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It’s a great time to be a fan of immersive sims: between Gloomwood’s continuing early access percolation, Fortune’s Run coming in September, and the knockout launches of Amnesia: The Bunker and Nightdive’s System Shock remake, we’re eatin’ good. That last game is getting a particularly fun let’s play treatment as well, with former Looking Glass programmer Marc Leblanc streaming his first playthrough of Nightdive’s take on Citadel Station.

While now an engineer at Riot Games, LeBlanc was a programmer on both System Shock and Thief’s original runs, and his recollections of Looking Glass Technologies (eventually Looking Glass Studios) are a definite highlight of watching him work through the new version of the game he helped create. 

“If you told me that in 30 years I was going to be playing a remake of this game and broadcasting it to the internet,” LeBlanc declared before starting the game, “I would have said you were crazy. But here we are.”

In his first stream of the game, LeBlanc seemed impressed at Nightdive’s visual overhaul and tactile detail, admiring the 3D modeling and animation work that was out of the realm of possibility for Looking Glass back i…

By rock and stone, they did it: Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games and Deep Rock Galactic developer Ghost Ship Studios have managed to convince Valve to add an official ‘dwarf’ tag to Steam. But not without a little confusion leading up to the big triumph.

Steam uses tags to help users find what they’re looking for amidst the massive pile of games on its storefront: If, for instance, you’re in the mood for a cute FPS, the tag search function will help you zero in on that very specific interest. (And, by the way, there are more of them than you might think.) 

Steam users can apply tags to individual games as they see fit, and popular tags eventually become “featured categories,” which showcase all the games bearing the selected tag on a nicely laid-out category page.

Earlier this month, Kitfox and Ghost Ship—perhaps inspired by the success of boomer shooters—began making noise about getting an official “dwarf” tag on Steam. Valve politely but firmly said “no,” so they took their quest to the people, asking players to tag games manually to show Valve “that we are very serious about the value a dwarf tag would bring to the platform.” And as one…