The Fridge

Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it’s no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company

Is there a single games company that cultivates the kind of hushed, awed whispers that Valve does? As a private company, Gabe Newell’s baby doesn’t have to concern itself with putting out all the information that companies with masses of shareholders have to. And yet, it pretty much props up all of PC gaming with…

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Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there’s ‘always that danger’ that the industry will get ‘overly focussed on making money’

Dan Houser, Rockstar games co-founder and one of the chief creative forces that transformed Grand Theft Auto into an unstoppable financial juggernaut, reckons that there’s “always that danger” that the games industry will become “overly focussed on making money.” Speaking on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch to promote his recently released novel (via GamesRadar), Houser was…

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Almost 13 years since reveal, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally out: ‘Sorry it took so long. We’ve only been making the largest free content video game ever’

After 13 years hacking through the development wilderness, TimeSplitters Rewind is out. Its creators revealed last month that the CryEngine-powered mod would finally be released in November. True to their word, Rewind is available to download now. Rewind is a somewhat unusual fan project, a mixture of remake, compilation and spiritual successor to the first…

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