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Steam News · Sep 3, 2018
Late last year, Sam Horti wrote about how the loot box controversy shaped gaming in 2017. The same furore has inevitably rolled into this year, and a number of politicians, universities and gaming authorities have since expressed dismay with premium videogame consumables.  Now, publisher 2K has responded to the Belgian Gaming Commission's decision that loot boxes violate the country&apos...
Steam News · Aug 26, 2018
2K has removed some elements of microtransactions from its basketball franchise, NBA 2K, in a bid to comply with gambling laws in Belgium and the Netherlands. According to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, two undated statements on the basketball arcade game's website detail how the developer has had to strip the option to buy MyTeam packs - the NBA 2K equivalent of loot crates - from the title in Belgium, wh...
Steam News · Feb 9, 2018
'Crunch,' in modern parlance, is a period of unhealthy overwork during the lead up to a game's release. But in the not-too-distant past it could have also described the nature of the work itself: a crunching and culling of excess data, enough to squeeze the whole game onto a DVD or two and comfortably onto a 100GB (or smaller) hard drive. Game sizes have always been limited by their...
Steam News · Jan 2, 2018
Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games. But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months. Below is the full, hundred-strong roster, complete...
Steam News · Dec 11, 2017
Sports games come in many shapes and sizes. Football Manager and Rocket League have almost nothing in common, but they’re both undeniably sports games. Meanwhile Fifa has added a story driven campaign, and Pyre is a fantasy RPG that plays like a sport. To try and help, I’ve broken this list down into four broad categories. Sports Simulations, which attempt to realistically depict a s...
Steam News · Oct 16, 2017
Next year, the National Basketball Association will officially enter the world of esports by way of its NBA 2K League . Managing director Brendan Donohue has now billed the association's esports involvement as a long-term play that he reckons will span multiple decades.   In conversation with Gamesindustry.biz, Donohue suggests the NBA is confident of its place in esports an...
Steam News · Aug 8, 2017
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Steam News · Oct 12, 2016
GENERAL - Corrected an issue where some postrelease uniform colors would clash with the opposing team’s uniform in certain matchups. - After a made basket, the score will no longer update on the scoreboard until after the animation has completed; this should be much less confusing. - Fixed a case where your friends list in the Who’s Online menu would disappear while viewing it. - Contact Dunk anim...