As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don’t actually care that much for the metric

Steam player counts are an odd metric. They can be a neat insight into a game’s initial popularity (at least on PC), and a handy way of gaining some kind of ballpark on games that keep their active playerbase numbers closer to their chest. But they’re also unceremoniously used to throw games under the bus—declaring…

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Interview: “It Was An Amateurish Company In A Good Way” – Capcom Japan’s First Localisation Lead Talks Marvel, Resident Evil, & Working With Shinji Mikami

“There was no such word as ‘localisation.’ They were just calling it ‘text translation.’”. If you happened to play a lot of Capcom games in the ’90s and early 2000s, there’s a high probability you may have seen Takuya “Tom” Shiraiwa’s name scroll across your screen at some point in the past. Though we’re willing…

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‘We undercalled the level of enthusiasm’: Apple’s Tim Cook says supply is constrained for the MacBook Neo, but ‘we could not be happier with how things are going at the moment’

The MacBook Neo is an impressive machine in many respects. Beyond the fact that it starts at $599 and makes for a very good productivity laptop (although not so much for gaming), the cheap-but-cheerful machine’s popularity appears to have taken even Apple by surprise. In the Q&A section of the company’s recent Q2 2026 earnings…

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A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard’s made it for, that doesn’t mean I feel good about it

World of Warcraft’s player housing feature is great—the microtransactions involved? Not so much. To be clear: There’s a huge list of decor you can get in the game without paying anything other than your usual subscription, and the system has enough freedom that you can absolutely build your own treehouse, if you wanted. But it…

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