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HITMAN: The Complete First Season for Linux

Hitman: The Complete First Season was released on 31 January 2017 with all prior content included, except for past Elusive Targets. A port of Hitman to Linux was released on 16 February 2017. This is the first time the 16


How to Download and Play Candy Crush Saga on PC

Candy Crush Saga is a match-three puzzle video game released by the developer King on April 12, 2012 for Facebook, and on November 14, 2012 as a mobile app from smartphones. As of March 2013, Candy Crush Saga surpassed FarmVille


Sony release remote play app on the play store

Sony has been updating its Android gaming software suite lately. The PlayStation App has received a couple of new features and Sony’s PS4 Remote Play service, which allows users to stream PS4 games wirelessly to their smartphone or tablet, has


Angry Birds Transformers Hits App Store

New Angry Birds game will arrive for Android on October 30. Angry Birds fans. Your favorite birds are back, and this time they’ll face off against crazed robots to save Piggy Island in Rovio’s latest mobile game, Angry Birds Transformers.


Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ Turns Your Living Room Into A Video Game

Microsoft’s IllumiRoom project has expanded beyond a single-Kinect set-up and is now called “RoomAlive.” RoomAlive turns an enclosed area into an interactive gaming space, with enemies and puzzles projected on walls, floors and objects for residents to take out with


‘Angry Birds’ Animated 3D Movie released on July 1, 2016

“Angry Birds” movie, with release date July 1, 2016, is loaded with comedians as Sony and Rovio announced the voice cast recently. “Saturday Night Live” alumnus Jason Sudeikis will play the Red Bird with a temper problem. Josh Gad, who


Wine 1.7.28 released

Wine 1.7.28 adds support for conditional compilation in JavaScript, bi-direction text support in DirectWrite, and stubs out DirectPlay Voice support. DirectWrite has been worked on for a while now within Wine as Microsoft’s text/glyph rendering API that replaces GDI/GDI+ and


GfK: Netflix Usage on Video Game Consoles Declining

A new report from research firm GfK indicates that, while videogame systems are still the most common hardware used for watching Netflix on a TV screen , they are being used much less than they were three years ago. The


Dota 2 Hit With Substantial Changes in Latest Update

Valve has announced a host of changes to hit with the latest patch for Dota 2. Named the Rekindling Soul update, patch 6.82 introduces a host changes that alter the game’s map, introduces a new rune, and alters most heroes


Sony’s $99 PlayStation TV to launch on October 14

Sony said PlayStation TV set-top box, which allows users to access movies and TV episodes from the PlayStation store, will hit stores in the United States and Canada on October 14. The price for a standalone PlayStation TV (PS TV)