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With Steam Machines on the Horizon, Valve Makes Its Linux Love Official

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 4, 2013 at 7:00 am PT

Survey Says Mobile Gamers Prefer Kindle Fire Over Tablets With Google Play

Posted by Eric Johnson in Mobile, December 4, 2013 at 5:00 am PT

Canada Media Fund Gives Developers a Boost, With an Eye Toward International Competition

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm PT

Hot Party Game Cards Against Humanity’s Sales Increased During Black Friday Price Hike

Posted by Eric Johnson in Commerce, December 3, 2013 at 11:13 am PT

Sony Sells More Than 2.1 Million PlayStation 4s (Update: And Microsoft Says Xbox Has Sold Out)

Posted by Eric Johnson in News, December 3, 2013 at 9:24 am PT

One Year In, Spaceteam’s Solo Developer Hopes Fans Will Fund Him Directly

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 3, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

Sony Advertiser Site Touts “Series of Original Shows” for PlayStation Network

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 2, 2013 at 2:26 pm PT

Four Years Later, How Does the Xbox’s Kinect Stack Up to Its Original Vision?

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 2, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

One of the Year’s Most Addictive Mobile Games Doesn’t Seem Like a Game at All

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, December 2, 2013 at 4:00 am PT

AllThingsD Week in Review: Wearable Computing Comes to Clothes, and Yahoos Hate Yahoo Mail

Posted by Eric Johnson in General, November 30, 2013 at 12:00 pm PT

Indie Platformer Badland Finally Comes to Android, but With a New Business Model

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, November 29, 2013 at 1:20 pm PT

Cards Against Humanity’s Black Friday “Sale”: Everything Costs $5 More

Posted by Eric Johnson in Commerce, November 29, 2013 at 10:38 am PT

Twitch Takes Up Cat Herding With Ban on PlayStation 4’s Playroom

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, November 27, 2013 at 11:04 am PT

Buying a Videogame Console on Black Friday? Here’s What You Need to Know.

Posted by Eric Johnson in General, November 26, 2013 at 3:22 pm PT

AllThingsD Week In Review: AppSung 2, Internet Funneling and Inside Microsoft’s CEO Search

Posted by Eric Johnson in General, November 24, 2013 at 5:00 pm PT

Xbox One Matches PS4’s First-Day Console Sales … And Reports of Defects

Posted by Eric Johnson in Product News, November 23, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

Oculus VR CTO John Carmack Officially Leaves Id Software

League of Legends-Esque Tablet Game Raises $8.2MM Round, Led by Riot Games Investor

Plain Vanilla Scores Another $2 Million for QuizUp

Logitech’s iPhone Gamepad Case Goes on Sale Next Month, Costs $100

Posted by Eric Johnson in Mobile, November 20, 2013 at 3:16 am PT

Sony Updates Faulty PlayStation 4 Estimate, Saying Number Is Still “Very Small”

Sony Sells More Than One Million PlayStation 4s on First Day, But Some Are Defective

Posted by Eric Johnson in Media, November 17, 2013 at 11:12 am PT

AllThingsD Week in Review: Snapchat’s Many Suitors, and Finding the Fastest 4G LTE Signal

Posted by Eric Johnson in General, November 16, 2013 at 7:00 am PT

NPD Reports Year-Over-Year Decrease in Gaming Hardware, Increase in Software (Again)

Posted by Eric Johnson in News, November 14, 2013 at 4:16 pm PT

Is This “The Last Console Generation”? And Nine Other Questions for Sony’s Jack Tretton.

Posted by Eric Johnson and Lauren Goode in Media, November 14, 2013 at 8:53 am PT

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