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• Play Steam games in 4K on your fancy telly with the new Steam Link app for recent Samsung TVs

  Steam Link, without the extra hardware? I’m listening.

• Mount & Blade: Warband's best mods and where to get them

  Waiting for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlords? Stop twiddling your thumbs and give some of these Warband mods a whirl.

• Steam Summer Sale 2017 ends this week: here's our pick of the best shooters on PC

  The Steam Summer Sale is a great opportunity to pick up some of the best shooters available.

• The best Steam Summer Sale deals: VG247's list of the best games on sale

  We trawl the sale so that you don’t have to.

• Paradox to roll back price increases on current titles, but is unable to for games included in the Steam Summer Sale

  After quite a bit of push back, Paradox Interactive has rolled back price increases which went into effect starting in May.

• Humble Software Bundle features $534 worth of products for $12

  Humble Bundle has a rather nice pay what you want software bundle available, and it comes with ten offerings.

• Cities: Skylines will be released on PlayStation 4 in mid-August

  Cities: Skylines is coming to PlayStation 4.

• Ocean's Day Humble Bundle has Abzu and Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons, plus Columns for some reason

  Humble Bundle has some pretty good games this week, including the one you tried to pretend was as good as Tetris when your Nintendo-loving pals sneered at your Sega.

• Say goodbye to Steam Greenlight and hello to Steam Direct, Valve doesn't need your input any more

  Steam Greenlight is going away, for better or worse.

• Developers using Steam Greenlight's replacement Steam Direct will be charged a $100 recoupable publishing fee

  Valve has provided an update on Steam Greenlight’s replacement, Steam Direct, and how it will affect the Store’s algorithm and cutdown on the ability for “fake game” developers to game the Trading Card system.

• Kerbal Space Program has been bought by GTA 5 publisher Take-Two

  Kerbal Space Program developer Squad has announced GTA 5 publisher Take-Two has acquired the IP.

• Wait, what? Frog Fractions 2 is in the latest Humble Bundle?

  Frog Fractions 2, one of gaming’s greatest mysteries, can be yours.

• Dreamfall Chapters drops you right in it with no hand holding, then makes you care

  Dreamfall Chapters is the end of a story, but it’s worthwhile getting on board at the last station of this long journey.

• Hi-bit platform-adventure title Owlboy making its way to Nintendo Switch

  The lovely 2D indie game Owlboy is coming to Nintendo Switch.

• Minecraft dev agrees to change parrot breeding system after popular Reddit post points out it could kill real birds

  Minecraft is not a good place to learn about animal care.

• Humble Bundle is back in its purest form this week, and brought some great games with it

  Humble Bundle goes back to its roots with a collection of DRM-free, cross platform indie gems.

• Steam Summer Sale dates leak, kicks off towards the end of next month - rumour

  Steam Summer Sale returns, like an annual plague where the symptoms include bleeding money and gentle hysteria.

• Humble Store is hosting a banging Spring Sale, Dungeons 2 is free for the next 20 hours

  The Humble Store is having a Spring Sale, and if discounts don’t sway you very much, maybe a free game will tempt you.

• You can get Punch Club and a stack more indies in the tinyBuild Humble Bundle

  A stack of interesting indie games from a range of genres, all for the cost of lunch.