ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers ‘illegal’ in Stop Killing Games hearing: ‘We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits’

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California’s Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty…

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‘99% of the work was already done in a sense’: Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck

Hardware development, much like games, is all about iteration. So, it’s fair to say we wouldn’t have the Steam Machine without the Steam Deck. We recently spoke to Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais, and asked them whether they felt Valve’s ongoing work on the Steam Deck meant there’d be less to fix with…

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