Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Valve

Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"

Goode werk, Palworld

GamesRadar

Microsoft Re-joins Handheld Gaming Fight Against Nintendo's Switch

The record launch in June for the Nintendo Switch 2, a game console that can be played at home or on the go, heralds a new portable race that Microsoft aims to win with a handheld version of its Xbox.

International Business Times

The ROG Xbox Ally borrows a heck of a lot from the Steam Deck, proving that the old gated console concept is a thing of the past

It's not just the Xbox UI on a handheld.

PC Gamer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED — device powered by six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11

The device is claimed to be an upcoming living room PC with a custom AMD CPU and Radeon RX 7600 graphics.

PC Gamer

Xbox has revealed a new Handheld Compatibility Program along with the Xbox Ally X release date — it could fix what Steam Deck still gets wrong

During Gamescom 2025, Xbox revealed a new Handheld Compatibility Program for its Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. It's potentially a more robust system than Steam Deck verification.

Windows Central

The Lossless Scaling plugin is the best thing that could happen for SteamOS handhelds, and performance results prove it

There's more proof that Valve's SteamOS is the go-to for handheld gamers, with performance results from the new Decky Loader plugin on the Lenovo Legion Go S.

TechRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Deadlock is drip-feeding 6 new heroes over the next couple of weeks, and is letting players decide which ones drop first

Alongside some major visual overhauls.

PC Gamer

New Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game

Meet Mina, a "glass canon" vampire

GamesRadar

Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats

Amid an army of rivals, is the Steam Deck OLED still worth picking up? I'd argue yes, with caveats.

Tom’s Guide

Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean

Gabe Newell's Inkfish has added the RV6000 to its fleet

GamesRadar

Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

The new system, enabled by default, generates review scores based on your specific language, rather than all of them.

PC Gamer

Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs

"Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us"

GamesRadar

Steam's new Performance Overlay is more accurate than Task Manager, says Valve — GPU utilization monitoring comes directly to Steam in latest client beta

Valve’s Steam Beta is testing an overlay that tracks GPU usage more accurately than Windows Task Manager, including multi-process games. Early rollout is inconsistent, but once stable, it could give gamers real-time, reliable performance stats without extra apps, rivaling tools like MSI Afterburner.

Tom’s Hardware

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe

Mmm, sweet accuracy.

PC Gamer

Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs

I don't know if the new Steam layout will save lives, but I think it looks better.

Windows Central

Gaming handhelds are the new netbooks — will they suffer the same tragic fate?

It's easy to draw similarities between the rise of netbooks in the late '00s and gaming handhelds today. Will they meet the same end, or will gaming handhelds hold on?

Destructoid

I can’t believe this abandoned Valve game still has players and is fun 4 years later

I'd rather say the game is "stable."

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tom’s Hardware

Steam games no longer purchasable with PayPal in most countries — Valve offers no timeline for a potential fix

Millions of Steam users worldwide can no longer use PayPal for purchases in most currencies, leaving affected regions to rely on alternative methods or Steam Wallet codes. Valve cites a bank decision behind the disruption but gives no clear timeline for restoring support, impacting global gamers.

GamesRadar

I turned a Rockstar PS2 classic into a cozy game and it proved that the Steam Deck's greatest strength is in being the anti-Switch 2

Now Playing | Why would I play new games on a Switch 2 when I can play old ones on my Steam Deck?

GamesRadar

Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues

"We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain"

PC Gamer

Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

The problem first came to light about a month ago, but Valve has only now offered an explanation.

PC Gamer

Team Fortress 2 player cooks themselves by destroying a Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800—for the second time

There are only a few hundred in existence, and now one less.

Windows Central

“The Timeline Is Uncertain” — Steam and PayPal Divorce, and Valve Says It’s All About Money

PayPal abruptly dropped support for certain currencies on Steam in July 2025, and Valve has now added a new disclaimer to the checkout page explaining the situation.

International Business Times UK

Amid Mastercard-Visa Censorship Fiasco, Trump Hits Back at Financial Giants Over 'Unlawful Banking'

President Trump's Executive Order on Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans seeks to stop banks from denying services based on political, religious, or lawful business activities.

1 … 6 7 8 9

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.