Steam Direct: Greenlight’s Red Light
Farewell Steam Greenlight, we barely knew thee. Nor, it seems, did all that many of us wish to know thee. Though I found it to be a rather intriguing system with a great deal of potential personally, the Steam community response was primarily negative. As such, Greenlight has now been officially laid to rest, and…
When Valve Got Steamy in the Living Room
Having been available for a year and half, following the November 2015 launch, now seems like a good time to reflect on Valve's invasion of the living room. Granted, in my case, my PC is already in the living room and hooked up to my TV, so I've been making use of the latter mostly…
For Honor, Paid Unlocks and Investing Your Time in a Game
Those who want to unlock absolutely everything in For Honor, including all cosmetic items, all characters, equipment and so on. Assuming you want to buy everything, with real world money, before playing the game for the first time, you're looking at $732 on top of the $60 to purchase the game. If you're not so…
Steam Direct: Greenlight, Indie Devs and the Future
Since its inception, Steam Greenlight has been much maligned by a significant chunk of the Steam community. Many seeing it as nothing more than a massive floodgate opening to allow all the shittiest shitty shite in the universe to make its way into their Steam libraries. Now, putting aside the fact you, y'know, have to…
Steam Cracking Down on “False” Image Advertising…
Valve has been busy the last few months with plans to give their Steam platform a bit of an overhaul, most recently with the Steam Review System itself, the controversy that followed and its timely resolution. While the previous update had its purpose, it ultimately didn’t affect me, since I personally don’t put much stock into any…
Street Fighter from East to West
Happy birthday Street Fighter! To celebrate your 29th birthday and Street Fighter V’s full character roster, let’s go down memory lane. Let’s talk about the past and present of Capcom’s premier series, how it’s traveled from Japan to the west, and how a small, pixelated, redheaded Japanese man became the beefy warrior we know as…
Steam Tackles Bogus Reviews (Updated)
Update (22 Sep, 2016): Steam have been listening. Complaints about the user reviews scores have prompted Valve to change the default rating for each game from the “Steam Purchase” only score to the ‘All’ score. If however, you prefer to see just the Steam Purchased reviews or just the ‘Key Activated’ reviews, then simply scroll…
Paradox Reacts to Racism
I relate gaming to “going round a friend’s house”, I’m there to kick back, have fun, and crush my enemy into dust. Telling people my world view/ideology is just rude under the circumstance. But politics creeps into everything eventually. Paradox have recently been dragged into “making a political statement”. Let's be clear here, they were…
Paid Mods Are Slowly Returning to Steam
Almost a month after I brought the news that paid custom games had made their way into Dota 2, and almost a year since paid mods found their way onto Steam, a few new pieces of information and updates from Steam have hinted at the inglorious return of paid mods. As we all remember, the…
What Does the Australian Court Ruling Against Valve Mean?
Back in August 2014, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission - Australia's consumer protection watchdog - announced that it would be taking Valve to court over its failure to abide by Australian Consumer law in its business practices. On March 29th 2016, the ACCC announced that the Australian Federal Court had ruled in their favour…
The Evolution of Paid Mods?
We’ve come a long way from last year’s paid mods fiasco on Steam. For those who can’t remember, Valve added paid mods to the Steam Workshop for Skyrim seemingly out of the blue, though various tweets from modders revealed that it had been in the works for some time. It took less than a week…
An Unlikely Inspiration
Wargaming are a big company who’ve made a lot of money on their freemium third person simulations so it came as a real shock when they took on an utterly alien project to their usual games and bought the rights to Master of Orion. Wargaming then declared that they would remake the classic in modern…
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Future Games Show August 2020
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Die by the Blade didn't just steal the show, it is the show, now -
E3: Guerrilla Collective 2020 Day 1
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