AN EPIC MOTORSPORTS STORY
Take the spotlight in an engrossing racing story, brought to life by a world-class cast including Ncuti Gatwa, in a ground-breaking extended reality production. Face fierce personalities, paddock politics, on-track drama, and the infamous Ravenwest Motorsport, as a fly-on-the wall documentary captures every moment.

THRILLING RACING VARIETY
Race, upgrade and customize every one of GRID's largest ever car roster, from classic tourers, to single-seaters, to big rigs. Compete on over 130 routes including real circuits like Brands Hatch and Indianapolis, historic GRID venues, and new locations, like London and Strada Alpina - and much more to be revealed.

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES, CONSTANT COMPETITION
Create the ultimate GRID event, from dream drift runs, to multi-class Eliminator races, to electric car events with boost gates. Mix up the conditions, time of day, and more, then take it online and challenge players to compete in your unique race  or browse the custom events of others.

According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in the Los Angeles Superior Court, female employees make up around 20% of the Activision workforce, and are subjected to a “pervasive frat boy workplace culture,” including “cube crawls,” in which male employees “drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees.”

The agency alleges male employees play video games during the workday while delegating responsibilities to female employees, engage in sexual banter, and joke openly about rape, among other things.

Female employees allege being held back from promotions because of the possibility they might become pregnant, being criticized for leaving to pick their children up from daycare, and being kicked out of lactation rooms so male colleagues could use the room for meetings, the complaint says.

“New World makes standard DirectX calls as provided by the Windows API. We have seen no indication of widespread issues with 3090s, either in the beta or during our many months of alpha testing,” the company’s spokeswoman said. “The New World Closed Beta is safe to play. In order to further reassure players, we will implement a patch today that caps frames per second on our menu screen. We’re grateful for the support New World is receiving from players around the world, and will keep listening to their feedback throughout Beta and beyond.”

Log in to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms on the Epic Games Store during the Summer Sale and unlock the Ellywick Skin & Feat Pack, which includes the newest Champion: Ellywick Tumblestrum, an exclusive Feywild Ellywick Skin, an Epic Feat, and 7 Gold Ellywick chests with a guaranteed Shiny equipment card - a $24 value, absolutely free of charge! Dive in to the details here.

Idle Champions is a Dungeons & Dragons strategy management video game uniting iconic characters from novels, campaigns, and shows into one epic adventure.

Blizzard chose to plow ahead with a premature release of Warcraft III: Reforged largely because it had already taken pre-orders from players, according to people familiar with the decision. The company couldn’t bump the game too much more without potentially being forced to send out refunds and risking that fans wouldn’t buy the game again.

In notes from an internal postmortem of the game reviewed by Bloomberg, developers on Warcraft III: Reforged acknowledged this issue. "We took pre-orders when we knew the game wasn't ready yet," they said, adding later that the company needed to “resist the urge to ship an unfinished product because of financial pressure.”

The Blizzard spokesman said that “in hindsight, we should have taken more time to get it right, even if it meant returning pre-orders.”

The Game Developers Choice Awards winners are:

• Best Audio: Hades (Supergiant Games)
• Best Debut: Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games)
• Best Design: Hades (Supergiant Games)
• Best Mobile Game: Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
• Innovation Award: Dreams (Media Molecule / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Best Narrative: The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Best Technology: Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio / Xbox Game Studios)
• Best Visual Art: Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Best VR/AR Game: Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
• Audience Award: Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Game of the Year: Hades (Supergiant Games)
• Pioneer Award: Tom Fulp
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Laralyn McWilliams

The game revolves around army sized turn-based strategical battles on grid-based maps. The factions available are the Blood Angels Space Marine chapter (that the player commands in the single player story campaign) and the Tyranids xenos race (the antagonist in the story campaign, they are playable in Skirmish and Multiplayer). The gameplay is modular and there are already plans to expand the existing roster in the near future.

The award-winning freestyle-motocross title will hook players with its easy-to-learn, difficult to master gameplay that will see them flippin’, spinnin’, and grabbin’ their way across 30+ vibrant and feature-rich levels. With a bevy of customization options and three single-player modes, Urban Trial Tricky™ Deluxe Edition is the definition of “just one more run”. And with online leaderboards available to solidify bragging rights, mastering the longest combo chain of high-scoring tricks is the path to FMX glory!

When Early Access begins, the Starbase universe will be a blank canvas ready to be populated. While many new core gameplay features such as the tech tree, crafting, ship easy build mode and station easy build mode will be available on release day, we want to be clear about the state of the game at launch. Starbase launches into Early Access in a clear alpha stage, however the core features are well established and there's fun to be had for sure. Now is the time to finally open up Starbase to a bigger population and see how everything comes together. The scale and scope of the game will quickly start to show as we update more massive features to the game every two weeks in August and September, like Capital Ships and Station Siege mechanics!

Good Knight is a butt-clenching arcade metal game influenced by games like Super-Hexagon, Castlevania, and Touhou. Use your agility and quickness to dodge bullets and battle in different mysterious hells against giant bosses.

In Good Knight, you only need one button because you only have one job: survive from the bullet hell! With this magical button, you are able to perform turn around, attack, speed-down, sustained attacks.

Inspired by the visual style of early 20th Century Soviet art and the narrative works of Russia's finest storytellers, Dull Grey lets players experience the emotional story of a mother and son, the concept of free will and the search for happiness in a bleak retro-futuristic world controlled by the robotic Progress program.

Players will be making the same choice again and again - should the son become a lamplighter or a tallyman - through an unusual binary choice mechanic that leads to an unexpected multitude of endings and secret content to discover. Dull Grey is a dramatic visual novel like no other, designed to be experienced through multiple playthroughs.

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• Fallout 76: Inside the Vault – Try Fallout Worlds in the Public Test Server.
• Soulworker - Regular Maintenance on July 22nd (Thursday) (Finished).

• Aeterna Noctis Teaser + NEW Gameplay of -The Light Tower.
• Blue Steel - 2008 Superman Gameplay Prototype. Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
• Death's Gambit- Afterlife - Features Trailer.
• The Ferrari 296 GTB Comes To The Fortnite Island As A New Vehicle.
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - A Pandemic System Board Game Trailer.

• Ratchet and Clank blast into Fall Guys for Limited Time Events and unique rewards.

• Empire of Ember - Dev Blog #6- The commander mode.

• I Expect You To Die 2- PS VR follow-up gets an August 24 release date.

• Mozilla Firefox 90.0.2, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes. Thanks Frans.
• Sweet_Anita: Twitch Streaner Says She May Quit After Online Harassment.
• SeaMonkey 2.53.8.1 is out. Thanks Ant.

• Microsoft says it's fixed an issue in Windows 10 Game Mode that 'results in lower frame rates.'
• AMD Adrenalin 21.7.1 Driver Performance Analysis - BabelTechReviews.
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) version 18.9.2. Thanks Console General.

• UK journalists could be jailed like spies under proposed Official Secrets Act changes.

• Cris Tales review - PC Gamer.
• F1 2021 PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.

• Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Review - Guru3D.
• Graphics Card: Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Pro AX Review - TechPowerUp.
• Headset: BLON BL-A8 Prometheus In-Ear Monitors Review - TechPowerUp.
• Laptop: Razer Blade 14 Review- AMD Finally Makes the Cut - Tom's Hardware.
• SSD: CORSAIR Force Series MP600 1TB Gen4 PCIe NVMe SSD Review - The FPS Review.
• SSD: Team Group Cardea Zero Z44Q 2 TB Review - TechPowerUp.

• U.S. Mint Honors Game Developer Ralph Baer. Those dollar coins are now available…

Carefully Scheduled Round-up
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Story

• 'Monster' sturgeon hauled from Fraser River weighed more than 800 lbs., may be a century old. Thanks Max.

Science
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• DNA from 93-year-old butterfly confirms the first US case of human-led insect extinction.
• Narcissists are more likely to gain power at work because they act like they already have it, study suggests.

Media

• Dune - Official Main Trailer.
• Roasting all the billionaires going to space.
• Overcoming panic when your engine quits.

The Funnies

• Savage Chickens.

Experience the dawn of all out warfare during WWI. Discover different shores, cities, and deserts in this global conflict. Turn the tide of battle by operating massive vehicles and machinery to win the Great War. Download Battlefield 1 today for PC on Origin - for Prime Members.

It is not without emotions I have to tell you that after 8 assassins, 16 years at Ubisoft I have decided to set sails on new adventures and challenges.

I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart our wonderful community and the incredible talents I’ve had the chance to collaborate with, over these amazing years.

Thank you too ,Ubisoft , for your trust and the fantastic projects we brought to life together ! Bye for now, these years will remain unforgettable :)

Ubisoft has been a nice home for me for 16 years, and I am very touched about this, the trust they gave me as well as the opportnities, but it was time to do another leap of faith :)

This is a fast and accessible naval combat simulator. Across the game’s single-player campaign, your lone ship will need to take on hundreds of enemy ships, planes, and submarines – along with colossal superweapons like a flying battleship and a gun made out of a volcano (!)

Between missions, use the parts you've scavenged to customize your vessel in a flexible yet straightforward ship designer. You'll need all the firepower you can muster to take on the enemy and find the source of their power ...

The wicked Albert VII has captured Sami’s friend Vera and only you can help him save her! But it won’t be easy – you’ll need to roll, grapple, and jump to make it through in the colorful 3D world of Super Sami Roll.

Embark on a journey rolling through beautiful green fields, deserts dotted with magnificent pyramids, dangerous oozing volcanoes, frigid ice lands and many other memorable places with rolling physics and tons of hidden secrets!

PROJECT MAGNUM¹ is a PC/console-based game that combines RPG play with third-person shooter combat. It presents beautiful visuals and attractive and unique characters based in a sci-fi-style player vs. environment worldview.

It also provides exciting battles using various skills, actions, and guns, as well as the fun of high-quality PvE shooter battles that target huge bosses.

¹ Working title

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• Playway Publisher Sale 2021 - Steam.
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• Apex Legends Patched.
• Call of Duty: Warzone Patched.
• Steam Client Update, July 21.

• Company of Heroes 3: Battle Briefing - RTS Boot Camp.
• Company of Heroes 3: Battle Briefing: Dynamic Campaign Map.
• Fallout 76 – Radio Play Part 1- K.D. Inkwell in Escape from the 42nd Century.

• Announcing the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dreams & Nightmares Workshop Contest. $1M in prizes.

• Jade Raymond's PS5 Game is Apparently Another Online Service Title.
• Rogue Wizards Is Now Available For Windows 10, Xbox One, And Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere).
• Tetragon Demo Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Crash Bandicoot - Crashiversary And Quadrilogy Bundles Are Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Frostpunk: Complete Collection Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.

• Twitter begins testing Reddit-like downvote system.
• Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features.
• Now anyone can join Clubhouse, the pandemic's hottest new social media app.
• WinSCP version 5.19.2.
• Trailer: "The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf."

• PlasticArm is a 32-bit bendable processor.
• 100-Qubit Quantum Computing System Unveiled.
• What Ever Happened to AMD's Radeon RX 6700 Non-XT?
• Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community.
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10.4.
• Azure Data Studio version 1.31.0.
• DVDFab version 12.0.3.9.

• Apple security updates. Thanks Ant.
• Japanese government official says Olympic ticket data leaked.
• Patch now: Linux file system security hole, dubbed Sequoia, can take over systems.
• US House terminates deal with iConstituent after company waited days to raise ransomware alarm.
• Microsoft acquires privileged access management vendor CloudKnox Security.

• FTC Unanimously Approves Policy of Fighting Repair Restrictions. Thanks RedEye9.
• British man arrested in Spain over Twitter hack.
• Lawsuit- eBay tried to "terrorize, stalk, and silence" couple that ran news site.

• A car that costs the equivalent of 40 million V-Bucks is coming to Fortnite…
• Injustice- Gods Among Us Movie Announced…

It all began with the implacable determination to create a revolutionary soccer platform.
Our ambition was to recreate the perfect soccer environment, from the grass on the field, to the players' movement, all the way to the crowds in the stadium.
To this end, we decided to create a new soccer engine with a newly built animation system and revamped game commands.
The final result was even more impressive than we had originally conceived.
We went beyond the border of PES, into a new realm of virtual soccer.
To signal this new era, we have decided to part ways with our beloved PES brand and rename it "eFootball™"!
Now we hope that you can enjoy this brand-new soccer experience that eFootball™ has to offer.

An EVGA representative provided the following comment: "At the moment we are dealing with specific problems, if it is a problem really confirmed we will inform and inform you in our EVGA forums on our website." The linked forums contain instances of users discussing New World EVGA RTX 3090 issues.

Featuring an all-new expansive region, ‘Butcher’s Banquet’ takes place in a stunning desert-like area, complete with luscious oases, dramatic waterfalls, and mysterious temples. And whilst it might be especially picturesque, make no mistake - it’s certainly no holiday destination. Following the recent turmoil in Kuamar - the setting of SGW Contracts 2’s main campaign - new threats have been allowed to surface, the most dangerous of which is Mahmoud Zarza... aka ‘The Butcher’.

The new expansion builds on all the elements players loved about the base game, including the 1000m+ extreme-range sniping, next-gen graphics, more intelligent NPCs, and the most lethal array of weapons yet. The challenging sniper game is set in Kuamar, a lawless region of the Middle East, located along the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Players take on the role of Raven, Contract Sniper Assassin, and are tasked with toppling a brutal dictatorship by completing a series of replayable missions that can be approached in a number of ways. SGW Contracts 2 features large-scale sandbox maps, a variety of side missions and objectives, realistic weapons and gadgets, and a range of unlockable skills and equipment.

• Death's Door: Review - Attack of the Fanboy.
• Death's Door Review – Reaping The Rewards - Game Informer.
• Death's Door Review - A Murder Of Crows - GameSpot.
• The birb is the word — Death’s Door review – GAMING TREND.
• 'Death’s Door’ review- murderously good time - NME.
• Death's Door review - PC Gamer.
• Death's Door review - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Death's Door review: Reaping revenge - Shacknews.
• Death's Door Xbox review: This charming adventure is among the best games of 2021 - Windows Central.

Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) announced the next phase of their long-term partnership with plans to bring the LPGA Tour, the longest-running women’s sports association; The Amundi Evian Championship, one of its five major championships; and more female golfers to EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR™. For the first time, the LPGA Tour will be experienced in high-fidelity on next-generation consoles and will feature a wide breadth of women’s golfing representation. In Spring 2022, all players will be able to tee-off as a female golfer at the truest representation of the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains, France, thanks to the power of EA’s Frostbite™ game engine.

“We’re thrilled that the LPGA Tour is coming back to EA SPORTS PGA TOUR especially with the inclusion of a major global tournament like The Amundi Evian Championship,” said Brian Carroll, the LPGA’s senior vice president of global media distribution. “EA SPORTS has done a great job in continuing to expand female representation in the various modes throughout the game and featuring women’s golf in an authentic and modern way.”

Playthora, a small team from France has officially launched their platform enabling game developers worldwide to implement digital item second hand markets into their games. Playthora does this in a fully legal manner, letting users trade their game skins or collectibles freely in the supported games. The platform is backed by insurance giant AXA and aims to give players the freedom to do whatever they want with their virtual items without having to resort to the black and grey market.

Playthora is a digital platform that gives players the ability to recycle cash back or trade their skins, accessories, stickers and more in a fully legal and game-compliant way.

Poker Quest is a new roguelike card battler where you progress through a world full of monsters, using a standard deck of playing cards (like the "Queen of Spades") with magical properties to activate your gear in combat. The game offers a wide variety of playable heroes, each specializing in different strategies that change the way you play.

Choose your hero, and march forward through a diverse, procedurally generated, high-fantasy world. Each of the 15 playable heroes comes with unique gear and abilities, providing many different play styles. In combat, bigger and better hands trigger stronger abilities. Discover hundreds of equips, events, abilities, and monsters.

In the not-so-distant future, Earth’s moon has been struck by a massive asteroid. With the fallout rendering the terrestrial surface uninhabitable, the ecosystem of the planet collapses. Facing complete annihilation, humanity makes one final and desperate attempt to survive — thanks to newly-created anti-gravity technology, the first (and possibly last) faction of flying cities ascends as the ultimate bastion of the human race.

As Commander, you’ve been granted an impossible task: rebuild, restructure, and protect the last of society in an uninhabitable environment. Your primary weapon and invaluable tool? An anti-gravity device you’ll use to navigate the upper atmosphere and the daunting unknown. Stay vigilant, as each decision could have ghastly consequences; be prepared to lay it all on the line to succeed, else risk losing everything you worked for.

• Midweek Sale: build an empire and save up to 90% off - GOG.com.

• Aliens: Fireteam Elite – New Gameplay Today.
• Car Mechanic Simulator VR.
• Medieval Farmer - Trailer.
• Recompile - Release date trailer.

• Inside FIFA 22’s New AI Driven HyperMotion Animation Powered by PS5 and Xbox Series X - AusGamers.com.

• Captains Reveal — World Series of Warzone - $300k Trios EU - Call of Duty: Warzone (video).

• Aliens: Fireteam Elite Captures The 1986 Film — And Goes Beyond It - GameSpot.
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite - The Final Preview - IGN.
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite hands-on -- Game over, man! Game over! - VentureBeat.
• Hive Hunting with Co-op Survival Shooter Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Xbox Wire.
• No Man's Sky Prisms Development Update.
• Psychonauts 2 - What You Need to Know Before You Play - Core Xbox.

• MouseBot- Escape From CatLab Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X-S.
• Gaps By POWGI Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X-S.
• In Rays Of The Light (Xbox Series X-S) Is Now Available.
• How to Clean Your Xbox One Fan Safely.

• The Witcher: Monster Slayer is out.
• Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Mash-Up Game Elite Squad Is Shutting Down.
• Here's Proof Tesla's FSD Beta 9.0 Street Testing Is a Calamity Waiting to Happen. Thanks Max.
• A single typo locked Chromebook users out of their laptops.
• Samsung US will allow you to trade in two old devices to get a new Galaxy Z Fold3 or Z Flip3.

• Chrome just added these big new security and privacy features.
• Bitcoin Crashes Below $30,000 As Cryptocurrency Free-Fall Accelerates. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• Netflix bleeds subscribers in US and Canada, with no sign of recovery.
• NBC's Canceled Manifest TV Show Might Return On Netflix - Report.

• Microsoft's Game-Boosting DirectStorage to Land on Windows 10, Not Just Windows 11. Thanks Simon.
• Plex Media Server version 1.23.5.4841. Thanks Console General.

• This password-stealing Windows malware is distributed via ads in search results.
• Joker billing fraud malware found in Google Play Store.
• Northern Train's ticketing system out to lunch as ransomware attack shuts down servers. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• Intel Settles With Engineer Who Took Secret Docs to Microsoft.

• Cris Tales Review - GameSpot.
• Swords of Legends Online review - PC Gamer.

• CPU Cooler: The SilverStone IceGem AIO Coolers Review- Going Big For Threadripper - AnandTech.
• Keyboard: Royal Kludge RK84 Keyboard Review - TechPowerUp.
• Laptop: Dell XPS 13 (2021) Review- OLED Excellence - WIRED (may require registration or subscription).
• Laptop: XPG XENIA 14 Review - TechPowerUp.
• Laptop: XPG Xenia 14 Ultrabook Review - TweakTown.
• Misc: Elgato Facecam review -- A solid $200 webcam with useful software - VentureBeat.
• Motherboard: ASRock X570S Riptide Review- Fanless AMD X570 on a Budget - Tom's Hardware.
• PC: Hilariously Bad Alienware R10 Ryzen PC: $1800 Pre-Built Review - Gamers Nexus. Thanks Simon and The Flying Penguin.
• PSU: SilverStone SX750 Platinum Fully Modular SFX Power Supply Review - Hardware Asylum.
• SSD: Kingston DC1500M 1.92TB Data Center Enterprise SSD Review - TweakTown.
• SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4TB M.2 NVMe SSD - Nikk Tech.

• Twitch streamer permanently banned from New World MMO after milking a cow. Thanks Max…
• We Almost Got A "Happy Gilmore" Game. Thanks Ant…
• Valve- Steam Deck UI Will Replace Big Picture Mode…

Accomplished Round-up
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Breakfast Link

• Kentucky lawn care: Why you're mowing you're yard wrong. Why or how?
• Great Books That Are Secretly Science Fiction.

Stories
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• Western Canada's first & only Hobbiton-themed resort to open in Alberta this year.
• Air quality in NYC, Philly plummets due to smoke from 2,500 miles away.
• Dog Pee Blamed for Mysterious Collapse of Traffic Light Pole in Japan.

Media

• Space billionaires get skewered in the first promo for Jon Stewart’s Apple TV show.
• Surprise Gifted Sneaky NYC Subway Painted Portraits.

Follow-ups

• US life expectancy falls by more than a year due to Covid-19 pandemic, CDC study says.
• J & J COVID-19 vaccine less effective against Delta variant, study suggests.
• LA bomb squad ‘grossly miscalculated’ weight of fireworks in huge explosion. Thanks Acleacius.
• Baby monkey plays with ducklings. Just bookmark this for times you're feeling low.