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All the news and reveals officially start on June 6 at 10:00AM with the Konami's pre-E3 show next week, then at E3 proper with Microsoft's conference starting at 9:00AM. We'll have livestream embeds for all the conferences up on Destructoid, and you can check out the full schedule below.

Steamworks, the API that drives Steam’s backend, has been made available for free for any developers that wish to submit games to Steam Greenlight.

By using Steamworks, developers will be able to utilize Steam’s variety of network services relatively easily. By implementing the service, they’ll have access to things like matchmaking, anti-cheat services, and cloud saves. By downloading the Steamworks SDK, they will be able to test all of these services before being accepted into Valve’s store itself.

Now, this isn’t a huge change, as anyone accepted through the Greenlight system is automatically granted access to Steamworks, but it could be a step towards giving developers the option to self-publish on Steam, rather than having to go through the curation process.

We’ve sent word to Valve to ask for more information.

The post Steamworks made available for all developers appeared first on Edge Online.

Loud and clear, Sony boss man Kazuo Hirai believes that the PlayStation 4 must target core gamers from the outset before expanding for others mind share. Speaking with Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg during a talk at the D11 conference, Hirai stated “I fundamentally believe that the initial market that we need to make sure we appeal to with any new platform … is really the gaming audience ... They will be the supporters of your platform and they will help propel the installed base.”

Hirai confirmed that the PS4 will have non-gaming applications, but says the focus on those will come "after we establish the platform as a videogame platform. For us, it’s all about the gamers.”

These statements of course stand in stark contrast to the recent attitude we've seen from Microsoft and the Xbox One, pushing entertainments apps and TV at the grand reveal of what was supposed to be a gaming console.

Sony CEO plays down 'media hub' and says PlayStation 4 is for gamers [Venture Beat]