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September 30
- The Space Hulk: Deathwing trailer is all about guns, knives, and really big clubs
- Twitch Prime announced, offers ad-free viewing, monthly gamer loot, and more
- Windows 10 update fixes download issues with Forza 3, Gears 4, and others
- Rainbow Six Siege Starter Edition is back [Updated]
- Ubisoft maintains independence as Vivendi backs off at shareholders meeting
- Latest GeForce GTX 1080 Ti rumor points to a CES 2017 launch
- Star Citizen investigation concludes at Kotaku UK
- Dishonored 2 trailer shows stealthy, Low Chaos approach
- Fighting game/visual novel Honey Rose releases today
- Failbetter co-founder's Cultist Simulator out next Halloween
- Super Terraria World mods Re-Logic's game into a full-fledged RPG
- Buffy-esque Slayer Shock out now
- Amazon has announced a sports brawler, an MMO and a third-person shooter
- Logitech releases a new webcam that will finally dethrone its popular C920
- Here's some new footage of Titanfall 2's singleplayer campaign
September 29
- Gearbox denies rumor that Battleborn is going free to play, but says a "trial version" is planned
- Break into your creepy neighbor's house in this new stealth horror game
- The Tau Empire comes to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and they're not alone
- Assassin's Creed and Far Cry may not return for 2017
- Bard's Tale 4 teaser shows off the World of Caith
- Steam now selling skins and hardware accessories for your Steam Controller
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition appears on Brazilian rating website
- Razer shoves larger drivers into redesigned Kraken V2 headset
- Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer takes a turbulent tour of Clockwork Mansion
- Democracy 3 developer announces isometric car factory sim Production Line
- Portal movie announcement coming 'fairly soon', says J.J. Abrams
- Minecraft Exploration Update adds woodland mobs and llamas, out now
- Tribes: Ascend will not receive further updates
September 28
- The first 20 minutes of Gears of War 4 revisits key battles in Gears history
- AOC's first Agon monitor is a 27-inch QHD panel with a 144Hz refresh rate for $500
- Homefront: The Revolution's first story DLC, The Voice of Freedom, is live
- Hearthstone's Yogg-Saron is getting nerfed in the next update
- The Doom soundtrack is finally out
- Corsair’s individually numbered Dominator Platinum RAM bring the bling
- Wasteland 3 is happening, crowdfunding campaign set to begin next week
- No Man's Sky is being investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority
- Over-the-top boss-fighter Furi drops major update and pair of trailers
- Insomniac would ‘love for Sunset Overdrive to come to PC’ if given the go ahead
- Cyberpunk 2077 could feature a ‘huge living city’ and ‘seamless multiplayer’
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 gets mod tools in latest update
- Forerunners is a neat mini-documentary about the history of PC platformers
- This game is controlled with an actual floppy disk
September 27
- Destiny 2 rumored to be coming to PC
- Stan Bush records a brand-new song for Shadow Warrior 2
- Endless Space 2 is coming to Early Access in early October
- The Battlefield 1 single-player trailer showcases four stories of war
- Toshiba embraces TLC memory for affordable OCZ TL100 line of 2.5-inch SSDs
- The world record Devil Daggers run is still under 15 minutes
- NZXT's S340 Elite is a case you can hang your VR hat on
- GTA Online: Bikers expansion will be out next week
- Biostar’s first gaming mouse is feature thin and ultra-cheap at $10
- Razer DeathAdder receives Elite upgrade to mechanical switches and 16,000 DPI sensor
- LiquidSky raises $4 million in funding for ambitious cloud gaming platform
- Final Fantasy 14 major update adds quests, raid dungeons and cool gear
- FIFA 17 player rating allocation is more complicated than you might think
- Beyond Good and Evil 2 concept art teased by Michel Ancel
- Standby is a neat quick-thinking platformer, free demo out now
September 26
- Jotun studio Thunder Lotus announces Sundered, a Lovecraft-inspired "replayable Metroidvania"
- Battlefield 2142 Revive brings back EA's cult-classic online shooter
- Firewatch is being made into a feature film
- Harvey Smith says you'll need to play Dishonored 2 twice to understand it
- Team Dignitas and Apex are now owned by the Philadelphia 76ers
- Asus G11 gaming desktops now pack a bigger punch with Pascal
- Civilization 6 puts Gilgamesh in charge of Sumeria
- Mafia 3 trailer shows stealth, shootouts and sabotage
- Hotline Miami added to GOG Connect second round line-up
- Overwatch to buff Symmetra in November, says game director
- Battlefield 1 reveals early deployment details for Origin subscribers
- Steam is getting a UI overhaul soon, according to new Steamworks post
September 25
- Shovel Knight will appear in Yooka Laylee, and here's footage to prove it
- Tekken 7 may not support cross platform play due to "potential security risks"
- Sunless Sea's Zubmariner expansion gets a launch trailer
- Isometric puzzler Pavilion out now
September 24
- Failbetter Games announces sequel to Sunless Sea called Sunless Skies
- Planet Coaster's crashes look like great fun, even for park guests
- Fantasy 4X Sorcerer King: Rivals out now
- A year after release, Soma has sold nearly half a million copies
- Quantum Break gets a new, better trailer for Steam
September 23
- Capcom promises Street Fighter 5 rollback after "rootkit" discovered in the latest update
- Watch Dogs 2 story trailer introduces the rest of Dedsec
- System Rift, the first Deus Ex: Mankind Divided story DLC, lands on Steam with a new trailer
- A new No Man's Sky patch is out, promising "more robust" recovery of corrupted saves
- AT&T sues Nashville to roadblock Google Fiber expansion
- You won't need a burly system to run Civilization 6
- Kingdoms of Amalur court case saga concludes after four years
- Obsidian’s Tyranny looks wonderful in new behind-the-scenes dev diary
- Eight-month investigation lifts the lid on Star Citizen's troubled development
- Mafia 3 trailer explains how to make and manage money in New Bordeaux
- Forza Horizon 3 is available for pre-load, but it's not working for some
- Rockstar's back catalogue gets the Steam sale treatment this weekend
September 22
- Doom gets deathmatch, private matches, and bug fixes in latest update
- Sunless Sea update makes its tiny text bigger, devs tease a new game
- Mirror's Edge, Spore, and The Saboteur are now on GOG
- Riot reveals big changes coming to the pro League of Legends scene
- Titanfall 2's very detailed system requirements tell you everything you need to know
- Samsung’s blazing fast 960 Pro and 960 Evo NVMe SSDs deliver on capacity too
- Pro Heroes of the Storm to adopt formalised online league system
- Rocket League's AquaDome update will take sports-car soccer under the sea
- AMD Crimson 16.9.2 drivers add support for Forza Horizon 3
- Check out the Titanfall 2 graphics options
- RimWorld mod adds Lovecraft storytelling
- FIFA 17 won’t include Iceland after cash dispute with EA
- Resident Evil 7 system requirements are here
September 21
- Trajan takes charge of Rome in Civilization 6
- Modder recreates No Man's Sky in Doom
- Ubisoft reveals major changes coming to The Division in the 1.4 update
- Blizzard is ditching the Battle.net name in favor of "Blizzard tech"
- CD Projekt invites Gwent fans to "Kill the Servers" in stress test
- Nvidia Forza Horizon 3 Game Ready drivers available
- Asus launches VR-ready GL702VM gaming notebook with GTX 1060
- Dark Souls 3 trailer shows four minutes of Ashes of Ariandel DLC action
- Crazy-ambitious MMO Dual Universe wants you to build and destroy almost everything
- Dishonored 2 trailer shows Emily and Corvo’s creative kills
- Morrowind Rebirth 3.8 released, adds Morag Tong armour
- Get Devil Daggers and Prison Architect for $5 in latest Humble Bundle
- Battlefield 1 unveils its maps and modes
- Valve slightly tweaks Steam's review system again
- Overwatch was not an inspiration for Paladins, studio claims (updated)
- Forza Horizon 3 launch trailer is here ahead of next week's launch
September 20
- Live-action psychological horror game The Bunker out now
- The first Sniper Elite 4 gameplay trailer showcases slo-mo trauma and a surprise special guest
- The Firewatch Audio Tour update will add commentary, concept art, collectibles, and more
- The Division PTS is set to go live on September 26
- Frank West goes to the mall, has lunch, slaughters undead in a new Dead Rising 4 gameplay trailer
- Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star expansion is now live for season pass holders, here are the patch notes
- Asus ROG's Centurion headset includes an audio station with a built-in amp
- Syber C series brings VR gaming to SFF sector starting at $795
- Diablo 2 HD teaser site appears, but Blizzard says it's not official
- EVGA's SuperNova G2L PSUs include LEDs and 10-year warranties
- Toxikk’s impressive arsenal of vehicles showcased in new dev diary
- Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom trailer talks battle systems, RPG mechanics
- Orcs Must Die! Unchained drops PvP to focus on Survival mode
- Hitman’s 360° Bangkok trailer has exploding phones, coconut concussions
- Oculus Rift arrives in the UK and Europe today
- Gears of War 4 launch trailer showcases emotional alien annihilation
- BioShock Collection update will address performance issues, introduce 21:9 support
September 19
- GTA 5 Redux mod maker accused of stealing other modder's work
- Star Wars: Battlefront 3 "Training Mission" gameplay appears on YouTube
- Elite: Dangerous is dropping Win32 and DirectX 10 support
- Battlefield 1 system requirements
- Daybreak says H1Z1: King of the Kill needs more time in Early Access to "bake"
- GTA Online: Bikers bringing motorcycle mayhem to the streets of Los Santos
- Devil Daggers adds top-down replays
- Batman The Telltale Series episode 2 trailer parades The Penguin
- Gears of War 4’s campaign will have split-screen co-op on PC
- Star Citizen trailer shows off pretty first-person shooting
- Manual Samuel is a slapstick “dexterity adventure”, out next month
- GTA 5 Redux graphics mod out now
- Harambe Vs. Capcom is a free fighter featuring the internet's favourite gorilla
- Playing Overwatch with a DJ Hero turntable makes sense if you're Lucio
September 18
- Kojima on Metal Gear Survive: "that's got nothing to do with me"
- Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.4 adds apartments, aquariums
- Urien for a treat with Street Fighter V's latest update
September 17
- Valve removes Digital Homicide's games from Steam
- Here are 15 minutes of Metal Gear Survive footage
September 16
- Dear Esther is being made into a stage play
- More than 13 million people took part in the Battlefield 1 open beta
- Pro Evo 2017 players are angry that the PC version has last-gen graphics (again)
- Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star expansion goes live next week, so here's a trailer
- Metro: Last Light studio 4A Games is teasing something new
- The Witcher postage stamp bafflingly doesn't depict a naked, bathing Geralt
- Sony president criticizes No Man's Sky: "It wasn't a great PR strategy"
- Blizzard now lets you pay to change your Battle.net name as often as you want
- Eurocom launches beastly GTX 1080 laptop to tackle VR gaming
- Hearts of Iron 4 drops first major patch
- First prosecutions made in relation to videogame betting in the UK
- Paladins launches its open beta phase
- Get up to 92 percent off select games in the Aspyr sale this weekend
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 is out now on Early Access
- Berserk hack-and-slasher gets release date, name change and a new trailer
September 15
- You can be Overwatch's Soldier 76, with the help of Lego
- BlizzCon 2016 in-game goodies revealed, including sweet Bastion skin
- Jon Snow chews through Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s scenery in this new story trailer
- Woven is an exploration-adventure about a stuffed elephant and a mechanical bug
- Deep space survival game Osiris: New Dawn coming to Early Access this month
- Brutal new FPS mixes Hexen, Doom, and Quake
- Trion puts Atlas Reactor into open beta with a very Blizzard-style trailer
- DayZ creator Dean Hall is working on a new, triple-A multiplayer game
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been delayed
- Leaked specs put GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in Titan X territory
- Dawn of War 3 elite hero Jonah Orion detailed
- Virginia trailer introduces its FBI leads
- Older players less interested in competitive games, new study states
- Avadon 3 out now, along with a huge demo version
- American Truck Simulator DLC adds fancy steering wheels
- TIS-100 creator announces equally daunting SHENZHEN I/O
- Resident Evil 7 spawns a new trailer and two ghastly new screenshots
September 14
- Levine talks BioShock's legacy, mistakes, and politics in revealing interview
- More than 11,000 CS:GO and Dota 2 cheaters ate the banhammer today [Updated]
- All Battlefield 4 expansions are free until next week
- Quote is a strange, lovely action-RPG about destroying knowledge
- MSI and EKWB make a badass watercooled GTX 1080
- Here's 13 minutes of Syndrome, the sci-fi survival horror game coming next month
- Watch Dogs 2 trailer introduces the villain, and he's a real Douche [Updated]
- Civilization 6 trailer introduces Greece and leader Pericles
- Chat with a lonely AI in Event[0], out now
- Everspace launches into early access today
- Guild Wars 2 Living World trailer teases Rising Flames
- You have a month to grab The Crew for free
- Hectic shmup-platformer Rive is out now
- StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void patch adds new commander, map and more
- Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is out on Steam today
September 13
- Michael Fassbender looks super serious in these new Assassin's Creed film stills
- Arena shooter Toxikk is now live
- The Binding of Isaac creator's new game is called 0uroboros
- It's time to dive into the BioShock: The Collection launch trailer
- Toshiba’s OCZ VX500 series SSDs pave affordable upgrade path to 1TB
- Cooler Master’s MasterCase Pro 3 wiggles into retail
- Ubisoft dishes out For Honor alpha details and three new trailers
- Misguided energy proposal could drive up cost of prebuilt gaming PCs
- Developers react to Steam’s review system changes
- Dishonored 2 trailer features story, stabbing, The Outsider
- Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 8 out now
- Kojima's Death Stranding is an action game in an open world
- Shovel Knight's Specter Knight campaign out Spring 2017
- Nier: Automata gets February release date
- Forza Horizon 3 PC demo will be out after launch
- Blizzard legend Chris Metzen has announced his retirement
- Steam's review system is changing to combat abuse
- Major Rainbow Six Siege update adds new items and tweaks three operators
September 12
- Dataminer discovers a full-sized city in the Star Citizen code
- BioWare contest offering a chance to voice a Mass Effect character
- Here's how to claim your $30 Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 settlement
- Hearthstone's "Welcome Bundle" is ten Classic packs and a Legendary card for $5/£4 [Updated]
- Resident Evil 2 Reborn team announces Daymare: 1998
- The Mafia 3 system requirements are here
- MSI's VR One is a Pascal-powered PC in a backpack
- World of Warcraft lead designer announces Bonfire Studios
- SteelSeries Rival 500 mouse promises gaming ecstasy for your thumb
- The Division's Public Test Server delayed
- Studio head explains why In Case of Emergency, Release Raptor was pulled from Steam after three days
- FIFA 17 demo kicks off tomorrow, here’s what to expect
- Rust's XP system isn't working very well, will likely be removed
September 11
- Overwatch's high bandwidth update is live, here's a rundown of what it means
- Base-building space strategy RPG Halcyon 6 leaves early access
- Starbound update adds fishing, Novakid villages
September 10
- Terraria update 1.3.3 adds fearsome sandstorms
- Burn alien trash in Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, out next week
September 9
- Clustertruck, the game about surfing the tops of poorly-driven semis, is out this month
- "Niche" Japanese games will continue coming to Steam, says Xseed CEO
- BioShock: The Collection system requirements and upgrade details revealed
- Into the Black is a VR survival game with echoes of Firewatch
- Sony says the PC, and not the Xbox, pushed it to create the PS4 Pro
- Asus kicks up second ROG Strix laptop, sticks with Maxwell graphics
- Blood Bowl 2 adds the Necromantic to its roster
- Seraph release date set, dual pistols at the ready
- Homefront: The Revolution is free to try on Steam this weekend
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night delayed to 2018
- Obsidian devs recreate Star Wars Mos Eisley spaceport in Unreal Engine 4
September 8
- Doom deathmatch and private matches will go live later this month
- Around 100 people are now working on Overwatch
- New Prey trailer explains the retro-future style of the Talos 1 station
- Blizzard's solution to Arena balance in Hearthstone: remove the cards that suck
- GOG is offering refunds on the "DRM Free Edition" of Armello
- World of Warcraft: Legion sells more than 3.3 million copies in 24 hours
- AMD releases Crimson 16.9.1 hotfix
- Learn the basics of Endless Space 2 in just four minutes
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided PC patch adds DirectX 12 support
- Rocket League’s free Rumble mode rolls out today
- Interplay to sell entire videogame library and assets
- Valkyria Chronicles to get World of Tanks crossover
- Mass Effect: Andromeda’s female and male playable characters are sister and brother
- Mafia 3 goes behind the scenes with the Marcano crime family
September 7
- Rainbow Six Siege may be getting a second season pass [Updated]
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada brings the Tau Empire to open beta tomorrow
- GeForce Experience 3.0 reduces footprint and improves performance
- Na'Vi dumps its successful Hearthstone team
- Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay trailer debuts at Sony's PlayStation Meeting 2016
- Hitman's original Elusive Targets aren't coming back, because they wouldn't "stand up"
- The Crew goes free (for a month) next week
- Leaked Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 specs look like an upgraded GTX 950
- Civilization 6 welcomes Norway’s Harald Hardrada in latest trailer
- Sea of Thieves’ water looks gorgeous in latest dev trailer
- Space Hulk: Deathwing teases co-op details, new screens
- GameMaker’s Humble Bundle offers big savings on development tools
- Farming Simulator 17 asked by PETA to depict pig slaughter
September 6
- Cloud Imperium Games denies Squadron 42 delay report
- Microsoft announces new Xbox Live Clubs and Looking for Group features
- Maingear and Razer invite you to go nuts on a decked out R1 gaming PC
- The first 15 minutes of Tacoma sets up big trouble in outer space
- These are Half-Life's never released Steam trading cards
- Virginia trailer teases new scenes, broad cast of voiceless characters
- Hitman heads to the farm for a new episode called Freedom Fighters
- ReCore system requirements revealed [Updated]
- Razer Ornata gaming keyboard mixes mechanical and membrane key caps
- Dolphin emulator can now boot every single official Gamecube game
- Ark: Survival Evolved dev responds to paid expansion controversy
- Battlefield 1 open beta will end this week, EA confirms
- Owlboy release date finally confirmed after nine years in development
- FIFA 17 reveals top 10 best-rated players
September 5
- The new Mirage: Arcane Warfare gameplay trailer is a 12-minute massacre
- Silence, formerly The Whispered World 2, is coming in November
- Cyberpunk 2077 now has more people working on it than The Witcher 3 ever did
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered multiplayer action showcased in new trailer
- Beautiful Desolation is a new adventure from the maker of Stasis
- Titanfall 2 will not feature in Origin Access subscription service
- Battlefield 1 reveal trailer remade with Team Fortress characters is awesome
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance trailer pits armour against weapons
- Watch seven minutes of ring-spilling Sonic Mania action
- Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 2 release date set
- For Honor drops trio of class trailers ahead of closed alpha next week
- No Mario’s Sky parody game blocked by Nintendo lawyers, DMCA’s Sky takes its place
September 4
- Here's all the stuff coming to Mafia 3 after release
- The Walking Dead Season 3 starts this November
September 3
- Friday the 13th trailer is a musical montage of murder
- Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour announced
September 2
- No Man's Sky gets its largest update yet
- Shadow Warrior Classic Complete is free on GOG
- See the first gameplay footage from Klei’s Oxygen Not Included
- Halo 5: Forge will have a custom game browser on PC
- The magic behind Half-Life 2 is laid bare in Valve's code comments
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare multiplayer beta not happening on the PC
- Eisenwald: Blood of November hits Kickstarter
- The Steam version of Quantum Break has been delayed
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC release date set, welcomes returning character
- Fallout 4 pays tribute to player who passed away
- Cities: Skylines is 75 percent off this weekend
- Ark: Survival Evolved launches first paid DLC from Early Access
- Dual Universe details spaceship building mechanics
- Shadow Warrior 2 release date set, trailer shows chainsaws and selfie sticks
- Logitech's Prodigy line of mice, keyboard and headset want to be your first gaming accessories
September 1
- Armello: Usurpers DLC is live on Steam, but won't be released on GOG
- Red Bull UK is giving away packs of classic Hearthstone cards
- Lindsay Lohan's GTA 5 lawsuit has been tossed out of court
- Mother Russia Bleeds gameplay video is nearly 30 minutes of drugs, blood, and vicious beatdowns
- Homefront: The Revolution performance patch is now live on Steam
- Gears of War 4 Horde Mode trailer blasts fools to a new Run the Jewels track [Updated]
- AMD issues Crimson driver for Battlefield 1 beta, fixes wonky display issue
- Qualcomm's all-in-one Snapdragon VR820 headset could reduce cost of entry into VR
- Metal Gear Solid 5’s cancelled Mission 51 ‘definitely not the ending’, says Konami
- Streets of Rogue is a fun procedural city-based free-for-all roguelike
- Titanfall 2 introduces six new playable Titans
- Fallout 4 gets ‘Vault 1080’ mod from Nvidia
- Intel's Kaby Lake and AMD's Zen processors will only support Windows 10