fallout 4 DLC and season pass changes detailed
- Elite Dangerous: Arena out now
- Rocket League patched to ban file-fiddlers
- Capcom's Yoshinori Ono apologises for SFV server issues
- Kojima meets Norman Reedus for 'update'
- Star Citizen single-player and persistent universe will be available separately
February 15
- Free American Truck Simulator update adds a Kenworth, reduces fines
- XCOM 2 post-mission loading can be skipped, but not without risk
- Far Cry Primal trailer reveals "Legend of the Mammoth" gameplay
- Here's the first six minutes of The Walking Dead: Michonne
- The Ship: Remasted has been delayed
- HItman GO coming to Steam February 23
- Player beats Dark Souls without being hit
- Street Fighter 5 coming to Linux and SteamOS in spring
- New DayZ renderer gets a test drive
- Rise of the Tomb Raider wins 2016 Writers Guild award
February 14
- Rocket League player count may increase in the future, dev hints
- Quantum Break won't be available on Steam
- Doom's single-player campaign around 13 hours, according to id
- Kojima asked Cliffy B to help make Silent Hills, but he declined
February 13
- Pillars of Eternity's next companion is a barbarian named Maneha
- The Ship: Remasted's Early Access plans detailed
February 12
- The Internet Archive brings Windows 3.1 games to your browser
- Battlefield Hardline is getting a new expansion in March
- A new Dead Island game may be on the way
- Xaviant seeks help for The Culling closed alpha
- Second Rise of the Tomb Raider patch hits
- Chaos cruises into view in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada showcase
- $10m Dying Light edition now on sale
- Five Nights at Freddy's World is back, and it's free
- Rainbow Six Siege gets spectator cams and fixes in latest update
- Bethesda teases Fallout 4 DLC news and a Survival Mode "overhaul"
- Explore and paint in Eastshade's gorgeous open world
- Watch Dogs 2 confirmed, due out before April 2017
February 11
- Activision is not skipping Call of Duty in 2016
- Hatred studio's next game is called IS Defense
- Funcom reveals The Man Himself in first Conan Exiles dev diary
- Quantum Break system requirements out, Windows 10 required
- Souped-up Need for Speed is coming to the PC in March
- The Wild Eight is co-op survival with mutated wolves
- Confirmed: No new Assassin's Creed this year
- Total War: Warhammer shows off Empire campaign
- Quantum Break confirmed for Windows 10
- Rocket League Season 2 has begun
- Study analyses gaming tastes as we age
- League of Legends puts Dominion mode to sleep
- The Flame in the Flood launches out of Early Access this month
- XCOM 2 performance issues being looked into by Firaxis
- Titanfall 2 will release later this year, according to toy company
- Cities: Skylines free update adds theme editor, weather effects, and hats
February 10
- Layers of Fear launches next week, so here's a new trailer
- Overload is a new 6DOF shooter from the makers of Descent
- Crysis, Ryse: Son of Rome composer joins Divinity: Original Sin 2 team
- XCOM 2 players have already killed 53 million aliens
- Warcraft moviegoers may get World of Warcraft for free
- The Walking Dead: Michonne debuts this month
- Be My Valentine is GTA's latest off-kilter update
- Frozen Synapse 2 announced
- Mad Catz sheds one third of staff
- Free demo for American Truck Simulator
- Malware targets Hearthstone cheaters
- Now you can safely enjoy the strange beauty of 1990s malware
February 9
- Firewatch lets you turn in-game photos into real world prints
- Overwatch's unlockable 'Highlight Intros' are ridiculously good looking
- Cookie Clicker v.2 ushers in huge changes, but there are still cookies
- Overwatch beta resumes with some big changes
- Total War: Attila "Slavic Nations" DLC fights to be free
- Hitman system requirements and preorder bonus revealed
- Oculus ready PC and Rift 'bundles' available for pre-order next week
- Former Dragon Age Lead Writer David Gaider joins Beamdog
- Intel puts a stop to overclocking on non-K Skylake CPUs
- Riot's lead game designer explains why League Of Legend's tutorial sucks
- Dying Light: The Following Enhanced Edition out today
- NextDesk CrossOver Turns Your Tabletop into a Powered Standing Desk
- Phanteks releasing svelte P400 cases in March
- Far Cry Primal 101 video reveals the deadly details
- Chaotic Football Manager world record attempt is real-life Twitch Plays
- Plague Inc: Evolved nears its final form
- The horrifying void between dimensions in Portal 2
- Amazon launches free 'triple-A' Lumberyard engine
February 8
- Blizzard is 25 years old today
- Night in the Woods will be out this fall
- Terror Birds and grappling hooks come to Ark: Survival Evolved
- Fallout 4 mod brings Geralt's gear to the Wasteland
- Hitman beta details accompany new trailer
- Watch the Dark Souls 3 opening cinematic
- Ubisoft denies The Division on PC held back by consoles
- CD Projekt Red names top Witcher 3 mods
- Chinese cracking group throws in the towel
- Someone has made Space Invaders in Dwarf Fortress
February 7
- N++ is coming to Steam
- Volume developer Mike Bithell is planning two new games
- A bunch of EA classics are heavily discounted on GOG
- Titanfall 2: "science meets magic" in a "grounded, human" world
- Final Fantasy Tactics director's Unsung Story put on hold
February 6
- Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical slasher horror
- Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition out now
- How to share and import custom XCOM 2 soldiers
February 5
- Battalion 1944 Kickstarter funded in just three days
- Todd Howard earns Game Developers Choice Lifetime Achievement Award
- The Political Machine 2016 is the election sim America deserves
- The world record Skylake overclock is an insane 7GHz
- The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2016 is live
- Horror hitchhiking game Rides With Strangers is happening
- H1Z1 is being split into two games, neither will be free-to-play
- Capcom launches Street Fighter 5 intro series
- Trackmania Turbo gets set for March
- Rise of the Tomb Raider patch expands graphics options
- Bethesda makes fan destroy records for refund
- New Doom gameplay footage aired on Conan O'Brien
- Unreal Engine 4 will soon offer development tools inside VR
- XCOM 2 has native Steam Controller support
- DayZ forums hacked, user info and encrypted passwords stolen
February 4
- The Division trailer drops intel on skills and customization
- The Culling is a competitive murder simulator from the makers of Lichdom
- Devil Daggers, the old-school survival-FPS, is two weeks away
- 22cans says the original Godus has not been abandoned
- Multi-world sandbox RPG Portal Knights comes to Early Access this month
- Logitech's G810 Orion Spectrum drops garish gaming style for classic form and function
- Asus' curved ultrawide monitor with 3440x1440 G-sync panel out this month
- Mirror's Edge Catalyst beta sign-ups open, story revealed
- New Pillars of Eternity update for all
- DOOM's day: Doom releasing in May
- Soul Axiom escapes Early Access this month
- The surprising Solus Project arrives February 18
- 'Rocket Labs' mode coming to Rocket League
- Here's when XCOM 2 will unlock for you
- Batman: Arkham Knight is no longer coming to Linux or OSX
- New Skywind "Envision" trailer showcases some gorgeous landscaping
February 3
- Overwatch beta returns to action next week
- New Lian Li Case Has Lots of Drive Mounts
- Grip, the Rollcage-inspired racing game, hits Steam Early Access
- CCP reveals new EVE-based FPS, an "evolution of Project Legion"
- Xenonauts 2 is officially confirmed
- Firewatch gets four (!) new trailers, Steam preorders are now live
- Das Keyboard launches Division Zero line of gaming hardware
- Sophisticated new Hitman trailer and season details
- Cities Skylines: Snowfall release date revealed
- Kojima and Del Toro holding joint DICE talk
- Godus hopes to rekindle faith with Godus Wars
- Steve Jackson's Sorcery! on Steam at last
- Invention is Runescape's first Elite skill
- Crusader Kings 2: Conclave released
February 2
- Need For Speed: Most Wanted is now free on Origin
- Free Shadowrun: Hong Kong expansion will add five hours of play
- The Witness breaks $5 million in sales in its first week
- You can now run Windows 95 in your web browser
- Final Fantasy XV may be coming to PC
- Homefront: The Revolution will have microtransactions but no season pass
- Rainbow Six Siege: Black Ice teaser is a video you need to see
- Ubisoft promises to crack down on cheating in The Division
- Hearthstone's new format will see old expansions retired from 'Standard' play
- Path of Exile: Ascendancy coming March
- Battalion 1944 seeks funding to return the FPS to WW2
- American Truck Simulator delivers early, out today
- Dirt Rally dev explains series' change of direction
- AMD announces three new processors and updated motherboards
- 'Liquor and strippers' Ant Sim devs respond
- Lego The Force Awakens leaked, arriving June
- Fallout 4 patch 1.3 is available now
- Buy-to-play MMO Black Desert Online launches in March
February 1
- Rainbow Six Siege 'Black Ice' DLC launches tomorrow, here are some new images
- Tales of Symphonia is now on Steam
- Disgaea PC: Digital Deluxe Dood Edition is now up for prepurchase
- The Witness speed run finishes the game in just over 25 minutes
- Unity of Command "speedrun" takes Stalingrad in two turns
- Grey Goo adds a fourth faction in free "Descent of the Shroud" DLC
- Electronic Arts files for "Ghost" trademark, but Ubisoft says no
- The Witness patch will (hopefully) fix motion sickness problems
- OBS streaming software update adds Studio Mode, transitions, and more
- Motherboard vendors release updates to fix a Skylake CPU crash
- Bethesda will host a second E3 conference
- Rogue Ant Simulator devs blow budget on 'liquor and strippers'
- Superhot arriving this month
- Wildstar is getting a big update and coming to Steam
- Feb 18 release date for Danganronpa
- Insurgency WW2 conversion Day of Infamy officially launches
- Player escapes Rocket League map, discovers strange world
- Star Citizen is free to try for a week
- Cobalt trailer explains time dilation system