Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software released the latest revenue figures for its online storefront Steam, tracking the top 20 Steam releases for October of this year. Rather than tracking pure sales… Read More
Destiny 2’s new expansion, Shadowkeep, is a surprisingly good pick for a Halloween game. It’s still Destiny 2, so you’re still blowing away invading aliens by the half-dozen with giant… Read More
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based studio behind franchises such as Destiny and Halo, broke several months of relative silence today with a series of potentially seismic changes for Destiny 2 in… Read More
Microsoft today announced several new PC gaming initiatives, a series of moves that fit with Microsoft’s evolution as a more open company willing to bring its products and services to… Read More
tinyBuild, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. and Amsterdam, is a development studio and publishing house dedicated to bringing out video games that are just plain weird. You can’t really accuse tinyBuild… Read More
Eastshade feels like somebody made an entire game out of a launch trailer. About five minutes after you start a new game, it turns into an endless series of interactive… Read More
Valve announced big changes coming for its widely used Steam video game platform, including a new feature, Events; a new look for the application’s Library page; and its new Steam… Read More
The cult indie hit Dwarf Fortress is unexpectedly coming to Steam. Silverlake, Wash.-based designer Tarn Adams, the primary creator of Dwarf Fortress alongside his brother Zach, announced via the company’s Patreon… Read More
Even after spending the better part of 12 hours exploring it, I still don’t quite feel like I have a handle on Astroneer. It’s got a decent tutorial mission, which… Read More
The Sega Genesis is best-remembered for Sonic the Hedgehog and its lineup of sports games, but one of the backbones of its library was a particular sort of platform game.… Read More
One of the big trends in video games over the past couple of years has been the concept of “games as a service.” Under this sales model, a customer doesn’t… Read More
The competition for digital distribution platforms for games is really heating up in terms of developer revenue. Earlier this month Steam, the service owned and operated by Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve,… Read More
Epic Games, the video game developer behind Gears of War, the Unreal Engine, and the Fortnite franchise, announced on Tuesday morning with a post on its website that it will debut its own… Read More
You may have missed it, since Nov. 30 was a big news day (the G20 economic summit in Buenos Aires, the passing of an ex-president, an earthquake in Anchorage, etc.),… Read More
It’s been a strange summer for Steam. Since the implementation of the Steam Direct program last year, the service has seen a tidal wave of new, largely unfiltered content, much… Read More
Tozai Games, publishers of Spelunker and Lode Runner Legacy, announced Wednesday that it’s bringing R-Type Dimensions to the Nintendo Switch and the Steam digital marketplace. Dimensions is a compilation title, packaging together… Read More
Valve is best-known these days for its monstrously popular online storefront Steam, but has also spent much of the last six years quietly developing tools and technology to enhance Linux… Read More
Here’s the short version: it was discovered over the weekend that an indie game available on Steam, Abstractism, was not merely a quick-and-dirty cash grab, or a front for a… Read More
Valve today announced “Steam China,” a new video game marketplace that will help the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reach more Chinese users in the world’s largest gaming market. The deal “will… Read More
Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” according to a statement from the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming company posted… Read More
Valve Software removed a game that simulated school shootings, following a nationwide outcry to ban the title, and slammed the “troll” developer behind it. RELATED: Valve criticized for allowing distribution of… Read More
Update, Tuesday evening May 29: Valve removes controversial school shooting game and denounces developer as ‘troll with history of customer abuse’ More than 150,000 people have signed a petition asking… Read More
COMMENTARY: If you play games on your PC at all, you likely have a somewhat complex relationship with the Bellevue-based Valve Software’s online storefront Steam. Released in 2003 as a… Read More
How should gadget fans think about privacy? Geared Up cohost Andru Edwards, for one, says growing concerns about data privacy will be a boon for Apple and other companies that… Read More
It turns out that the Steam Machines aren’t dead. Yet. Over the weekend, several websites, the first of which appears to have been Gaming On Linux, noticed that video game… Read More
Tozai Games, the Seattle-area game developer, is bringing its action-puzzle game Lode Runner Legacy, the most recent installment in the long-running Lode Runner series, to the Nintendo Switch. When it… Read More
Seattle startup Pluto VR has launched its first product. The company focuses on applications for people to communicate within virtual reality, and its technology debuted yesterday in Early Access on Steam. In… Read More
“Slay the Spire” is a game for masochists. That isn’t a criticism or complaint. It’s just the nature of the beast. It’s both a collectible card game and a “roguelike”:… Read More
If you aren’t into player vs. player or battle arena games, you may not be familiar with Carbon Games. It was founded in July of 2011 after the dissolution of… Read More
The world’s most powerful PC game distribution platform continues to expand its reach and grow its user base. Video-game giant Valve showed new stats about the growth of Steam at the… Read More