I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

New from our team: see discount performance at a glance. Plus other useful stuff like revenue-per-day across the discount, and the number of times you've run that discount before. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Seattle-area game devs (and devs coming to town for PAX): I’ll be doing a Steam Q&A at a new one-day B2B game developers conference in Seattle two days ahead of PAX. Wednesday, August 27. www.seattleslice.org

Video: Steam Early Access in 2025 We talked with a number of game developers that have been using Steam Early Access for their games. This video highlights some of the key advice that these developers shared with us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNYk...

Ria and I ran another lightning-round Q&A session about Steam Next Fest last week. If you're curious about Next Fest or have a particular question in mind, there's a good chance we answered it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOIr...

A few of us that work on Steam will be at gamescom latam, May 1 and 2 to meet with game developers! We’ll be giving talks Thursday morning, Stage 1 and open to chat at our booth in the business area in the afternoons. Come say hi! b2b.latam.gamescom.global/talks/14/1237

This article is so good. www.pcgamer.com/games/if-202...

Tuesday we held another Next Fest virtual Q&A session to answer developers questions. Here is the recording if you are curious about Next Fest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5t...