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"Gabe really had a great vision": Steam became a PC gaming cornerstone because Valve built a community with "stickiness," says Nightdive chief who worked on GameStop's Steam competitor
Before Valve cemented Steam as a go-to PC gaming destination, way back in the primordial days of digital distribution, GameStop was among the companies trying to finagle a sustainable platform for selling games digitally. Larry Kuperman, a newly retired games veteran best known for his work at retro specialist Nightdive, was part of the team behind the GameStop-acquired online store Impulse, and he suggests Steam’s golden ticket to PC gaming dominance was fairly simple in theory but hard to foresee or accomplish.Speaking with PC Gamer at GDC, Kuperman says the whole idea of third-party digital distribution “didn’t seem intuitive at…
Sony may never support PS3 games again, but at least the platform's best emulator is getting massive improvements on PC handhelds like Steam Deck
Rumors regarding a PS6 handheld abound, but there’s one thing I figure is pretty much set in stone: you won’t be playing PS3 games on it. Sony cut off backwards compatibility with that notorious hardware the instant the PS4 launched, and it seems unlikely that the PS6 will change that – much less a companion handheld. But you can still enjoy PS3 games on the go, especially now that RPCS3 has gotten a massive update making the handheld experience much better.”For the past few weeks,” the folks behind RPCS3 explain in a new video, “our developers have been working on…
Immersive sim pioneer Warren Spector's new stealth game Thick as Thieves makes the blessed pivot, dropping PvPvE in favor of single-player and co-op
Thick as Thieves, the new stealth game from OtherSide Entertainment, a studio founded by immersive sim legend Warren Spector, is dropping the previously confirmed PvPvE elements in favor of single-player and co-op gameplay.I’ve been cautiously optimistic – heavy on the cautiously – about Thick as Thieves since it was announced back in December 2024. Spector is a titan of the industry largely credited as one of the pioneers of the immersive sim genre, having produced the foundational 1992 action-RPG Ultima Underworld, created the original Deus Ex, and coined the term immersive sim.As chief creative officer of OtherSide Entertainment, Spector looked…
Skyrim and Fallout 4 artist says Bethesda's Todd Howard has too many yes men: "A lot of people were afraid to say no to Todd and that hurt him"
Bethesda’s Todd Howard is no ordinary game developer. Having risen to the top of the ranks at Bethesda Game Studios over his 32-year tenure, he’s a household name even among people who don’t write about video games for a living.He’s been instrumental in the development of some of the most beloved games of all time, including The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4, and so you’d assume he’s probably made some really brilliant executive decisions over the course of his long career. And yet still, he’s bound to be wrong about stuff occasionally too, and according to a…
If you love dinosaurs as much as we do, we reckon you’ll love Project Universe, a PvP and PvE Roblox game that allows you to become a huge dinosaur! If you need some assistance in-game because you’re getting beaten up by other dinos, we’ve got all the latest Project Universe codes to redeem, because there’s no need to struggle when the developer is offering help. Codes offer free g-cells, a currency in-game, which you can use to buy more powerful dinosaurs. Take down your enemies – and surroundings – with more ease than ever before. Here are all the new…
This guide to the Top 10 Prime Video shows will clue you in on what’s currently hot on the streamer’s TV chart this week. On this page you’ll find the week’s complete TV top 10 as well as breaking down what’s in the top three spots.It’s a very solid chart this week, with a wide range of different genres, from comedy to action and animation. As well as firm favorites like Cross and Fallout, you’ll find more recent shows like Scarpetta, Young Sherlock, and Jury Duty in the charts.Looking for something to watch on one of the other streamers? Then…
Xenonauts 2 hits 1.0 after almost three years of early access and paves the way for mods galore
“The year is 2009,” opens the 1.0 launch trailer for Xenonauts 2, a sentence that tickles me greatly considering the game’s alternate future vibes. It presents a vision of the world that differed greatly from my actual experience of worrying about swine flu and whether or not Yu-Gi-Oh! was cool any more. And yet that is the reality of the turn-based tactics game, which exits out of early access almost three years after its initial release. Xenonauts 2, for the uninitiated, imagines a world where aliens have invaded and you are in charge of a multinational military group…
The proportion of gaming PCs with 32GB of RAM just dropped a massive 20.31% on the latest Steam Hardware Survey for March 2026. With PC RAM prices currently so high, PC gamers have seemingly been forced to either buy lower-specced hardware or have perhaps been tempted to downgrade their systems to cash in on their ultra-valuable RAM. In an ideal world, we’d recommend 32GB as the best gaming RAM allocation for a current gaming PC. With triple-A games getting ever larger and gamers often liking to stream and record their sessions while multi-tasking with web browsers, video editors, and other…
Spider-Man star Zendaya says she wants to work with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler: "He means so much to the world, but he also means so much to us"
There are few bigger stars in the world right now than Zendaya, and few filmmakers at the level of 2026 Oscar winner Ryan Coogler. But if the Spider-Man and Euphoria star has her way, she’d like to work with Coogler as a career goal.”Oh goodness. You know, I would love to work with Ryan [Coogler],” Zendaya tells Jennifer Hudson on her podcast (around the 5 minute mark). “Because, it’s been for years that I felt this way, since Fruitvale Station, because I thought that was such a beautiful and powerful film.””But I’m from Oakland too, and I remember when that…
Warren Spector's Thick as Thieves gets a bit less interesting as it ditches PvPvE for solo and co-op play
In the summer of last year, during Day of the Devs, immersive sim legend Warren Spector said that at his studio OtherSide Entertainment, “we don’t play it safe. We take chances.” He was talking about his upcoming game Thick as Thieves, a multiplayer immersive sim that’s basically Thief, except other people are trying to pull off the same heist as you on the same map, with all of you racing to get the loot first. Except it’s not going to be that game anymore. No, instead, as detailed in this Steam blog post, it’ll be a bit closer…