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#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Steam changes, Wolfenstein, Denuvo, HP Omen and much more!

#PCGICYMI - The biggest stories and hottest features of the week - Steam changes, Wolfenstein, Denuvo, HP Omen and much more!

At the start of each week, we collect the biggest stories and the hottest features of the last seven days.

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The Times They Are A-Changin': How Valve is trying to update Steam for the modern games industry

Designer Alden Kroll tells us more

MachineGames says it never meant Wolfenstein titles to be relevant and that it's "incredibly disappointing" that they are

"We never meant for our stories to be relevant, we wanted to tell great, interesting stories to the best of our abilities"

SPONSORED - Insight: As gaming revenues grow, so do the cross-platform threats

Denuvo managing director Reinhard Blaukovitsch tells us more

HP Omen has softened up its branding to make games more welcoming

"The word I use to describe it is British-English - we don't use it in the US - but it captures it really well, is cheeky"

Microsoft's new Age of Empires arm isn't a developer, firm overseeing other studios working on IP

"We do have an internal team but we're really providing oversight to our wonderful development partners"


PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.