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Tag: gaming industry

Valve expands Steam’s Daily Deals program from 4 games to 6, also explains what Steam’s Daily Deals program is

Valve expands Steam’s Daily…

Valve is expanding Steam’s Daily Deals program to support six games per day instead of four, “allowing us to…
Jennifer English (Shadowheart) and Nolan North (Nathan Drake) will be the illustrious hosts of the Future Games Show this year

Jennifer English (Shadowheart) and…

The Future Games Show—hosted by our friends at our sister site GamesRadar+—will be arriving at GDC in San Francisco,…
Bossa says ‘disruption’ in the game industry ‘is not a phase, it’s a fundamental transformation’ of how games will be made in the future as it lays off more employees

Bossa says ‘disruption’ in…

Bossa Games, the developer of Surgeon Simulator, I am Bread, and I am Fish, is laying off an undisclosed…
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$1.5 billion crypto heist…

As reported by the BBC, Dubai-based crypto firm Bybit is down $1.5 billion in Ethereum after hackers compromised its…
‘These kids do not care about romance’: Game devs want to know what today’s teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn’t it

‘These kids do not…

Surveys say that today’s youth are more interested in stories about platonic friendships and social groups than romance and…
Amazon apparently thought it was gonna compete with Steam since the Orange Box, but Prime Gaming’s former VP admits that ‘gamers already had the solution to their problems’

Amazon apparently thought it…

I will never understand, dear reader, why we keep running into this baffling issue of Valve (and PC gaming…
‘Not every story is told in that way’: Phil Spencer says that live service games aren’t the answer to every problem, and that smaller games play an important role

‘Not every story is…

Live service games are treated like some great and powerful cheat code for generating awesome amounts of shareholder value.…
Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died

Viktor Antonov, the visionary…

Viktor Antonov, the Bulgarian artist who served as art director on both Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died at…
Former EA exec says the ailing mega-publisher missed a chance to snag Blizzard and other heavy hitters before Activision: ‘EA saw all those first and passed on all of them’

Former EA exec says…

As reported by IGN, former EA chief creative officer Bing Gordon revealed on a recent Grit podcast appearance that…
Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it’s ‘not slowing down’ for 2025

Epic gave away nearly…

With 2024 now well behind us, the Epic Games Store has shared its annual look back at the year…