Trump shooting suspect's Steam game sees review bomb, spike in activity

Trump shooting suspect’s Steam game sees review bomb, spike in activity

As reported by Newsweek and Wired, suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, Cole Thomas Allen, had previously attempted a career as an independent game developer, and has a single game available for purchase on Steam: Bohrdom. The self-described asymmetric fighting game’s reviews and discussion forums quickly became a hotbed of political debate and dubious meme-making…

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Party Hard Launching on PS4 This Spring

Hi everyone! My name’s Alex Nichiporchik and I’m the CEO of tinyBuild. We’re an indie game developer and publisher. I’ve been working really hard as a producer on many of our titles, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about us this year as we have around half a dozen games being prepared for…

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A web3 free-to-play survival game found to be a front for installing malware on your PC has finally been removed from Steam

Reported to have amassed over 7,000 players, a free-to-play web3 game named PirateFi launched on Steam last week and was subsequently taken down for containing “malicious files”. Users reportedly found out about this takedown as Valve took to notifying players that their rigs could be compromised. As spotted by SteamDB, the site known for tracking…

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Castlevania Free on Mobile Until October 24

September 26 marked the 40-year anniversary of Konami’s Castlevania on NES and to celebrate, the publisher has made the game available for free on IOS and Android devices. As well Konami has slashed prices on several Castlevania games on the PlayStation and Steam stores. Those sales run through October 1 and October 7. The next…

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After a decade of development, Roboquest’s developer is calling time on its roguelite shooter: ‘There’s no way we can continue to provide content for players with over 1,000 hours of gameplay’

When I was a kid, post-launch support was a concept reserved mainly for NASA, and rarely the domain of video games. Sure, you might download the odd online patch on your 56k modem to fix particularly gnarly bugs. But that was more or less it. These days, it’s expected that games will be supported for…

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