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Valve’s Gabe Newell hints at vague console plans coming “this year”

Newell poses with faculty at Sancta Maria College before speaking to students at the Auckland school. [credit: Sancta Maria College ] Valve co-founder and Managing Director Gabe Newell hinted that his company may be planning an expansion into the console space soon. While speaking on Monday to students at Auckland, New Zealand’s Sancta Maria College (the […]

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$70 game prices are probably here to stay, but “not for every game”

Enlarge / Fishing for answers. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Last July, Take-Two announced that NBA 2K21 would be the first game to ask $70 for the standard edition on “next-generation” systems (i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X). Last week, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doubled down on that decision, saying the market was […]