The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it's had to admit that it didn't even really like making games in the first place

Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.

Amazon didn't spin up its game development studios a decade ago just to be a regular game publisher: It wanted to take on Steam, but missed its shot by such a wide margin that we didn't even realize that's what it was trying to do. Now it seems to have at least partially moved on from that ambition, and one big consequence is the end of historical-fantasy MMO New World, which will cease to receive updates and eventually be put to rest.

Tyler Wilde, US EIC

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