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Steam Hardware - Steam Machine launches today! - Steam News

All the details on how to sign up, plus some background on how we got here.

dev scoops: some narrative advice a Valve person gave me once

Many years ago when I was a tiny baby making InFlux (of which there is now a Redux), I had no idea what I wanted to do with it narratively, if anything. Because, from a young age, he had humoured me, I emailed Gabe Newell about it, knowing he was in the habit of either replying or forwarding to someone he thought might reply. I got some good thoughts back from David Speyrer, who’s been at Valve since ’99, which I shall publish here now because at a party last night someone was interested.

Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console

Valve’s Fremont was real.

You’ve Been Played

How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across...

InterfaceX26 — Sale & Showcase

InterfaceX26 brings together 150+ developers to tag Fake OS games on Steam, with a week-long sale and a live showcase of exclusive reveals.

Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans

Creators of sexually explicit content talk about what it's like to rely on a platform that can just... change its policies, then change them back.

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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

Astrarium Digital (@astrariumdigital.bsky.social)

✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨ We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them. 📅 Let's chat: https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min

Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend.sh)

1. solitude: single-player game loop 2. bottomlessness: infinite scroll 3. speed: instant delivery/gratification 4. teasing: generally satisfactory, never perfect; “maybe the next one is exactly what I want” ↘️ quoting NPR (@npr.org): Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s

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A platform for managing video games on ATProto, enabling data sovereignty for both players and developers.

Ico, disruptive game design, and experiences that live forever.

100 updates later. Why we enjoy games, why we stop, and how live game design might bring us back.

Introducing The Pentaract: A Comprehensive Set of Video Game Lexicons for ATProto

Some of you already know that I’ve been working on-and-off on a lexicon for video games. I figured it would be a good idea to put the lexicon up for further discussion, and to make sure I’m headed down the right path with things. But why? Last year, the video games industry experienced a significant upheaval when radical groups leveraged moral panic to pressure payment processors, which in turn pressured games platforms to remove NSFW applications. This resulted in a lot of underrepresented dev...