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Game Streaming
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YouTube Playables Gaming Hub a year old on May 24, 2025
Google quietly released YouTube Playables ( https://www.youtube.com/playables ), their free gaming portal, on May 24, 2024. We didn't report on it back then, but recently PGM member Gamer_Nix brought it up in the…
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Hey Microsoft - Atari 50 Collection Should Have Activision 2600 Games, not only Xbox Game Pass
The headline is whispering during a metal concert. Microsoft will likely not listen to/hear anything published here at PlayGamesMore, but the good news is some of you reading might/will. My co-host of the High Noon…
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LIVE EVENT Tonight starting at/around 8pm PST the PGM Twitch Stream 3rd birthday celebration starts with 17+ hours of pinball
For months now we've been promoting the third birthday for the Twitch stream and tonight, Friday 4/18/2025, is the night the party begins at/around 8pm PST (GMT-8) at: https://www.twitch.tv/playgamesmoredotcom The plan…
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Microsoft Raising Game Pass Price Again and Introduces New (Sub)Standard Subscription Tier
Hold your wallets, if you want or need another .. Good Reason NOT to Renew Game Pass Ultimate No, this isn't about rogue chat bots running rampant during play sessions: @OllieNorris posted a screenshot of their…
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Twitch Layoffs - Paying Too Much For Talent and, Apparently, 50% of Everything Earned isn't Profitable
As dismaying as it is talking about more workers being laid off in the gaming space -- there was too much of that in 2023 -- here we are at the start of 2024 and it's happening with game streaming (Twitch) and game chat…
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How To Use Game Streaming Services to Decide Which Games to Buy
We continue to be more than casual fans of game streaming services here at PGM, but with a wary eye when it comes to ownership of games versus renting (more on that later in this article). We also can/will cancel game…
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Breaking: Antstream Arcade Losing Warner Bros. / Midway License
Our PGM group has followed Anstream Arcade with varying levels of interest. We've seen it go from free, to paid subscription model and earlier this year perhaps the biggest move: landing on Xbox. But today 11/10/2023 at…
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"Most" of Microsoft's 238,000 Employees To Lose Benefit of Free Access To Game Pass Ultimate, Says Report (UPDATE - they reversed decision)
UPDATE 11/7/2023 @ 5:28am PST : Microsoft has reversed their decision described below. The fact they were even contemplating it doesn't change the rest of the information below. See this article for the reversal (thanks…
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Game Subscription Price Increases Are Inevitable - See What's Happening with Cable and Streaming TV
Maybe the biggest issue with physical game media being less common compared to game subscription services is the initial lower suscription prices, but once enough people switch to this model, it's open season on…
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Netflix Starts Limited Testing Cloud Streaming Games In Canada and UK
Netflix is beginning to test cloud-based game streaming in Canada nd the UK. Limited testing, according to this article: https://www.axios.com/2023/08/14/netflix-games-tvs-computers Computer players can use a mouse and…
