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Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: ‘The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers’
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…
Intel’s New Gaming CPUs Are Its Fastest, And Cheapest, Yet
AMD has enjoyed being the preferred CPU vendor for the majority of gaming PCs for sometime now, but Intel’s latest refreshed chips are aiming to claw back some market share through competitive performance and aggressive pricing. Intel has introduced two…
Microsoft Teases “New Ways To Play” Classic Games For Xbox 25th Anniversary
Every iteration after the original Xbox has supported backwards compatibility to some degree. At GDC, Microsoft touted its commitment to “keeping games from four generations of Xbox playable for years to come.” Towards that end, Microsoft teased “new ways to…
Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum casts Kate Winslet in mystery role
The new Lord of the Rings saga has found its first member of the fellowship. Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, the New Zealander who broke out big in Peter Jackson’s 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, will play a lead role in the upcoming…
Overhauling Minecraft’s world generation was like ‘trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools’ which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
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…
Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
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…
King Dedede & Tank Star Amiibo Preorders Are Live At Amazon, Best Buy, And GameStop
Kirby Air Riders King Dedede & Tank Star Amiibo $55 | Releases July 2 Preorder at Amazon Preorder at Best Buy Preorder at GameStop Kirby Air Riders was released for Switch 2 last November, and it hit the market alongside…
Homura Hime is here to fill the Nier-sized hole in your life
Believe it or not, Nier: Automata is almost a decade old. Given how successful it’s been — over 10 million copies sold as of Feb. 2026 — it’s surprising the beloved game hasn’t gotten a proper sequel yet. Last month,…