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The Games For Change Festival hosted its annual awards ceremony on Wednesday night, honoring socially conscious games in three categories: Most Innovative, Most Impactful, and Best Gameplay. Game of the Year, the fourth and final award, was given to a game that embodied all three categories. Some 140 games were...

Developer Tripwire Interactive is giving Steam users a freebie. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, a World War 2-themed tactical shooter, is available for free. Like Valve did with Left 4 Dead 2 some months ago, the game is yours to keep forever as long as it’s added to your...

In a nine-minute walkthrough of Watch Dogs‘ multiplayer component, Animation Director Colin Graham takes us through streets filled with people staring at their phones. It’s the future. Watch Dogs is due out on May 27 for PC, Xbox One, PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360.

League of Legends‘ next champion will be the beefy barbarian Braum, developer Riot Games has revealed. The Freljord native will take up his massive shield to block projectiles and soak up damage from enemy champions. The official League of Legends site has more details on this magnificently mustachioed man, who...

Need for Speed: Shift developer Slightly Mad Studios announced that its sim-styled racer Project Cars is due to hit the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and PC platforms in November. Project Cars demonstrates its slick presentation and advanced damage modeling in the newly released trailer above. Slightly Mad recently...

Omori, a “surreal, exploration, horror RPG” from webcomic artist Omocat bears fleeting similarities to popular games like Nintendo’s Earthbound, which may be what pushed it past its $22,000 goal on Kickstarter in just over one day. Omori has players traveling between two worlds, exploring their own memories and uncovering some...

Facebook has earned U.S. antitrust approval to purchase Oculus VR, clearing the way for its acquisition of the company and its Oculus Rift VR headset technology, Reuters reports. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition this week. Facebookannounced its purchase plans last month, revealing...

A proposed spiritual successor to Rare’s Nintendo 64 platformer Banjo-Kazooie has been called off, series composer Grant Kirkhope confirmed in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” post this week. “The other guys actually had a secret meeting in a pub near Rare and we even got as far as having a...

Now that everybody expects the Dragon Age: Inquisition in October, EA’s seen fit to reveal what’s in the game’s Digital Deluxe Edition. The $70/£60 bundle features the RPG’s digital soundtrack as well as a bunch of in-game goodies. That includes everything from a throne fashioned out of a dragon skull...

The new Lords of the Fallen trailer is a bit Groundhog Day, except with Bill Murray as an unwavering knight rather than an arrogant weatherman, and instead of reliving some local festivities, he’s stuck in an endless loop of grueling, bloody duels to the death. Yup, we’d so watch that...