Netflix's exclusivity deal for the Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal in August struck me as a little silly. Sure, it'd probably make "a little pocket change," as PC Gamer's Harvey Randall put it at the time, but a video that would remain exclusive for only six hours? Not days? How much of an impact could that really have?Well, uh, quite a lot, as it turns out. We already knew that...
Despite more than a year of updates and at least one massive overhaul, Civilization 7 remains as stubbornly divisive as ever. May's enormous Test of Time update brought significant mechanical reworks and a fresh influx of players to Firaxis' latest entry in the 4X series. But with Steam reviews still sitting at 'Mixed', with 51% positive, it ultimately did little to shift player opinion.This is partly because numerous aspects of...
In Thousand Hells: The Underworld heists, I've sort of taken on the role of the dad in that one tweet about feeding cats to coyotes. But rather than serving up pets to jackals, I'm dutifully feeding bands of doomed adventurers into the psychological, corporeal, and spiritual wood chipper of the "tactical narrative" game's bespoke hellscapes.Those hellscapes—from the primordial twilight taigas of the Midnight North, to the melting fever-dream dominion of...
Roblox, as we know, is a behemoth. Industry analyst Matthew Ball, now chief strategy officer at Xbox, said in 2025 that Roblox accounted for more player engagement and revenue growth than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined. Now it's looking to expand its reach even further by giving Roblox creators the ability to release their work as standalone games.Part of Roblox's immense popularity can be attributed to the fact that it's...
Steam Frame, Valve's latest entry in the VR hardware market, will cost AU$1,609 in Australia for the 256 GB model with included VR controllers. For the 1 TB Steam Frame model with included VR controllers, the Aussie price is AU$1,969.The price isn't super surprising: the entry level model costs the same as the entry level Steam Machine. There's also the not-insignificant problem of the ongoing memory crisis: Valve would have...
But the memory apocalypse may not rage as long as we fear.
Help Apollo find the building pictured on the whiteboard and earthquake proof Speranza.
Voting for the 2025 Steam Awards is now live too.
Riot has big plans for attracting new players to its aging MOBA.
Bring back Heroes of the Storm then.