This video offers the exploration clip from Fallout 4 shown at the Xbox E3 briefing. This look at the upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG sequel runs about five-and-a-half minutes, and includes the following description: "Shown at the Xbox E3 Briefing, see early exploration outside of Vault 111 – including introductions to characters like Codsworth, Preston Garvey, and Dogmeat. Additionally, see V.A.T.S. gameplay in action, how Power Armor changes your experience, and much more." Continue here to read the full story.

Gearbox Software offers a new trailer where GhostRobo plays Battleborn, their upcoming first-person shooter. . Word is: "GhostRobo spent a ton of time playing Battleborn at E3 2015 and San Diego Comic-Con 2015! See what he had to say about his time with the game and check out some Thorn gameplay in this new video below." There's also a new video showing Rath gameplay (thanks Gamer's Hell) which carries the following description: "From the creators of Borderlands comes a new first-person shooter For Every Kind of Badass. Watch Rath in action in this exclusive gameplay video unlocked by the community on Twitter." Continue here to read the full story.

A new trailer offers a game-engine cinematic from Total War: WARHAMMER, the upcoming fantasy-themed installment in Creative Assembly's strategy series. The descriptio0n explains what this shows off, promising a livestream with more in two weeks:

This release is the first in a series of cinematic trailers rendered in-engine, that will introduce the Legendary Lords of Total War: WARHAMMER.

These renowned characters from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world can be selected in-game to lead the charge of conquest. Each has a unique range of special abilities, weapons, armour, mounts and their own distinct narrative quest chain.

In this trailer we meet Emperor Karl Franz, the revered leader of the Empire, as he rallies his army of men and deadly imperial artillery in a famed battle against a ravening horde of ferocious Greenskins.

The Battle of Black Fire Pass is one of Karl Franz’ unique quest battles in Total War: WARHAMMER, and also formed the basis for this year’s E3 demo. You’ll be able to watch the battle in its entirety, along with a developer walkthrough in just two weeks’ time on Thursday 30th July.

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• No Time To Explain Remastered on Steam. Save 15%.
• Out There: Ω Edition on Steam. Save 33%.
• TotalBiscuit Recommendations on GOG.com. Save up to 75%.

• Shenmue 3 by Ys Net — Kickstarter. Sets a Kickstarter video game funding record. At $6 million with a couple of hours to go.

• Meet the man cleaning up after the Godus disaster • Eurogamer.net.

Derek Smart - Interstellar Justice.
"Give backers the opportunity to hire an independent forensics accountant, and an executive producer, to audit the company records, and give an accurate picture of the financial health of the company, and it’s ability to complete, and deliver this project in a timely fashion. I hereby offer to foot the entire costs of this effort. And I will put up to $1m of my own money, in an escrow account of an attorney’s choosing, to be used as-needed for this exercise. I will pay this price to prove that I had every right to seek these answers. So this money can either go toward a good cause (righting this ship), or to attorneys who are most likely to burn it all down anyway."

• Brawl With The Blues: The Heroes of the Storm Eternal Conflict Continues.
• Road to BlizzCon: Watch the WoW NA Online Qualifiers.

• iPod Touch performance preview- 500% better CPU, 900% faster graphics.
• iFixit- New iPod Touch battery is kind-of-sort-of easier to replace.
• A drone firing a gun- so this is what all the regulation is about. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

• Google gains billions in value as YouTube drives ad growth. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Microsoft commits to 10-year support lifecycle for Windows 10. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Everything You Need to Know About the Thunderbolt Connection.
• Toyota recalls 625,000 hybrids over software glitch. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• 3ders.org - 3D bone printing project in China to enter animal testing stage. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Air Force offers big bonuses to stop exodus of drone pilots.
• Google’s Self Driving Car Rear-Ended Resulting in Injuries.
• Tesla's 'Ludicrous Mode' takes the Model S from 0-60 in 2.8 seconds. Thanks HARDOCP.

• 0-day attacks exploiting Flash just got harder thanks to new defenses.

• FCC won’t allow Dish to save $3.3 billion at taxpayer expense.
• Ripping CDs and movies for personal use is once again illegal in UK.
• Apple Faces Class-Action Suit by Store Employees Over Bag Searches. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Hacking Team apparently violated EU rules in sale of spyware to Russian agency.

• ATLUS announces an August 18th release date for Dungeon Travelers 2, their PS Vita RPG sequel that's also coming to Steam. They illustrate the news with a new trailer showing the game's advanced classes…
• GameStop Completes Acquisition of Geeknet…
• Good Game Spawn Point - Series 6 Episode 22. Thanks Ant…
• Rust devs do it again: Gender to be randomly assigned…

Link of the Day: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Escape from the Man-Sized Cabinet.

IGN spoke with Randy Pitchford at Develop: Brighton, and the Gearbox boss revealed plans for a new Brothers in Arms game, saying the new installment in the military shooter series "has to be authentic and we have been working on that." He says: "I feel we have unfinished business there with both the fiction and the history and I’d like to get into that. I spend a lot of time thinking about it." Similar to his recent comments about looking for assistance with the next Duke Nukem game, Randy says they are looking for a partner for this one:

"Sadly it takes a lot of resources, energy and money to do what must be done, so it’s not something I feel I could completely do alone. I need good partners for it, so we’ve been talking to great folks but it’s really putting all that together that’s the limiting factor. Once we put all the partnerships together in terms of publishing, collaborators and creatives, we can talk about it.

"I feel like I’m on the brink of it, but we’re not quite there yet. Once it happens development will really take off and then sometime after that - if we don’t completely kill ourselves - we’ll announce. But we’re in the incubation phase with the next one there, for sure."

To respond to the steady flood of posts on the Heroes of the Storm Forums complaining of matchmaking problems, Blizzard has made a statement saying they've added a rule to the Quick Match matchmaker to help separate less experience players from seasoned veterans. There are a couple of responses in the thread from the same Blizzard community manager to other questions this has raised. One says they also have some changes in store for ranked Hero League play, but they have nothing to share right now. They also say they are "definitely hearing feedback" about requests for new rules to fine-tune Quick Match team composition based on classes, but they don't sound as concerned about this as they are about experience imbalances: "We're definitely hearing feedback similar to yours, how team compositions in Quick Match need improvement. I don't have any new information to share on this today, though." With apologies to Bill Maher, here's word on the new rule:

To help address this, we’ve created an additional rule for matchmaking in Quick Match that will take each player’s total number of Quick Match games played into account when creating teams. This rule has already been implemented, and we expect that you, your allies, and even your opponents, will now be matched more closely in terms of Quick Match experience.

The new rule will not prevent all instances in which new players can be matched with veterans. As an example, this can still occur when a party’s members have mixed levels of Heroes of the Storm experience. Additionally, this change may result in increased Quick Match queue times as the matchmaker searches for players with a similar number of games played to your own.

A new video from TotalBiscuit has some cynicism about framerates from the cynical Brit, noting the large number of games on Steam capped at 30 frames-per second, generally a trickle down from games designed for less-powerful console systems. This has inspired the creation of The Framerate Police, a new Steam group dedicated to eliminating this scourge from PC gaming, or at least raising awareness of the problem. This is sort of the reverse of the traditional Steam curation, listing games to avoid due to this issue, though they also helpfully list workarounds where available to unlock the framerate, and report on possible problems such unlocks might cause. Thanks One Angry Gamer.

• StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Beta Balance Update -- July 16, 2015.

• Shenmue 3 by Ys Net — Kickstarter. Final day. There will be a Twitch livestream today at 7:00 pm EDT.

• Heroes of the Storm July North America Open Round of 8 -- Meet the Teams.
• The Injuries That Are Ending eSports Careers. Includes preventative stretching exercises.

• Disney Infinity Dev Interview- Devs Worry More About Content Stigmas Than You Know - One Angry Gamer.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt post mortem interview - Gaming Nexus.

• Xbox One Outsells PS4 During E3 2015 Week in the US.
• Destiny's Gjallarhorn to be nerfed in huge balance-changing update.
• No Time To Explain is Now Available for Xbox One.
• SlashDash is Now Available for Xbox One.

• Hold the phone: Commodore gaming is back.
• HTC’s Re Grip fitness device delayed after “extensive user feedback.”
• Fallout Shelter Earns $5.1 Million in First Two Weeks.
• DRAGON BALL Z DOKKAN BATTLE, a Popular Smartphone Game with More Than 15 Million Downloads in Japan, Launches Western Countries.
• Flying Empire on the App Store on iTunes.
• KUKABALL on the App Store on iTunes.

• reddit rolls out new rules, CEO says hiding racist subreddits is better than banning them.
• Net call: Internet Gaming Disorder and Internet Addiction Disorder are not the same.

• AMD Posts Q2 2015 Results: Revenue Falls Once More.
• Windows 10 Retail Will Be On USB Flash Drives.

• Russian Pawn Storm group strikes back at Trend Micro. Thanks Ant.
• Hacking The Hacks- 'Mr. Robot' Episode 4 Reality Check. Spoilers. Thanks Acleacius.
• Hacking Team’s evil Android app had code to bypass Google Play screening.
• Best Buy has spammed me more than all of Nigeria’s princes combined.

• Judge approves NCAA video game settlements to pay players.
• Watch out sharing economy, the feds are watching this whole contractor thing.
• Leading authors call for government probe of Amazon's 'damaging' power.
• This internet streaming service just scored a huge win.
• California Penalizes Uber $7.3 Million, Says Service Should Be Suspended. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Government IT official ran law enforcement data systems for years with faked degrees.
• Man arrested after filming fatal crash from inside car.

• Sorcerer King on Gaming Nexus.
• Skyflower on Gaming Nexus.
• Sylvio on True PC Gaming.

• ADATA XPG SX930 (120GB, 240GB & 480GB) SSD on Anandtech.
• be quiet! Dark Rock TF CPU Cooler on Neoseeker.
• EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card on TweakTown.
• GAMDIAS ARES Gaming Keyboard on Christ Centered Gamer.
• Intel LGA1150 CPU OC Anleitung on OC Inside. German.
• KLEVV CRAS 3000MHz 16GB DDR4 Memory Kit on eTeknix.
• Logitech G402 on True PC Gaming.
• NZXT Noctis 450 Mid Tower Case on ThinkComputers.org.
• Philips BDM3470UP Monitor on pcGameware.
• TteSports Isurus Pro In-Ear Gaming Headset on eTeknix.
• XFX XTR 550W Power Supply on HARDOCP.
• Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme on Hardware Canucks.

• Batman Arkham Knight, The Elder Scrolls Online Top June 2015 NPD Charts…
• This card is letting Hearthstone players skip an opponent's turn…
• Thousands of Nintendo fans pay respects at Satoru Iwata funeral…

There have been a couple of local news reports lately about drownings following boating accidents. Before the stories even got to it, I knew that the victims were not wearing life preservers, as I spent a few summers as a camp lifeguard and swimming & boating instructor, and I know a little about the topic. A proper personal floatation device will keep a victim afloat and face up even if they are knocked unconscious, which can happen all too easily when a small boat capsizes. The bottom line here is that I am a better swimmer than most, and have forgotten more boating safety rules than most people ever learn, and I never enter a small boat or canoe without a Type I or Type II life preserver. I highly recommend this policy to anyone planning any recreational boating.

Preachy Links:	Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play:	Robot Avoider. Code Box. Zomblaster.
Link:	Superhero Movies, Ranked. Extra points for recognizing Darkman as a key moment.
Stories:	How Kerry Conran saw Hollywood's future - then got left behind. Drunk man uninjured after being run over by freight train, New York police say. 'Super hero' teen talks about surviving plane crash.
Science:	Advances in DNA tech pave way for convicts to get new tests on evidence. New winged dinosaur Zhenyuanlong suni sets size record. Didn't know they were still making new ones.
Images:	Cast Photo- Fox's Upcoming Marvel Films.
Media:	The Weebl Truth: No Man's Sky. Paul Rudd's EXCLUSIVE “Ant-Man” Clip - CONAN on TBS. Thanks nin.
Follow-up:	One year later, your ALS Ice Bucket money goes to ...