The tradition of leaks related to Overwatch continues, as PlayStation France accidentally posted a trailer a day in advance of tomorrow's reveal. This was spotted by NeoGAF, and though it was removed shortly after that, it was already yoinked by GameInformer, where there is now a local copy. The clip shows Tracer, Mercy, Reinhardt, and Torbjörn in their already leaked Agents of Overwatch skins fighting an onslaught of omnics, seemingly tipping off a PvE mode for the multiplayer shooter.

Eurogamer has a response from G2A about the recent demands by Gearbox that resulted in the death of a promotion planned for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. Though the deal was ended because they didn't immediately accede to the ultimatum, they now explain they were already in full compliance (from their perspective). Though they don't explain why their deal with Gearbox isn't still in place, they do insist, "All of the requests made of G2A.com in the ultimatum have in fact long been part of our marketplace."

Developer Crackshell announces Serious Sam's Bogus Detour, which lives up to the detour in its title by departing from the first-person shooter genre of previous Serious Sam games. They call this an action adventure, though the reveal trailer makes this look like a top-down, bullet hell shooter. The game's Steam page is online, offering a summer 2017 release window and the following description:

Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell. Battle through beautiful Mediterranean locales, dangerous biological weapons labs and even high-tech moon bases as a one-man wrecking crew or in four-player online cooperative for maximum chaos! Dominate the chaotic Survival and Versus modes or make your own mods, modes, and even total conversions with the include game editor. Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is the biggest little Serious Sam game ever made!

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Developer Bluehole and Brendan "PLAYERUNKNOWN" Greene announces that PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has now sold over a million copies in just a couple of weeks of early access. Here's word on the battle royale game's surprising success:

Holding strong as Steam’s number one seller for more than two weeks, Bluehole and Brendan Greene (aka PLAYERUNKNOWN) announced today that PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has sold more than one million units on Steam Early Access in 16 days. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has remained in the top three concurrent user count on Steam, peaking at more than 89,000 simultaneous active players at a given time.

The battle royale chart-topper has over 150,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch with more than 2,000 streamers streaming every day. To date, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has been featured on more than 39,841 streams for a total of 5,168,180 minutes streamed since launch.

“We couldn’t have reached this milestone without the dedication of our players and we are truly humbled by their passionate response,” said Brendan Greene (aka PLAYERUKNOWN). “As we move to make improvements and deliver new content we will actively engage this growing fan base.”

All-caps publisher developer BANDAI NAMCO announces NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: ULTIMATE NINJA STORM LEGACY, an all-caps anthology of this series that sets out to prove you can have more than one ultimate ninja. This is coming to PCs via Steam later this year, and to paraphrase Jack Nicholson from the first Batman movie, they're SHIPPUDEN out a whole new door. Here's the announcement trailer, and here's word:

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., the premier anime videogame publisher and developer has announced NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja STORM® Legacy, which includes all four titles from the storied NARUTO series, spanning the entire NARUTO and SHIPPUDEN storylines. With 16 million NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM games sold worldwide, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Legacy collects all four games: NARUTO™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM 2, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM 3 Full Burst and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM 4 Road to Boruto into one epic remastered compilation. The collection will be available for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, and PC via STEAM in 2017.

With Legacy, players will experience NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM, Ultimate Ninja STORM 2, Ultimate Ninja STORM 3 Full Burst as a remastered set, and available for current generation consoles for the very first time. The three remastered titles, as well as the included NARUTO SHIPPUDEN Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 Road to Boruto, will also include all of the major downloadable content offered throughout the series, giving fans the entire NARUTO SHIPPUDEN storyline in one package. The set will also include an exclusive Steelbook case, NARUTO art book, and bonus NARUTO anime disc, making this the perfect addition for any fan of the NARUTO series.

“NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Legacy is the perfect starting point for new fans discovering the popular series and dedicated fans who want to experience their favorite NARUTO stories again on PS4, Xbox One, or STEAM,” said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. “Throughout the Naruto Storm series of games, CyberConnect2 has crafted groundbreaking NARUTO experiences that any newbie, ninja, Hokage, or anime fan will love playing again and again.”

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• Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box on Steam. Save 75%.
• How to Survive 2 on Steam. Save 70%.
• League of Legends Champion and skin sale: 04.11 - 04.14.
• Survival Week on The Humble Store. Save up to 80%.
• Weekly Sale on GOG.com. Save up to 80%.

• Battle Princess Madelyn by Causal Bit Games — Kickstarter. Inching towards its last stretch goal with a few days to go.
• Noises of the Zone - Indiegogo. "Noises of the Zone is a REMASTERED S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAME!" Thanks Digger.

• Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition Interview - RPGWatch. Thanks Acleacius.

• Great Deals During the Xbox Spring Sale, April 11 – 17.
• SMITE Console: Celestial Voyage - 4.5 Patch Notes.
• Neverwinter- The Cloaked Ascendancy Arrives on PS4 April 11.
• Race The Sun Update Adds PS VR Support, Sunrise Mode & More April 18th.

• FCC to Return to Banning In-Flight Phone Calls.

• Mozilla Thunderbird version 52.0. Thanks Frans.
• PewDiePie launches weekly show on Twitch.
• Optimum To Unveil 400 Mbps Broadband Tier Tomorrow.

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• AMD Expands Technology Portfolio to Drive Immersive Computing Vision with Acquisition of Wireless Virtual Reality IP from Nitero. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Paint.net 4.0.14 is now available.
• Adobe Acrobat-Reader Apr 11/17.
• Experience the First Music Album in Virtual Reality- The Melody of Dust from Viacom and Hot Sugar Is Now Available for the HTC Vive.
• G.Skill Announces Trident Z RGB DDR4 Kits with 16 GB Modules, Up to 128 GB.
• Toshiba Launches MG05ACA Enterprise HDDs- 8 TB, 7200 RPM, NAND Cache.

• Internet Society tells G20 nations: The web must be fully encrypted.
• In slap at Trump, Shadow Brokers release NSA EquationGroup files.
• Finally a reason not to bother with IPv6: Security concerns.

• Feds deliver fatal blow to botnet that menaced world for 7 years.
• Arris Sued Over SB6190 Surfboard Modem Latency Flaw.

• New League of Legends free champion rotation- Sion, Zed, Ivern and more…

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Link of the Day: Why you too could get dragged off a plane if the airline overbooks your flight. Isn't United's old slogan "Fly the Friendly Skies?"

A new Minecraft Partner Program is being launched by Microsoft, as they are set to open a premium marketplace for content for the sandbox construction game. This will involve cash money, though this will be enveloped in a new form of virtual currency because everything is better with spacebux. They offer the chance to be a content provider, though this requires being registered as a business. Here's word on what to expect:

Millions of Players, Dozens of Devices, One Minecraft Marketplace

Partner content will appear in the Minecraft in-game Store, which is available to Minecraft Pocket Edition and Windows 10 Edition, including Windows 10, Android, iOS, Apple TV, Gear VR, Oculus and Amazon Kindle Minecraft players.

• The in-game store makes it easy for players to download and install new maps, textures and skins without ever leaving the game.
• Every new submission from partners is reviewed for quality and safety before it is added to the store and available to players.
• Players use Minecraft Coins, a virtual currency, to make purchases. This allows creators to set a single price globally.

Battlezone website is accepting signups to beta test the Windows VR version of Battlezone, the retro action/strategy game (thanks Eurogamer). This is already available for PlayStation VR, and now they are preparing versions for release for Oculus Rift and HTC VIVE. Registrations end on the 13th, and here's word on the testing:

Why are we doing a beta?
PC is a fantastic platform for gamers because of the choice it offers. Before we release Battlezone on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift we want to make sure it’s optimised for the different kinds of hardware configurations you use, as well as testing the performance of online co-op.

To do this, we need your help! We’re looking for a select group of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift owners who want to help test our game, and are keen to give feedback directly to the devs.

When is the beta?
The Beta will run from April 19th to April 25th inclusive.

How can I get involved?
Obviously you’ll need either the HTC Vive or the Oculus Rift, and meet the minimum specs on your PC – as long as you have that, you’re in with a chance!

The Sims 4 is the top title on the GFK Chart-Track top 30 chart of the bestselling PC games in the U.K. for the week ending April 8th. The little people continue to dominate this chart, as a five of the top 11 games are from that series. Mass Effect: Andromeda was number two last week, but now drops to number seven. Persona 5 debuts at number one on the all platforms chart, where Mass Effect: Andromeda drops to number five after a brief stint at number one. Here's how they summarize all this action:

Launched on Tuesday on PS4 and PS3 and receiving glowing reviews, ‘Persona 5’ from Atlus/Deep Silver debuts at No1.

It is the first J-RPG (Japanese RPG) to debut at the top of the All Formats Chart since ‘Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch’ back in W5 2013 (‘Final Fantasy XV’ launched at No2, but it had to contend with ‘FIFA 17’). It is by far the biggest launch for a ‘Persona’ title and the first ever All Formats No1 for developer and publisher Atlus. ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ slips down to No5 after two weeks at the top, while ‘Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ and ‘Lego Worlds’ both hold on to No’s 2 and 3 respectively. Originally released on Wii U back in W13 2013 when it debuted at No12, ‘Lego City Undercover’ comes to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, pushing it back in to the chart at No8 and giving publisher Warner Bros. two Lego games in the Top 10 and four in the Top 40. Retailer promotions give boosts to ‘Overwatch’ up from No14 to No10 and ‘WWE 2K17’ up from No19 to No13.

The only other new titles to make the Top 40 are ‘Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition’ from Gearbox Publishing/Maximum Games at No23 and ‘Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits’ at No36. Sister title ‘Yo-Kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls’ fails to make the Top 40.

• Dota 2 Update - April 9th, 2017.

• KORULDIA, Heritage (RPG) -- Steam Greenlight. "Koruldia is a J-RPG with its own unique style, a stylized pixel-painting art technique giving a “Neo-Retro” finish to a singular visual experience." Here's a prototype trailer from a few years ago.

• Charter Conducting 28 GHz Band 5G Wireless Trials in Florida.
• Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies.

• ADATA Announces The XPG SX7000 Series SSDs: Up to 1 TB, M.2, PCIe 3.0 x4.
• Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic. Thanks HARDOCP.
• BBC Micro – The computer that helped build an industry - gamesTM.
• 21 things we miss about old computers. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

• Apple: Malware, Predominantly Adware, On Macs Jumped Over 700% in 2016. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• Payday lender Wonga admits to data breach.

• Disney files patent for “huggable and interactive” humanoid robots. Somehow omitted the word "creepy."

• Aaero on Christ Centered Gamer.
• Europa Universalis IV: Mandate Of Heaven on GameWatcher.
• Mass Effect: Andromeda on TweakTown.

• ADATA XPG SX8000 PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers.org.
• ASRock Z270 SuperCarrier Motherboard on TweakTown.
• ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VI HERO X370 Motherboard on Play3r.
• ASUS ROG Swift PG258Q Monitor on TechSpot.
• Cooler Master MasterAir Pro3 & Pro4 Coolers on Play3r.
• Corsair Gaming K63 Compact Mechanical Keyboard on Bjorn3D.com.
• Corsair Hydro Series H110i 280mm Liquid Cooler on Mad Shrimps.
• Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 2666MHz 16GB RAM Kit on pcGameware.
• Gamdias Hermes P1 RGB Test on Overclocked Inside. German.
• Kingston Ultimate GT 2TB Flash Drive on The SSD Review.
• Lian Li PC-Q17 WX Mini-ITX Aluminum Enclosure on PC Perspective.

• 'I was there when Atari left Limerick with 600 jobs. It’s a day I hope to never repeat’…
• Spawn Point - Series 8 Episode 08. Thanks Ant…
• Mass Effect: Andromeda update locks pirates out of eye-fixing patch…
• Heroes Of The Storm Matchmaking Helps Two People Get Hitched In Real Life…

Congrats to UT Arlington for raging through Blizzard's Heroes of the Dorm tournament. My brain gets quickly overwhelmed by too much strategy, so Heroes of the Storm is about as much MOBA as I can handle, and I enjoy watching the matches. This is actually the third year in a row that I've watched parts of this tournament, which made me laugh at myself when I thought more about it. I've explained dozens of times that I don't watch college sports, and now I realize that for this HotS scenario I'm the exact opposite, as I get caught up in this amateur collegiate tournament every year, but I almost never watch professional games. That seems a little weird.

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