What does Call of Duty and Steam have in common? The better you perform, the easier the devs make it for you to excel even further. What does that mean? Indies are getting left behind, or at least they were until Steam Labs stepped in...
A new $1800 handheld PC comes with a warning: things don't look like they're going to get better in the hardware space.
It doesn't make sense. Every time a dev is caught with their hand in the GenAI jar, the backlash is LOUD. Surely they should get the message by now? Not if they're getting an entirely different message from across the globe!
An international web of legal action, financial distress and absurd publisher behaviour is one way to kill a studio.
No new laws for EU games publishers, but it's not over yet for Stop Killing Games.