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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. VR Games Bethesda’s VR offerings included brief glimpses of…
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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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Trump Stole Money Donated For Kids Fighting Cancer
Dan Alexander with Forbes: The best part about all this, according to Eric Trump, is the charity’s efficiency: Because he can get his family’s golf course for free and have most of the other costs donated, virtually all the money contributed will go toward helping kids with cancer. “We get to use our assets 100%…
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Apple’s WWDC 2017 Press Event Notes
Every year Apple has at least two big events, their iPhone event in the second half of the year and their developers conference event in the first half of the year. Each event has it’s own press briefing, here are my notes from today’s WWDC 2017 press briefing. It is long as hell. The show…