[Update 5/31: Digital Homicide has updated their games to have a consistent naming, making it possible to easily view all of their games.] Temper Tantrum currently costs 99 cents on Steam. It has a 44% positive rating at the time of this publishing with many of the negative reviews pointing toward bugs, and the fact … Continue reading “[Updated] Indie Dev Uses Multiple Names To Dodge Bad Rating Association”
Alganon on Steam currently holds a “mostly negative” rating, with 31% of 108 reviews painting the game in a positive light. Many of the negative reviews appear to focus around the game’s one-time purchase to remove certain account limitations, along with players who had been banned from the forums writing a review about the company’s … Continue reading “Alganon: Mostly Negative Reviews And QOL Backlash”
It’s Sunday, and you know what that means: You’re playing Triad Wars, thanks to the giveaway here at MMO Fallout. Well you should be, anyhow. As we descend into the barren wasteland that is the summer of gaming, I see the Weekend Wrapup getting smaller and smaller. Anyway, get a Triad Wars beta key. If … Continue reading “Weekend Wrapper: We Aren’t Merging Articles”
Steam Early Access has seen a lot of criticism, from the fact that most games don’t see completion, to the sale of titles that are at best misleading and at worst engaging in outright fraud. It has also become the source of indie devs putting games up for sale only to engage with the community … Continue reading “[Less Massive] Shuttered Game Still Being Sold On Steam”
[Update]: Tripwire Interactive has expressly forbidden the use of paid mods in its EULA for Killing Floor 2. Your Mods must be distributed for free, period. Neither you, nor any other person or party, may sell them to anyone, commercially exploit them in any way, or charge anyone for receiving or using them without prior … Continue reading “[Not Massive] Criticism Mounting of Paid Mods Program”
If you haven’t been inundated with phishing attempts lately, consider yourself lucky. With a customer base of their size and a lucrative trading market ripe for the picking, it only makes sense that Steam is in a constant uphill battle against account theft. In the latest attempt to curb phishing, Valve has placed multiple limitations … Continue reading “Steam Severely Limits Free Accounts To Combat Bots”
As the Ruble continues to plummet in value, tech giants are taking notice. In a notice released to the public by Steam Database, Valve has region locked all new purchases made by Steam accounts made by Russian players. While the games may be gifted or traded to players in the same region, they will not … Continue reading “Economic Trouble Leads To Steam Trade Restrictions”
The Steam Holiday Auction is a temporary event encouraging players to recycle their unused items for gems, which can then be used to bid on games and other Steam goodies. As it turns out, players almost immediately figured out a way to farm gems at no cost to themselves, vastly deflating the value of the … Continue reading “Steam Holiday Auction Exploited, Temporarily Suspended”
(Editor’s note: minor language) When it comes to indie development, I consider myself to be a big fan of the genre. After all, gaming would look monumentally different if the small, poorly funded developers of the early days, and even those of the modern days, didn’t throw caution into the wind and give ideas a … Continue reading “Community: Another Indie Dev Meltdown”
October was a month of expansions, layoffs, and delays. We saw a developer get their game pulled off of Steam after one of the staffers tweeted expletives and a death threat at Valve’s Gabe Newell. Arenanet caused a furor in the community by updating the gem trading tool to be less user friendly, and then responded … Continue reading “Month in Review: October Edition”
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