Valve’s not-so-secret game Deadlock is a bold experiment in soft-launching | Opinion

Valve has a new hero shooter in late development. It's a secret! Except it's not, as over 20,000 invites have been sent out to play the game via Steam. You're not supposed to talk about it! Except none of those tens of thousands of players have been asked to sign or agree to any kind … Read more

Sony’s results show the rewards of diversification | Opinion

By now, we all know that rumors about the death of the console were greatly exaggerated. This narrative held sway pretty strongly for about a decade, fueled by the introduction of various smart devices (smartphones, smart TVs, etc.) and some rather optimistic notions about 5G and internet speeds in general. The logic was simple: the … Read more

Unionisation leaps forward: now it’s time to deliver | Opinion

Little by little, then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway was talking about how people go broke, which certainly gives this quote a somewhat sombre tone, but it is often used as an apt description for all kinds of change, from political and social movements to personal success. It's really an encapsulation of the concept of a tipping … Read more