Steam Digital Gift Cards Finally Launched

HIGHLIGHTS Digital gift cards are available in five denominations Recipients of digital gift cards need to be on your friends' list You can't purchase gift cards through your Steam wallet…

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Intel Optane SSD 900P Launched, Promises 4X Speed Improvement Over PCIe SSDs

HIGHLIGHTS The Optane SSD 900P is based on Intel and Micron's 3D Xpoint technology It promises blazing fast speeds in conventional usage scenarios 280GB and 480GB models are available worldwide…

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UPDATE: Microsoft earnings: Cloud may maintain $600 billion market cap

With market cap higher than $600 billion for first time since dot-com boom, Microsoft depending on commercial cloud offerings As Microsoft Corp.'s market valuation edges above a $600 billion mark…

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UPDATE 1-Microsoft’s profit beats estimates on gains from cloud services

(Adds details on quarterly earnings, shares) Oct 26 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as demand for its cloud computing services for companies rose and…

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Super Mario Odyssey Review

Whether as a moustachioed frog, tank, bullet or T-Rex, players will spend as much time inhabiting the bodies of their foes as the title character's trademark dungarees in Super Mario Odyssey.…

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The Kinect was good. It just wasn’t good for gaming.

Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential. Although the Kinect wasn't exactly a huge success and barely supported any…

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Gaming addiction probably isn’t a real condition, study suggests

There may be no such thing as internet gaming addiction. People play excessively not because they are hooked on gaming itself, but because they feel unhappy about other areas of…

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Facebook Testing 4K Video on Its Regular Videos

After launching a host of video-centric features over the last year, Facebook is now finally testing 4K quality of videos that can be played on the platform. According to a report in Engadget, Facebook…

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Unity Partners GameCredits to Bring Blockchain to Games

Popular game engine Unity has signed a deal with GameCredits, a Belgrade-based company that runs GPlay - a mobile game store that uses digital blockchain currency that is also called GameCredits. GameCredits’…

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EA Doesn’t Care for What Players Want, It Cares for What They Pay For: Ex-Mass Effect Andromeda Developer

Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay designer Manveer Heir let slip some choice words about EA’s approach to game development on the Waypoint Radio podcast this weekend. Heir left Mass Effect: Andromeda developer BioWare and is…

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