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What Steam's Most Wishlisted Games Say About 2026 Trends
The wishlist charts are the closest thing PC gaming has to a demand forecast, and this year they have been unusually revealing about what people want.
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Releases, launches and industry moves.
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How Game Pricing Has Changed as Development Costs Rise
The $70 standard held for about five years. It's now being tested at $80, and the argument on both sides is more interesting than the headline.
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Why Publishers Finally Adopted Cross-Save and Cross-Progression
Publishers spent years insisting this was technically difficult. It never was. What changed was the commercial argument.
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Why Remasters and Remakes Keep Selling Well
The complaint is that the industry has run out of ideas. The numbers say something more specific, and more awkward, about what audiences actually buy.
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How Early Access Has Changed PC Game Launches
Early Access started as a way to fund small projects and turned into a standard release strategy for studios that don't need the money.
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What Modding Communities Tell Us About a Game's Longevity
Some games are still being actively modded fifteen years after release. The ones that manage it share a specific set of qualities, and none of them are graphical.
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The Rise of Live Service Games and Why Some Fail
More than fifty games have shut down already this year. The pattern behind which ones survive is clearer than the industry likes to admit.
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Why More Studios Are Bringing PlayStation Exclusives to PC
What started as an experiment with Horizon Zero Dawn became a routine second release window. The commercial logic behind it is straightforward.
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How Game Delays Have Changed Since the Pandemic Era
Delays used to be an embarrassment. Somewhere in the last five years they turned into a marketing beat, and the language studios use gives it away.