YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has handily summarised the latter’s Q4 results in a blog post this week, and right near the top is an interesting figure: YouTube’s annual revenues surpassed $60 billion across ads and subscriptions. Looking deeper into the fiscal results themselves, YouTube ads brought in $11.38 billion in the last quarter,…

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Interview: “I Did My Best To Make It Work” – Legendary Localiser On Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, & The “Total Nightmare” Of Xenogears

“I was telling [the Xenogears team], ‘Please tone down some of this stuff.’”. Last week, we published the first half of our conversation with the localisation legend Richard Honeywood. In that previous article, we covered the surprisingly eventful journey of how the Australian game developer originally moved to Japan, his memories of his first video…

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A Redditor claims to have lucked out on a half-price Walmart RTX 5080 and that’s pretty much the only way you’re gonna get a cheap GPU these days

A Redditor on ye olde PC Master Race subreddit claims to have picked up an RTX 5080 in-store at Walmart for a mere $562.49. That’s a fantastic price by any measure for an RTX 5080, but particularly right now with prices rising and the cheapest 5080s available online coming in at over $1,300. Let’s assume…

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Here’s what we think the Steam Machine will cost now that Valve’s admitted ‘limited availability and growing prices’ have forced it to change plans

We were pumped for the launch of the Steam Machine after visiting Valve HQ late last year. We even wrote up some pricing expectations, which in hindsight look to be the product of incredibly wishful thinking. But we didn’t know what we do now. Due to incredible demand for memory chips of all kinds—DRAM, mostly,…

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