Questions about Steam’s stance on release parity arose after a tweet from Glass Bottom Games founder Megan Fox. As she points out, other storefronts often offer some sort of compensation for parity, rather than making it a standard part of the contract.
Taimanin Asagi was meant to be a four-episode Steam release, but those plans have been scrapped as Valve removed the game’s store page in advance of the game’s episodic release. The extreme adult visual novel contains explicit material, including non-consensual sex.
Valve is giving Steam a much-needed update that will purportedly improve communication between developers and players.
The VR subscription service has made its way to several platforms.
Esports prize money is beginning to rival what professional athletes earn in the world’s biggest sports tournaments.
Valve has experienced plenty of difficulties in accepting foreign currencies on the marketplace.
Dota 2 tournament analyst and former professor of economics weighs in on the Dota Pro Circuit and the inherent problems that Valve still needs to address in order to better take care of its players and tournament organizers.
Steam now requires developers to contact Valve for release date changes, fixing an exploit that enabled some to abuse the system. No More Robots’ Mike Rose tells us it’s a ‘good solution.’
After waves of outcry from indie developers, Valve is rolling out a trio of discoverability initiatives.
Fans are misunderstanding the rules of a giveaway contest, which has left some indie developers feeling like Steam’s latest sale has left them in the lurch.