Valve says it’s refining its approach to how customer reviews are handled on Steam, announcing today that it plans to identify and remove “off-topic review bombs” that might affect user review scores.
Undead Citadel, a medieval-era VR action game, arrives next week on PlayStation VR2.
SEGA has made a mistake on one of their PDF forms which has inadvertently disclosed full sales numbers of some of the company’s key software releases.
Don't forget they've put a lot of these on gamepass and ps plus so you can add that money to it. Good to see Sega going strong
Happy for sega ! I was expecting some kind of showing of their newer games at game fest but maybe they’re keeling it for TGS? Crazy taxi and jet set needs a trailer or something soon !!!
Release Phantasy Star 5, Shining force 4 or Skies of Arcadia 2 and look at the number after.
Playdead co-founder Dino Patti is allegedly being sued by his former studio and business partner.
Patti was threatened with a lawsuit earlier this year after he posted a now-deleted LinkedIn post that shared an "unauthorized" picture of co-founder Arnt Jensen and discussed some of Limbo's development. Patti said Jensen demanded a little over $73,000 in "suitable compensation and reimbursement," adding that he had "repeatedly" had such letters over the last nine years.
If technical issues are deemed to be off topic, as I have heard they will be, then you might as well get rid of Steam user reviews. It would seem that how well a game is optimised is pretty damn important.
I would also suggest that reviews which discuss micro-transactions and anti-cheat software, should be left up for people to read. I have a real bad feeling about the way things are going down.
Steam is now going to try to stop the bleeding by going after user friendly features that developers do not like. Of course, Steam would rather throw a wrench into popular features, rather than bow to lowering their profit take.
Personally, I wouldn't bow to pressure from Epic. Yes, they may have to take a smaller cut (20% - 25%), but Epic is just acting as a market disruptor. Epic will not be able to grow their marketplace on a 12% profit over the long-term. Lets also not forget that Epic is a publically traded company, and to investors, a 12% profit margin is absolut nonsense. Steam should stay strong, particularly since there is no platform that can touch the features that they offer.
Epic will either raise the cut they take from developers at some point, or they will go out with a wimper sooner or later.