The Developers Choosing Creativity Over AAA Bloat
AAA developers are sick of bloat stifling their creativity. They're making smaller teams to make smaller games, but will that translate to success?

AAA developers are sick of bloat stifling their creativity. They're making smaller teams to make smaller games, but will that translate to success?
Checking Thunderful Publishing's Steam page, you'll find a short but sweet list of (often Very) Positively received titles. Their leadership didn't think this was close to enough, having far greater ambitions. Over the past half-decade, those ambitions have cost them almost everything!
Xbox's plans for the future might have leaked, and they tease a new system where Steam (and everyone else) are under the Xbox umbrella on PC.
Steam has more than 19k games released yearly since they allowed Generative AI. Is the slop taking over?
A day one patch for Assassin's Creed Shadows is less about stopping bugs, and more about stopping the plans of one Japanese Politician.