How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
The GDC 2025 spotlight for me was a chat by Monica Harrington,…
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
I am undecided there's any single determine within the video games trade…
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
Through the Recreation Developer's Convention 2025, Monica Harrington—one among Valve's founders and…
Shadow of Mordor's beloved nemesis system exists because the publisher threw a tantrum about second-hand sales
Do not forget that bizarre time about 15 years again when the…
Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the 'meme Turing test' has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps
A brand new examine has made the curious discovering that memes with…
'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win
I am not completely positive Life is Unusual: Double Publicity was a…
Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
Certainly one of this yr's most fascinating GDC talks was delivered by…
Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'
It has been one heck of per week for critical Valve information,…
