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'I consider it a millennial shooter': The FPS dev making hit shooters by leaning into '2007-core'

Echo Point Nova's Matt Larrabee talks movement shooters, making niche games, and '2007-core' game design.

"The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore"

"The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore"

"No form of modern communication requires a subject and a body — it's easy to see how people [who are] not familiar with email aren't filling out both fields"

Valve's Steam Machine will have "fewer constraints" for games to be Verified than Steam Deck — plus, an explanation for that weird Steam Controller puck

Valve's Steam Machine will have "fewer constraints" for games to be Verified than Steam Deck — plus, an explanation for that weird Steam Controller puck

Valve's new Steam Machine will have "fewer constraints" for getting games Verified than the Steam Deck does, which is good news for game devs.

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Meta closing its Deadpool VR, Resident Evil 4 VR, and Asgard's Wrath studios is bad news for Quest 3 owners, but plays right into Steam Frame's hands

Meta has shut down three of its most significant VR game studios. While that's not great news for Quest 3 owners, it's excellent news for Valve's Steam Frame.

A Steam glitch convinced some Fallout fans a New Vegas remaster was imminent, only to have the rug yanked out from under them: 'Slowly turning into r/HalfLife'

I want to believe.

New GOG owner reckons it doesn't have to beat Steam outright, just do a few things better: "If there's a version of the game that's clearly better on GOG, and it has the promise that it will run forever… people will come"

It's more like a non-hostile takeover

Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards

Begone, and never blight my forums, reviews, or guides again.

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Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames and collectathon fetch quests

Cozy Caravan is a feast of little cooking minigames and collectathon fetch quests

This super cute life sim is all about touring the countryside to collect and cook up homemade goodies for the market.

Steam Hits 42 Million Concurrent Users in New All-Time Record

Steam Hits 42 Million Concurrent Users in New All-Time Record

The rich get richer.

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Umamusume: Pretty Derby Breaks Into Steam’s Top Sellers of 2025

Umamusume: Pretty Derby Breaks Into Steam’s Top Sellers of 2025

An unlikely hit.

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Zorin OS 18 has reached 2 million downloads, with 1M+ Windows defections fueling one of Linux’s biggest growth stories in 2026

Zorin OS 18 has reached 2 million downloads, with 1M+ Windows defections fueling one of Linux’s biggest growth stories in 2026

Zorin OS 18 has passed 2 million downloads in under three months, with around 75% coming from Windows users as Windows 10 reaches end of life and hardware limits push more people toward Linux.

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Peak's success was a surprise because the co-op romp didn't launch with "much of what we thought was required to make a hit," but lead wants to keep its game "jam-like spirit" for future updates

Peak's success was a surprise because the co-op romp didn't launch with "much of what we thought was required to make a hit," but lead wants to keep its game "jam-like spirit" for future updates

"We just wanted to get it out there"

Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt

Wrestling the Steam 'Goliath,' pulling a Nightdive, and seeing off vulture capital: GOG chats the risks and opportunities of its future as a company without CD Projekt

GOG is an independent storefront. What now?

ARC Raiders passes a significant, and impressive milestone — and all its players get rewarded to celebrate

ARC Raiders passes a significant, and impressive milestone — and all its players get rewarded to celebrate

ARC Raiders has passed 12.4 million players, reached 960,000 concurrent users across all platforms, and is rewarding players with a free Gilded Pickaxe to celebrate the milestone.

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Epic Games Store has grown massively, but it has trained users to never buy anything — is Xbox PC going down the same path?

Free games helped Epic reach millions of players, but it also changed how they spend. Is Xbox doomed to make the same mistake on PC?

My Winter Car is a 'dangerous, depressing and tiring' life sim, and the developer doesn't want you to play it unless you've mastered the infamously tricky My Summer Car

Don't expect to have much fun.

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Arc Raiders First Person Mode: Quick Setup Instructions for Players

Find out how to activate first person mode in Arc Raiders with a clear guide and step-by-step tips to help you switch views and play your way.

TikTok hit Quarantine Zone finally launched today and made the mistake of giving me a large medical hammer

Stop! Hammer time!

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Amazon is giving Prime Members over $200 worth of free games — including multiple Fallout titles

There are loads of great games up for grabs if you're an Amazon Prime member.

'Steam is winning with its ease of use,' GOG's new owner says, but he's not interested in picking a fight: 'I think much can be done in GOG without losing its core values and the way it operates'

CD Projekt sold GOG to co-founder Michal Kiciński at the end of 2025, and he sees room for improvement but isn't planning any major changes.

Indie dev is delisting his AI game from Steam because his new girlfriend convinced him it's evil: 'The game existing in its current form is a disgrace to all game makers and players'

There are heroes all around us.

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While ARC Raiders cruises, Battlefield 6's player count has plummeted on the Steam charts — but why? Here's what a diehard fan of the FPS thinks

While Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders were both some of 2025's biggest games, the former's player count has fallen significantly in the new year. But why is that?

"Steam is winning with its ease of use" but not on quality, says new GOG owner pondering how to "take the market" from Valve: "We don't release hundreds of games daily, 95% of which are really not super high quality"

"We can do more for classic retro and modern classics"

Indie dev boots their AI-aided roguelike off Steam because the "girl I've been dating for a month made me realize" the controversial tech "is bad"

"A disgrace to all game makers and players"

Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I'll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again

Unbent, unbowed, unbroken.

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