Interviews & Opinion Feb 23rd, 2026

Designing a more magical survival game: a first look at Witchspire

Interview: Envar Games’ upcoming survival title replaces grind with witchcraft, easing players into peril through magic, exploration and flexible progression

• Steam
• development
• survival game

Interviews & Opinion Dec 30th, 2025

Millennium Whisper and the case for ethical, on-device AI in games

Parable Studios reveals a new approach to data gathering and generative AI for interactive player experiences

• Steam
• artificial intelligence
• ethics
• LLMs

Interviews & Opinion Apr 17th, 2025

Rokky interview: tapping global PC markets

CEO Vadim Andreev on alternatives to the big stores, entering China, and beating the grey market

• China
• Steam
• discoverability
• keys
• grey market
• key resellers
• distribution

Interviews & Opinion Dec 12th, 2019

ANALYSIS: What impact has the Epic Games Store had in its first year?

In the 12 months since it was announced, the Fortnite maker's platform has had an undeniable impact on the PC landscape - and the house of Sweeney is just getting started

• Steam
• epic games store
• store wars

Interviews & Opinion Oct 1st, 2018

INSIGHT: How Minecraft's success led to Steam's 2018 issues

Valve has made its platform more open as not to accidentally block the next big and unlikely thing - but in doing so it might have damaged its business beyond repair

• Minecraft
• Steam
• curation
• steampocalypse
• greenlight

Interviews & Opinion Aug 16th, 2018

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell"

Producer Andrew Parsons says that good releases will always have their day, even if it isn't on launch

• Steam
• indie games
• steampocalypse
• publishers

Interviews & Opinion Aug 1st, 2018

The Steampocalypse: How the massive number of games on Steam has made the platform a hostile environment for devs

Auroch Digital director Tomas Rawling tells us more

• Steam
• indie developers
• steampocalypse

The PC Pulse Jun 7th, 2018

"Valve is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't"

The development and publishing community weighs in on the PC giant's new laissez-faire content policy

• Steam
• content

Interviews & Opinion Jan 11th, 2018

With Steam new releases almost doubling year-on-year, Valve needs to take a closer look at what should make the cut

"Human curation - like that seen on GOG - won't be perfect, but I would far rather a storefront control what appears on its platform in a proactive way as opposed to the reactive way in which Steam appears to act"

• Steam
• data
• steam direct
• opinion
• curation
• gog
• steam greenlight

Indie Interview Aug 18th, 2017

Why Mike Bithell surprised us with his latest game Subsurface Circular

The indie hero's latest title has a smaller scope that helped inform its price tag and release plan

• Steam
• mike bithell

The PC Pulse Aug 17th, 2017

Are indie developers charging too little for their games?

Data from SteamSpy suggests that independent studios are selling themselves short

• Steam
• pc pricing