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gaming
Valve's 'Religious' Refusal to Subsidize the Steam Machine Is a Masterclass in What Open Platforms Actually Cost
Valve won't eat the loss on your living room box, and the reason why tells you everything about how platform philosophy determines price.
gaming
Epic Games Launcher V2 Is 5x Faster , And That's the Whole Point
Epic's ground-up rebuild isn't just a bug fix , it's a public admission that the launcher itself was the product all along, and losing that argument to Steam for six years has consequences.
gaming
Unreal Engine 6 Is Turning a Game Engine Into a Persistent Identity Platform
Epic's engine merger isn't just a dev-tools upgrade , it's an infrastructure play that lets your Fortnite skin follow you across games
creator-economy
LinkedIn's Creator Marketplace Lives in the Ad Platform. That's Not an Accident.
The new Creator Marketplace was placed inside Campaign Manager, not a creator dashboard. That single architectural decision reveals exactly who LinkedIn built it for.
gaming
PC vs. Console Is the Wrong Question: Newzoo's 2026 Data Shows Players Already Moved On
Newzoo's 2026 PC and Console Gaming Report segments player behavior in ways that quietly dismantle the platform-versus-platform argument developers have been having for years.
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