The iconic word board game Scrabble has added the word “newb” to its official dictionary along with some other Internet-speak terms most gamers will recognize. Collins, which publishes the Official Scrabble Words dictionary, has added 6,500 words to the board game overall in its first update since 2011. Some other words you may have seen […]

The first-ever PC gaming show at E3 continues to grow. Organizers this week announced ten new developers that will appear during the event in some form, including Guild Wars developer ArenaNet and Total War studio Creative Assembly. The full list of newly confirmed developers is below. These developers add to the previously announced batch participants, […]

Iconic gaming console the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America thirty years ago in 1985. To mark the milestone, video game museum The Strong has announced that it will host a special exhibit dedicated to the system later this year. The exhibit is being jointly produced by The Strong and the Ritsumeikan University […]

Watch extended gameplay footage from Destiny: House of Wolves featuring the Giant Bomb crew.

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Destiny‘s 3v3 Trials of Osiris multiplayer event–introduced to the shooter through the House of Wolves expansion–will begin tomorrow, May 22, Bungie has confirmed. As part of the developer’s latest Bungie Weekly Update, the studio revealed that the event will kick off at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT / 6 PM UK. Trials of […]

Stardock today released the first post-launch patch for Galactic Civilizations III, and we have the full patch notes for you below. Gal Civ III was released just last week, and this patch brings it to version 1.01. This is primarily an update that deals with bug fixes, but it does add more than a dozen […]

Razer today announced a new premium mousepad that needs to be plugged in to fully function, as it comes equipped with LEDs along three of its sides. Called the Razer Firefly, this “hard gaming mouse mat” features customizable lights along the left, right, and bottom borders. The Firefly uses the same Chroma lighting feature seen […]

Microsoft will soon add a number of new features to the Windows 10’s Xbox app, including game hubs, new Game DVR options, and more. The Xbox app, which remains available only to those in the Windows Insider program that provides testers with an early version of Windows 10, aims to offer a number of Xbox […]

Developer Harebrained Schemes has released the first trailer and screenshots for its upcoming role-playing game, Shadowrun: Hong Kong. The studio has also published a Steam page, where you can pre-purchase the game for $20, a 33 percent markdown from the $30 launch price. The images and trailer show off Hong Kong’s varied environments, ranging from […]