RPS writes:
We interview Valve’s co-founder on hardware plans and consolidation in gaming.
I recently had the chance to grill Gabe Newell – Valve president and co-founder, plus brain tech enthusiast – about the Steam Deck. What followed did indeed start with a look at Valve’s portable PC, including the lessons learned from the company’s past hardware attempts, but it soon swerved into a wider-ranging discussion on cryptocurrency, NFTs, consolidation issues affecting the games industry and whether there might be whole new Steam Decks in the future.
Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.
Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately
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Goes right back to them as partners.
Okaaaaaay...
Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.
YouTube is probing its employees following the PlayStation State of Play leak that revealed all announcements ahead of the presentation.
I’m pretty sure leaks or not, by the end of the show people will still be disappointed. The only highlight for me was MH: Wilds… everything else was mid to forgettable. Hope them HaaS games you got lined up really work out for you, Sony. Everyone asking for Bloodborne Remake, Wolverine, and, uh, well other games like that could’ve made this epic. Instead we get Concord, some derivative Souls-like games, that were fine looking, and a Silent Hill 2 Remake with horrible character designs and janky combat animations… great.
The Epic Games Store has yet another free game, and it's a pretty damn good one.
Silly statement. If a platform is closed it is no longer a PC. The Xbox is PC hardware and runs a slightly modified version of windows but is a closed platform.
Gabe is slowly evolving into his ultimate form…Santachu.
Hey at least steam has been solid and offering innovation and new flavors and not falling in line with the mainstream milking tendencies like NTFs and bs crypto game integration. I love a company that can logically and eloquently say, nah, F that!
Keep steaming on!
The title could be altered to "God talks Steam Deck and PC industry" and I wouldn't have batted an eye.
Yawn. Three main topics listed in the title. HL3 confirmed...
BORING