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'The dream of the tech industry is to sell off your company at an overinflated price and retire,' says actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach, 'And I feel that's being done with game studios right now'
By Ted Litchfield published
news Actor Samantha Béart had particularly harsh words for how they're pushing AI.

Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'
By Rich Stanton published
News Taking a break from buying megayachts.

Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
By Rich Stanton published
News "I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift."

'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win
By Harvey Randall published
News Bleak.

Microsoft crawls back to Steam ahead of schedule by leaking a screenshot of an app where you can launch Steam games through Xbox
By Harvey Randall published
News Maybe it'll be good? Maybe?

Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps
By Rich Stanton published
News But it might also be something to do with people enjoying 'bad' memes.

Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games."

Marketing guy invents the concept of 'Real Steam' to explain why 'magic' games, AKA good games, end up selling: 'Don't tell Valve'
By Rich Stanton published
News The return of the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious.

Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it's about 'taking action and organizing change'
By Tyler Wilde published
news The United Videogame Workers took to the halls of the Game Developers Conference to announce itself on Wednesday.

Helldivers 2's Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: 'Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them'
By Andy Chalk published
news Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.
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