Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: 'Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right'

Veteran indie dev says success on Steam these days is impossible to predict: ‘Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million f***ing essays and none of them will be definitely right’

Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall has been making games for around 20 years, and was one of the early indie adopters of Steam when he released the excellent Time Gentlemen, Please! on the platform back in 2009. He’s been around the block, then, and he’s seen it change dramatically. Trying to figure out the secret…

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Free Play Days – Forza Motorsport and The Escapists

Category: Games May 1, 2025 Free Play Days – Forza Motorsport and The Escapists Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox Spring is in the air and May kicks off with a double feature! The Escapists is available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday, May 1 at 12:01am…

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: ‘I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself’

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida loves Diablo. He’s talked about Blizzard games several times over the last several years, including when he named Diablo as his dream crossover for FF14 two years ago. If you’re worried he’s forgotten about it, don’t: in an interview with Techradar, Yoshida reiterated that he’d like nothing more than…

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You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: ‘This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2’

My sincerest apologies to all the Silent Hill 2 fans out there, but the closest I’ve ever gotten to playing it was today via Roblox. Creator Shapic2 has ported every inch of the classic horror game’s levels into Roblox and you can explore them with other block people for as long as you’d like. There…

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A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it’s back to being underwhelming

Arc Raiders, the hot new extraction shooter from the team behind The Finals, is off to a roaring start—but like any game, players are finding all sorts of ways to break it. A recent and hilarious example is a bug allowing players to use deployable items such as the barricade to squeeze through locked doors….

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