"BACKROOMS" director Kane Parsons announces that his next project will be the niche game series Signalis
When asked for comments he stated “Who are you, how did you get in here, I’m calling the police”
I mean… steam is defiantly a monopoly. I mean I don’t think Epic game store or Ichio can compare at all with how large and complete of a platform steam is.
But at the same time… I don’t think others have actually tried to make a platform as good as steam and don’t think they are actively putting down other competitors. Not to mention users enjoy steam and really only say good things
Valve's Gabe Newell believes Steam doesn't have a monopoly, saying that gamers have “enormous choice” about where they buy games
“Whether they buy the game on an Xbox, or Steam, or Epic Games Store, or whether they buy it directly from software developers”
MiHoYo burned through nearly $300,000 worth of AI tokens in just 13 hours during an internal AI experiment.
The story came from Zheng Yinhe, head of the AI NPC speaking at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit.
According to him, an employee set up dozens of AI agents to work together on a project. The agents kept talking to each other, generating outputs, and reviewing each other’s work, causing token usage to skyrocket overnight.
The expensive experiment didn’t pay off. Despite the massive cost, the final results were reportedly full of hallucinations and unusable.