Valve doesn’t sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: ‘We don’t think Steam should be pay-to-win’

As spotted by GamesRadar, the Steamworks Development channel posted a video earlier this month explaining the ins and outs of how games snowball into surprise hits like Dave the Diver—which we gave a smashing 91 back in July.  The talk’s given by Erik Peterson of Steam’s business team, and it’s an enlightening little journey through…

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Final Fantasy 14 players interviewed over 80 of their fellow adventurers to craft a heartwarming first-timer’s guide to roleplaying with anxiety

The roleplay community in Final Fantasy 14 is, simply put, an ocean. It’s absolutely massive, comprising several servers, hundreds of night clubs, bars, fight pits, free companies, and homegrown drama. It’s big enough that last year, someone thought buying four billboards in California and Texas to advertise their virtual nightclub was a good idea (it…

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Intel Core i9 14900K review

For the fastest chip ever to grace a gaming PC the Intel Core i9 14900K is about as boring a CPU refresh as one could be. We’ve seen it all before. The massive core count, the architecture, the 6GHz clock speed; the 14900K might do some things better than the 13th Gen but it rarely…

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