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Big publishers are making life harder for indie developers using Early Access. Denis Dyack, CEO of Apocalypse Studios, says games like Subnautica 2 and Path of Exile are changing what players expect from Early Access. When big games launch in a polished state, players start expecting the same quality from smaller studios with less money and fewer people. “AAA publishers are abusing Early Access,” Dyack says. His advice to developers is to “Treat Early Access like a real launch, because players do.”

But before the release, don’t you still need to gather wishlists to ensure some initial sales and provide the algorithm with some data? Just to avoid losing the release boost.

ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES 🚨 Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropic’s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". There’s no setting to turn it off. The full rule: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.” Is this the end of game rewrites, modding and everything in between?

Hey @Steamworks, My build review took 6 business days to get denied because I forgot to uncheck the Steam Cloud Beta option (which gets turned on by itself). I fixed this and resubmitted within the hour. It has now been over 9 business days and I have missed my release date. Help

No app store should be allowed to charge 30% whether it's an "open" platform or not. Steam controls about 75% of the PC game market.

Valve said it plainly this week: Steam visibility comes from people buying and playing your game, not wishlists. No shortcut. Make something players want, keep improving it, respect the community. That's Players First.

This is what happens when ideologues co-opt gaming and force it to be political. Get these loser fucks OUT of the industry. Make a game. Sell the game. The END.

Why are some gamers proud of Steams monopoly on PC gaming?

I'm honestly irked at the attempt to shame gamers into making different choices instead of just improving his product

I just had the craziest most amazing goon of all time and this was the shit in autoscroll fuck my life

Peter Molyneux says the games industry is basically pretending it doesn’t use AI. “We, as the industry, are pretending we’re not using AI,” he said, arguing that it’s now “almost impossible to code” without AI assistance. He claims devs can often avoid Steam’s AI disclosure by simply not ticking the AI box, despite using AI tools for coding. Molyneux also believes AI could become one of the biggest creative advances for studios once the industry moves beyond low-quality “AI slop.”

EA accidentally showed a MAGA political ad in SimCity BuildIt. A player who returned to the game after years away was surprised to see an ad telling people to vote. EA says political ads are not allowed in its games and that the ad was shown by a third-party advertising company by mistake. EA says it has now been removed. Players have also complained about other questionable ads appearing in SimCity BuildIt, including ads for THC products earlier this year.