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Netflix, marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, is planning an expansion into video games and has hired a former Electronic Arts and Facebook executive to lead the effort.

Valve, the company that manages PC gamings most dominant storefront, Steam, announced its entry into the portable gaming market with the Steam Deck. The handheld gaming device will sell for between $399 and $649.

Comparing "Monster Hunter Stories" to Pokémon may seem lazy and obvious, but its also the easiest way to frame the experience for anyone whos curious.

Nintendo announced an updated model of its hybrid mobile console Tuesday, the Nintendo Switch OLED, highlighting the devices better mobile screen, as well as a handful of new external features. The company did not detail any updates to the systems hardware; based on the information available now, games wont play any better, nor will they look better on a TV screen. Instead, the form factor updates - a new OLED screen and 0.8 additional inches of real estate - will merely make games look clearer in handheld mode. The bigger screen also means thinner bezels around the image, which gives the system a more modern look.

When Taiwanese horror game "Devotion" first published in 2019, the conversation revolved around Chinese president Xi Jinping and a meme comparing him to Winnie-the-Pooh. The Disney character had no role in the game, but still a poster invoking the Chinese president and Poohs name led to "Devotions" removal from multiple digital storefronts and generated a online furor that trapped its makers at Red Candle Games in the middle of decades-long political tensions between Taiwan and mainland China.

Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America, is a skilled communicator. And right now, his message is clear: The Switch is doing great, and new hardware will be announced when the time is right.

Samus Aran, the first lady of video games, is running for her life. A lithe, practically invincible cyborg is chasing her through dark corridors as a cold, haunting synth-techno melody tinkles like muffled breathing.

It spanned four days and produced far less excitement on the whole than past years, but there is still plenty to parse from this years all-virtual E3, the first held since 2019. Here are the standout moments and takeaways from E3 2021:

Embattled role-playing video game "Cyberpunk 2077" will return to the PlayStation store on June 21, Sony and developer CD Projekt Red confirmed to The Washington Post. The game was originally pulled from the store last December, and both PlayStation and Xbox offered refunds to those who purchased it for the buggy and sometimes unplayable experience.

In "Game Builder Garage," Nintendo made a game in which you make games. In theory, that sounds fun. In practice, it feels like heading back to basic computer science class and learning how to program with a new language that will never be applicable on other platforms.

One day in December 2014, Kareem Choudry - now the corporate vice president of Microsoft cloud gaming - and his team walked into Xbox chief Phil Spencers office with an Xbox One console. On that device, they booted up "Perfect Dark Zero," an Xbox 360 launch title.

On Friday, influencers and media crowded into an exclusive Discord server to organize groups of 10 for custom matches on "Valorants" upcoming map, Breeze. Amid hushed conversations about soon-to-be-leaked roster changes and complaints about worsening sleep schedules, there was a general sense of optimism, one that had been absent the last time Riot Games released a "Valorant" map. Maybe it was just the sunshine talking.