Valve peels back the curtain in rare Steam presentation: “More games are finding success” than ever, and nearly 6,000 made over $100,000 last year March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news If Steam was on the Steam charts Read More 2019
The Dispatch leads had “a mix of arrogance and stupidity” as they faced down publishers telling them single-player narrative games were “niche, or worse, dead” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news “Just because we can make an open-world action RPG, doesn’t mean we should” Read More 2019
Xbox lead thinks “we have been in a golden age for indies” since 2008, and it’s “a fantastic time to be a developer” if you ignore all the smoke: “The present is awesome” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news Woohoo! Read More 2019
The Future Games Show returns this week – here’s how to watch March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news More than 40 games will be making an appearance Read More 2019
Xbox teases “some iconic games from the past” to be re-released in 2026, after its “game preservation team” spent years “working very hard in the background” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news “Being one of the largest publishers in the industry, one of the largest platforms in the industry, we feel a deep responsibility to preserve the games from the past” Read More 2019
Steam expert advises devs stick to the “Little League” section of idle games and friendslop before attempting anything like Binding of Isaac or Mewgenics: “Then you can make your dream” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news Start small, think friendslop Read More 2019
Nintendo knew Donkey Kong Bananza wouldn’t be nearly as fun if you were destroying basic blocks: “It is more fun to destroy that which is beautiful” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news “To give you a sense of how much voxel data there is, the rather big Canyon layer actually has about 340 million voxels” Read More 2019
Severance star Adam Scott’s new horror movie Hokum just got an intensely creepy first trailer, and it already has my skin crawling March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news The first full trailer for Hokum is fully creepy rabbits, ghastly dead people, and all manner of haunting imagery Read More 2019
Dispatch is lying to you about RNG for your own good, just like XCOM: “Those guys are pretty smart, so we thought we’d do the same” March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news Adhoc “landed on anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed” Read More 2019
Valve pleads “if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it,” as AI and data centers make building Steam Machines a Herculean challenge March 11, 2026 / admin / retro news Good memory is hard to find Read More 2019