Celebrating the launch of its Linux client, Steam has discounted everything in its catalog that runs on the open source operating system, including half or more off Torchlight II, FTL: Faster Than Light and many other top indie releases. Elsewhere, you'll find decent savings on...

Amazon has some of the best deals we've seen in a while, with steep discounts on various titles launched earlier this year. Some notables include Mass Effect 3 for $15.99, all the Crysis titles for $14.98, Borderlands + DNF + The Darkness II for $19.99 GTA IV + Max Payne 3 for $29.99...

As you've undoubtedly heard, the third installment of BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy hit shelves last Tuesday. Being one of the year's most anticipated launches, it's no surprise to see it with an aggregate review score of over 90.

We've benchmarked Mass Effect 3 across three different resolutions with two dozen GPU configurations -- including AMD's new Radeon HD 7000 series. We'll also see how the performance scales when overclocking an eight-core FX-8150, along with benching a handful of other Intel and AMD processors.

Here are the real questions everyone has: did my favorite feature from Mass Effect come back? Does my favorite skill from Mass Effect 2 carry over? And what about the romantic relationship I chose, or my favorite companion, or that great gun? Is it my Normandy, my Citadel, my galaxy? Do my choices matter?

Is this, in short, truly the Mass Effect title for which we have all been waiting for so very many interminable months? Yes. Yes it is.

A report from the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) suggests the industry is alive and kicking with record software sales of $18.6 billion in 2011, a 15% increase over 2010. That's partly attributed to China, which is growing nearly twice as fast as the global market...