Valve building its own "Switch"
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Streaming via Linux

Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux -- and it could launch, supply chain willing, by year's end.

Nvidia provides DLSS support for new games
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First time for VR titles

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia, has brought frame rate boosting technology to VR titles.

Take-Two beats analysts expectations
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Beatings normally take place with baseball bats


Take-Two Interactive Software reported a quarterly profit and sales on Tuesday that beat analysts' estimates, as stay-at-home gamers during the pandemic boosted demand for the video game maker's popular franchises such as "Grand Theft Auto" and "NBA 2K".

Smartphone games becoming really important
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Half the global market 

According to data from by 123scommesse, smartphone games generated $74.9 billion in 2020 and made up 43 per cent of the global gaming market.

More than half of Germans play video games
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Average age is 37

More than half of Germans play computer and video games according to new figures out from the German Games Industry Association.