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Microsoft is paving more PC roads to Project Helix, releasing a Windows 11 Xbox Mode in April for laptops and desktops
By James Bentley published
News This should make navigating Windows on controller easier.

Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Unfortunately, weaponized awkwardness still takes up development resources.

Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates
By Lauren Morton published
News Mojang got so in over its head overhauling all of Minecraft's world generation tech five years ago that it swore off yearly title updates not long after.

Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
By Rich Stanton published
News And "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."

Microsoft spills the beans on its Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC while suggesting it's still years away
By Morgan Park published
NEWS The AMD-powered box will continue the work started by the ROG Ally X.

Valve clarifies what's required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more
By Nick Evanson published
News Still, its advice for games being made with SteamOS in mind is all top-notch.

In an amazing live mash-up, composer Austin Wintory turned Ben Starr's Clair Obscur monologue into a Balatro gag
By Wes Fenlon published
News Jimbo's revenge.

Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
By Rory Norris published
News "We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."
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