News items tagged with steam

LG Announces VR Partnership with Valve

LG has announced it is partnering with Valve to create a high-fidelity VR headset for gaming. According to the announcement, the head...

By Boston Blake on 27 February 2017

Valve Draws Criticism for Steam Direct Program

Gamers and indie developers have taken to social media to express their anger and disbelief at Valve’s proposed new Steam Direct process of vetting games. It hasn’t taken long for oppositio...

By Fergus O'Sullivan on 12 February 2017

Valve Is Retiring Steam Greenlight

Valve announces that Steam will be dropping the Greenlight user-vetted game submission process in favor of Steam Direct, which forces developers to pay a fee instead. Steam is the de facto...

By John Jacques on 12 February 2017

Hive Jump Review

Hive Jump is a fun and exciting retro shooter romp, with plenty of variety and a great co-op multiplayer experience marred by a lonely single player mode. Whether it’s the classic retro pl...

By Rob Gordon on 01 February 2017

Gabe Newell: New IP in Half-Life Universe is Possible

Responding to a question during his Reddit AMA, Valve president Gabe Newell confirms that he is open to developing a new IP set in the Half-Life universe. There are running jokes in the vid...

By Cody Gravelle on 18 January 2017

Gabe Newell Has A Larger Net Worth than Donald Trump

Forbes posts its updated list of the world’s richest billionaires, revealing the net worth of Gabe Newell, who is worth more than Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. Despite moving away from tr...

By Dalton Cooper on 18 January 2017

Gabe Newell Is Hosting a Reddit AMA Tomorrow

Reddit officially confirms that Gabe Newell, the president and co-founder of the video game development and digital distribution company, Valve, hosts an AMA on the site tomorrow. Those gam...

By Kyle Sledge on 16 January 2017

Controller Support Coming to All Steam Games

The latest Steam client beta update reveals that controller support is coming to all Steam games, with users able to map keyboard and mouse controls to various controllers. With each and ev...

By Rob Gordon on 04 January 2017

Nvidia Shield TV Has 4K Support, Steam Streaming

Nvidia announces a brand new Nvidia Shield TV device with 4K support and Steam streaming capabilities, and also unveils a revamped version of its GeForce NOW streaming service. While the mo...

By Jasmine Henry on 04 January 2017

No Man's Sky One of Steam's Best Selling Games of 2016

Steam reveals its best selling games of 2016, with No Man’s Sky reaching the highest tier and beating out many of the year’s other top titles, despite its challenges. As we enter the New Ye...

By Boston Blake on 31 December 2016

Steam is Down for Everyone [Updated]

UPDATE: All Steam services appear to be back online. Valve’s Steam Network goes down in the midst of the service’s annual Winter Sale, making it impossible for gamers to purchase new games...

By Dalton Cooper on 24 December 2016

PayPal Confirms Start Date for Steam Winter Sale 2016

PayPal once again reveals the official start date of the Steam Winter Sale, confirming previous information that was leaked at the very beginning of December. Christmas can be an expensive...

By Brad Jones on 19 December 2016

No Man's Sky Did Not Use Deceptive Advertising on Steam

The Advertising Standards Authority declares that developer Hello Games did not use deceptive marketing practices when promoting No Man’s Sky on Steam. Despite the initial controversy and s...

By Kyle Sledge on 30 November 2016

Steam Autumn Sale Is Live With New PC Game Discounts

Valve’s digital gaming distribution platform, Steam, officially begins its annual Autumn Sale, offering a plethora of discounts for a wide variety of PC titles. Following Steam‘s major over...

By Kyle Sledge on 23 November 2016

Valve Could Be Hit with $3 Million Fine in Australia

Due to a national policy that says Australians have a right to a refund for faulty or defective goods, Valve’s lack of refund policy could see the company fined millions. There are few comp...

By Cody Gravelle on 17 November 2016

Steam Store Gets a Massive Overhaul

Valve releases the Steam Discovery update 2.0, which is designed to be ‘smarter,’ ‘more informative,’ and offer users better and more personalized game recommendations. As popular PC gaming...

By Jasmine Henry on 25 October 2016

Steam Halloween Sale 2016 Begins

Steam’s annual Halloween Sale is starting, offering discounts on dozens of spooky, scary games and movies as well as plenty of other games at shocking prices. With Halloween quickly approac...

By Rory Young on 13 October 2016

Steam Adds Native Support for PS4 DualShock Controller

During Steam Dev Days, Valve engineer Jeff Bellinghausen reveals Valve will be adding native support to Steam for the PS4 DualShock controller in the near future. Yesterday kicked off Steam...

By Boston Blake on 11 October 2016

Doom 2 Mod Hits Steam as Standalone Game

In what has been a long time coming for the game’s creater, Doom 2 modder Paul Schneider is bringing Unloved onto Steam as a standalone horror shooter. While many gamers associate Bethesda’...

By Cody Gravelle on 03 October 2016

Hello Neighbor is a New Horror Game About Home Invasion

Indie studio Dynamic Pixels announces a unique new stealth/horror game called Hello Neighbor, which tasks players with breaking into their neighbor’s house. Films like Rear Window and Distu...

By Dalton Cooper on 02 October 2016

Steam Store UI Update Details Leak

Plans for updating Steam’s front page and several other major changes leak, including changes geared towards ‘targeted visibility’ for game launches and updates. With how popular PC gaming...

By Rory Young on 26 September 2016

Counter-Strike Player Releases Fake Hacks

One Counter-Strike player decides to take the matter of stopping cheaters into their own hands, releasing fake hacks in order to get cheaters banned from the game.

By Rob Gordon on 02 August 2016

Washington State Orders Valve to Stop CS: GO Gambling

Following the CS:GO skin gambling scandal that erupted earlier this year, the Washington State Gambling Commission orders Valve to take action against gambling sites.

By Jasmine Henry on 28 April 2016

The Culling Trailer

Xaviant Games announces The Culling, which is a video game take on the “fight to the death” arena scenarios depicted in films such as Battle Royale and The Hunger Games. The popularity of...

By Dalton Cooper on 26 January 2016

Valve's Official Statement on Steam Christmas Issues

Valve’s official statement regarding the Steam Store technical issues on December 25 details the DoS attack and caching issues at the heart of the problem. Five days ago on December 25, S...

By Rory Young on 26 December 2015

What is Steam's Winter Sale Hiding?

Steam users have discovered a noir-style mystery hidden among the Steam pages for the Steam Winter Sale, and are asking for help in uncovering all of the clues hidden by Valve. The Steam...

By John Jacques on 26 December 2015

Steam Wasn't Hacked, Back Online

Steam is back online and Valve explains that the service suffered an internal caching error that revealed some confidential data, but wasn’t actually hacked. Although attacks on Microsoft...

By Denny Connolly on 26 December 2015

Ark: Survival Evolved is More Popular on Xbox One than Steam

Dinosaur survival and adventure game ARK: Survival Evolved is more popular on Xbox One than on Steam, according to Jesse Rapczak, co-founder of Studio Wildcard. Released earlier this year...

By Jasmine Henry on 26 December 2015

Immortal Empire Review

Immortal Empire lacks polish and suffers from simplistic gameplay, but in spite of its shortcomings there is something addictive about this free-to-play strategy game. In recent years, f...

By Rob Gordon on 26 November 2015