Category: video games
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PlayStation E3 2017 Media Showcase Notes
Sony has a Sid Shuman pre-game before the press event this year, so you can skip to about one hour in if you want to get to the event. One of the trailers they opened the show with features a hideous gold PlayStation 4 that’s $249 for a few days. Get it while it’s tacky…
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Bethesda’s E3 2017 Notes
Bethesda’s E3 showcase opened up with a montage of the developer’s children encouraging us to get excited for their parents’ games. This is the same publisher that wants you to be less informed because they don’t ship review copies out to journalists and critics early. https://youtu.be/gbslVwy0XzY VR Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspdtha3t1k Bethesda’s VR offerings included brief…
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Xbox E3 2017 Briefing Notes
Every E3 has an Xbox press event, this year Microsoft is leading it off with a brief history of different resolutions that their hardware has supported. Or at least it has upscaled games to that. If you’re new to my writing, I’ll note here that I worked for Microsoft over a decade ago on the…
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Steam Greenlight Shutdown; Direct Starts June 13th
Valve’s Steam Greenlight program has finally been shut down in favor of Steam Direct (which launches June 13th) after months without clarity about when this changeover would occur and what the cost would be to developers submitting their games into the new Steam Direct program. There’s this interesting note in the announcement from Valve’s Alden Kroll:…
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Steam Direct Update from Valve
Back in February Valve announced that they were going to replace Steam Greenlight with Steam Direct. There was some confusion because Valve had not yet decided on a price per game for submissions, or a timeframe for this change to occur. The original announcement only gave a vague date of “Spring 2017.” Well, Summer starts on…