Experience Aloy’s entire legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a world ruled by deadly Machines.

An outcast from her tribe, the young hunter fights to uncover her past, discover her destiny… and stop a catastrophic threat to the future.

Unleash devastating, tactical attacks against unique Machines and rival tribes as you explore an open world teeming with wildlife and danger.

Horizon Zero Dawn™ is a multi-award-winning action role-playing game – and this Complete Edition for PC includes the huge expansion The Frozen Wilds, featuring new lands, skills, weapons and Machines.

On Saturday, July 4, join us for a special in-game showing of -- We The People -- at Fortnite’s Party Royale.

WHAT IS WE THE PEOPLE?
ØPUS UNITED presents We The People, a series of conversations that advance the dialogue around race in America with prominent BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) voices in business, sports, media, music, and entertainment. Tune in this Saturday, July 4 at @ 8:46am CDT (9:46am EDT) in Party Royale -- Fortnite’s space for shows and more -- to watch We The People.

We The People is hosted by Van Jones, who will be joined by Elaine Welteroth, former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue, Jemele Hill, writer for The Atlantic, Killer Mike, rapper / songwriter / visionary, and Lil Baby, a gifted hip hop musician. Van Jones and guests will be speaking about how to change systemic racism in media, culture and entertainment.

Satisfactory has sold 1,326,518 copies in total as of today, July 3. 958,917 of those sales have been on Epic, and the remaining 367,601 sales have come through Steam. Epic reached the 500k mark just under three months after launch, and Steam has reached 367k in under a month, so the game is certainly selling faster on Valve’s platform.

Community manager Jace Varlet attributes the speedier sales on Steam to a few main factors. First, “obviously, Steam is a goliath, so there’s just so many more people there. That’s gonna weigh into things.” Second, Coffee Stain’s take on building games has also enjoyed extra promotion with a 10% discount as part of the Steam Summer Sale – the first discount on Epic happened early, but not within the first month.

“Having said that, in my opinion, I think Steam is gonna overtake it. There’s just more people.”

Varlet adds that there are “other things to consider: Satisfactory is a better game now. There’s more features. It’s had one more year of exposure.”

From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond A Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’.

You are Robert Foster. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack. You have vowed to bring him home. The trail has led you to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown.

Union City is a utopia, its people loving life under the control of an altruistic AI: ever-attentive androids, designer living, piazzas and bars. What’s not to love? But this City has a dark underbelly...

‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to – and is subverted by – the player’s actions.

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• GamesIndustry.biz - Amazon and Google are in games for the wrong reasons - Opinion.
  "The problem is that that's not a reason to make games; it's an end that they think games could fulfil. The games themselves are just a means to that end, which makes it entirely unsurprising when the games and services birthed from that philosophy aren't actually appealing or interesting to consumers. They're not designed from the outset to appeal to consumers; they're designed to connect a few things together in a corporate planning flowchart."

• Animal Crossing's Summer Update Is Live And You Can Catch An Octopus.
• This Week On Xbox- July 03, 2020 - Xbox Live's Major Nelson.

• Zynga closes acquisition of Peak for $1.8 billion.

• Reckful: Twitch and gamers pay tribute after star's death.
• OfflineTV Fandom Divided After Popular Streamer Thrown Out Over Abuse Allegations.
• Canada's biggest banks join boycott of Facebook platforms.

• Why are people switching to AMD? Video.
• The most iconic, game-changing graphics cards ever made.
• Cooler makers are finally fixing AMD Ryzen's biggest annoyance.
• Harvard's transforming robotic fabric could lead to therapeutic wearables.

• Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript.
• New Apple macOS Big Sur feature to hamper adware operations.
• F5 patches vulnerability that received a CVSS 10 severity score.

• It’s happened again- AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim's number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• Watch We The People in Fortnite. A "series of conversations that advance the dialogue around race in America." Repeats all day tomorrow…
• Sony Is Said to Weigh Bid for Chinese Gaming Firm Leyou. Owner of Digital Extremes…

The new studio, LightSpeed LA, will be led by former Rockstar veteran Steve Martin and will focus on the development and publishing of AAA titles, Tencent Games’ LightSpeed and Quantum Studios said in a statement to Reuters.

“We’re ushering in a new era of game culture by combining world-class development with a stress-free work environment,” Martin said in the statement.

Tencent is trying to build an array of studios overseas with the goal of creating content with original intellectual property that has global appeal.

The launch is also the firm’s latest move in a strategy to derive half its games revenue from overseas, a category that accounted for about 23% of its fourth-quarter online game sales.

There are so many “The Settlers” fans out there who love the many different aspects of the game. Be it the economic part, the military, the look and feel, the “wuselfaktor” or the inviting world – to name a few. We are incredibly grateful for your feedback, and over the last few months, while performing playtests and diary studies, one thing became clear: while we are on the right path to deliver a great game, we really want to deliver an exceptional gaming experience.

Since quality is our main priority, we want to take the time necessary to make it right. Therefore, we had to make the difficult decision to postpone the release of the game until further notice. The additional time will be used to address your feedback and deliver the best “The Settlers” game possible. While we cannot provide a new release date yet, rest assured we will keep you updated via The Settlers Alliance and our other channels as soon as we can give you further information.

There is no fast forward to now because this is the time for us to stop and thank every single fan, player, partner, and colleague that we met along the way. We are lucky enough to have survived twenty years of videogames, which is an achievement on its own. Keeping to our original mission to create games that would appeal to wargamers, we very seldom drifted away from that track and never by much. We keep making strategy wargames that are deep and have a soul; we keep trying to find new fans with our roots running deep in our history’s soil.

The whole idea of Slitherine started with a dinosaur’s game for Game Boy, would you believe. It was the prehistory of videogames when things were so different and so much the same. Working from home was a necessity of a different kind, and business was a different kind of tough. Our quarterly meetings of five of us in JD’s war room were the only chances to talk and shake hands and see each other: three pizzas were more than enough to feed the whole company for lunch. They are not even sufficient for the PR department now.

In these twenty years, we faced challenges, we built solid foundations and almost saw them crumble, we made bad choices, and we made great ones. We found real friends and made some rivals. We launched good products and even terrible ones. When things got tough, we grew up and rose to the next level.

The 'Blazing Deserts' DLC for Battle Brothers expands the game with new lands of burning deserts and lush oases to the south. Visit independent city states, fight in the arena, face desert raiders and southern beasts in battle. Wear new gear inspired by Arabian and Persian cultures of the medieval ages, employ alchemical contraptions and primitive firearms, and forge your own path when the fires of religious turmoil threaten to engulf the world in a new late game crisis.

In Tennis World Tour 2, fans can experience a realistic tennis game that captures all the sport's unique characteristics and competitiveness. Using feedback from a fan community comprising some 700,000 gamers, many aspects of the game have been redesigned from the ground up. This includes faster gameplay that puts players' skills and nerves to the test. More animations have also been added, which improves the game's realism and fluidity.

Big Ant studio also wanted to offer more diverse content for this new game in the series by adding doubles tennis and a new competition that tennis players will be very familiar with: Tie Break Tens. This format consists of short matches where the winner is the first to reach 10 points, ideal for when you want to play intense matches and a quick series of games.

No matter how twisted and dangerous the post apocalyptic world is, the Crossout football season begins on schedule. Wasteland warriors move their mighty war machines to the garage and switch to harpoon-equipped armoured cars. These vehicles are created specifically to move a giant ball in the arena to try and score a goal. The matches take place in the “3 vs 3” format, winners accumulate rating points and may get a promotion to a higher league.Rewards include unique thematic cosmetic items, i.e. the epic rarity decor “Referee's whistle”. Players may also purchase the “Third time” premium pack that includes a unique armoured vehicle “Fan van”. The “Steel Championship” event will run until 22nd July.

• GOG.com Weekend Sale: card games and Activision classics up to 75% off.

• Captain America Arrives in Fortnite.
• Dota 2 - The International 10 Collector’s Cache.
• Outscape - Patch v118 – Bug Fixing.
• Shadow Arena adds Venslar.

• Ubisoft Forward: World Teaser.

• An Interview with Norihisa Kochiwa - The Producer of the Death end re;Quest Series and CEO of Compile Heart! - IFI's Online Store.

• EVO Online 2020 cancelled in wake of sexual abuse allegations.
• Rocket League Season 14 extended as Psyonix prepares game-changing update.

• DIRT 5 – All Car Classes Revealed- Rock Bouncers, Sprint Cars and More.

• Alphadia Genesis Is Now Available For Xbox One And Windows 10 (Xbox Play Anywhere).
• Clash Force Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• REZ PLZ Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• The Great Perhaps Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• Next Week on Xbox- July 7 to 10.

• T-Mobile is shutting down Sprint's 5G network.

• Windows 10 2004- Microsoft kills memory bugs behind 5% to 10% of Windows flaws.
• AMD mATX, Mini-ITX Motherboards Are Significantly More Expensive Than Intel Equivalents.
• ASRock Launches B460, H410 Thin Mini-ITX Motherboards For Comet Lake-S CPUs.
• How to Factory Reset Windows 10.
• How to Make Your Tech Last Longer. If your tech lasts for more than four hours, call your doctor.
• Bad Ass Build of the Day - Hypothermia.

• Windows 10: Microsoft Defender ATP now rates your security configurations.
• F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch.
• LinkedIn says iOS clipboard snooping after every key press is a bug, will fix.
• How Have I Been Pwned became the keeper of the internet’s biggest data breaches.

• Hunting Simulator 2 Review - IGN.

• ASUS STRIX B550-I Gaming Motherboard review - Guru3D.
• BIOSTAR Racing B460GTA Motherboard Review - TechPowerUp.
• CARDEA ZERO-Z340 3x4 PCIe NVMe2 M.2 512GB SSD Review - BabelTechReviews
• Dell XPS 17 (9700) Laptop Review: Big Screen Machine - Tom's Hardware.
• DURGOD Taurus K320 Mechanical Keyboard Review - Nikk Tech.
• Linksys MX5 Velop AX Whole Home Wi-Fi 6 System Review - TweakTown.
• Technics EAH-AZ70W true wireless earbuds review - Engadget.

• Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito has to be the next Far Cry villain, right? Not PUBG? Winner, winner, Los Pollos Hermanos dinner!…
• League of Legends’ Yuumi “hasn’t been fair to play against”, but changes are coming…
• Episode one of Quintus and the Absent Truth is now available for free, offering a game where you solve puzzles with assistance from your helpful mouse. Here's a trailer…

Damp Links
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Breakfast Links

• How to get a free copy of the 9th edition rules for Warhammer 40,000.
• Airplane! at 40: the best spoof comedy ever made? Surely you can't be serious. Thanks RedEye9.

Stories

• Boeing 747 Program Comes to a Close. Thanks AccessRadioDJ.
• Japan debuts new bullet train that can run during an earthquake. Quakepiercer.

Science

• How to watch the 'Independence Day' lunar eclipse.
• LIGO is so sensitive it shudders with the quantum noise of light.
• Researchers Develop a New Ultrafast Insulin for Management of Blood Sugar in Diabetes.

Media

• Sheets Weren’t Changed at Some Hotels During COVD-19. Super creepy.
• Couch gliding.
• Stormy Weather in color - Nicholas Brothers and Cab Calloway.

Follow-up

• New coronavirus mutation spreads faster but doesn't make people sicker, study confirms.
• How the White House Coronavirus Response Went Wrong - The Atlantic. Thanks JDreyer.