Category: Games March 20, 2025 How Developers Have Embraced Xbox Play Anywhere for Their Games Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor As we touched on earlier this week, there are now over 1,000 developers utilizing Xbox Play Anywhere (XPA) for their games, bringing their amazing experiences to players across a variety of devices they own. If…
Steam hardware finally comes to fruition It feels like an eternity since Valve first began talking about Steam Machines, those console-like PCs that run a custom version of Linux called Steam OS. The holdup has been Valve’s insistence on getting the Steam Controller just right, and apparently that’s no longer an issue. Effective immediately, you…
The antitrust lawsuit filed against Valve by Wolfire Games in 2022 has now been certified as a class action, and that could be a real headache for Valve. Instead of applying only to Wolfire (and Dark Catt Studios, which filed a separate antitrust lawsuit in 2021), the action will now apply to virtually anyone who’s…
The dust is beginning to settle on yesterday’s Nvidia and Intel announcement, in which the two companies declared a collaboration to make new chips for both the data center and consumer markets. In a press conference yesterday evening, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang firmly stated that the Trump administration “had no involvement in this partnership at…
The Game Awards have arrived! The annual ceremony rewarding innovation and excellence in the video game industry takes place today, and to help everyone celebrate yet another incredible year of games, Nintendo is offering promotions on several critically acclaimed titles and fan favorites. From now until Dec. 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT, players can save…
“You simply cannot believe how excited I am”. Head Over Heels is one of the most beloved video games of the 1980s. Developed by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond as a spiritual successor to their equally adored isometric take on Batman from 1986, it launched on pretty much every home computer format of the era,…
A star in the games business Twitter circuit, investor and analyst Matthew Ball has made waves in the industry over recent years with his “State of Video Gaming” slideshows, which in some corners have become doctrinal explanations for gaming’s 2020s woes. Now Ball has the chance to put his analysis directly to work at one…
First reported by Engadget, MIT bioengineering researcher Lauren Ramlan broke new ground in the ongoing quest to run Doom on everything. In a paper and accompanying video for a semester project, Ramlan proposes running Doom through a 1-bit display of bioluminescent E. coli capable of displaying the game at just shy of three frames per…
If you’re anything like me, collecting weapon skins to make demon-slaying in Doom: The Dark Ages even more stylish is half the fun. No doubt you’re salivating at the Reverent Combat Shotgun skin from the Siege Breaker challenge in the Siege Part 1 mission. But to complete this, you need to find and destroy four…
Microsoft’s Trusted Platform Module, specifically TPM 2.0, has been part of Windows 11’s system requirements since the operating system’s introduction in 2021. Now that the TPM is ubiquitous, being included with most CPUs for many years, Microsoft is looking to leverage it “to activate Windows devices at scale.” Currently, the enterprise sector activates Windows via…