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Jay Peters

Jay Peters

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    Google will let developers sell both mobile and PC versions of a game for one price.

    The feature, announced as part of various updates alongside the GDC Festival of Gaming, is rolling out to select games to start, including Brotato: Premium. Also: free 60-minute game demos, ones that let gamers pick up where they left off after they pay.

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    Jay Peters
    We’re at Xbox’s big GDC talk!

    Sean Hollister and I are seated at VP of Next Generation Jason Ronald’s talk about “building for the future.” Maybe some Helix news?

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    Jay Peters
    Panic knows you want a Playdate with a backlight.

    As part of a broader conversation about Panic’s gaming business and its next title, co-founder Cabel Sasser acknowledged that adding a backlight is “by far the number one request” people have about its Playdate handheld. Hopefully it becomes a reality!

    Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

    The publisher is set to follow Untitled Goose Game with Big Walk, an offbeat multiplayer game.

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    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    OpenAI is delaying ChatGPT’s “adult mode.”

    The feature was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but an OpenAI spokesperson tells former Verge staffer Alex Heath that “We’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now, including gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive.”