Category: video games
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Where Should Valve Draw the Line on Hosting and Selling Software?
In the past Valve has had a policy of not allowing software onto Steam for violating some unwritten policy about nudity. The only examples I know of are for games containing drawn nudity. Developers who want to work around this policy offer a different version of the game on Steam and a patch on the…
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Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Notes
Nintendo Japan had a live-streamed presentation revealing new details about their upcoming console, the Nintendo Switch. Here are my notes. It’ll be available March 3rd 2017 in Japan, US, Canada, “major Euro nations.” 29,980 JPY $299.99 USD It’ll be up for pre-order in Japan on the 21st. No word on the US. The system will…
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SHENZHEN I/O Released out of Early Access
Zachtronic’s latest programming game, Shenzhen I/O, has exited Steam’s Early Access program. Vaguely similar to PICO-8’s fantasy console, but Shenzhen should be most familiar to people who played TIS-100. I wrote a little bit about TIS here last year, where I wondered “who the heck writes assembly today unless they’re writing code for embedded systems?”…
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is Splitting Windows Players Up
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is coming out tomorrow and it turns out that players on Windows will be split depending on which digital store they buy the game from. If you buy the boxed copy you get a Steam code and can only play with other players who bought the Steam version. If you…
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Clockwork Empires Exits Early Access
The Dungeons of Dredmor developers have taken their new clockwork empire management sim, Clockwork Empires, out of Steam’s Early Access program and released it to the world of steampunk fans. If you enjoy murdering fishpeople, or being terrorized by them, this is the game for you. Clockwork Empires is available for macOS and Windows, and…