A developer looking to court controversy got it when news of his game, Rape Day, hit the internet. The adult visual novel would allow players to “verbally harass, kill, and rape women as you choose to progress the story.” Valve has now denied the game's release on Steam.

I may be imagining this, but couch co-op seems to be on the rise again. While it’s definitely still sitting in the hospital recovering from the devastating wound online multiplayer inflicted upon it, it seems to be trying to open its eyes again and asking for a glass of water from the nurse who’s just so happy to see it coming to. There’s something special about couch co-op that can’t be captured by a long distance internet connection.

Last year, Valve’s ubiquitous digital PC game storefront went through a few changes. Steam was lambasted for prudishly removing games and visual novels that featured sexual content, and as a result decided to take a more hands-off approach to content curation. Valve decided that it shouldn’t be deciding what’s morally right or wrong. They did, however, draw the line at games that were games that were illegal or “straight up trolling.”

In April 2018, peripheral maker Razer decided to get into the game distribution business, by opening its own digital storefront. Now, less than a year after launch, the Razer Game Store is shutting down.

The Steam Awards are a now annual user-voted set of accolades that the distribution platform has pushed since 2016. They’re a little different to most game awards, not just because they’re entirely voted by users, but also because their categories skew to the silly.

It seems that you can get a simulator for just about anything these days. While I stand by that European Truck Simulator is the most boring game I have ever played, I understand the allure of the genre in delivering fact-based gameplay. PC Building Simulator is no exception, now out of Early Access on Steam and ready to purchase. The …

The Epic Games Store continues to gain traction as a viable distribution alternative for game developers and publishers. Following the recent announcement that Ubisoft’s Division 2 would be an exclusive offer on the new platform, there is now another headliner. Yesterday, Epic Games and Deep Silver announced that the publisher’s upcoming FPS title Metro Exodus would be exclusively offered by …

Here’s an interesting story that’s doing the rounds, as self-described hybrid FPS/RTS game Eximius: Seize the Frontline happens to have received a DMCA takedown notice. That’s not exactly unusual, with many games on Steam receiving those notices for a wide variety of reasons. What makes it odd, is that Eximius received this notice…from its own development team.