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Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range

Tim Sweeney's throwing a wobbler in the supermarket

Oct. 26, 2026 Mark Warren

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I've got egg on my face because Steam's Personal Calendar feature has apparently been a test this whole time and is only now actually a fully fledged component

Look, I've had a lot going on, alright?

Oct. 24, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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Valve roll out Steam Achievement Sets in beta, splitting up games’ perpetually growing trophy masses into DLC and season buckets

No more having DLC decimate your precious 100% completion badge

Oct. 16, 2026 Mark Warren

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My horror that 32GB RAM has become the norm is exceeded only by my contempt that 7.28% of you have over 4TB free hard drive space

Thoughts on Valve's latest hardware survey

Oct. 7, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Valve is changing Steam's homepage discounts and events section to go the way of the algorithm to get you to look at, and buy, obviously, more games

Curation? Who needs it!

Sept. 29, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label

Update: Adults Only label removed

Sept. 15, 2026 Mark Warren

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Steam beta update adds a new Big Picture view, screensavers, and a little treat for desktop Steam Machines

Look upon my Recently Played's key art and despair

Sept. 10, 2026 James Archer

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Steam achievements for Persona 6, Fable, Stranger Than Heaven and a host of other upcoming PC games appear to have leaked

Trophy hunting site Exophase has seemingly been inundated with prizes from unreleased games

Sept. 9, 2026 Mark Warren

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"Expect fake messages": A load of Steam user personal info has been stolen thanks to a cyberattack on one of Valve's partners, claims report

Seemingly, only Europeans are affected

Aug. 10, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Steam wishlists are getting categories, making it even easier to organise all those games you'll definitely buy next sale

Plus, buying games for your friends and family just got a lot easier

July 22, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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"Compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor": Robert Yang on the current challenge of bringing experimental gay games to Steam

Radiator Forever is out now

July 10, 2026 Mark Warren

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Steam Machine Verified medals appear on games' store pages overnight, as if left by the Compatibility Fairy

Oh THERE they are

July 10, 2026 James Archer

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"What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" Gabe Newell reportedly once shouted at one of Valve's Lionel Hutzes during Steam porn debate

Tell us how you really feel, yachtman who also doesn't reckon Steam has a monopoly

June 2, 2026 Mark Warren

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New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve

"People enjoy surprises", say lawyers in motion to dismiss

May 21, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp

The changes will also affect any American Illuminati masterpieces devs are planning on making

May 19, 2026 Mark Warren

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Valve's next Steam UI target is the Community Market, with more details and, yes, a wider layout

The Widening lives on...

May 12, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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Steam, Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite risk "becoming onramps to abuse, extremist violence, radicalisation or lifelong harm", claim Australian government

Update: Roblox and Epic respond

April 22, 2026 Mark Warren

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Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone, making it easier to spot when game discounts are at their discountiest

Deal or no deal?

April 16, 2026 Mark Warren

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"Framerate Estimator" evidence in Steam's new update points to more detailed performance tests than Valve's Verified programmes

Urgh, yes, you can run Crysis, it's nearly two decades old

April 8, 2026 James Archer

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The widening of Steam continues with another UI beta, this time for the mod hotspot Workshop

Wider, better, faster

April 7, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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Steam store "refresh" is out in beta now, enwidening images and adding infinite scrollage to the homepage

Also, better hover states, which is a thing I didn't know I needed

April 2, 2026 Mark Warren

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Steam's latest update sounds like a step in the right direction for regional pricing woes

But it is a step devs will have to take too

March 28, 2026 Oisin Kuhnke

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"Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit

Steam owners tout history of shutting down gambling on the marketplace

March 11, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2

Who loots the lootboxers

March 10, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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"What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam

Pretty unimpressed by Epic in general, tbh

Feb. 23, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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