Chat app Discord's new online PC gaming store has a secret weapon to beat giant rival Steam
September 24, 2018 at 11:38 AM EDT
A new player in online video game sales, Discord, is betting that human curation of a select number of titles will appeal more to gamers than the content overload of thousands of games offered by PC game giant Steam. The balance between human curators and algorithms is key to efforts at Spotify, Apple and Microsoft.