Xbox boss Phil Spencer says ‘nurturing and protecting creative teams that want to go take risks’ is the priority, admits ‘we don’t always succeed at that’

Speaking alongside Double Fine founder Tim Schafer at the Paley International Council Summit on Thursday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer emphasized the value of creative risk-taking to a small crowd of film, TV, and online media bigwigs. “The creativity of the teams is, in my mind, the most important thing and the thing that we…

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Valve’s latest Counter-Strike 2 update flashbangs entire skins market, headshots speculators, and clutch defuses inflationary market prices

CS2’s latest update has certainly put the cat among the pigeons, and feathers are flying. The innocuous-sounding patch “extended functionality of the ‘Trade Up Contract’ to allow exchanging five items of Covert quality as follows: five StatTrak Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak Knife from a collection of one of the items provided,…

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Fatshark celebrates 10 years of ‘Tide, reveals Darktide is getting another new class and Vermintide 2 a new map

It’s been a full decade since Fatshark released Vermintide, beginning a journey through the Warhammer worlds that would continue in Vermintide 2 and Darktide. As the stats-laden video above reveals, in that time 8.2 million characters have been killed by the humble skavenslave. It’s always the one you least expect. Both Darktide and Vermintide 2…

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Florida launches criminal investigation into Roblox, claims the gaming platform ‘enabled our kids to be abused’

Roblox has another state-sized headache on its hands, as WTOC/CNN (via Game Developer) reports that Florida has launched a criminal investigation into the company, accusing it of failing to protect children from predators and inappropriate content. The investigation was announced earlier this week by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier. “Today our office will be issuing…

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We’ll never get Mindhunter Season 3, but Netflix is working on multiple ‘scripted and unscripted’ projects based on the Catan board game, so there’s that

With the flurry of movies and TV shows being adapted from videogames, don’t forget there’s another kind of game out there, one that takes place not on a computer or console… but on a board. I know! It sounds weird, but you heard me right: they’re called board games, and Hollywood is anything but bored…

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Path of Exile 2 director says he would be ‘beyond shocked’ if it didn’t come out in 2026: ‘We never intended to be in early access this long’

The Path of Exile 2 Steam page hasn’t aged well since its early access release late last year. At the time, developer Grinding Gear Games wrote that it expected it to be finished in six months. It’s almost been an entire year since then and the promised list of features isn’t all here yet. Even…

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