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.
Alt title: How Putin Stopped One Team From Saving Multiplayer Games Forever. I'm not kidding!
First, they targeted Steam, and now the payment processors have been directed at Itch.io. A whole generation of independent games and media has just been censored.
What happened to the war within? Not the expansion - the war. We're almost off on a sidequest to a war on another planet! The War Without doesn't have the same ring to it.
Yves' Son and Yves' Cousin walk into a boardroom, and walk out with control of Ubisoft's new $1.8bn subsidiary. The best men for the job.
Xbox are backpedalling, as their first attempt to charge $80 for a game is quietly reversed.
Two months and two rounds of layoffs later, Splitgate 2 is going back into beta. The game is being "unlaunched" so the devs can get things back on track.
When stringent age verification was announced to be coming to Nexus Mods, many called foul, placing blame at the feet of the site's new corporate owners. Not so according to the original founder. The real truth here is causing tremors across the industry.
Milkgenius is back, and he has a need for speed. To farm Collector's Bounty mounts out faster, of course.
An anonymous complaint has the Stop Destroying Games movement concerned, but with 1.4 million signatures a week before the deadline, they're doing pretty well regardless.
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August 19th. Mark that date because it’s when we’ll see Midnight’s full reveal. New art even hints at how the expansion will start. But first - you can grab a 115% XP buff before August 12th.
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Valve are in charge of Steam. Except when they're not, and they have to bend to the will of payment processors like PayPal, Visa or Mastercard.
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Xbox were about to give up; Nintendo continued to play their own game while PC continued to rise. Where'd that leave Sony? With a market ripe for the dominance... would anyone notice if they squeezed players dry once they had them fenced in?
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Ubisoft's shareholders had questions, and Yves Guillemot had answers, as the company opened up the floor to the public at their AGM.
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This week, the internet you're used to will be changed thanks to a wave of new laws.
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Per the fired leadership, "Krafton engaged in a months-long campaign to delay Subnautica 2’s release." The allegations are damning.
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Sega have been winning. Like A Dragon, Sonic, Persona and more have been on the up and up. Sega don't just exist in Japan, though. Their Western teams' successes few and far between in recent years. Centre to that? Creative Assembly & Total War games, which Sega are determined to rehabilitate!
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In which the reward for overwhelming success is a trip to the Jobcentre, and the reward for being a good, efficient worker is... also a trip to the Jobcentre. This one's a bit gloomy.
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$250 million up for grabs. Early Access launch denied and delayed. Founders fired, bonuses in jeopardy and lawsuits filed. The road to Subnautica 2's launch has fast become one of the messiest we've seen in quite some time...
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Valve just added a new rule to Steam, saying they don't decide what gets to be on their store anymore. Someone else does.
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Today, I found an unlikely story of how Unity mismanaged a promising project... while they kill off multiplayer games to save a few pennies on server costs.
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Finding themselves at the centre of drama upon drama, Jagex didn't seem like they were ever going to make changes for the good of their RuneScape player base. Completely overhauling their egregious MTX systems certainly wasn't on the bingo card. Can players trust them to follow through?