Loading Screen: Steam Secrets, CDPR’s Great Play, and The Future of Mario
We’ve got the secrets that power Steam, CDPR’s strategic play with Gwent, Epic giving their all to promote Alan Wake II, and a Mario Game being hailed as a new classic.
We’ve got the secrets that power Steam, CDPR’s strategic play with Gwent, Epic giving their all to promote Alan Wake II, and a Mario Game being hailed as a new classic.
A title that sounds like a parody meme. Military-themed, but everyone's a duck. One of Steam's fastest-selling games. Let's try to make that last point make sense... and consider how far gone the days of Steam being an effectively Western-only platform are in the process.
None of us needs reminding that Steam is the de facto home of PC gaming, but with that, and the 30% cut they take in mind, Valve has taken it upon themselves to attempt to fix one of PC gaming's largest issues... actually getting new games noticed without shedloads spent on marketing. Will it work?
100,000 players just made Runescape change their entire business model.
Nintendo and Pokémon just lost their first Patent fight to Pocketpair and Palworld. And they have Ark: Survival Evolved to thank.