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June 30
- Left 4 Dead 2 mod turns Jaden Smith's tweets into strangely appropriate graffiti ravings
- Total War: Warhammer battles get bloody with gore DLC
- Hitman's next Elusive Target appears July 1 in Marrakesh
- New XCOM 2 DLC delivers robot friends, available now
- Left 4 Dead 3 potentially teased by screenshot of Valve employee's folder
- Update: BioShock collection announced, remasters free to existing owners
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming August, Xbox Play Anywhere included
- Killing Time at Lightspeed is a social media text adventure in space
June 29
- Orion developer says it was forced off Steam by Activision DMCA claim [Updated]
- Four Mass Effect novels will lead into the story of Andromeda
- Rhythm-action game Thumper is coming in October
- BioShock: The Collection page appears on 2K's website [Updated]
- Best Buy mixed up prices for RX 480 models
- Total War: Warhammer update brings the Blood Knights to the fight
- Road Redemption release date nailed down
- Official Steam app comes to Windows Phone at last
- Doom update adds old-school gun placement later this week
June 28
- System Shock demo and Kickstarter now live
- Windows 10 upgrade prompts will stop trying to fake you out
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 gets dragons and robots in "Descent" DLC
- Godus designer is no longer with 22 Cans
- Devialet's new Phantom speaker will bring down your walls
- The Division's Underground expansion is live
- G2A to offer devs royalties from key sales
- Ford dealership apologises for pinching Firewatch artwork
- Blizzard has acknowledged Overwatch matchmaking problems in Australia
- The Division's Underground expansion has randomly generated dungeons
June 27
- The Minecraft movie has a release date
- Woman wins lawsuit over unwanted Windows 10 installation
- Twitch introduces "Cheers," a new way to show support for streamers
- Enjoy nine minutes of System Shock gameplay
- Overwatch surpasses League of Legends in Korea's gaming cafes
- Bethesda is "not working on" The Elder Scrolls 6 just yet [Updated]
- Stellaris' Asimov patch touches down
- FIFA Ultimate Team may have been bugged since 09
- Street Fighter V gets Balrog later this week
- Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal releases soon, so here's a trailer
June 26
- Street Fighter V mod introduces Overwatch's Mei
- Resident Evil 7 won't feature quick-time events
- Battlefield 4 to get new, more multiplayer-friendly UI
June 25
- Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 seems to be a thing
- All Heroes of the Storm characters free to play until June 28
June 24
- Whore of the Orient, the spiritual successor to LA Noire, isn't going to happen
- A System Shock Remastered demo is coming next week
- Why BioWare led with FemRyder in Mass Effect: Andromeda E3 trailer
- MachineGames releases a new Quake episode
- Oculus removes "platform integrity check" DRM
- Newegg daily deals: Samsung 750 Evo 256GB SSD, WD Black 2TB HDD, and more!
- A reworked Civilization 5 heading to North American schools
- Shovel Knight dev asks, 'What game should we make next?'
- American Truck Simulator's map size to increase
- Escape From Tarkov offers 15 minutes of atmospheric alpha footage
- 4X survival RPG Thea: The Awakening adds co-op
- Berserk game adaptation gets its first gameplay trailer
June 23
- The Mighty No. 9 end credits are almost four hours long
- You can't gift CS:GO during the Steam Sale
- Palmer Luckey: Platform exclusives aren't bad for VR
- Overwatch earned $269 million in May, analyst says
- The Steam "Summer Picnic Sale" is a go
- Corsair wants you to lighten up with its Vengeance LED DDR4 RAM
- Sean Bean narrates the Civilization 6 E3 demo
- The Banner Saga 2 gets free Survival mode, out now
- Sierra-style retro adventure Dark Fear hits PC
- Boss rush action game Furi out July 5
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion gets Outlaw Sectors DLC
- Squad Development Kit out now
June 22
- Mafia 3 preorder bonuses revealed
- Europa Universalis IV DLC "Fredman's Epistles" is free until July 4
- G2A responds to fraudulent key complaint
- Overwatch PTR goes live in the West, Competitive Mode testing has begun
- Hotline Miami 2's level editor leaves beta
- Runescape creators return for 15th anniversary quest
- Watch Dogs 2 won't feature Ubisoft towers
- Battlefield 4's Second Assault DLC free for the next week
- Criterion's extreme sports racing game is dead
- Specter Knight to star in Shovel Knight's third (free) campaign
June 21
- Someone recreated Jerry Seinfeld's apartment in Doom 2
- Overwatch director explains the ins and outs of matchmaking
- Teenage Overwatch player accused of cheating proves she's just that good with Zarya
- Mighty No. 9 pre-launch livestream: "It's better than nothing" [Updated]
- The creepy platformer Limbo is free for a day on Steam
- Bethesda extends free Doom demo
- Overwatch "Golden Guns" ranked rewards appear on Korean PTR
- Stellaris' Asimov patch detailed, beefs up the mid-game
- Rocket League's June patch goes all-out
- Patch 1.22 polishes The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
- Offworld Trading Company gets map editor DLC today
- Rainbow Six Siege patch buffs Kapkan and Mute
June 20
- TinyBuild claims G2A sold $450,000 worth of its keys without paying a penny
- Titanfall 2's DLC maps will be free because EA wants you to be happy
- ReRoll, the crowdfunded game that wanted to scan the world, is abandoned
- The Temple of No is a new freebie from Crows Crows Crows
- Civilization 6 trailer explains changes to cities
- Mighty No. 9 launch trailer and first development documentary are out
- EVE: Valkyrie gets free Carrier Assault update
- Warcraft becomes the most successful videogame movie ever
- Valve announce team invites for The International 2016
- Here's over three minutes of Titanfall 2 multiplayer footage
June 19
- EA turned down Rocket League, according to a Psyonix dev
- Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder announced
- No Man's Sky keeps name after secret, lengthy legal battle
June 18
- What happened in hardware - June 12-18 edition
- Syberia 3 is looking good in E3 footage
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada's Space Marines arriving June 21
June 17
- Planetside 1 and Legends of Norrath are closing down
- Overwatch game director posts Competitive Mode update video
- Twitch sues bot makers
- Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still happening
- CS:GO players get angry over new "low ammo" sound effect
- Quake Champions is not a MOBA
- New Blizzard authenticator does away with codes
- Customise every button press with the Steam Controller's 'Activators' update
- Killing Floor 2 is free on Steam this weekend
- The Surge, a sci-fi Souls-like, gets a new trailer
June 16
- Phil Spencer says Microsoft "will ship games on Steam again"
- Allison Road was canceled after devs split with publisher Team 17 [Updated]
- Gabe Newell on VR exclusives: They're bad for everyone
- EA details Star Wars Battlefront's Bespin expansion
- Revised Xbox One controller taps Bluetooth to work with PCs
- Pascal pushes down pricing on GeForce GTX 980 Ti, 980, and 970 graphics cards
- Kojima's Death Stranding will be an action game, sort of
- Halo Wars 2 will get a PC beta "closer to launch"
- Farming Simulator 17 releasing at the end of this year
- Here are 15 minutes of relaxing, bone-smashing Steep footage
- F1 2016 out August 19; here's some footage
- Rare's Sea of Thieves gets a release window
- Fallout 4 lead Todd Howard: dialogue system "didn't work as well"
- Galactic Civilizations 3's Rise of the Terrans out now
- The Warriors meets Metal Slug in Huntdown
- Phil Spencer: Microsoft is “learning to ship PC games again”
- Blizzard is looking at a Public Test Realm and a "server browser-type feature" for Overwatch
June 15
- Skyrim Special Edition will be 64-bit, promising big things for modders
- This custom PC based on Overwatch’s Winston is ridiculous
- Overwatch breaks 10 million players
- Halo 6 will release on Windows 10
- Dead Rising 4 release date revealed
- Halo Wars 2 will not support cross-platform play
- Fallout 4's Nuka-World DLC will let you live out your dreams of being a raider
- Teaser for transhumanist adventure State of Mind shows a bleak, Blade Runner-esque future
- Overwatch trick jump montage forces you to rethink traversal
- The Elder Scrolls Online to get player housing next year
- Diablo 3 patch 2.4.2 will add new difficulty levels
- French forces will be premium DLC for Battlefield 1
- Here are 11 minutes of Tekken 7 footage
- Bethesda's two upcoming games as big as Skyrim or Fallout
- Cuphead boss footage features pitched allotment battle
- Battleborn is getting microtransactions this week
- Titanfall 2 video introduces Ronin, the sword wielding robot
- Tales of Berseria E3 trailer dramatically sets the scene
June 14
- Doom's SnapMap and multiplayer DLC detailed
- Blizzard may be teasing the next Hearthstone adventure [Update: No it isn't]
- Hitman's new Elusive Target is live in Paris until the end of E3
- One Tamriel opens up The Elder Scrolls Online to every explorer
- Crackdown 3 is coming to PC, but not until 2017
- Razer's Naga Hex V2 brings a 7 button thumb wheel to the MOBA party
- The Elder Scrolls 6 is in development, Todd Howard confirms
- Roccat bundles free Kova gaming mouse with Sova lapboard pre-orders
- Overwatch patch notes confirm McCree and Widowmaker nerfs
- Sniper Elite 4 delayed to February 2017
- There may be a Bulletstorm remaster in the works
- You can play the whole of Dishonored 2 without using powers
- Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens gets cute E3 trailer
- Underwater Journey-like Abzû out August 2
- Supergiant's Pyre still looks gorgeous in E3 trailer
- New Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer is really promising
- Kojima Productions announces Death Stranding starring Norman Reedus, dead whales
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard announced, trailer released
- We Happy Few launches on Steam Early Access next month
- A new Tacoma trailer spins space stations and story
- Ubi 30 gifts a free Ubisoft game each month starting today
June 13
- See Halo Wars 2 running on Windows 10
- New Deus Ex: Mankind Divided footage is a deadly tour of Dubai
- Trials of the Blood Dragon is out now
- Open world extreme sports game Steep announced
- Watch an 11-minute mission walkthrough from Watch Dogs 2
- For Honor, Ubisoft's three-way medieval combat game, is coming on Valentine's Day
- Grow Up is the sequel to physics platformer Grow Home
- Watch Levar Burton, Karl Urban, and Jeri Ryan play Star Trek: Bridge Crew in VR
- Dungeon delving roguelike Necropolis will release on July 12
- Watch the trailer for Survival, The Division's second expansion
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole gets a new trailer and release date
- AMD shows off new hardware at the PC Gaming Show
- Ghost Recon Wildlands is coming in March 2017
- Warframe adds arena sports with Lunaro update
- Check out fresh Mirage: Arcane Warfare gameplay in a pair of bloody new trailers
- See the first footage of Dual Universe, the single-shard sci-fi MMO
- Survival strategy Overland trailer shows off procedural generation, clever dogs
- The Turing Test is a first-person puzzler about life and morality, in space
- Arma 3's Apex expansion is coming July 11
- See the first teaser for cyberpunk horror game Observer
- Heads (and dice) roll in Tyranny's first gameplay trailer
- Here's the first trailer for Superhot on the Oculus Rift
- Tripwire announces Killing Floor Incursion, a VR game for Oculus Touch
- New Vampyr trailer paints a bloody picture of Victorian London
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord trailers introduce big, brutal sieges
- Giant Cop tosses bad guys into the ocean in a new trailer
- Ark: Survival Evolved is adding a dinosaur so big you can build a base on its back
- Don't Starve creators reveal Oxygen Not Included
- Watch the first gameplay from Dawn of War 3
- Tekken 7 will come to PC
- Halo Wars 2 E3 trailer reveals February release date
- State of Decay 2 confirmed, arriving 2017
- Watch the premiere of Sea of Thieves gameplay
- Scalebound confirmed for Windows 10
- Razer’s $400 HDK 2 VR headset undercuts Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
- Inside, a puzzle adventure from the makers of Limbo, arrives on Steam in July
- Minecraft Friendly update brings dedicated servers
- Standalone Gwent confirmed, beta signups open
- See the trailer for The Division's upcoming Underground expansion
- The ReCore E3 trailer introduces the team
- Forza Horizon 3 is coming to PC
- Gears of War 4 confirmed for Windows 10, coming October
- Hitman is getting a "bonus episode" in July
- All of Titanfall 2's DLC maps and modes will be free
- Here, have 20 minutes of Mafia 3 footage
- Battlefield 1 maps and modes revealed
- The Walking Dead Season 3 teased in new trailer
- From Software is working on three internal projects
- Ron Perlman stars in Payday 2's Biker Packs DLC, out this week
- Dishonored 2 extended gameplay footage shows two missions
- A new Wolfenstein was teased at Bethesda's BE3 show
- Fallout 4 and Doom VR announced
- The Elder Scrolls: Legends beta is being expanded
- The next Dynasty Warriors spin-off is based on dark fantasy manga Berserk
- Skyrim Special Edition coming to PC on October 28 (updated)
- New Fallout 4 updates revealed, including Vault-Tec Workshop
- Prey is back, and there's a trailer
- Watch the debut trailer for Quake Champions
- Mafia 3 E3 trailer is a tale of wrongdoing and revenge
- [Update] Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer shown at Bethesda E3 conference
June 12
- Battlefront to receive content based on the new Star Wars films
- Battlefield 1 will have dynamic weather, giant vehicles
- FIFA 17 will feature a Premier League story mode called "The Journey"
- Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer shows life beyond the Milky Way
- EA reveals Titanfall 2 multiplayer in a new trailer
- Everything we learned from the Battlefield 1 livestream
- Dead Rising 4 screenshots and gifs leaked ahead of E3
- Telltale's Batman series gets first screenshots
- Titanfall 2 release date, single-player campaign accidentally revealed (updated)
- Rocket League's Neo Tokyo update coming June 20
- Make your own VR scenes with Valve's Destinations
June 11
- Ubisoft announces four-player co-op Star Trek VR game
- What happened in hardware - June 5-11 edition
- The Technomancer now out June 28, here's a new trailer
- Cyanide's Call of Cthulhu gets gloomy E3 trailer
June 10
- Epic aims to make Paragon feel more like a MOBA
- ESL announces first six-figure Overwatch tournament
- iBuyPower makes fashion statement with new Element PC
- Jon Snow actor Kit Harington is the bad guy in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- EVGA's DG-8 full tower gaming cases available for pre-order at discounted prices
- Star Wars Battlefront's Bespin expansion is coming this month for season pass holders
- Today is the Dark Souls "Global Restart Day"
- Explore a future dystopia and a virtual utopia in adventure game State of Mind
- Blizzard explains Overwatch 'leaver penalty'
- Rumour: Manchester United is bidding for an Overwatch team
- Torment: Tides of Numenera release pushed back to 2017
- Cuphead is a platformer now, not just a boss rush
June 9
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is free on Steam this weekend
- The Division is now serving up first-offense permabans too
- The armies of Chaos clash in new Total War: Warhammer gameplay video
- Steam Dev Days returns for 2016
- Stadiums come to Cities: Skylines in free "Match Day" DLC
- New York Attorney General bashes Time Warner Cable for crappy Internet service
- Conan Exiles, the Hyborian survival game, shows off some gameplay
- Blizzard tentatively aims its nerf gun at Widowmaker
- New Mafia 3 teaser is all about the action
- Nostalrius PM reports back on Blizzard meeting
- Doom's multiplayer to get some TLC from id
- Minecraft's latest update brings new foes and more
- The stats don’t lie, Lucio is Overwatch’s most valuable hero
June 8
- Rumor: Halo 5 is coming to the PC (Update: no, it's not)
- Tokyo 42 gameplay trailer demonstrates the grim business of murder in a bright fantasy world
- Quantum Break developer Remedy Entertainment is working on two new games
- CD Projekt trademarks Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
- Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming goes all-in for VR
- Corsair promises 'blisteringly quick' 2TB SSD very soon
- Watch Dogs 2 is official, coming in November
- Arcade 'Breach' mode announced for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided gameplay demo showcases 17 minutes in Prague
- You’ll soon be able to get prosthetics based on Deus Ex’s augmentations
- Adam Jensen will hack his way onto mobile devices this summer with Deus Ex: Go
- GOG's Summer Sale is now on
- The Witcher 3 is still being patched, despite devs' heartfelt farewell
- Genji Badminton is Overwatch's second-most exciting mode
- A new Watch Dogs 2 trailer has apparently leaked
- WildStar will be available on Steam this week
- Bethesda rumoured to announce Wolfenstein and The Evil Within sequels at E3
June 7
- Rainbow Six Siege cheaters will now be permabanned on the first offense
- Mirage: Arcane Warfare trailer discusses the comedy value of blood and gore
- Homeworld Remastered 2.0 update goes live, full patch notes are out
- NZXT and Team EnVyUs consummate partnership with pimped out H440 case
- Star Wars Battlefront 3 may live again as fan-made FPS Galaxy in Turmoil
- Grab new drivers from AMD and Nvidia for Mirror’s Edge Catalyst
- Overwatch's Competitive Mode will be more "skill-based" when it returns
- Slapstick VR sandbox Giant Cop gets a much giant-er map
- Rocket League's loot expanding with rare items and trade-ins
- Battlefield 1 devs reveal weapon changes
- The Watch Dogs 2 release date may have escaped
- 'Stolen' Fallout 4 mods appear on Xbox
June 6
- Jay Wilson, former Diablo 3 game director, is leaving Blizzard
- Myst artist, BioShock Infinite writer team up for a new adventure called Zed
- Valve updates The Lab with leaderboards and more
- iBuypower's transparent LCD side panel looks awesome
- New Skywind trailer shows off the latest progress
- Watch Dogs 2 world premiere coming on Wednesday
- Colorful motherboard wields integrated GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
- Agents of MAYHEM is the next addition to the Saints Row universe
- New Yooka-Laylee trailer heralds E3 debut
- Facebook logins and livestreaming are coming to Blizzard games
- Old School Runescape celebrates the Falador Massacre glitch
- Final Fantasy 12 remaster: The Zodiac Age announced
- Win 1 of 50 codes for Western Press, a frontier duelling game
June 5
- Someone has ported The Witness to the NES
- Cult 3DO horror D makes its way to PC
- PT-inspired horror Allison Road cancelled
June 4
- What happened in hardware - May 29 to June 4 edition
- Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap remake gets reveal trailer
- Shawn 'FMPONE' Snelling details CS:GO's Santorini map
June 3
- Overwatch player works out loot box drop rates
- Homeworld Remastered 2.0 patch is coming next week
- Hard Reset studio addresses Redux graphics complaints
- Escape From Tarkov alpha test will begin in August
- Starbreeze picks up Defender of the Crown, TV Sports, and other Cinemaware classics
- The first 20 minutes of Mirror's Edge Catalyst is now online
- Natural Selection 2 gets a new map
- Elite Dangerous patch stops AI developing WMDs
- Paradox data removed from SteamSpy by request
- New trailer reveals July release for Myst successor Obduction
- Overwatch already has more than seven million players
June 2
- LawBreakers closed alpha testing will begin later this month
- Rainbow Six Siege Starter Edition is now available for $15
- Titanfall 2 will launch three weeks out from Battlefield 1, EA chief says
- Sims 4 gender boundaries removed in latest update
- Asus launches record breaking ROG Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard
- Kickstarter raises over $500 million for games
- Painted and 'Certified' items slated for Rocket League's June update
- The first screen from Julian Gollop's Phoenix Point emerges
- SATA SSDs with USB Type-C ports spotted at Computex
- Overwatch cheaters are having a hard time
- Rosewill brings class to its case designs with tempered glass
- Someone has made a real life Half-Life City Scanner drone
- Ubisoft is reportedly working on a film adaptation for The Division
- Avexir updates its flashy plasma-topped RAM to DDR4
- Valve has sold half a million Steam Controllers
June 1
- Upcoming MMO Chronicles of Elyria promises a fully-destructible world with non-repeating quests
- Vivendi edges closer to Ubisoft with hostile Gameloft takeover
- Mafia II returns to Steam, Mafia III Collector's Edition revealed
- G.Skill adds two new mechanical keyboards to Ripjaws line
- Overwatch's Competitive mode will be back this month (updated)
- Streaker invades ESL UK Hearthstone stage, wears trophy, gets tackled by Jedi
- GOG Connect imports Steam games to your GOG library
- The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine conceals a Dark Souls Easter egg
- Blizzard to improve Overwatch Highlights with save and export functions
- Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood trailer is just a bunch of people getting stabbed from behind
- Hitman has arrived in Marrakesh, so here's a launch trailer