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Steam hits another all-time user record with over 40 million online

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Over the weekend Steam managed to break yet another concurrent online user record, smashing the previous that was set back in December 2024.

Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2%

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey numbers for February 2025, and there's a pretty massive increase in Simplified Chinese as language which has pushed about all the numbers everywhere else.

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Valve updates the Steam Daily Deals program and gives some stats

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Valve have done a little adjustment to the display of Steam Daily Deals to show more games. They also now give developers some more stats, and gave us all a bit of an overview.

Valve's in-development Deadlock gets a huge map overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 5 days ago

Valve's upcoming MOBA shooter Deadlock has received one of the biggest updates to date, which includes a big overhaul to the map that makes it a bit less complicated.

Happy three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything

By Liam Dawe, 6 days ago

It's been three years today since Valve released the Steam Deck. Not only has Valve shown how incredible Linux actually can be as a gaming platform, but they really kicked the industry into gear on PC gaming handhelds.

Steam Next Fest - February 2025 is live with tons of demos

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2025

Valve has launched Steam Next Fest, another good opportunity for you to jump in and test some upcoming games that runs through until March 3rd.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.22 brings a fix for pre-compiled shader downloads

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2025

Valve just released a tiny SteamOS 3.6.22 "Volcanic Activity" Beta for Steam Deck, which includes a fix for a rather annoying issue.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned.

There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.

Valve use a little code from Godot for Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too.

Team Fortress 2 major update released and source available for modders via the Source SDK

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

It wasn't just Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source that received big updates today, as Valve also published a new update for Team Fortress 2 along with updating the Source SDK to include TF2!

Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source get major updates with 64bit support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2025

A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates.

Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2025

Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice.

Here's all the Steam Sales and Fests for 2025

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

Valve have now revealed the full list of Steam Sales and Festivals that will be happening throughout 2025. So time to fill up that wishlist, mark your calendar and prepare your wallet.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.21 released fixing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle eyes and security bugs

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2025

After being in Beta since December 2024, Valve have now released SteamOS 3.6.21 as stable for Steam Deck bringing in some bug and security fixes.

Steam Deck Verified highlights for February 2025 - come find your next game

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2025

It's time to highlight some games you might have missed! Here's a run over what's been through Valve's Steam Deck Verified with some of my personal picks here for February.

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2025 [updated]

Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.