Steam users redeemed over $80 million in physical wallet cards in December 2023

Valve continues to pretty much print money, and they've released their latest yearly review and 2023 seems to be another great year for Steam.

Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins

Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.

From Plato to CRISPR: Communicating Science through Storytelling — Andrei Codrescu

Third Annual Tennessee STEAM Festival @Middle Tennessee University Through his talk, From Plato to CRISPR , Andrei brings light and heat to the space between science and art

Check out the demo for Silence of the Siren a rich sci-fi strategy game

From the same team that created Project Hospital, the next game from Oxymoron Games is a sci-fi strategy game called Silence of the Siren and there's now a public demo you can try.

Steam Next Fest 2024 was the biggest for Valve and game devs yet

Valve announced the top 50 most played game demos from Steam Next Fest 2024, and as it turns out this was the biggest Steam Next Fest event Valve has run so far.

Baldur's Gate 3 hits over half a million Steam user reviews - ranked 19th most popular

Baldur's Gate 3 from Larian Studios has managed to hit a mark not many games do, as it's crossed over the half a million mark on Steam for user reviews with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating overall.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.5.15 Preview brings a HDR improvement, GPU crash improvements

Valve released a new version of SteamOS in Preview for Steam Deck, along with a Steam Client Beta for Steam Deck and Desktop Steam also being released. So here's what you need to know.

Steam Beta now lets you actually close controller info panels with controllers

A bit of an oversight in the Steam Client is that their newer Controller info panels that appear before a game launches couldn't be dismissed with a controller - but now they can.

Steam surprise launches Lunar New Year Sale 2024 - after previously stopping it

Well, that was a bit of a surprise. Valve has once again put up a Lunar New Year Sale, even though they previously announced they wouldn't be doing one.

Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams

Time load up that Steam downloads list because Steam Next Fest is here once again, and there's a whole lot of demos for you to try out.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor hits Early Access on February 14th

What could be my next favourite horde survival game and an off-shoot of one of the best online co-op games around, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is launching in Early Access on February 14th.

They really did it - Valve added Dwarf as an official Steam tag

After a little mini-campaign from the likes of the crew behind Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic, Valve added some new official Steam store tags for games.

Linux remains above macOS on the Steam Survey for January 2024

The monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is here for January 2024, and while there was a drop for both Linux and macOS we're still seeing Linux be firmly in second place on Steam now.

Palworld hits 19 million players in less than two weeks - beating the latest Pokémon

Palworld continues being an absolutely ridiculous success for developer Pocketpair, as they've announced it's hit 19 million players in less than two weeks.

Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now

Spec Ops: The Line from YAGER / 2K has been unexpectedly removed from Steam, as the store page is now delisted so it won't show up in searches and it can no longer be purchased.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition launches on PC on March 21st

We finally have a confirmed date for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition which will release on March 21st for PC gamers. Thankfully it includes plenty of graphics options to tweak it to your liking, that might also help Steam Deck performance.

Steam Remote Play gets VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

Valve released another Steam Beta for both the Steam Deck and for Desktop Steam, containing various fixes and a nice improvement for Linux Remote Play users.

GitHub - ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux: Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client

Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client - GitHub - ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux: Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client

Steam Beta adds explainers to Steam Deck performance menu - plus fixes for Desktop too

Valve has released a new Beta for the Steam Deck and Steam Desktop that improved numerous bugs, and for Steam Deck makes the performance menu a little easier to understand.

Popular mobile puzzle game classic Threes! is launching on PC for its 10th anniversary

Threes! took the mobile world by storm back in 2014 winning the Apple Design Award, and finally for its 10th anniversary it will be coming to Steam so we can all get in on the fun.

Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended

Canonical announced some time ago their Steam Snap which was promoted as stable with Ubuntu 23.04, as they continue to push their own packaging format with Snap but it seems this has been causing problems for Valve.

Check out these Steam Deck Verified highlights for January 2024

It's been quite chilly here in the UK, so I've been spending a lot more time sat under a blanket with my Steam Deck OLED.

The first stable Steam and Steam Deck update of 2024 is here

Valve has released the latest Steam Client stable update for both the Steam Deck and Desktop Steam, pulling in all the recent changes like the re-designed Steam Workshop subscriptions system.

Team Fortress: Source 2 fan project gets a DMCA from Valve

The Team Fortress: Source 2 project is now officially dead in the water after getting hit with a DMCA from Valve, although the creators were already stopping development.

Valve announces new rules for games with AI Content on Steam

Valve have now confirmed their rules for game developers using AI generated content on Steam, and while they're not banning AI they are going to ensure it's clearly stated for players.

Celebrate Economic Strategy with the Steam Captialism and Economy Fest

Economy simulation and city management may not be the first thing most people think of when they think about video games. But it is one of the most longstanding genres in gaming, going all the way back to the 1980's.

Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now

Valve have finally done it, they've actually gone and made Boomer Shooter an official category on Steam. Since there's quite a lot of them now, and more releasing every day, it makes a lot of sense.

Steam hits new user record for 2024 and a record for games released last year

Yesterday, January 7th, Steam hit a new all-time record for concurrent users online showing that nothing can stop Valve's growth here thanks to the popularity of video games.

Bodycam horror shooter Chasmal Fear looks like a riot

MystiveDev emailed in about Chasmal Fear, an upcoming horror shooter you play as if you're viewing it from a bodycam set in an underwater facility.

SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released

Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.

Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards

Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.

You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam

Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.

Vibrant fantasy retro magical FPS 'Wizordum' is a joy to blast through

Wizordum is a new retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. If you adored early first-person shooters, you're going to really enjoy this one.

Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam

With 2023 coming to a close Valve have refreshed their Steam Year In Review page, so you can dive in and see everything you did and how it stacks up against others.

Steam Workshop gets even better with shareable Workshop Collections

Valve are really doing some good stuff with the updates to the Steam Workshop. On top of the new features added recently, they've also now put in Workshop Collections you can switch between and share around.

Valve hands out lumps of coal to naughty Dota 2 players

In possibly one of the funniest moves I've seen from Valve recently, they're handing out lumps of coal when banning Dota 2 players.

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