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Steam will comply with the UK's age verification rules without sending any of your data to third-parties — doing a better job than Xbox

Valve's Steam store will be complying (naturally) with the new age verification requirements in the UK Online Safety Act and doing it in a very sensible, less controversial manner.

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Is this addictive game made by just one person the best first-person shooter of the year?

Void/Breaker is a chaotic adrenaline rush.

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Hollow Knight's creators didn't want to be constrained by the 'metroidvania' label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

Like Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight is the rare successor to totally eclipse its inspirations.

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Want to access mature games on Steam? You’ll need a credit card for that – but only in the UK

Valve is adapting Steam to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act, but in a way that shouldn't be a pain.

TechRadar

If you’re looking to scratch that cRPG itch, these are the ones you should definitely try

Scratch that itch with these stellar titles.

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Steam users in the UK who want 'mature game content' must now register a credit card on their accounts to prove they're old enough

Valve is taking a simple approach to the UK's Online Safety Act: You have a credit card, or you don't get in.

PC Gamer

Silksong already led Steam wishlists a year ago—here’s how the other top games performed since

Let's try to predict the future of Silksong's playerbase.

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New Final Fantasy-style action RPG Lost Soul Aside is "unintentionally one of the funniest games of the year," players declare, which takes the sting of its Mixed Steam reviews away somewhat

Lost soul aside, he's a pretty good guy

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From Forza to GTA: The Best New Racing Games Coming Soon

When Gran Trak 10 debuted on the Atari console in 1974, it was revolutionary. For the first time ever, gamers could get behind the wheel of a virtual race car and test their skills on a track—albeit a very basic one.

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PlayStation's Final Fantasy-style action RPG launches after 11 years to 'Mixed' Steam reviews, so Lost Soul Aside devs are "actively working on optimizations"

Complaints point at performance and animation

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Call of Duty is back online after servers hit with hour-long outage on all platforms [UPDATED]

Call of Duty servers experience outage on all platforms across all games.

Windows Central

The Xbox PC app gets some important new features gamers will love — just in time for the Xbox Ally X

Xbox just added cross-device play history, Gaming Copilot beta, and a new My apps tab to the PC app, making it easier than ever to game anywhere.

Windows Central

The updated Battlefield 6 PC system requirements have arrived ahead of launch with new Ultra specs — I'm stoked it'll have this huge feature, too

Ahead of Battlefield 6's upcoming launch in October, its developers have revealed the game's official — and updated — PC system requirements. Here are the specs you'll need.

Windows Central

This twice-bombed card battler somehow survived to rank 13th in Steam players today

Do players love or hate the game? I don't think I get it.

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You don't need to wait for SteamOS to ditch Windows: I've been running Linux for the past 2 months and the revolution is already here

1v1 me in SuperTuxKart.

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"Super cozy" Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar shoots to 94% positive Steam reviews 1 day after launch as fans of the series that inspired Stardew Valley sing its praises: "It's not just a simple remake"

A true return to form for Harvest Moon, it seems

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Roblox had more concurrent players than the entirety of Steam over the weekend as it reeled in over 45 million users

That's a lot of Grow a Gardeners and Steal a Brainrotters.

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Arrowhead CEO humbly asks Helldivers 2 fans to "stop s****ing your pants" as servers wobble under the weight of 500,000 concurrent divers following Xbox recruits joining the fight and a new Halo ODST Warbond

That's a lot of bugs squashed and oil spilled

GamesRadar

Battlefield 6 won't actually boot stomp Black Ops 7, analyst says, because Call of Duty fans on "autopilot" will "buy it even if they complain about it"

"Breaking it requires more than one awesome Battlefield release"

Windows Central

Helldivers 2's Xbox release spiked player counts so high it caused server crash issues — it's surging on Steam with crossplay, too, and I couldn't be happier

Following Helldivers 2's release on Xbox earlier this week, the game has enjoyed a colossal surge of players on the new platform as well as on Steam.

PC Gamer

How well do you know the most-played games on Steam? Take our timed quiz and put your knowledge to the test

A test of the best.

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Here's every game that Silksong's surprise release has delayed as indies scramble to escape its powerful aura

The unexpectedly short lead-up to launch has left a lot of other games scrambling to get out of the way.

GamesRadar

Gears of War: Reloaded hammered in Steam reviews for missing splitscreen co-op and Microsoft accounts seemingly crashing everyone's fun, including mine

Gears of War: Reloaded sits at 49% positive Steam user reviews

GamesRadar

Roblox is reportedly bigger than the entirety of Steam with a whopping 47.4 million concurrent users, almost exclusively thanks to two games: Steal a Brainrot and Grow a Garden

Valve's own concurrent user record sits at 41.2 million

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