The Best That Ever Was

This week we hit on a great list of women in the gaming industry to celebrate Womens Month - From Roberta Williams to Dorris Self. https://www.lifewire.com/women-in-history-of-video-games-729746 Further list can be found at the Strong National Museum of Play using Bloomberg Connects. https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/ The candidates for the induction of 2023 hall of fame at the Strong National Museum of play was discussed with some good talk about our experiences with the inductees. https://kotaku.com/video-game-hall-of-fame-2024-finalists-resident-evil-1851335716 https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/2023-finalists/ Since Wolfire opened suit with Valve for unfair practices, several communications have come to light - one with Tim Sweeny on the platform's cut of profits of sold games and another citing that in 2018 they made more money per employee than any of the largest tech companies. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/in-2018-a-group-of-valve-staff-tried-to-figure-out-just-how-efficient-they-were-beingand-found-they-were-making-more-money-per-head-than-apple-facebook-and-nearly-every-tech-giant-out-there/ https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/tim-sweeney-emailed-gabe-newell-calling-valve-you-assholes-over-steam-policies-to-which-valves-coo-simply-replied-you-mad-bro/ We Wrap up on the hinted D&D open world survival game being developed by the developers who made Dreamlight Valley. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/the-next-big-dandd-videogame-is-a-survival-life-sim-from-the-makers-of-disney-dreamlight-valley/