Steam News

I had intended never to write again about batches of games getting the go-ahead on Steam Greenlight, now the initial excitement has worn off and Valve is still dragging its feet on fixing its problems, but oh, the latest load includes Divekick and the PC edition of Deadly Pr...

Valve's Tom Bui explained the shortcomings of its Steam Greenlight program, and said it is actively working to fix them by making the processes more automated.

Steam has kicked off its "Summer Getaway" sale, offering a slew of games and new sets of trading cards.

Raising $3.4 million may have been far beyond Broken Age's crowdfunding goal of $400,000, but Tim Schafer has said that "didn't stop me from getting excited and designing a game so big that it would need even more money." Facing running out of cash to make the adventure game...

As lovely as Steam is, it's a shame that many people refuse to buy games not on Valve's store when indie developers need to jump through hoops to get on there. Another eight games have manager to clear the Greenlight process and secure a Steam release, including Guncraft, Co...

Valve announced today that the Steam Trading Cards system will be coming out of beta this Wednesday, with a large new batch of cards.

Lines of code in the latest Steam beta seem to indicate plans to let you share games with other users.

We described Skulls of the Shogun as "a deceptively brilliant strategy game" in our review but you probably never found that out for yourself, as the PC edition launched exclusive to Windows 8. Good news! That's apparently over, as developer 17-Bit Studios has announced it's...

If you're not a PC gamer of advanced years, the fuss about the new Shadow Warrior may be a mystery to you. To get newcomers all jazzed up about it and, ah, motivated by an unfortunate security hole, publisher Devolver Digital is giving away 3D Realms' original 1997 FPS for f...

Team Fortress 2's "Robotic Boogaloo" is the first update made entirely by the fan community. It features 57 new items including mechanical hats, a new comic, and a short.

Valve has launched "Steam Trading Cards" in beta, a meta-game that nets you with upgrades to your Steam profile as rewards.

Valve hosted an online get-together to talk with indie developers about Steam Greenlight, and was met with some outspoken critics who claim it's not visible enough and has been bleeding users.

Valve has hired on an experimental psychologist who has been working on biometric feedback tests to influence gameplay.

Valve has offered a treat to Linux users with the release of a Left 4 Dead 2 beta. Portal for Linux is also available, but Valve has been a bit more mum on that release. If you own any of those three games, the betas should appear in your Steam library.

Flip 'em up Pinball FX2 is kind-of sort-of on Windows already-ish, but exclusive to the Windows 8 marketplace so does it really count? Thankfully It'll finally score a multiwindows powerup on Friday, May 10, with a downloadable release through Steam.