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The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so

You can disable it if you want, though.

PC Gamer

'Vile: Exhumed' Banned on Steam for 'Sexual Content' — Dev Strikes Back with Free Release: How to Play It Free Today

'Vile: Exhumed' banned on Steam for 'sexual content'. Developer releases it free online. Learn how to download and play it today for free.

International Business Times UK

Google Finally Throws In the Towel on Its Comically Bad Attempt to Get Gamers to Buy Chromebooks

Chromebooks were never built to be serious gaming machines, but Google did at least make inroads with Steam. Now, that'll be joining Stadia in the Google Graveyard.

Windows Central

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'Demonschool' Announces Release Date—And It's a Lot Closer Than You Think

Tactical RPG Demonschool, which has been compared to the Persona series, finally has a release date, and it's closer than you probably think.

Player One

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 11, 2025)

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

PC Gamer

Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised

#RememberPortal hopes to give Valve's puzzler a big player boost.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6 stomps Call of Duty's Steam record with 520,000 concurrent players, but EA promises it's still working on those long "entry times"

We're so back?

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Battlefield 6 surpasses record half a million concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever.

Tom’s Hardware

The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents

This puts the BF6 beta at 18th place overall on Steam.

PC Gamer

Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2

Save on games and support small dev teams at the same time, now through August 14th.

PC Gamer

Battlefield 6’s open beta crosses 500,000 concurrent players, nearly five times more than 2042’s full release

This makes Battlefield 6 the most popular BF title of all time.

Destructoid

Best Payday 2 mods

How to get the best payday out of Payday 2

Destructoid

Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta

Google does not seem to be making good on its promise to make Chromebooks gaming laptops.

PC Gamer

Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?

It's 2025 A.D. We've sequenced the human genome. We wield the power of the atom. Why can't we make logging in an easy task?

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The most honest survival game I've ever played is this unemployment simulator

Manage anxiety, fatigue, and dopamine levels, and try to keep yourself alive in Unemployment Simulator 2018.

PC Gamer

The Tencent survival game being sued by Sony quietly purges most Horizon-like content from its Steam page, bumps release date to late 2027

It looks very much like Tencent does not want to tangle with Sony on this one.

GamesRadar

10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes

I guess the lawsuit has already had some effect

PC Gamer

Less than 2 months after releasing Tron: Catalyst, developer Bithell Games lays off the majority of full-time staff

Studio boss Mike Bithell said the team was unable to land a "new larger scale project" to work on.

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"CoD won't be lazy anymore": Ex Blizzard boss predicts a beating for Call of Duty at the hands of Battlefield 6, says Activision's FPS "has gone downhill for years"

"We'll all get better FPS games for it," says Mike Ybarra

GamesRadar

Square Enix down ¥11 billion in game sales because it can only re-release Kingdom Hearts so often, but says don't worry boss, we've got some great JRPGs in the chamber

More Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Octopath Traveler are on the way

Gaming on a Chromebook is about to get a lot more difficult

Steam gaming will soon be gone from ChromeOS –but you've got a few months left to play

Tom’s Hardware

Google to kill Steam for Chromebook beta in 2026 — Installed games will 'no longer be available to play'

Google is discontinuing Steam on Chromebook by 2026, with devices losing installed games.

GamesRadar

Mafia: The Old Country debuts to the second-best reviews in the series, but has been beaten in Steam player count by a version of every past entry so far

Lots of people must be loyle to their capo

Inverse

The Wildest New Strategy Game On Steam Makes You A Superstar Villainess

The power of streaming is enough to defeat an army in a strangely compelling new strategy game on PC.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not just football with blood’: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed

A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads – here’s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league

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