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Valve’s Steam Summer Sale is officially underway, offering a variety of specials and discounts on the distributor’s vast PC games library for the next ten days. An announcement post on Steam’s News section states that more than a hundred products will be featured as Daily Deals. The sale also includes …

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IPSOS MediaCT’s Tom Cross reveals some of the latest GameTrack figures to uncover where money is being spent on gaming. Gaming has been possible in the digital space for many years now but it is only fairly recently that digital formats have become mainstream. Since GameTrack began in Q4 2011, …

David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. TheBBCreports that the honour was given for his services to the UK’s game and computer industries. Braben, who runs UK developer Frontier, co-created space sim Elite with Ian Bell in 1984, which went on to win huge critical …

Early Access title The Forest continues to outpace the rest on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. The game has been on top of the list for a few weeks now, perhaps suggesting there’s a new sheriff in town – though DayZ is still selling strong enough to finish …

Galactic MMO Elite: Dangerous has emerged from E3 with a new trailer. Frontier Developments showcased the new trailer, which offers a detailed look at the gameplay in Elite: Dangerous. The footage shows off the open-world gameplay of Elite: Dangerous as players board their spacecraft and head out into the vast …

SteamOS has been dropped from Alienware’s upcoming mini gaming PC range in favour of Windows. The Steam Box will launch at the end of this year with a $550 price tag. But absent from the device are both the Steam OS and controller. Alienware will instead ship its offering with …

Brendan Iribe says consumer headset will be cheaper following Facebook deal

Rockstar has finally confirmed what has been long rumoured – GTA V is heading to next-gen consoles and PC. The game was reveled as part of Sony’s E3 press conference last night, but will be released across all three platforms. Due for release this autumn, the new release promises across-the-board …

PC gamers can now use the Xbox One controller on their humble rig. Microsoft has released official PC drivers for the gamepad, which enables it for use in a long list of games and applications that already support the Xbox 360 controller. The firm has also said the drivers will …