Tencent asked PlayStation if they could make a Horizon game. PlayStation said no. Tencent made a game that looked like Horizon. PlayStation asked them to stop. Tencent said no. Now the lawyers are out for blood.
Blizzard rarely repeat mistakes once they've learned them. Then why are we getting PTSD to one of BFA's most annoying inclusions? Good question - we might have the answer.
When it comes to Steam, Valve have always had a fairly hands-off approach. They act when forced to... yet usually, whether a game stays on Steam is up to them. Not this time, as 100s of games vanished from Steam, all at the behest of Valve's newest rulemakers.
Collective Shout claim responsibility and duck from blame, itch.io prove the slope is VERY slippery, and we might maybe have a solution to work towards. What a week! What do you mean it's only Monday?
Microsoft’s blind culling of stuff has just killed one of WoW’s finest assets: its growing reputation.