this week in the business

“We try to remove ego from the equation completely on our side. We’re not going to make something because it’s something we like, or we want. Those words don’t mean anything to us”. — Frostkeep co-founder Jeremy Wood says if Rend‘s players and developers want different things, the developers are probably wrong.

“If they upped the cost of Steam Direct to something like $US500 ($673) or even $US1000 ($1347), that’s not going to deter a small developer who’s put years of work into a passion project — but it is going to make asset flipping and bottom-of-the-barrel games much less profitable”. — At Develop:Brighton, Tomas Rawlings of…

125 million — Total number of Fortnite players since the game’s original launch less than a year ago.

“According to the email, Kindred Spirits will be re-reviewed and we will be equipped with specific feedback if there are concerns about the game’s content.” — The Twitter account of MangaGamer, announcing that Valve seemingly backtracked on its demand that the studio (and other risque visual novel developers) censor their games or see them removed…