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MurrayL, 2 dni temu do games w Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'

Are you seriously suggesting they deliberately got their game banned from Steam?

No developer is out there voluntarily withdrawing from the biggest games market just for the sake of ‘clout’.

It’s not a conspiracy, Valve just made a decision and other storefronts reacted.

MurrayL, 3 dni temu do games w Retro Gamer's Nick Thorpe Has Passed Away

Too young. RG won’t be the same without him.

MurrayL, 6 dni temu do games w Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.]

Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!

MurrayL, 6 dni temu do games w Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.]

Infrastruction or Infrastructor?

MurrayL, 22 dni temu do games w "This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated

No need to speak for the USA, Rockstar North is British

MurrayL, 23 dni temu do games w Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

FYI you can just post the link without shilling for your preferred search engine

MurrayL, 23 dni temu do games w Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

People who came to Steam later on probably don’t realise that when it was new it barely fucking worked.

Downloads crawled, games refused to launch because of authentication issues, friends/chat was offline for literally months, etc.

The only reason it became widely adopted was because Valve forced you to use it if you wanted to play the latest CS or, later, HL2. Everyone hated it.

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"

If you mod it enough, sure. Out of the box it’s dismal.

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"

Official internal chat will be either Slack or MS Teams. Using any unauthorised app to discuss matters relating to the business would be a contract violation.

Realistically, game devs do this all the time in private chats with colleagues that happen outside work, both online and in person. But of course R* either never knows about those or chooses to overlook it.

In this case, I suspect the fact they were unionising was the reason they actually took action on it. It’s not about consistency, it’s about having an excuse to fire these people.

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"

In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.

I’m not sure about other industries, but in games NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses tend to be extremely strict and often quite broad.

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"

We already know the affected workers were using Discord to organise. My guess is they were discussing work issues there, and Rockstar jumped on that as an excuse to fire them (as it would constitute a breach of NDA).

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one

I’m sure his godawful, stilted, overwrought dialogue would’ve fitted right in too

MurrayL, miesiąc temu do games w Mass layoffs in the gaming industry continue - estimated 11k layoffs in 2025 and total 46k in the last 3 years

That post is 2 months old. There’s a more recent update and projection here.

Amir does a lot of good work tracking the industry!

MurrayL, 2 miesiące temu do games w Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios

Given the state of the industry right now, there’s a good chance these games simply wouldn’t have been made without these deals.

If the choice is between releasing on GP or not releasing at all, I don’t begrudge them for taking the deal.

MurrayL, 2 miesiące temu do games w Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans

Epic pulled the game from storefronts and then released it officially on the internet archive, fully for free.