Valve has announced that developers who want to put their games on Steam will need to disclose whether those games are using any kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software going forward. Announcing…
October 31, 2024 | 09:57 EDT
Risk of Rain 2 developer Hopoo Games has announced that it will be taking an indefinite hiatus and that many of its staff, including founders Paul Morse and Duncan Drummond, are joining Valve. This…
September 3, 2024 | 08:03 EDT
Valve has announced that it's banning the ability to perform multiple actions from a single input in Counter-Strike 2, and anyone who's picked up Razer's Huntsman V3 Pro keyboard might be getting…
August 20, 2024 | 09:36 EDT
If a recently-deleted voice actor listing is to be believed, Valve is currently working on a project codenamed Project White Sands, and that name should be ringing alarm bells if you're a Half-Life …
August 5, 2024 | 09:06 EDT
Valve is being sued by a UK law firm to the tune of £656m (around $840m) over claims that the Steam service is ripping off consumers owing to unfair price parity obligations. Per the BBC, UK law…
June 12, 2024 | 11:48 EDT
Today Valve surprise released Counter-Strike 2 following a few months in limited testing after the announcement of the game back in March 2023. The game is now available to download on Steam for…
September 27, 2023 | 11:55 EDT
Update July 12th 2:10PM: Fly Corp has flown its way back to Steam. The game is now available once again on Valve's platform, although we still don't know whether Bus Driver Simulator or Metro…
July 12, 2022 | 02:10 EDT
A dataminer has discovered references to what may be a standalone Valve Index headset codenamed "Deckard" -- a move that would give the Oculus Quest 2 some serious competition. The Valve…
September 28, 2021 | 03:36 EDT
Humble Bundle creator Wolfire Games has accused Valve of controlling game prices on non-Steam stores. According to Wolfire, Valve tells developers it will remove their games from Steam if they charge…
May 7, 2021 | 09:45 EDT
The European Commission has issued fines to Valve and several other major gaming companies for geo-blocking digital content within the European Economic Area (EEA). The Commission found that geo-…
January 20, 2021 | 09:50 EST
“Report unusual behavior. Barricade your homes. Avoid all contact with the infected individuals. Wait for official instructions.” A character reads this from an official looking pamphlet as his three…
September 30, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
After many days of silence on the current political events that are taking place throughout America, Valve has made a statement of sorts by pledging to sponsor the Game Devs of Color Expo. …
June 17, 2020 | 10:39 EDT
Steam's Autumn Sale is now underway and along with all the exciting deals on fun games, there is a somber $5 (plus shipping) final sale for Valve's Steam Controller. Valve has confirmed that this…
November 29, 2019 | 01:00 EST
Valve has been trying to find unique and creative ways to improve discoverability on Steam, and has been using a system called Steam Labs to do so. Today Valve has released two more experiments for…
September 20, 2019 | 03:30 EDT
Last week, Valve implemented some changes to the way Steam's More Like This section works. More Like This is displayed on a game's page beneath the System Requirements tab and shows you games that…
September 20, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
There may be trouble ahead for you if you're a Shenmue III PC backer and you were hoping for a Steam key. A recent post on the game's Kickstarter campaign suggests that Shenmue III Steam keys may…
September 20, 2019 | 09:45 EDT
Valve has lost a major court battle regarding reselling Steam games in France. The results of this ruling have essentially invalidated several clauses in the terms of service, including those that…
September 19, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
Recently Steam released a new discovery update that changed how recommending games work, claiming that it would increase the visibility of smaller games on Steam. Today several developers have been…
September 16, 2019 | 09:42 EDT
Valve has announced that they have overhauled Steam's discovery feature in an attempt to improve visibility on the storefront. Three specific sections were the focus of the update: the recommendation…
September 12, 2019 | 04:51 EDT
Steam Search is getting improvements tested that will make it much better than before, and Steam Micro Trailers have arrived to give players more insight into the games they want to buy. These are…
September 6, 2019 | 02:20 EDT
The Steam Library Beta has finally gotten a release date: you'll be able to get early access toa shiny new version of Valve's digital distribution client starting on September 17, 2019. Furthermore,…
September 5, 2019 | 02:20 EDT
Valve EU antitrust charges are being combated by the Seattle-based company as five major publishers are in the process of settling with the European Union. Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Focus…
September 2, 2019 | 09:19 EDT
A little over a week ago on July 25, the Team Fortress 2 community was hit by a crate bug significantly affecting its economy on Steam. Players can purchase keys either in-game or on the Steam…
August 3, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
Today, Valve announced a new subset of features for Steam called Steam Labs. Like a public test realm but for Steam, Steam Labs is a location for players to try out some of the Steam store's work-in-…
July 11, 2019 | 04:18 EDT
The Steam Grand Prix giveaway — a special part of the Steam Summer Sale 2019 — has been extended in a sense. The game had an intriguing reward system where a lucky handful of Steam users on that day'…
July 9, 2019 | 12:51 EDT
The early access indie open world RPG Greylaw: Season 1 has relaunched in the form of Wytchsun: Elleros Origins. Greylaw was released into Steam early access just back in February of this year, and…
June 29, 2019 | 06:00 EDT
The Steam Summer Sale 2019 has been going for a few days now. Much like previous years, the sale has a contest where customers participating in a special game have the opportunity to win something…
June 28, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
It's that time again! Yep, it's time for us to go to our bank websites, look at the balance, and calculate how long we can survive on ramen to score some sweet deals: the Steam Summer Sale 2019 is…
June 25, 2019 | 10:10 EDT
Valve issued an update to the Steam client today which, among several fixes and other updates, changed the feature formerly known as In-Home Streaming to Steam Remote Play. In-Home Streaming, as the…
June 15, 2019 | 08:30 EDT
Auto Chess made a big splash at E3 by announcing a stand-alone version of the game coming to PC (on the Epic Games Store), and launching a mobile version which has quickly been installed more than a…
June 14, 2019 | 11:20 EDT
The first rumblings that Valve planned to update the interface of Steam came about during GDC 2019. We saw a brief glimpse of the Steam Library interface, and some details from Valve employees, but…
June 13, 2019 | 06:00 EDT
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, & Hand Grenades is coming out with a special Team Fortress 2-themed update called Meat Fortress that adds a bunch of classic weapons from Valve's team-based first-person…
June 10, 2019 | 01:14 EDT
Valve has released a list of the top 20 Steam releases for April 2019. The list contains some surprises and some fairly predictable entries. This is the first time the company has divulged the best-…
May 24, 2019 | 11:15 EDT
Valve has announced a new Steam Chat standalone mobile app, available for Android and iOS. While there was already a standard Steam app for Android and iOS that included chat, this new app is touted…
May 22, 2019 | 07:56 EDT
Valve has announced on the Dota 2 blog that they're developing their own standalone version of Dota Auto Chess while still supporting Drodo Studio, the Chinese developers behind the highly popular…
May 22, 2019 | 12:44 EDT
Last month, during the tragic Notre-Dame fire, Ubisoft gave away copies of Assassin’s Creed Unity for free on Uplay, as we reported. One of the unforeseen consequences of this giveaway was that…
May 21, 2019 | 06:01 EDT
Multiplayer games are usually a hotbed of exploits that players quickly manage to find and usually end up making the game hell for other players. These exploits are generally patched out within the…
May 20, 2019 | 07:00 EDT
Valve has just released the Steam Link app for iOS and Apple TV, which will bring your Steam library and all the games in it to your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. All you need then is an MFi or Steam…
May 15, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
Prepare yourself for your yearly brush with financial ruin. The Steam Summer Sale 2019 date has been leaked. The SteamDB Twitter account revealed the date via a tweet posted earlier today. SteamDB…
May 15, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Yesterday Valve announced the release of some new resources for Steamworks developers, as well as an overhaul of the Steamworks overview homepage. The update aims to help developers and publishers to…
May 14, 2019 | 02:45 EDT
Counter Strike: Global Offensive's Danger Zone is a fast-paced battle royale mode that builds on CS:GO's tactical gameplay to deliver a more contemporary shooter experience where primal survival is…
May 1, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
The first Valve VR game is expected to arrive later in 2019. Following today's reveal of the Valve Index headset, players may be wondering if and when Valve will be coming out with a game for their…
April 30, 2019 | 03:34 EDT
The much-anticipated Valve Index VR headset is now available for purchase via Steam. The headset was first teased at the end of March 2019 and a later leak indicated that the controllers weren't…
April 30, 2019 | 02:55 EDT
Steam was first introduced in September of 2003, over 15 years ago. Yesterday, the towering digital distribution service reached the milestone of one billion accounts, according to the website Steam…
April 29, 2019 | 03:55 EDT
Epic Games CEO and Founder Tim Sweeney has stated that the company would put an end to Epic Games Store exclusives if Valve were willing to lower their revenue share. When the Epic Games Store was…
April 25, 2019 | 01:40 EDT
Developing for Steam can be a somewhat strange process, especially for newbie indie developers who might not understand all the complexities of the system. Gunpoint developer Tom Francis has acquired…
April 11, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
Richard Geldreich, a former developer at Valve, has claimed that the Steam platform was actually killing PC gaming. The claims came during a twitter conversation with Epic founder Tim Sweeney in…
April 6, 2019 | 01:18 EDT
The European Union Commission has told Valve and five gaming publishers that they may be in violation of EU competition rules. The other companies receiving official EU Commission Statements of…
April 5, 2019 | 02:45 EDT