Valve’s new Steam controller is a bold experiment: an attempt at fusing a PC mouse with a traditional console-style…
In some parts of the world, Fallout 4 is already out. Those lucky players can go out into the Commonwealth right now…
Steam has added a new ‘item store’ feature. Now, in addition to the player-driven community market, developers can run their own stores (where they set their own fixed prices). Rust is the first game to take advantage, and they’re undercutting some community prices. Hmmm. I’m interested to see how this shakes out.
Steam is a howling vortex of games both brilliant and terrible. Steam curators were supposed to be part of an effort…
Beware, law-abiding citizens. Terrorism has a deadly new weapon: the door.
Jäsøn is an episodic movie series that just popped up on Steam. Or at least, it claims to be. It’s in Early Access,…
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A new Steam update will make things significantly better for people with lots of games. The update just entered public beta, and it reduces Steam start-up time for people with large libraries and improves library performance in Big Picture Mode. My sale-engorged library just let out a whimper of relief.
The Steam mobile app just got a major update. Primarily, it adds new Steam Guard functionality and the ability to take care of Steam market transactions while on the go. It is, however, still kinda clunky in places. Oh well, progress! Can we get in-home streaming to our phones next?
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Sometimes Counter-Strike’s guns will just miss, even if you’re aiming perfectly. Guns that some people believe are…
Valve fixed one of my big issues with Steam Machines... kinda. Games with their own launchers (e.g. Trine 3, Starbound, and Evoland) won’t, well, launch. Valve has removed the SteamOS-compatible tag from around 35 games. Some devs are working on new launchers. Fingers crossed that everything’s resolved by release day. Read more
I’ve been playing Planetbase for a couple hours now, and I feel like I’m only scratching the surface.
At the start of 2015, Valve told me Steam’s crappy customer service would be a big focus for them this year. It’s…
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The longstanding Dota 2 pro team Na’vi announced this morning that their current team roster is officially calling…
Earlier this year, Valve sent the mod community into crisis mode with paid mods for Skyrim. It did not end well.
Last week I reported on a Steam curator group called Scam Report, which sought to out sketchy games and douchey…
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I feel genuinely bad for the person this happened to.
Steam is kind of a minefield. Sometimes mid-development projects get abandoned. Other times, developers try to bury…