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Gamers have been begging Valve for years for an overhaul of the now somewhat old-school feeling games library, and now, after years of betas, rumours and fan-made dreams, a new library is finally coming.Valve unveiled the upcoming changes at GDC today. The changes won't overhaul other parts of steam, just the main games library, but that's the bit you use mo...

Paradox Interactive have officially announced, following speculation and rumour, and a weird ARG dating app, that Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 is officially coming next year.It's a sequel to 2004's Bloodlines, and is being developed by Hardsuit Labs. It will be a first-person RPG taking place a few years after the events of the last game, and will be...

Cities: Skylines has proved hugely popular, and it's easy to see why, it's one of the most fun city building games that's ever been released, and if you're one of those few who have yet to try it, it's free to try this weekend.It's only free to play for the weekend, not to keep, but that's plenty of time to get hooked building your own mega metropolis, and i...

Microsoft are promising that a new update for DirectX 12 will bring huge performance boosts to games, especially at higher resolutions, and it's thanks to a new rendering technique that lowers the load on GPU's without any perceptible difference to the player.It's called Variable Rate Shading, and it promises to allow developers to more intelligently use GPU...

With the news that Google are entering the space with it's new Stadia service, and even rumours of Walmart being interested, it begs the question; what would the long term future of game streaming services hold for the game modding and preservation scenes?It's a very real question, given the sheer proliferation and research going into the technology currentl...

It's been a very turbulent history for The Walking Dead: The Final Season, with it's original developer, Telltale Games, going out of business during it's development. Skybound Entertainment came to the rescue, however, and The Walking Dead has indeed managed to see out it's Final Season.The Final Season finale is releasing next week, and there's a new trail...

There's still huge popularity in Skyrim and it's modding scene, with Special Edition injecting new life into the nearly eight year old game, but it's mods like Arcanum that really make fresh playthrough's worthwhile.The mod completely revamps the magic experience of Skyrim, with a completely new set of spells It's been several years in the making,b ut the re...

If there's been an ever escalating complaint against Valve and Steam recently, it's the influx of low quality and even downright offensive games that are making it's way into the platform, with almost any game being accepted now for the right price.It's lead to some very questionable content appearing on the platform, with recent controversies even landing t...

Hot on the heels of Google's Stadia game streaming service, it seems another big player, this time in the traditional retail space, is about to enter the arena in the form of Walmart.Rumours from US Gamer suggest that "multiple" anonymous sources have stated that the retail conglomerate, with stores within major countries including the United States, Canada,...