Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: ‘Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee’

Unsurprisingly, Epic Games CEO and frequent X poster Tim Sweeney has thoughts about the $900 million lawsuit against Valve in the UK, which recently got the go-ahead from a competition tribunal. Also unsurprisingly, given his competing store and past criticism of Steam, Sweeney approves of the action, and based on his related legal tussles with…

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: ‘Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee’

Unsurprisingly, Epic Games CEO and frequent X poster Tim Sweeney has thoughts about the $900 million lawsuit against Valve in the UK, which recently got the go-ahead from a competition tribunal. Also unsurprisingly, given his competing store and past criticism of Steam, Sweeney approves of the action, and based on his related legal tussles with…

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Beyond Good and Evil 2 somehow survives the bloodbath at Ubisoft: creative director says he’s ‘saddened’ by the layoffs and cancellations, but the 19-year project is ‘unaffected’

This Wednesday Ubisoft announced a major internal restructuring or, as we who speak and write English would put it: massive layoffs, studio closures, and the cancellation of at least six in-development projects (including the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake). The company’s share price has nosedived, a call for a “massive international strike” is…

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There’s a huge Arc Raiders duplication glitch which has players hoarding mountains of rubber ducks worth millions, ‘I extracted with 2.8 million. Still confused’

There’s always something fishy going on in Arc Raiders. Whether it be players clipping through doors or changing to first person perspective. But very few of these glitches actually earn the guilty player any in-game money. Unlike the latest hack, which manages to duplicate the new rare rubber ducks. Images of raiders beside mountains of…

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Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on ‘improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows’ which is better than more AI

Microsoft seems to have listened to the year-long barrage of collective groaning, as it is apparently now focusing on improving the things in Windows 11 that matter. The Verge has heard from Pavan Davuluri, president of Windows and devices, who says the company needs “to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people.” “This…

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