The announcement of this strategic partnership builds on previous moves by both console manufacturers towards streaming, such as the in-development Project xCloud streaming service at Microsoft and streaming functions that have recently been added to the PS4.

LudoNarraCon is a games convention like no other. Not only is it dedicated to narrative-focused games, it’s a digital event that takes place entirely on Steam, with a "central theater stream," livestreams and chats, and playable demos for featured games. 

The latest update adds a new item that lets players put their extra stuff up for sale while they go off on (mis)adventures, but a sales tax is causing all sorts of controversy.

Chris Avellone, the designer who co-wrote Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, had less than great things to say about the leadership at Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming The Outer Worlds. Avellone was a co-founder and co-owner at the studio until he left in 2015.

Our review of The Division 2 is currently underway and while it’s too soon to provide any kind of impression or feedback, I return from DC with a few tips for new agents entering the game for the first time when it goes live to the public this Friday.

I’ve played the Private Beta, the Technical Beta, and the Open Beta of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. I now have a full grasp at what to expect when the game goes live on March 15. But the sequel’s campaign is a worry, while the endgame content makes me wish it’s the 15th already.

Imagine that: a company in the business of publishing games just admitted that losing game developers might hurt their ability to make games.

Players remain peaceable around the game’s opening areas. Some are protecting player-built havens. Others are giving out free beers.

“What we do is protect the initial sales... Our goal, and it's still the goal, is to protect initial sales. Of course we would like to have it uncracked forever, but that just doesn't happen in the games industry."

Everyone has regrets over the failures they’re associated with, but few would shit talk their former partners so openly at a professional conference.

The devs and the artists are paid the same amount of money, and people like me who have been here for 17 years are paid the same amount as people who were recruited last year.

A single-player story mode tells a story about manhood in a modern age. I’ve played it and it’s gripping, weird as hell and hilarious, kind of like Thomas Was Alone, but you’re a penis not a square.