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Valve Index - Steam Creators Tease VR Goggles
Valve published a picture on Steam, presenting a VR device called Valve Index. This confirms earlier reports that the company is working on a new VR decide. More details coming this May.
hardware & software
Konrad Serafinski
March 31, 2019
Anno 1800 Only on Epic Games Store and Uplay
Ubisoft has announced that Anno 1800 will be an exclusive title on Epic Games Store and Uplay. This means that the game will disappear from Steam on the release day.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
March 30, 2019
Doom Eternal and RAGE 2 Coming to Steam. So is Fallout 76.
Bethesda Softworks informed that the PC edition of RAGE 2 and Doom Eternal will be available on Steam. The same goes for the upcoming spin-offs to the Wolfenstein series, followed by Fallout 76.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
March 25, 2019
Epic Games Reveals Digital Distribution Costs
Epic Games studio CEO revealed the costs of digital distribution. His calculations show that a 12% margin is enough to make big money, and the industry standard 30% is exaggerated.
video games
Adrian Werner
March 22, 2019
Steam Reveals New Layout and Functionalities
Among the highlights of Valve's panel during this years Game Developers Conference were the reworked layout of Steam library and developer events. The former can be examined up close, and some interesting details have been revealed concerning the latter.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
March 22, 2019
Valve Purges Steam of Homages to Christchurch Terrorist
Kotaku reports that Steam has been purged of over a hundred various material that approved of the Christchurch terrorist. Valve does not comment on the situation, but consequently removes all reported cases of rule abuse.
other
Conrad Hazi
March 18, 2019
Valve Will Examine Copying of Steam Data by Epic Games Store
Valve has answered the controversies related to Epic Games Store client, which allegedly downloads sensitive user data related to their Steam account.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 17, 2019
Steam Promises to Eliminate Review Bombing
Valve announced that it will battle the occasional waves of negative reviews on Steam, so-called review bombing, issued for reasons completely unrelated to the game and aimed only at lowering the score of a specific title.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 16, 2019
Valve Announces Steam Link Anywhere and a Web API for Developers
Valve decided to show how busy they are even before the GDC has started and revealed the Steam Link Anywhere service, enabling us to use Steam Link through the Internet, and shared the technology for free with all developers who might be interested.
hardware & software
Conrad Hazi
March 15, 2019
Valve Fires Employees
Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.
video games
Bart Swiatek
March 8, 2019
Rape Day Removed from Steam
Valve took a lot of flak recently for allowing Rape Day, a controversial title that deals with violence against women, to be released on Steam. The company has decided to intervene and removed the game from Steam's offer.
video games
Agnes Adamus
March 7, 2019
Here's How Devs Manipulate Release Dates on Steam
Mike Rose, the founder of No More Robots, has noticed a peculiar unfair practice adopted by some developers on Steam. Here's the trick - a fake release date is being set, and changed, to keep the title on top of the recommended upcoming titles list.
video games
Milosz Szubert
March 6, 2019
Last Two Shovel Knight Expansions Delayed and Other News
Today's collection of short news: the last two expansions for Shovel Knight, as well as the SIGIL mega mod from Johna Romero are delayed, Steam info corner gets a new layout.
video games
Milosz Szubert
February 19, 2019
Here Are the Winners of Steam Awards 2018
During a special, short broadcast Valve has presented this year’s winners of The Steam Awards gala, awarded by the users of Steam in several rather unique categories.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
February 8, 2019
Over Million Bans On Steam - Valve Slashes CSGO Cheaters
Valve continues to fight cheaters. In January, more than one million cheaters were banned with the VAC protection system. Most of them are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
February 6, 2019
Valve Announces the Steam Awards 2018 Gala
Valve is preparing a special announcement gala for the results of Steam Awards 2018.
video games
Milosz Szubert
February 5, 2019
Metro Exodus only on Epic Store until February 2020 [Updated]
Deep Silver and Epic Games announced that Metro Exodus will be an exclusive Epic Store title for one year.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
January 28, 2019
Steam has 90 million monthly and 47 million daily users
Valve has released a report summarizing the past year on Steam. We learned, among other things, that the number of monthly users of the service reaches 90 million people.
video games
Adrian Werner
January 15, 2019
8 changes coming to Steam in 2019
The annual Steam summary has brought a list of changes to be implemented to the service in 2019.
video games
Milosz Szubert
January 15, 2019
Steam hosts more than 30 thousand games at this point
Steam host more than 30 thousand video games at this point. The fact that most of them came out in the last 2 years is, however, symptomatic.
video games
Bart Swiatek
January 14, 2019