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Two weeks after the state of New York sued Valve for “letting children and adults illegally gamble,” Valve has fired back with a defense of its practices, saying it doesn’t believe the containers in its games constitute gambling under the state’s laws and expressing disappointment that the attorney general’s office would opt to pursue the…

Back in my day there were only three channels on TV and one Minecraft update per year. For years, Mojang’s schedule revolved around the annual title update crammed with new mobs, new biomes, blocks, and enemies. That mindset changed in 2021, its general manager says, when the Caves & Cliffs update grew so ambitious that…

In a new talk at the Game Developers Conference Valve has shared some Steam data that, among other things, shows a lot of developers are making a lot of money. The March 10 presentation was given by communications lead Kaci Aitchison Boyle and Tom Giardino, who works on the business side of things, and various…

Microsoft continued the rollout of its future Xbox plans at GDC today in a talk hosted by VP of next generation Jason Ronald. Titled “Building for the Future with Xbox”, the talk centered around Project Helix, the codename for the next Xbox console that will bridge the gap between a console and traditional PC. Ronald…

I’ve been writing about games for long enough that my threshold for a single piece of artwork grabbing me by the shoulders and screams “PLAY ME!!” in my face is pretty damn high. I did not attend an Xbox indie showcase at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco with a plan to play…

With the games we used to make [at Telltale], we were so conditioned to gameplay being a thing you had to do to check a box. Nick Herman I’ll admit, I didn’t expect much from Dispatch’s gameplay before I played it. After all, it’s more or less a Telltale game, which were always more concerned…

At this year’s GDC event in San Francisco, Valve gave a talk on its Steam hardware family (pdf warning), focusing on just what developers need to do to ensure that their games get verified. Not for the Steam Deck, but for the forthcoming Steam Machine and the highly anticipated Steam Frame VR headset. Starting with…

I like a 4K 32-inch OLED, I do. And MSI’s models have offered one of the most affordable options to achieve that 4K OLED experience. So, the good news is that MSI has updated its 32-inch 4K OLED offering with Samsung’s latest panel tech. So, it’s brighter and mostly fixes at least one weakness of…

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one a bit shocked by Apple using the worst memory crisis in recent history to put out the most affordable MacBook it has ever launched. The Asus CFO, Nick Wu, seems similarly surprised. In a recent earnings call, he was asked about the MacBook Neo and had quite a…

Like many of big tech’s major players, Meta has been interested in AI for some time—the Meta AI app’s social media integration springs to mind. Still, the company formerly known as Facebook’s latest acquisition may leave some scratching their carapace. Meta just bought Moltbook, a ‘social’ media platform for AI agents. Many of these agents…