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Dwarf Fortress' creator is so tired of hearing about AI: 'Press a button and it writes a really sh*tty, wrong essay about something—and they still take your job'
News Sighing at the slop.
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
News "Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?"
Despite making a roguelike where you can have countless arms and legs, Caves of Qud's creators say the ideal form is a limbless sphere: 'We started in perfection and only moved farther from God'
News That's about what I expected.
Metaphor: ReFantazio battle director says turn-based RPGs can still be just as popular as action RPGs: 'I personally believe turn-based games have a long future ahead of them'
News Atlus's Kenichi Goto worried turn-based battles were beginning to feel outdated, but developing Metaphor brought him back around.
The Witcher 3 devs had to practically remake the game engine to make official modding possible
News At GDC 2025, CD Projekt Red devs offered a deep dive into making REDKit, and how they want The Witcher 3 to continue on forever.
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
News "If you're in this industry, people have to trust you."
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
News "It probably wouldn't have looked anything like Facebook."
