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Hello! Not an awful lot has happened out there since Wednesday, which is good, because it means I can feel a little less guilty about spending today’s …
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Growth in Xbox Game Pass is slowing. Just how concerned should Microsoft be?
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Valve is the first of gaming’s big gatekeepers to ban NFTs. It won't be the last
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Yesterday MOBA Group, a Swedish company I have never heard of, announced the $4.5 million acquisition of the enormously popular gaming forum ResetEra. …
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Brands, eh? I love brands. Who doesn’t? I love supporting my favourite brands online. I love engaging with my favourite brands online. But what I love …
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Jim Ryan gave a decent interview to GI.biz last week, reflecting on the challenges of launching a console in a pandemic and PS5’s strong start, and tel…
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In a way, I sort of owe Toshihiro Nagoshi — whose departure from RGG Studio and Sega has been confirmed overnight — my career as a game journalist. Bac…
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Gosh, that Facebook outage the other day was funny, wasn’t it. I particularly liked the detail, from Alex Hern at The Guardian, that Facebook is so str…
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Sony has finally announced the acquisition of Bluepoint Games, confirming one of the worst-kept secrets of the year. It’s further proof that Sony is th…
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I’ve avoided writing about NFTs in Hit Points so far. This is in part because I did some work for a blockchain-gaming startup a while ago, and needed a…
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Over the weekend, gel-slicked Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann tweeted a still from the forthcoming HBO adaptation of The Last Of Us. At first g…
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