This week, Lotus, Niki, and John set out to dissect the price sensitivity opus laid out by Peak's devs in an interview with Stephen Totilo. Is eight bucks really five bucks? This and much more, including:

1. AGDQ's haul and interesting future
2. Hytale's long path to Early Access
3. Meta's VR investment goes toe up
4. Steam Community Awards face major changes
5. Spry Fox spinning out of Netflix
6. Inverse & The Verge see games-related layoffs
7. Steam rewrites their generative AI disclosure rules

We played:

1. Animal Crossing New Horizons
2. Angeline Era
3. Type Help

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