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The 8 Best Star Trek Games To Play Now That Picard’s Over
As the final fan-service-strewn season of Star Trek: Picard comes to an end, confusing everyone by not being absolutely awful, you may well be in the mood for some more Trek before the return of Strange New Worlds in June. But rather than heading to Netflix and struggling through the first three seasons of Deep…
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Subscriptions, DLC And Microtransactions Made Up Almost 60% Of Video Game Sales In 2021
3It feels like the gaming community has a very complicated relationship with additional gaming purchases like DLC, microtransactions, and subscription services. We’re very much living in an era of gaming right now where they’re almost unavoidable. While we scorn the in-game transactions that feel somewhat unnecessary, we also feel a desire to support the games…
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Our Gameplay Data Should Be Harder To Sell
Video game developers can collect our data, and for now, they can sell it to advertisers. But that may not be as easy in the future due to California’s new data privacy law. On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we do a follow-up episode after last week’s analysis of the state of gameplay data and privacy.
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Here’s How Much Data Online Gaming Actually Uses
Earlier this week Bill Morrow blamed gamers for congesting NBN’s fixed wireless network, and though a correction has been issued retracting this statement, there still seems to be a belief that gamers are among the NBN’s ‘heavy users’. So how does gaming’s data use actually stack up to things like streaming video?
