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This indie title just dethroned a Valve classic as best-rated game on Steam

AAA gaming has nothing on small indie teams.

Destructoid

Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'

"You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."

PC Gamer

At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country's military dictatorship

Gross mod, troubling precedent?

PC Gamer

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What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.

PC Gamer

Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee

Halo Goldsource brings Slayer and Firefight into Valve's classic shooter.

PC Gamer

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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand

No wonder Gabe Newell can afford all those boats.

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I finally tested a "SteamOS" Legion Go S — it's the perfect handheld gaming PC if you don't mind these three things

I tested and used the SteamOS version of the Legion Go S gaming handheld. Here's what makes it a compelling choice for gamers. Our review.

Windows Central

Rejoice, PC gamers: this Steam feature just got a massive update — here's how to use it and how it works

Steam's built-in performance tracking tool has been outdated for a long time, but Valve has just given it a massive overhaul in a new update. Here's how to use it.

Windows Central

Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames

Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help.

Tom’s Hardware

"We should have simply let you know" — The Alters creators respond to generative AI controversy

Critically acclaimed game The Alters finds itself in hot water following the discovery of undisclosed generative AI use, but 11 Bit Studios has already issued a statement apologizing to fans.

Windows Central

CS2 fans want Valve to host a Major at the birthplace of Counter-Strike

Bring it home.

Dot Esports

The first true 1:1 test we have shows Steam OS getting better performance than Windows in 10 big games, tying in 2 more, and it's got me salivating for a desktop version of Valve's OS

Liberate me from this prison.

PC Gamer

Developers of Linux distro Fedora propose dropping 32-bit support entirely, but it's being claimed that the change 'would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely'

And the Fedora community seems to be completely split 50-50 on the idea.

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Steam's "Early Access" is no longer what it used to be — has it failed gamers?

Steam's Early Access section is filled with abandoned games and half-effort money grabs. Where did it go wrong, and who's really to blame?

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It's not just you: Steam's Summer Sale disrupted by Store issues

Today was meant to be the day you threw it all away on dozens of Steam games you'll never get around to playing, but Valve's servers appear to have other plans.

GamesRadar

The 2025 Steam Summer Sale is live – here are 10 deals we love, from the biggest Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 discount yet to 50% off Lies of P and Dragon Age: The Veilguard

JRPGs, city builders, open-world games, indies, and everything else are on sale

PC Gamer

This month 25 years ago in PC gaming, our biggest concerns were pro gaming, moral panics about violent games… and we still thought Halo was a PC exclusive

Team Fortress 2 was due out autumn 2000, we said. How wrong we were.

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Destructoid

After almost 8 years, Valve is finally adding new original content to Team Fortress 2

It's been a long, long time since we last saw a proper content drop in Team Fortress 2.

Windows Central

Forget about Steam in the Xbox PC app — I want Game Pass in the app I actually use

The PC Xbox app can now aggregate your game libraries, including Steam. That's great, but Game Pass coming to Steam would be a lot more meaningful.

PC Gamer

Valve announces Team Fortress 2 is getting 'a much-needed update' focused on Mann vs. Machine: 'A chilling cautionary tale where an artificial consciousness tried to take all our jobs'

The king of ancient Greece also turns up at one point.

PC Gamer

Someone at Valve got their unit prefixes a bit muddled but a quick update for the latest Steam beta has fixed your slower-than-normal CPU reading

Mega, mebi, giga, gibi. It's all giving me the heebie-jeebies.

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ROG Xbox Ally X: Everything we know about Microsoft and Asus’ next-gen Windows handheld gaming PC

Xbox's first-party gaming handheld plans are on hold, but we still have an excellent Xbox-branded addition to the handheld gaming PC space to look forward to.

GamesRadar

Valve remains undefeated: Microsoft will seemingly wear Steam like a jacket with new "aggregated gaming library" on Xbox PC app, and "this is just the beginning"

Microsoft's new gaming library will hit the Xbox app for PCs and handheld devices like ROG Xbox Ally later this year

PC Gamer

One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons

TommyB made instructions, firmware, and components all readily available if you want to try this yourself.

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