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Lone dev Eric Barone’s Harvest Moon-a-like is the second-biggest paid Steam release of 2016, according to SteamSpy
Read More »Valve blocks indie games store Itch.io app from Steam
Itch.io, the distribution platform aimed at indie and experimental games, has been refused from launching its app on Steam. The PC platform previously opened a page on Steam’s Greenlight service, aiming to drum up support for its unique mix of more obscure titles to come to the marketplace in addition …
Read More »Five-person dev Dodge Roll sells 200,000 copies of Enter the Gungeon in a week
PS4 and PC roguelike shooter has already grossed roughly £2.2 million
Read More »Indie marketplace Itch.io’s Steam release halted by Valve
‘We just don’t have the tools and processes to handle many types of non-gaming software right now,’ platform holder explains after blocking Greenlight app
Read More »How Portal and Unreal Tournament solved VR’s movement problem
HTC Vive launch title Budget Cuts is one of virtual reality’s most versatile experiences yet, requiring players to shoot, throw, duck and crawl in order to sneak past an army of murderous robots. Develop caught up with Neat Corp’s Joachim Holmér to ask why he threw virtual knives at a wall for a day and find out why stealth is the perfect fit for VR
Read More »The number of games released on Steam doubled in 2015
A new survey has fortified the perception of a growing saturation of games on Steam. According to EEDAR, nearly 3,500 retail and digital titles came to Steam in 2015 – more than twice the 1,500 launched in 2014. This was itself nearly triple the roughly 500 titles released in 2013, …
Read More »Number of Steam releases doubled in 2015
EEDAR believes that almost 3,500 titles hit the PC marketplace last year
Read More »Rust devs make player gender random – and permanent
‘We understand that you may now be a gender that you don’t identify with in real-life. Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings.’
Read More »Valve loses Australian refund lawsuit
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Valve’s Steam service breached Australian consumer law. A disagreement between Valve and the ACCC kicked off in 2014 when the Steam owner was sued over its lack of refund policy. Such a policy was eventually introduced last year, but that …
Read More »Coder exploits Steamworks loophole to release unverified game
Ruby Nealon snuck Watch Paint Dry onto Steam store after his warnings about virtual backdoor went ignored by Valve
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