Valve Steam Deck: New Opportunities for Game Developers? Nick Kolakowski, July 19, 2021 3 min read Gaming giant Valve has unveiled the Steam Deck, its portable gaming device. With its dual thumb-stick controllers and...
Weekend Roundup: Valve CEO’s Space Oddity; Uber and Lyft at Risk Nick Kolakowski, November 6, 2020 6 min read What a week, huh? Let’s distract ourselves from all the election stuff for a brief moment with a rundown of some...
Epic Games Storefront Could Provide Valve with Real Competition Nick Kolakowski, January 10, 2019 3 min read For years, game developers of all sizes relied on the Steam network to sell their games and related wares. In exchange...
Why Holacracy Is Such a Poor Management Structure Nate Swanner, August 3, 2018 5 min read It’s official: Holacracy and similar "flat organizations" are futile. If you’re unfamiliar with the term (or...
OpenAI Bot Conquers Humans at ‘Dota 2’ Nick Kolakowski, August 15, 2017 3 min read Another day, another human champion brought low by an artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform. This time, the...
Don’t Tell Uber: Group Control Has Mixed Record Nick Kolakowski, June 16, 2017 2 min read Uber has 14 bosses. When the ride-sharing giant announced that its embattled CEO, Travis Kalanick, would take a...
Valve’s Gabe Newell Discusses Vive Progress Nick Kolakowski, February 16, 2017 4 min read Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, who recently discussed everything from “Half-Life 3” to virtual reality (VR) on...
Gabe Newell Talks Developers, VR, ‘Half-Life 3’ Nick Kolakowski, January 19, 2017 5 min read Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a legend in the development and gaming communities not only for the games he helped...
Facebook’s Gameroom: Future Steam Rival? Nick Kolakowski, November 2, 2016 3 min read Back in ye olden days of 2009, Facebook did double duty as a social network and a gaming hub. FarmVille and other...
Do All Tech Firms Need Top-Down Management? Dice Staff, September 8, 2016 3 min read Over the past few years, a number of tech firms have taken a sledgehammer to the traditional corporate hierarchy....
