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Valve announces significant Steam Deck price rise of almost £200 in the UK, over 40% around the world

Valve has announced a substantial price increase for its Steam Deck OLED models, citing "rising memory and storage costs" as the reason. Read more

1 month ago 👁 12
mobile

On the podcast: Take-Two, Ubisoft, Monopoly Go and SciPlay news plus data and soft launch nuggets

  The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: We rattle through Take-Two’s financials, which as ever show mobile...

1 month ago 👁 14
gaming

10 Billion Pokémon Cards Were Printed Last Year And It Still Wasn’t Enough

The Pokémon Company can't keep up with insatiable demand

1 month ago 👁 13
gaming

A Retirement Home’s Wii Sports Bowling League Can’t Be Beaten

'Deborah cost me my parlay last week'

1 month ago 👁 10
gaming

Nintendo’s Most Unique Exclusive This Year Is A Love Letter To Retro Anime

Orbitals is a co-op puzzle platformer made for those of who grew up watching anime on Adult Swim

1 month ago 👁 11
gaming

I Really Hope Clockwork Revolutions Is One Of This Year’s Surprise Xbox Games

Also: you can now try Resident Evil Requiem for free

1 month ago 👁 11
gaming

Indie Dev Accuses Zenless Zone Zero Of Copying His Game Ouros: ‘It’s Basically The Same Game’

"It's basically the same game."

1 month ago 👁 12
gaming

007 First Light Makes One Of The Most Boring Parts Of Video Games Fun

James Bond has to learn the ropes, and so do you

1 month ago 👁 11
gaming

The demand for weapons in Subnautica 2 reveals the difficulty of separating open worlds from conquest

When I play Subnautica 2, I often feel as though I am swimming in two worlds simultaneously. On the one hand, there's the world that goes on without me, the world of wonky indigenous beings living out their lives, careless of my presence: shoals of unharvestable fish swizzing past like dropped fireworks, growth cycles...

1 month ago 👁 11
gaming

Staff At The Publisher Behind Some Beloved Star Wars And Cyberpunk Comics Are Unionizing

Workers are hoping to address concerns around layoffs, wages, AI, and return-to-office policies

1 month ago 👁 10
gaming

Paralives is possibly the first ever videogame with a character editor that gives people motion sickness

Cosy life sim Paralives launched into early access this week, sweetening the initial reception with a roadmap full of free goodies. I've been looking forward to the game, if only because there has been such disappointment of late on the life sim front – Paradox Tectonic's Life By You fell foul of funding cuts, In...

1 month ago 👁 12
gaming

Alan Wake and Control "should have sold more", says Remedy's newly-appointed CEO, who promises he's not the evil exec people expected

While both games were critically acclaimed, Remedy's newly-appointed CEO believes Alan Wake and Control "should have sold more" and been more commercially successful than they were. That being said, he has a remedy for Remedy's titles (thank you Matt, for pointing out this the perfect word play here), and believes film...

1 month ago 👁 11