Will AA Games Even Exist Anymore?
As AAA budgets balloon and even the leanest of indie successes struggle, is there a future for the middle ground we used to love so much? Signs point to maybe, but it's up to us.

As AAA budgets balloon and even the leanest of indie successes struggle, is there a future for the middle ground we used to love so much? Signs point to maybe, but it's up to us.
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.