http://www.bluesnews.com/news/atom.xml http://www.bluesnews.com/images/new/blue_button.gif Stephen Heaslip Up to the minute news on PC games, video games, computers, and related technologies. Copyright 2013, Stephen Heaslip. All rights reserved. 2013-05-24T13:21:01Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141962/terraria-content-update-plans In spite of an announcement back in February that post-release support for Terraria had concluded, this newsletter noted by PC Gamer has word that the developer is planning an unexpected version 1.2... Blue 2013-05-24T13:21:01Z 2013-05-24T13:21:01Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141961/pc-destiny-talk IGN has a follow-up on the possibility that Bungie's Destiny is coming to the PC platform, though the indications are basically unchanged since the last time this question came up (for something new,... Blue 2013-05-24T13:20:33Z 2013-05-24T13:20:33Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141960/ships-ahoy-distant-worlds-shadows Matrix Games announces the dawn of the Age of Shadows in Distant Worlds with the release of the new Shadows expansion for the 4X space strategy game. They offer a headache-inducing matrix of special... Blue 2013-05-24T13:20:22Z 2013-05-24T13:20:22Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141959/son-of-nor-oculus-rift-support This trailer explains gameplay from Son of Nor, stillalive studios' upcoming action/adventure game. Word is: "Chris Polus (Producer of Son Of Nor), takes us through the finer points of spell casting,... Blue 2013-05-24T13:20:14Z 2013-05-24T13:20:14Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141958/gatherings-competitions ShootMania Storm Royal Feast competition on Beyond Gaming. Apple's keynote speech at WWDC is penciled in for June 10. StarCraft II WCS Europe Season 1 League Finals On the Horizon. Blue 2013-05-24T13:20:07Z 2013-05-24T13:20:07Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141957/morning-consolidation Xbox One: Microsoft aims for 1 billion lifetime sales, 100 million Xbox 360 units. PS4 lays the graphical smackdown on the Xbox One, has 50% more GPU power. The extent of Kinect 2's visual DRM is... Blue 2013-05-24T13:20:01Z 2013-05-24T13:20:01Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141956/morning-mobilization Why iPhone repair costs have soared. Thanks Ant. Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:55Z 2013-05-24T13:19:55Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141955/morning-tech-bits Windows 8 causes Microsoft's customer satisfaction rating to drop to Vista levels. US Department of Homeland Security warns that 3-D-printed guns are -impossible- to contain. Haswell PSU Myth Busted.... Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:49Z 2013-05-24T13:19:49Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141954/morning-safety-dance Thanks Ant and j.c.f. Google to double encryption key lengths for SSL certs by year's end. Researchers find more versions of digitally signed Mac OS X spyware. If I had one I'd consider suing over... Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:42Z 2013-05-24T13:19:42Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141953/morning-legal-briefs U.S. urged to let companies 'hack-back' at IP cyber thieves. Motorola loses ITC patent case, can’t ban Microsoft’s Xbox. Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:37Z 2013-05-24T13:19:37Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141952/game-reviews Anomaly 2 on Gaming Nexus. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing on Strategy Informer. Sanctum 2 on GameSpot. Thunder Wolves on Gaming Nexus. Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:31Z 2013-05-24T13:19:31Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141951/hardware-reviews AMD A4-5000 on TechSpot. EagleTech ET-NP100K Neptor 10,000mAh External Battery Pack on Testfreaks. EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW on ocaholic. EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked w/ ACX Cooler on Guru3D and... Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:22Z 2013-05-24T13:19:22Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141950/etc £125,000 GRID 2: Mono Edition – The World's Most Expensive Videogame. Game comes with free supercar. Hardly gimmicky at all… Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:17Z 2013-05-24T13:19:17Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141949/out-of-the-blue This is Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S., which serves as a way of commemorating the sacrifices of service men and women, as well as the unofficial start of summer. We've had summery weather all... Blue 2013-05-24T13:19:14Z 2013-05-24T13:19:14Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141948/chivalry-medieval-warfare-free-weekend Steam News announces a sale on Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, saying the melee combat game is 66% off this weekend. Oddly, they don't mention that this is also a free weekend for the game, and it can be... Blue 2013-05-24T00:38:17Z 2013-05-24T00:38:17Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141947/fifa-14-in-september EA announces that FIFA 14 will be released on September 24th in North America and on September 27th in Europe for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. They detail a preorder bonus, though this seems... Blue 2013-05-24T00:38:02Z 2013-05-24T00:38:02Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141946/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn-in-august The Final Fantasy XIV Twitter feed has word that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be released on August 27th for Windows and PlayStation 3. The new version of the MMORPG that hopes to overcome... Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:54Z 2013-05-24T00:37:54Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141945/second-chance-heroes-announced Rocket City Studios announces Second Chance Heroes, a co-op action/RPG coming this summer to Windows and OS X this summer. This will offer the chance to take on apocalyptic disasters with a team of... Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:41Z 2013-05-24T00:37:41Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141944/steamships-ahoy-skyward-collapse Steam has the release of Skyward Collapse, offering a 10% discount for the next week on this new strategy game from Arcen Games. Word is this is a god game where you play as a less-than omnipotent... Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:30Z 2013-05-24T00:37:30Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141943/empire-total-war-mp-beta-keys The Creative Assembly announces a second chance is underway to score a beta key for the unsupported multiplayer mode they are creating for Empire: Total War. Those who own the game and are interested... Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:21Z 2013-05-24T00:37:21Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141942/on-sale Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 on Steam. Save 66%. Retro Game Music Bundle on Bundle Dragon. Starting at $1.00. Thanks nin. Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:16Z 2013-05-24T00:37:16Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141941/evening-patches The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Update. Left 4 Dead 2 Update. Minecraft snapshot 13w21a. Resident Evil Revelations Update. Source Filmmaker 0.9.7.7. Warframe Update 8. Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:10Z 2013-05-24T00:37:10Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141940/gatherings-competitions The Counterstrike: Global Offensive Overwatch FAQ details a new community anti-cheat initiative. Thanks HARDOCP. Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:06Z 2013-05-24T00:37:06Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141939/evening-consolidation NVIDIA Announces PhysX Support for Microsoft Xbox One Game Console. Thanks HARDOCP. This is what the Xbox One Game case will look like. Black Ops II: Revolution DLC free trial this weekend on Xbox... Blue 2013-05-24T00:37:00Z 2013-05-24T00:37:00Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141938/evening-mobilization Epic Mickey 2 hits PS Vita June 18. Blue 2013-05-24T00:36:55Z 2013-05-24T00:36:55Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141937/evening-metaverse We're listening to user feedback about Flickr revamp. Thanks HARDOCP. Why Pissing Off The Oatmeal's Creator Is Almost as Bad as Angering Reddit. Thanks nin. Bitcoin Hits the Big Time, to the Regret... Blue 2013-05-24T00:36:49Z 2013-05-24T00:36:49Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141936/evening-tech-bits Thanks Ant. The death of the homebrew PC will be the death of the PC. Thanks HARDOCP. Ranking Linux distributions, and the decline of the traditional distros. Thanks Linux Today. Mountain Lion- Which... Blue 2013-05-24T00:36:43Z 2013-05-24T00:36:43Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141935/into-the-black Link of the Day: This Incredible Full Scale Lego X-Wing Is the Largest Model In History. Thanks Neutronbeam. Blue 2013-05-24T00:36:41Z 2013-05-24T00:36:41Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141934/need-for-speed-rivals-announced EA announces Need for Speed Rivals, a new installment in their motorsports series that will race onto Windows PCs and last-gen consoles on November 19th and onto next-gen consoles (not so fast, WiiU)... Blue 2013-05-23T17:51:55Z 2013-05-23T17:51:55Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141933/dying-light-announced Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces Dying Light, a first-person, action survival/horror video game in development at and Techland for release next year for Windows and consoles (both... Blue 2013-05-23T17:40:39Z 2013-05-23T17:40:39Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141932/simcity-patched The SimCity Blog has details on a new patch Maxis has released for SimCity to update the urban-planning game to version 4.0. This re-enables some of the features shut down when the game was put on... Blue 2013-05-23T17:03:00Z 2013-05-23T17:03:00Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141931/payday-2-in-august-new-trailer Here's a new trailer teasing an upcoming web-series that will promote Payday 2, the upcoming sequel to PAYDAY: The Heist, the crime-themed first-person shooter. We haven't heard much about this game... Blue 2013-05-23T16:40:23Z 2013-05-23T16:40:23Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141930/square-enix-america-president-departs Polygon reports that Mike Fischer has parted ways with Square Enix America, where he had served as president and CEO for almost three years, saying he has taken a new post as vice president of... Blue 2013-05-23T16:40:18Z 2013-05-23T16:40:18Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141929/new-nvidia-drivers The GeForce Website now offers new version 320.18 WHQL-certified drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards, offering performance improvements as well as support for newly-released GeForce GTX 780 video cards,... Blue 2013-05-23T16:40:08Z 2013-05-23T16:40:08Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141928/nvidia-geforce-gtx-780-launches NVIDIA announces the launch of the GeForce GTX 780 GPU, promising "pure performance." To help overwhelm you with reviews, a carefully coordinated embargo has expired, so here are reviews of the new... Blue 2013-05-23T16:39:58Z 2013-05-23T16:39:58Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141927/saints-row-iv-trailer This trailer from Saints Row IV appears to be a 30 second TV spot for Volition's upcoming open world action sequel. Here we see the president pulling off this game's version of a drone strike, where (... Blue 2013-05-23T16:39:44Z 2013-05-23T16:39:44Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141926/atari-fire-sale Develop reports by way of WSJ.com that Atari U.S. is planning to auction off some assets in July in an attempt to raise an oddly specific sum of $22.2 million as part of the publisher's struggles... Blue 2013-05-23T12:46:14Z 2013-05-23T12:46:14Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141925/far-cry-3-blood-dragon-console-editor Ubisoft UK tweets about the release of the Far Cry 3 Map Editor Pack – MARK IV Style for Xbox 360, offering the chance to create custom content for Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, the retro-styled... Blue 2013-05-23T12:46:07Z 2013-05-23T12:46:07Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141924/dungeons-and-dragons-online-shadowfell-conspiracy-preorders The Dungeons and Dragons Online website is now accepting preorders for the Shadowfell Conspiracy expansion that's coming to Turbine's D&D MMORPG on August 19th. They have two pre-purchase deals, one... Blue 2013-05-23T12:46:01Z 2013-05-23T12:46:01Z http://www.bluesnews.com/s/141923/wargaming_s-open-source-support Developer/publisher Wargaming announces their plans to provide financial support to three open-source development foundations: the Linux Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation, and the... 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