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Tag: Gaming
Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
In 2020, Microsoft announced that Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions would include unlimited access to its new Xbox Cloud Gaming service […]
Pocket’s AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Is this just a game to you? Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform. […]
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Skip to content Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more. This […]
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had […]
Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game […]
New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest
Privilege escalation attack grants “full control” and freedom from Meta’s servers/apps. Wipe off the dust and load up some new […]
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with […]
Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut […]
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of […]