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The biggest games company in the world is to take on digital PC games giant Steam. As spotted by PCGamesN, Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad has revealed that the Tencent Games Platform is being rebranded as WeGame. The service already has over 200m users alone in China, compared to Steam’s …
Read More »Bayonetta could lead the way for more Platinum PC releases
Publisher Sega and developer Platinum Games have announced and released a PC version of Bayonetta all on the same day. Rumours of a PC port for the game have been rumbling since the recent releases of a free small Bayonetta 2D platformer on Steam. The icons for its achievements combined …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits 1m Early Access sales
The PC games scene has been taken aback by another surprise hit – PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Battlegrounds in an online multiplayer last man standing survival shooter with similarities to games such as DayZ and H1Z1’s Battle Royale mode. However, while the famous zombie shooter took around four weeks to hit a …
Read More »Valve wants to fight Steam’s ‘fake games’
Steam will undergo yet another tweak to its curation systems in an effort to ensure that better quality titles get the exposure they deserve. Having played about with its user reviews policies last year, Kotaku reports that Valve has told YouTubers including Jim Sterling and John Bain that the company …
Read More »Steam unveils further tweaks to its review system
Changes made to "fine-tune the relevance and accuracy of the overall review score for each product."
Read More »Ladykiller in a Bind: We need to talk about sex
Video games are one of our most interesting and engaging narrative mediums, so why do business plans appear to have such a problem with portrayals of sex and relationships? Alex Calvin speaks to Christine Love, the developer of 'kinky lesbian sex' visual novel Ladykiller in a Bind, to get her take
Read More »LG is making a Steam VR headset too
The HTC Vive is no longer the only VR headset designed to support Valve’s OpenVR platform. Road to VR reports that rival hardware manufacturer LG is also working on a device that will utilize both OpenVR and SteamVR Tracking. Valve’s OpenVR standard was always designed to create a level playing …
Read More »Counter-Strike Classic Offensive mod gets greenlit on Steam
A mod for CS:GO called Classic Offensive has been greenlit on Steam and will be released on Valve’s distribution platform. The mod aims to bring back Counter-Strike 1.6 style gameplay in the new CS:GO engine, and while it can’t quite make it a perfect 1.6 recreation it aims to bring …
Read More »Valve cans Steam Greenlight, replacing service with Steam Direct later in 2017
Valve shows Greenlight the red light
Read More »Steam reveals Discovery 2.0 has resulted in 46% more games shown to customers
Alden Kroll, a Valve UI designer, writes about the Discovery 2.0 update.
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