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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Considering the rise of home consoles that we saw within ...

Owning a Playdate comes with the perk of already having access to 24 games at no additional cost from the bundled-in Season One — and some pretty good ones to boot. But there are a ton of great games ...

Russell Fourie-Kidson wouldn't call himself a gamer in the traditional sense—not at first. While other serious gamers fired headshots in CoD, He dove headfirst into The Sims. For him, gaming has ...

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