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PC sci-fi strategy title Civilization Beyond Earth is to set sail on alien seas later this year with a new add-on. Rising Tide adds a host of aquatic-based gameplay, including the ability to construct floating bases on top of water and drill down into new resources below the ocean floor. …

Firm seeking feedback for innovative texture compression technique

NCsoft’s sci-fi MMO Wildstar could be in the cusp of abandoning subscription charges. A new listing for the game on SteamDB suggests that the game will be free-on-demand” whenever it eventually appears on Valve’s service. That’s the name used by all free-to-play games on Steam. The data is mined from …

Steam topped 9.5m concurrent users over the past weekend, setting yet another new record for Valve’s service. The digital distributor was busy as usual last Sunday, at one point surpassing the new milestone by a couple thousand individuals – 9,502,661 total according toGameSpot. Steam reached 9m concurrent usersless than two …

Indie developer Studio Wildcard has announced an open-world dinosaur survival game for next-gen consoles and PC. Called Ark: Survival Evolved, the game is built using Unreal Engine 4 and focuses around multiplayer co-op and a persistent ecosystem. Crafting, hunting, shelter building, tech developing and harvesting seem very much the order …

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has amassed more than 1m pre-orders ahead of its launch later this month, developer CD Projekt Red has announced. The milestone was reached across PC, PS4 and Xbox One platforms. CD Projekt Red didn’t provide a breakdown for how much each platform has sold, though …

Grand Theft Auto V has again finished on top of Steam’s weekly top selling products, while The Witcher franchise made a big splash as well. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive took the runner-up spot ahead of pre-orders of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with Project Cars and the new Stars Wars Collection …

Valve has revealed the ten teams to receive direct invites to the prestigious annual Dota 2 tournament, The International, with a current prize pool of $6.3m. Alongside the ten professional teams heading straight to KeyArena in Seattle, WA, this August 3-8, Valve has opened the doors for any team to …

We’ve entered a new month, and Grand Theft Auto V still won’t loosen its grip of the number one spot on Steam’s top ten selling products chart. A hard-charging Star Wars Collection finished in the runner-up position for its debut, while last week’s runner-up Killing Floor slipped slightly to third. …

As for an apology. Ain’t gonna happen. To everyone that got overly offended. Good, thats what we were going for. Just wait for our next game we are working on, its gonna be way more offensive as this one.[sic]” That’s the message from the developer of a game called ‘Kill …