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Does A ‘Steam Box’ Console From Valve Make Sense?

March 4, 2012Erik Kain

Setting off a rumor firestorm, The Verge reported that game developer Valve might be developing a ‘Steam Box’ console, bringing its Steam gaming service into the living room. The maker of Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 has traditionally published games for PC though in recent years many of those games were ported to Mac and […]

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Dear Microsoft, Don’t Kill Off Used Games

February 1, 2012Erik Kain

shares a number of rumors surrounding the development of the Xbox 720, ‘s next-generation gaming console. One in particular is downright frightening: technology that would prevent the resale of used games. “Yesterday, the talk was an anti-used game verification system, possibly similar to iTunes,” Humphrey writes. What a terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad idea! Not only […]

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No PlayStation 4 On The Horizon According to Sony’s Andrew House

January 9, 2012Erik Kain

Rumors surrounding the next generation of video game consoles are coming more and more quickly as talk of the Xbox 720 picked up in the second half of 2011. But if Computer Entertainment President Andrew House has anything to do with it, a PS4 isn’t even a twinkle in Sony’s eye yet. Ahead of much PS4 […]

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