From Destructoid: "This week, Valve announced they would permit any game to be hosted on its market-leading platform, Steam, as long as it did not contain illegal content and is not what can be classified as a "trolling game". This met with praise from people who criticise what they perceive as any form of censorship, but also with a lot of annoyance and anger from people who felt that Valve was washing its hands of its responsibility to reduce hostility on the Steam marketplace. "
11 bit Studio, developers of The Alters, have confirmed they used generative AI in their game that appears in the background.
People Can Fly cancelled Outriders 2, previously known as Project BiFrost, thanks to a lack of cash input from its publisher.
I had a blast with the first, I didn’t get to finish the dlc but I would love to go back and play again.
Outriders was one of the best hidden gems when it came out. Doing builds and playing with people was the best.
Owlcat Games producer Anatoly Shestov reveals his dream project: an SCP game with Owlcat RPG flair and a proper budget.
I'm frustrated by the lack of comprehension on this issue. I don't care about the political slant of content on Steam. I care about obvious piles of steaming excrement plopping all over it, without anyone pulling out a shovel and a bucket. The saturation of trash is suffocating that storefront. Giving the garbage trucks an official thumbs up at the gate can only lead to an utter blight.
GOG is turning out to be a much better platform. They are letting in the anime games with fan-service that Steam has been censoring, but aren't letting in the crappy cell-phone games and half-assed amateur garbage that Steam has been flooded with.
Plus none of the games on GOG have DRM, and are mostly free of microtransactions as well. There are a few exceptions, but the for the vast majority you get the whole game for the price paid up front. That's awesome.