steam / Valve Knows How To Run A Shopfront But Does Not Know How, Or Does Not Want To Be, The Custodian Of PC Gaming With great power comes great responsibility, etc etc By Luke Plunkett / 29 Oct 2026
AI / Devs Shouldn't Have To Protect Their Games, Valve Should Be Protecting Their Shopfront Maybe Valve could spend some of those billions it makes on better moderation By Luke Plunkett / 22 Oct 2026
Feature / Game Developers Fear That Thieving AI Vibecoders Will Make Free Game Demos A Thing Of The Past "Not being able to develop our games in the open has been a real blow, and it's very dispiriting" By Nathan Grayson / 21 Oct 2026
Video Games / Avert Your Eyes From My Masterpiece Sloppy Forgeries is a competitive painting game By Riley MacLeod / 21 Oct 2026
Video Games / A Folklore Puzzle Game That's As Charming As It Is Tough The Marvelous Raincaster Of Yell Holler isn't easy, but hey the soundtrack slaps By Riley MacLeod / 14 Oct 2026
Video Games / Kitman Gets That Most Of Sports Is Actually Just Laundry A sports game where you don't have to do much sports By Riley MacLeod / 13 Oct 2026
steam / Steam's Pyrowave Update To Remote Play Chases Latency At All Costs The addition of the Pyrowave codec in the latest Steam beta is a potential boon for people that love streaming locally and directly via Ethernet. By Chris Person / 29 Sep 2026
valve / Will There Ever Be Another Half-Life: Alyx? Half-Life: Alyx remains the big budget killer app of VR. But playing it again makes you wonder if anyone will ever be allowed to match that ambition. By Chris Person / 17 Sep 2026
Video Games / Steam Is Asking Australians To Verify They're Adults By Linking A Credit Card, Something Millions Of Australians Don't Have Not everyone has a credit card! By Luke Plunkett / 9 Sep 2026
Video Games / There Are More Video Games Coming Out Than We Can Ever Hope To See Or Play Nobody says you have to play everything, but the chances of missing a classic are getting higher by the day By Luke Plunkett / 7 Sep 2026
Feature / 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.' By Jay Castello / 17 Aug 2026
