Dane of War, a seminal and active game news blogger is closing his blog and joining Geekcentricity. (source) His previous 6000+ posts go with him.

GameSalute is a fantastic new game news site launched by Dan Yarrington of Myriad Games with apparently a lot of backing. The general idea of Game Salute is to provide an online destination, referral service, and networking hub for customers of brick-and-mortar game stores.