Ubisoft rebrands its $18/month tier as Ubisoft+ Premium and adds Ubisoft+ Classics on PC; executive Philippe Tremblay says Ubisoft has “millions” of subscribers
Ubisoft introduces its Classic service to PC; and ‘more to come’ on Activision Blizzard — Feature by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit based on open-source platform Wine to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming
One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16
The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
Unity plans to merge with app monetization service ironSource, valued at $4.4B in the all-stock deal; Silver Lake and Sequoia will invest $1B after the merger
Unity lays off over 200 people, or 4% of its workforce, two weeks after the CEO said at an all-hands meeting that there would not be any layoffs
Management at the company behind the free game development engine has been a ‘shit show’ recently, sources say
Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”
Valve Steam Deck hands-on: handles resource-intensive games better than other handheld PC gaming devices, great ergonomics, gyroscopic aiming feature works well
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Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS
Even some three year old computers may not be able to run the OS. — Traditionally, we think of Windows as the operating system …
In his closing Windows event remarks, Nadella issued a subtle but stinging critique of Apple, positioning Microsoft as Apple's main competition for developers
‘Windows has always stood for sovereignty for creators and agency for consumers’ — At the end of a surprisingly eventful …
Over the past year, scientists have renamed 27 human genes because Microsoft's Excel misread their names as dates and changed the formatting
Sometimes it's easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel — There are tens of thousands of genes in the human genome: minuscule twists of DNA …
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts were compromised since the beginning of April using credentials obtained illegally by “some means other than our service”
We would like to provide an update on the recent incidents … Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Nintendo confirms up to 160,000 accounts accessed in huge privacy breach Lindsey O'Donne...
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts have been breached since the beginning of April using credentials obtained illegally by “some means other than our service”
The issues started at the beginning of April — Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through …
Apple removed the “Ratings & Reviews” section from all product pages on its website over the weekend, with no stated reason
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