🎮 Steam is winning because it’s not trash.
That’s what Michael Douse, publishing director at Larian Studios (Baldur’s Gate 3), said when asked why Valve dominates PC gaming.
He hinted that success comes from serving players, not shareholders, and that most competitors fail because they chase KPIs instead of building a good service.
While some devs call Steam a monopoly, users call it something simpler: reliable.
That’s what Michael Douse, publishing director at Larian Studios (Baldur’s Gate 3), said when asked why Valve dominates PC gaming.
He hinted that success comes from serving players, not shareholders, and that most competitors fail because they chase KPIs instead of building a good service.
While some devs call Steam a monopoly, users call it something simpler: reliable.
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⚡️ OneShift: Flip Worlds, Freeze Time, and Lose Your Mind 🧠
🆓 Before: €4.99 now FREE on Steam🎮 until Nov 10, 2025 at 19:00 CEST
🎭 Genre: #Indie · #Action · #Puzzle
Ever felt like one world isn’t enough? In OneShift, you jump, swap, and spin through dimensions while dodging spikes, bombs, and teleport traps, all to grab a single glowing blue cube. Sounds easy? Wait until the world starts rotating.
A fast, slick, and oddly addictive platformer built for speedrunners and chaos enjoyers. With 90 handcrafted levels, 126 achievements, and just the right amount of madness.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/862740/OneShift/
🆓 Before: €4.99 now FREE on Steam
🎭 Genre: #Indie · #Action · #Puzzle
Ever felt like one world isn’t enough? In OneShift, you jump, swap, and spin through dimensions while dodging spikes, bombs, and teleport traps, all to grab a single glowing blue cube. Sounds easy? Wait until the world starts rotating.
A fast, slick, and oddly addictive platformer built for speedrunners and chaos enjoyers. With 90 handcrafted levels, 126 achievements, and just the right amount of madness.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/862740/OneShift/
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OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything…
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They admitted posting over 40 fake “I found this game…” threads and GIFs across major subreddits to make it look like real players were discovering it. The result? 750,000 impressions, 1,500 installs… and a glimpse at how deep the manipulation goes.
This isn’t new..., just more blatant. When even small studios are running coordinated astroturfing campaigns, imagine what the big ones are doing.
🧠 The internet’s no longer about opinions. It’s about operations.
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🎮 The Outer Worlds 2 really surprised me
What was expected to be “just more of the same” turned out to be Obsidian’s best RPG in years: massive planets, deeper builds, hilarious side quests, and combat that actually feels great.
💬 It feels like the best Bethesda-style RPG in 15 years, with tighter writing, smarter systems, and a tone that finally hits the right balance.
If you miss that New Vegas-style charm but want modern gameplay, this is it.
What was expected to be “just more of the same” turned out to be Obsidian’s best RPG in years: massive planets, deeper builds, hilarious side quests, and combat that actually feels great.
💬 It feels like the best Bethesda-style RPG in 15 years, with tighter writing, smarter systems, and a tone that finally hits the right balance.
If you miss that New Vegas-style charm but want modern gameplay, this is it.
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🤠 12 is Better Than 6: Draw, Aim, Survive. 🔫
🆓 Before: €6.99 now FREE on Steam🎮 until Nov 13, 2025 at 19:00 CEST
🎭 Genre: #Action · #Shooter · #Western · #Indie
Welcome to 1873, where dust, blood, and revenge rule the land. You play as a Mexican fugitive escaping through the deserts between Texas and Mexico, armed only with a revolver, a hat, and a bounty on your head.
Each shot must be cocked manually, every move matters, and a single mistake can end it all. The hand-drawn black and white art bursts into crimson chaos with every gunfight, creating a brutal comic brought to life.
Fast, stylish, unforgiving. If Hotline Miami wore a cowboy hat, this would be it.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/410110/12_is_Better_Than_6/
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🎭 Genre: #Action · #Shooter · #Western · #Indie
Welcome to 1873, where dust, blood, and revenge rule the land. You play as a Mexican fugitive escaping through the deserts between Texas and Mexico, armed only with a revolver, a hat, and a bounty on your head.
Each shot must be cocked manually, every move matters, and a single mistake can end it all. The hand-drawn black and white art bursts into crimson chaos with every gunfight, creating a brutal comic brought to life.
Fast, stylish, unforgiving. If Hotline Miami wore a cowboy hat, this would be it.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/410110/12_is_Better_Than_6/
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12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.
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🎮 Roblox banned a YouTuber for exposing predators. Now it wants him back.
After months of silence, Roblox contacted Schlep, the creator who ran sting operations to catch predators on its platform, to discuss a possible return. The move came after public backlash, lawsuits from several U.S. states, and a sharp drop in its stock.
Schlep says he refused, claiming the issue was never about his ban but about Roblox’s lack of safety measures for minors. The company insists his actions violated its rules against impersonation and entrapment, while critics argue the ban silenced efforts to expose ongoing child safety failures.
After months of silence, Roblox contacted Schlep, the creator who ran sting operations to catch predators on its platform, to discuss a possible return. The move came after public backlash, lawsuits from several U.S. states, and a sharp drop in its stock.
Schlep says he refused, claiming the issue was never about his ban but about Roblox’s lack of safety measures for minors. The company insists his actions violated its rules against impersonation and entrapment, while critics argue the ban silenced efforts to expose ongoing child safety failures.
This was never about me getting unbanned. It was about the victims, the players, the community that has been neglected forever.
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🎮 How much does it cost to make a game?
A new analysis of 100,000 Steam noscripts exposes how wide the budget gap really is:
💰 Average budgets (2022–2025)
➡️ Indie (Kei): $65K
➡️ Midi: 14x higher
➡️ AA: 33x higher
➡️ AAA: up to $700M (Black Ops: Cold War), nearly 9x Spider-Man: Miles Morales
⚙️ Engines
Godot surged after Unity’s pricing fiasco. Unreal dominates big projects while open-source and custom engines fill the edges.
🎨 2D vs 3D: 3D games cost 16x more
👥 Multiplayer: only 16% of games but half of those above $10M
🏢 Publishers: increase budgets 3–4x, often less efficiently
Game development now costs more than Hollywood blockbusters. Making games has become both art and financial warfare.
A new analysis of 100,000 Steam noscripts exposes how wide the budget gap really is:
💰 Average budgets (2022–2025)
⚙️ Engines
Godot surged after Unity’s pricing fiasco. Unreal dominates big projects while open-source and custom engines fill the edges.
🎨 2D vs 3D: 3D games cost 16x more
👥 Multiplayer: only 16% of games but half of those above $10M
🏢 Publishers: increase budgets 3–4x, often less efficiently
Game development now costs more than Hollywood blockbusters. Making games has become both art and financial warfare.
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🧊 Steam Machine: Valve’s Cube for Your Living Room
Six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, this tiny beast runs your entire Steam library in 4K at 60 FPS.
Custom AMD CPU + GPU, up to 2 TB storage (expandable), Wi-Fi 6E, and a built-in power supply.
🎮 Comes ready for the new Steam Controller, runs SteamOS, and wakes instantly with cloud saves.
Silent, compact, and made for your TV or desk.
💸 No price yet, but insiders expect $700 - $1000.
Launching early 2026. Fans already call it the “GabeCube.”
Six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, this tiny beast runs your entire Steam library in 4K at 60 FPS.
Custom AMD CPU + GPU, up to 2 TB storage (expandable), Wi-Fi 6E, and a built-in power supply.
🎮 Comes ready for the new Steam Controller, runs SteamOS, and wakes instantly with cloud saves.
Silent, compact, and made for your TV or desk.
💸 No price yet, but insiders expect $700 - $1000.
Launching early 2026. Fans already call it the “GabeCube.”
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🎨 Black Ops 7 is packed with AI art and players are calling it trash
Black Ops 7 just dropped and fans already spotted AI art everywhere. Posters in missions, textures, Calling Cards, even Prestige icons. All machine-generated.
This is a billion-dollar franchise charging 70 dollars for assets that look like quick prompts. Some Calling Cards have warped faces and messy “Ghibli-style” filters. Prestige rewards look over-designed and inconsistent.
Players are asking the obvious: why pay premium for AI slop?
If the biggest FPS series won’t hire artists, everyone loses.
Black Ops 7 just dropped and fans already spotted AI art everywhere. Posters in missions, textures, Calling Cards, even Prestige icons. All machine-generated.
This is a billion-dollar franchise charging 70 dollars for assets that look like quick prompts. Some Calling Cards have warped faces and messy “Ghibli-style” filters. Prestige rewards look over-designed and inconsistent.
Players are asking the obvious: why pay premium for AI slop?
If the biggest FPS series won’t hire artists, everyone loses.
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🇺🇸 A Congressman Just Called Out CoD7’s AI Art
Ro Khanna says Activision is using AI to cut artists and boost profits. He wants rules to protect creative jobs and even talks about taxing mass automation.
Activision admits using AI tools, but players are still angry after spotting tons of AI images across Black Ops 7.
The real debate now isn’t if CoD uses AI. It’s who pays the price.
Ro Khanna says Activision is using AI to cut artists and boost profits. He wants rules to protect creative jobs and even talks about taxing mass automation.
Activision admits using AI tools, but players are still angry after spotting tons of AI images across Black Ops 7.
The real debate now isn’t if CoD uses AI. It’s who pays the price.
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The internet basically lost its mind today. Half-Life 3 hype is at apotheosis mode. Every tiny clue is getting treated like prophecy: new Valve hardware, HL2’s 21st anniversary, HL1’s 27th tomorrow, a hidden “upcoming release” on Steam, even a “crowbar3” filename people are zooming in on like detectives.
Everyone’s acting like the announcement is hours away.
But the two main dataminers behind all the HLX leaks are telling people to chill. Tyler McVicker says the project is real but no announcement date is known. Gabe Follower is also hinting “don’t expect fireworks tomorrow.” Even Jason Schreier says his old “2025” call was just a personal guess.
So yeah, the hype is insane. The evidence? Not so much.
If Valve drops HL3 this week it’ll be the biggest gaming moment in a decade. If not… well, Half-Life fans are used to pain.
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🤖 SteamWorld Heist 1 + 2: Tactical Mayhem in Space! 🚀
💰 90% OFF - Both games for €4.50 on Steam🎮
🎭 Genre: #Strategy · #RPG · #Indie
Command your ragtag crew of steam-powered space outlaws through turn-based gunfights packed with ricochet shots, clever tactics, and pure charm.
In SteamWorld Heist, lead Captain Piper and her crew across the galaxy in stylish 2D shootouts. Then dive into SteamWorld Heist II, where the oceans of SteamWorld hide even bigger secrets, richer combat, and a brand-new open-world adventure.
Tight controls, perfect aim, and that sweet steampunk flavor.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/63838/Steamworld_Heist_1__2/
💥 Two tactical gems for the price of a coffee.
💰 90% OFF - Both games for €4.50 on Steam
🎭 Genre: #Strategy · #RPG · #Indie
Command your ragtag crew of steam-powered space outlaws through turn-based gunfights packed with ricochet shots, clever tactics, and pure charm.
In SteamWorld Heist, lead Captain Piper and her crew across the galaxy in stylish 2D shootouts. Then dive into SteamWorld Heist II, where the oceans of SteamWorld hide even bigger secrets, richer combat, and a brand-new open-world adventure.
Tight controls, perfect aim, and that sweet steampunk flavor.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/63838/Steamworld_Heist_1__2/
💥 Two tactical gems for the price of a coffee.
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🧟 Ravenous Horde is about to go paid
🆓 Now FREE until Fri, Dec 6 · Then $10🎮
🎭 Genre: #FPS · #Zombies · #Multiplayer · #Coop
The dev just dropped the update: on December 6, Ravenous Horde will switch to a $10 paid game. If you add it before that day, you keep it forever for free.
64-player chaos, zombies everywhere, guns, perks, the whole mess. After the switch, all microtransactions disappear and everything becomes unlockable by playing. Nice upgrade for early grabbers.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179490/Ravenous_Horde/
🆓 Now FREE until Fri, Dec 6 · Then $10
🎭 Genre: #FPS · #Zombies · #Multiplayer · #Coop
The dev just dropped the update: on December 6, Ravenous Horde will switch to a $10 paid game. If you add it before that day, you keep it forever for free.
64-player chaos, zombies everywhere, guns, perks, the whole mess. After the switch, all microtransactions disappear and everything becomes unlockable by playing. Nice upgrade for early grabbers.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179490/Ravenous_Horde/
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Team up with 64 players to fight off the horde of zombies in this post-apocalyptic FPS or join the horde against the living! Turn on your teammates and tear them apart. Level up and unlock new weapons, perks, clothing options and more! Equip your favourite…
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🚨 Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is FREE on Steam for a Limited Time ⚔️🩸
🆓 Now FREE until Sun, Nov 23 · Then $27.99📱
🎭 Genre: #Action · #Coop · #Fantasy
Grab one of the best co-op slashers of the last decade. Team up with your squad, carve through Chaos warriors and giant Skaven swarms, level up 15 careers, and loot a ridiculous arsenal of weapons. Pure Left-4-Dead energy but in Warhammer’s darkest era.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/
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🎭 Genre: #Action · #Coop · #Fantasy
Grab one of the best co-op slashers of the last decade. Team up with your squad, carve through Chaos warriors and giant Skaven swarms, level up 15 careers, and loot a ridiculous arsenal of weapons. Pure Left-4-Dead energy but in Warhammer’s darkest era.
🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/
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🚀 Aaero is FREE on Fanatical for a Limited Time 🎵⚡️
🆓 Now FREE during Black Friday · Then $12.49
🎭 Genre: #Action · #Music
Ride the beat through alien worlds in one of the most stylish rhythm-action shooters out there. Trace light ribbons, dodge incoming fire, and blast enemies perfectly synced to an epic electronic soundtrack. Pure flow. Pure speed. Pure vibe.
Only 100K keys available and new Fanatical accounts only.
🔗 https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/aaero
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🎭 Genre: #Action · #Music
Ride the beat through alien worlds in one of the most stylish rhythm-action shooters out there. Trace light ribbons, dodge incoming fire, and blast enemies perfectly synced to an epic electronic soundtrack. Pure flow. Pure speed. Pure vibe.
Only 100K keys available and new Fanatical accounts only.
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Trace ribbons of light to release the energy in the music as you speed through stylised alien worlds.
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🔥 DDR5 hits six hundred dollars. A PS5 is cheaper.
💸 A basic 64 GB kit is hitting 600 dollars, which means you can almost buy a whole PS5 Pro for the same price. Two months ago this exact kit was around 220 dollars. Now it’s up almost two hundred percent because AI is swallowing every memory chip in sight.
Factories are feeding hyperscalers first, gamers last. DRAM is up, NAND is up, HDDs are disappearing, and people are resorting to microSD cards like it’s 2010 again. Even Valve’s next Steam Machine is getting hit because its production window landed right in the middle of the crunch.
Analysts expect the shortage to run through 2026 as big tech pushes toward AGI. The cycle always flips eventually, and DDR5 will probably be dirt cheap again in 2027. But until then, the market is pain.
💸 A basic 64 GB kit is hitting 600 dollars, which means you can almost buy a whole PS5 Pro for the same price. Two months ago this exact kit was around 220 dollars. Now it’s up almost two hundred percent because AI is swallowing every memory chip in sight.
Factories are feeding hyperscalers first, gamers last. DRAM is up, NAND is up, HDDs are disappearing, and people are resorting to microSD cards like it’s 2010 again. Even Valve’s next Steam Machine is getting hit because its production window landed right in the middle of the crunch.
Analysts expect the shortage to run through 2026 as big tech pushes toward AGI. The cycle always flips eventually, and DDR5 will probably be dirt cheap again in 2027. But until then, the market is pain.
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🔥 Tech Predictions for 2026
Tech is about to flip the table. AI everywhere, quantum waking up, robots getting feelings… here’s what’s actually coming fast.
➡️ Companion robots go mainstream
Loneliness hits record levels and robots step in as real emotional partners, not gadgets.
➡️ Developers become “renaissance builders”
AI writes code, but humans handle judgment, systems, product sense, and the messy real world.
➡️ Quantum-safe or nothing
Encryption timelines collapse. PQC becomes mandatory across devices, cloud, and infrastructure.
➡️ Defense tech hits civilian life instantly
Drones, edge AI, autonomy, and logistics tools jump straight from war zones to healthcare, rescue, and industry.
➡️ Personalized learning explodes
AI tutors adapt to each kid, freeing teachers and making curiosity the default learning mode.
Tech is about to flip the table. AI everywhere, quantum waking up, robots getting feelings… here’s what’s actually coming fast.
Loneliness hits record levels and robots step in as real emotional partners, not gadgets.
AI writes code, but humans handle judgment, systems, product sense, and the messy real world.
Encryption timelines collapse. PQC becomes mandatory across devices, cloud, and infrastructure.
Drones, edge AI, autonomy, and logistics tools jump straight from war zones to healthcare, rescue, and industry.
AI tutors adapt to each kid, freeing teachers and making curiosity the default learning mode.
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⚠️ AMD vs NVIDIA in Black Ops 7: something doesn’t add up
People started comparing Black Ops 7 on AMD and NVIDIA, and the game just… isn’t the same. On AMD cards, some shadows and reflections simply don’t render. Glass doesn’t cast proper shadows, smoke doesn’t darken the floor, and a few reflective surfaces never show up. NVIDIA and even Intel render them normally.
These missing effects give AMD a massive performance boost, with the RX 9070 XT pulling 30 to 35 percent more FPS than the RTX 5070 Ti. And the wild part is that once you drop settings, the visuals match again, but AMD still keeps that huge lead. 📈
Is it cheating? Depends who you ask. Some call it smart optimization, others say it’s quietly cutting visual fidelity to win benchmarks. What’s clear is that Black Ops 7 behaves differently on AMD hardware, and those small shortcuts translate into giant gains.
People started comparing Black Ops 7 on AMD and NVIDIA, and the game just… isn’t the same. On AMD cards, some shadows and reflections simply don’t render. Glass doesn’t cast proper shadows, smoke doesn’t darken the floor, and a few reflective surfaces never show up. NVIDIA and even Intel render them normally.
These missing effects give AMD a massive performance boost, with the RX 9070 XT pulling 30 to 35 percent more FPS than the RTX 5070 Ti. And the wild part is that once you drop settings, the visuals match again, but AMD still keeps that huge lead. 📈
Is it cheating? Depends who you ask. Some call it smart optimization, others say it’s quietly cutting visual fidelity to win benchmarks. What’s clear is that Black Ops 7 behaves differently on AMD hardware, and those small shortcuts translate into giant gains.
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