Our latest coverage of Steam.
If you've followed the saga of Steam Greenlight at all, you probably know that basically everyone was excited for it when it first launched. Finally, the games we wanted could get on Steam. Finally, developers had a reasonable chance of getting their games on Steam. And for a while, it was great. Only games that people really wanted on Steam [...]
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Steam has done it again, beating its own record by surpassing 14 million concurrent users for the first time, on January 08, 2017. If you hurry, you can see it for yourself by visiting the Steam Stats page—but the page only displays the last 48 hours. You may ask, "when was the previous record set?" Funny enough, not too long [...]
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Valve is changing up its guidelines for storefront screenshots, and developers need to make sure they're ready when Discover Update 2.0 goes live. Steam wants to make sure screenshots represent the game they advertise; that means no artwork as a substitute for gameplay: "This means avoiding using concept art, pre-rendered cinematic stills, or images that contain awards, marketing copy, or written product [...]
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A new Steam sale that is being held in celebration of the Lunar New Year is going on from now until February 12th. This sale is unfortunately like the last few, without daily or flash sales. But there are a number of MMOs that are discounted during the sale. Here are some of the highlights. Blitzkrieg 3 - 30% off [...]
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You may remember that Steam was DDoS'd on Christmas morning. As a result of this attack, Valve's digital storefront began incorrectly relaying cached information, exposing users' personal information—such as billing addresses—to other users during checkout. Considering the time of year and the sale, the results could have potentially been disastrous. It was recommended by SteamDB at the time that users [...]
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It appears the Grinch has struck Steam on Christmas Day. Valve's popular PC gaming platform has been targeted by a hacking collective known as "SkidNP" who have stated their intention to take the service down, along with the servers for Minecraft. Reports of the attack surfaced Christmas Day morning and have continued throughout the day. Users are experiencing issues with the [...]
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Christmas is just around the corner and Steam is bringing the season of giving to gamers the world over with the 2015 Steam Winter Sale. Choose from thousands of games on sale for up to 75% off unti January 4th at 10AM PST. If you missed the Black Friday sale then this might be a good time to finally get [...]
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The Steam Fall Sale is here in a new and much more boring form. Valve is calling this one the "Exploration Sale" and, for the first time, their "no flash sales or daily sales" model will be put to the test. Will it increase revenue or will it just result in less impressive sales? I suppose we will have to [...]
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Online Gaming Platform Steam has recently implemented a new Item Store system that can be viewed directly through the Steam Store. This system gives developers and publishers the ability to sell in-game premium items directly through Steam in an easy and clean way that allows players to browse at their leisure without having the game launched. You can see the [...]
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Online Gaming Platform, Steam, has announced big savings on spooky titles until November 2nd at 10AM PDT. Although not all of the sale titles are actually spooky— you can pick up several MMORPG titles at slashed prices. The following MMORPGs and Halloween-related Packs are on sale: Otherland (33% off) The Secret World (50% off) Eve Online (50% off) TERA: Halloween [...]
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