Halcyon Podcast - 33: Red All About It

Halcyon Frequency Podcast

Extra Extra! Red All About It!

This week Blind, FG, and Jess talk about accessibility in games and where developer vision can go wrong, the flaws within the Steam curator system and Kiri reports on her adventures at Gamescom!

Special shoutout to the Simulation Sickness curator page on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41505448/

My time At Sandrock:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084600/My_Time_at_Sandrock/

ORX:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1071140/ORX/

Backfirewall_:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1920100/Backfirewall/

Path of Achra:

https://ulfsire.itch.io/path-of-achra

Cult of the Lamb:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313140/Cult_of_the_Lamb/

Farthest Frontier:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier/

Indie dev Cowcat (Brok the InvestiGator) suspects negative review bombing after giving dubious Steam curators demo keys:

https://www.pcgamer.com/developer-suspects-negative-steam-reviews-were-written-by-vengeful-scammers/

Twitter thread: twitter.com/COWCATGames/status/1563957983884845056

Dubious Curators get banned:

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-bans-steam-curators-suspected-of-scamming-developers-for-free-games/

Domina gets removed from Steam:

https://www.pcgamer.com/domina-has-been-delisted-from-steam-after-yet-another-transphobic-diatribe/

Acquisitions all Around!:

Tencent & Sony buy 30% in From Software:

https://nichegamer.com/tencent-sony-30-percent-stake-fromsoftware/

NetEase buys Quantic Dream:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/netease-acquires-quantic-dream-as-first-european-studio

Denuvo (Digital Rights Management software) coming to Switch soon™ :

https://thegamer.com/denuvo-drm-nintendo-switch/