The Blood of Dawnwalker finally launched this week to “Mostly Positive” reviews on Steam as well as from critics and players, but as you should come to expect in the year 2026, there also seem to be some fairly substantial performance and optimization struggles bogging the whole thing down. Rebel Wolves’ debut title has been […]
20 years later, Left 4 Dead 2 lead admits Valve’s team leaked their own trailer because the ESRB blocked them from officially releasing it: “We can’t get in trouble for that now”

“We leaked our trailer,” admits Left 4 Dead 2 project lead and Valve veteran Chet Faliszek in a new YouTube video. “I think we can’t get in trouble for that now, it’s like 20 years ago,” he then says, with an air of mild nervousness about him. In his YouTube confessional, Faliszek explains that the […]
2019Steam earned Valve $15 billion in revenue so far this year, with Crimson Desert alone topping $203 million according to analyst

Steam has made a top-heavy $15 billion in gross revenue so far this year according to Alinea Analytics market analysis lead Rhys Elliott – and Crimson Desert was its most lucrative new IP by far. Elliott describes Steam as “Valve’s functional monopoly on the PC market” in a new Substack post breaking down its 2026 […]
2019Guild Wars 3 wants to solve every MMO’s biggest problem, and might actually pull it off: “No subscription fee helps there too”

With Guild Wars 3, developer ArenaNet is looking to directly tackle probably the biggest challenge in the entire MMO space: these things are hard to get into, and even harder to get your friends into. As part of our big Guild Wars 3 preview, we spoke to studio head Colin Johanson about ArenaNet’s next big […]
2019Microsoft invents new level of ‘own nothing and like it’: 5 to 15 hours of playtime a month for Xbox cloud gaming, but you can “purchase additional cloud playtime”

Xbox Cloud Gaming, once a vaunted lure for the Microsoft ecosystem, will soon cap players to 5-to-15 hours of base playtime per month based on the tier of their Xbox Game Pass membership. In a blog post, Microsoft outlines substantial changes coming to its cloud gaming service. “Today, eligible Game Pass subscribers can stream without […]
2019Neflix orders Dungeons and Dragons TV show based on Ravenloft from Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón

Netflix has ordered a live-action TV show based on Ravenloft, the spooky-ooky vampire-laden storyline from Dungeons and Dragons… and I’ve never, ever been happier. Per Deadline, the upcoming drama is a joint venture between writer, executive producer, and frequent Tim Burton collaborator John August, executive producer Alfonso Cuarón, and Hasbro Entertainment. Ravenloft is all about […]
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