Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”
The new Xbox boss Asha Sharma revealed the codename as one of her first big announcements.
Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days
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Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50% to 66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand
For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.
Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a “confidential settlement” over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series
Sony and Tencent have reached a ‘confidential settlement,’ and Light of Motiram is no longer listed on Steam or the Epic Games Store.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds
www.theverge.com/news/837780/ ... Forums: spez on Reddit : Beyond the Front Page of the Internet r/RedditAlternatives : Reddit's CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it's going away / ...
Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame
While showing its new Frame VR headset to The Verge, Valve confirmed that it's moving on from its previous one.
Valve unveils the Steam Frame, a VR headset that can stream games from a PC or run Windows and Android games locally, expected to launch in 2026 for under $999
Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be.
EA's Battlefield 6, coming October 10, is a pivotal moment for the series and for EA, set to go private in a $55B deal, as EA competes with Activision and COD
does what could be the biggest FPS of the year live up to everyone's sky-high expectations? Morgan Park / PC Gamer : Battlefield 6 review-in-progress: A salve for an FPS scene that...
Discord estimates that 70K users' government ID photos may have been exposed in a 1.5TB data breach of third-party customer service Zendesk on September 20
Discord claims that the attackers are circulating inaccurate information about the breach of a customer service provider as part of an extortion attempt.
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: an unobtrusive eye-level camera, improved battery, and lots of frames, but some may feel uncomfortable with a face-mounted camera
The second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses aren't too different from the first. The biggest change is that they have a better battery life …
The Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest attempt to reframe Meta, now on “personal superintelligence”, but they face tech and societal challenges
They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the ‘Metaverse’... Live tech demos are a bitch.
Meta announces a preview of the Wearable Device Access Toolkit, which will let developers build apps that use its smart glasses' vision and audio capabilities
www.theverge.com/news/780943/ ... Threads: Isaac Shea / @zaccomode : Oh! Signed up 😄 I'm not sure exactly what I'd make, I think it mostly depends on what the SDK would allow me t...
A look at the invite-only iOS and Android apps for Digg, which now operates similarly to Reddit, with links with a lot of “diggs” moving up the feed
Digg has launched its new mobile apps for iOS and Android. I tried the new iOS app out, and it's bare-bones but promising. Bluesky: @jaypeters.net Bluesky: Jay Peters / @jaypeters...
Discord SVP Peter Sellis says the app is exploring forums and LLM-powered summaries to make discussions easy to follow and shareable outside the platform
It's thinking about something like forums, too. … Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. Bluesky: @dryad.technology and @jaypeters.net . Mastodon: @mc...
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US
Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US
Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
Apple approves a Spotify iOS app update that lets US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's payment system; Patreon said it plans to do the same
or if — Apple approves the update. — www.theverge.com/news/659891/ ... Jay Peters / @jaypeters.net : Following yesterday's major Epic v. Apple ruling, Patreon tells me that it wi...
Apple approves a Spotify iOS app update that lets US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's payment system; Patreon said it plans to do the same
or if — Apple approves the update. — www.theverge.com/news/659891/ ... Jay Peters / @jaypeters.net : Following yesterday's major Epic v. Apple ruling, Patreon tells me that it wi...
Polygon staffers, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games website has laid them off; sources say Vox Media sold Polygon to Valnet
One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up — The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff has been laid off, Kotaku as learned.