A post on Steam announces Fire & Steel, new DLC in the works for Company of Heroes 3, the World War II action/strategy sequel from Relic Entertainment. This is expected to launch later this month, and if you're interested you can add it to your wishlist on Steam right now. The reveal includes this trailer with a look at new weapons and units from the DLC in action. Word is this will add a new battlegroup to every faction in the game:

Company of Heroes 3: Fire & Steel is a Battlegroup DLC pack consisting of four Battlegroups for Multiplayer and Co-Op/Skirmish vs AI. That means each faction in the game will receive a new Battlegroup! These supplemental forces consist of powerful units and abilities to enhance your forces and employ new tactics and strategy.

These Battlegroups may well be our most exciting post-launch content to date. Firstly, each battlegroup contains one super-heavy tank, each of which are franchise classics, and have been highly requested by the CoH3 community. The M26 Pershing, Churchill Crocodile, King Tiger, and Elefant Tank Destroyer are all making their return.

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Prime Gaming Blog has details on the February content update for Prime Gaming. This is a bonus perk for Amazon Prime subscribers that includes free games each month. Here's word on what's ready for Prime time this month:

This February, Prime members can claim a fresh lineup of free games, including BioShock Infinite Complete Edition, Surf World Series, AK-xolotl: Together, Sands of Aura, The Talos Principle: Gold Edition, Stunt Kite Party, The Smurfs 2 — The Prisoner of the Green Stone, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior, Dark Sky, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, El Hijo — A Wild West Tale, Colt Canyon, Republic of Jungle, Royal Romances: Cursed Hearts Collector’s Edition, Deus Ex: Human Revolution — Director’s Cut, Night Reverie, Sine Mora EX, Redemption Reapers and Yes, Your Grace.

• Avalanche Working on Hogwarts Legacy DLC, Sequel and "Refreshed Version" - MP1st.

• Adidas Kicks Now in Fortnite (trailer).

Unofficial games, patches, and mods.

• Classic Doom just got a Doom- The Dark Ages-inspired Mod - DSOGaming.
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth 4K Mod now overhauls over 3900 textures - DSOGaming.

• New Diriyah Formula E Track Hits Trackmania in Season 2! - Trackmania. Thanks Frans.

• PSN Still Down After 15 Hours- Here Is Sony's Response - GameSpot.

• NVIDIA Responds To Bricked RTX 5090-5090D GPUs, Says It Is -Investigating- The Reported Issues - Wccftech.
• TSMC To Restrict Orders Below 16nm From China Given That They Don't Comply With New US Regulations - Wccftech.
• Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin- 'Maybe the problem is you' • The Register. Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, - PC Gamer.

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Keyboard: Iqunix EZ63 gaming keyboard hands-on review- Hall-effect and 8 kHz polling meet top-tier typing tech - NotebookCheck.net Reviews.
• Laptop: Finally, a powerful Windows laptop that rivals the MacBook Pro (and has a better display, too) - ZDNET.

Well the weather forecast around has wavered between dire and very dire for a couple of days now. There's a severe winter storm warning in effect, and the snowfall estimates range between six and ten inches, depending on when you check. It's very likely this will have no impact here, but I do like to give a heads-up when the predictions include the possibility the BlueTower will lose power, which is certainly the case now. Fingers crossed.

Obituary: Stage and film actor Tony Roberts dies - AP News.

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Story

• A UMass student was denied $10K for hitting a half-court shot. Then the athletic department stepped in - The Athletic.

Science

• After damage by scientists, Inuit group closes off access to Earth’s oldest rocks - Science - AAAS.
• Humans Are Evolving Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau - ScienceAlert.

Creature Features

• Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it - ZME Science.
• Shiba-san's Surprise Birthday Party. Pass the crazy pills. Thanks Boing Boing.