Games: Clown Computing/Gaming, Digital Restrictions (DRM), and More
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Hackaday ☛ Docker-Powered Remote Gaming With Games On Whales
Cloud gaming services allow even relatively meager devices like set top boxes and cheap Chromebooks play the latest and greatest titles.
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India Times ☛ This may be why gaming company Valve employs few people and the salary it gives
The data, inadvertently revealed in a redacted document from Wolfire's antitrust lawsuit against Valve, shows that the company's workforce has remained relatively small since 2003. This lean approach contrasts sharply with industry peers like EA and Riot Games, which employ thousands.
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The Verge ☛ Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs
Valve is a famously secretive company with an enormous influence on the gaming industry, particularly because it runs the massive PC gaming storefront Steam. But despite that influence, Valve isn’t a large organization on par with EA or Riot Games’ thousands of employees: according to leaked data we’ve seen, as of 2021, Valve employed just 336 staffers.