Steam: news and videos
Every story and video about Steam from the outlets and channels we follow, newest first. 19 stories from 5 outlets in the last 60 days, 17 of them this week.
Stories
- You can now buy more than 2,000 games for $5 or less on Steam Ladies and gentlemen, it's time . (Image credit: Valve) You know the drill . Deep discounts up the wazoo, stickers to earn, and new stuff in the Points Shop , all of it adding up…
- AMD's new 'Gainsborough' APU rumoured to be the chip that powers the long-awaited Steam Deck 2 The original Steam Deck went on sale about four and a half years ago. And there hasn't been any clear indication that a true second-gen handheld from Valve is imminent. Until now,…
- Analyst Argues Gears of War: E-Day Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled on PS5 After 'Soft' Steam Pre-Orders "Gears isn't necessarily a console-seller anymore". Gears of War: E-Day launches into advanced access imminently, and I’m sure our colleagues at Pure Xbox will be bringing you a…
- It's not even out yet, but Valve's Deadlock just became one of the most played games on Steam Valve's new MOBA Deadlock - a sort of cross between Dota and Overwatch - might not be fully released yet, or even accessible by vast portions of the public,but that hasn't stopped…
- Huge Deadlock Update Propels Valve's MOBA Hero Shooter to the Top of the Steam Charts, Smashes Peak Concurrent Player Record Valve has issued a huge update to its in-development MOBA hero shooter Deadlock , propelling it to the top of Steam’s most-played games chart. The update significantly updated the…
- Ace Combat 8 Steam reviewers are steaming mad about its pre-order bonus not being a standalone app Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is technically out on Thursday, but as is commonplace now folks who pre-order the $90 deluxe edition get to hop into the cockpit a few days early.…
- Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names Duskfade. DUST: Origins. Dust Front RTS. Duskbloods. Dungeons of Dusk. These are all games that will be released in a 12-month period. I know the differences between them, but I'm…
- The Witcher 3 surges to its highest Steam concurrent player-count ever, following Remastered edition's release The Witcher 3 's newly released Remastered edition has dramatically rekindled interest in the 11-year-old role-playing game, which is currently enjoying its highest concurrent…
- The Witcher 3 Remastered Has Already Broken Steam Concurrent Player Record We're just a few hours into the launch of The Witcher 3 Remastered , and it's already beaten its previous record for concurrent players on Steam. Before the remaster came out,…
- Steam Dev’s Viral GTA Clone Is The Perfect PS2 Throwback Grand Theft Auto 6 will almost certainly be a huge deal. It's poised to become the biggest game launch of all time, with virtually every rival publisher avoiding its Nov. 19…
- 16 Years Later, A 'Let's Play' Classic Blows Up on Steam with 750K Wishlists The internet was a different place in 2010. Generative AI was still dormant, memes were thriving, and "Let's Plays" ruled YouTube. As a free browser game, Happy Wheels caught the…
- Steam Week in Review: Great, haystack slop is a thing now Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there's a Giana Sisters, for every Stardew Valley there's a Fields of Mistria, and for every Needle…
- The next retro games coming to Steam are a pair of extremely 1990s run-and-gunners where Spanish Goku fights mutants In the 1990s, Spanish videogame label Gaelco was responsible for a string of arcade games (and also electronic dartboards) that hardly anyone outside Spain knows about, bar…
- My favorite $6 RPG on Steam just got a beastmode free 'Enhanced Edition' update FlyKnight is a $6, first-person RPG in the King's Field/Lunacid mold that whips ass, looks like Old School Runescape, and feels like it could have asked for twice as much money…
- 'I sit in terror looking at the 750,000 wishlists': A nervous dev brings a classic Flash game to Steam It's just as fun as you remember and it only costs $5 on Steam . Hopefully all those folks who wishlisted it will dive back in for some gruesome nostalgia, and maybe some younger…
- As Resident Evil Requiem Passes $500m Revenue, Analysis Shows 8.6% Sales Were on Xbox, With Remaining 91% Shared Between PS5 and Steam Resident Evil Requiem sold just 8.6% of its copies on Xbox, new sales analysis indicates. Data published today by Alinea Analytics revealed the eye-opening split in platform sales…
- I've worked at PC Gamer for 18 years. These are the 13 games on my Steam Wishlist I usually use Steam's wishlisting feature to make sure I don't forget about interesting projects that have open-ended development times, games like Anvil Empires that have been in…
- Wardogs has already made more money than Marathon, and its Steam launch momentum is ahead of Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 Wardogs is already one of the year's biggest PC hits on Steam, but new data has revealed how its success compares to other mega-hits like Arc Raiders and Helldivers 2 , as well as…
- Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West mysteriously delisted from Steam in the UK, Sony promises to "address the issue" with Valve Yesterday, Helldivers 2 and Horizon Forbidden West mysteriously disappeared from the Steam store in the UK. There was no announcement about this move, nor any indication it would…
