Steam articles

SteamOS 3.8.10 is Valve's biggest step yet toward taking on Windows

Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware

Forward-looking: Valve's Steam Machine signals the company's willingness to push Steam beyond software and into a proper hardware platform. But hardware is only half the story. Alongside gaming devices, Valve has been quietly laying the groundwork for something potentially more significant: a version of SteamOS that runs on just about any PC you care to throw at it.

Cybercriminals have been distributing malware via Steam for a year, tens of thousands affected

Valve says physical Steam Gift Cards are being discontinued after years of scams

Valve confirms Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still shipping this summer

Gabe Newell says Steam doesn't pressure developers on pricing, emails suggest otherwise

Forza Horizon 6 leaks online a week before launch, Microsoft starts banning players

Oops: The sixth game in the popular Forza Horizon racing series has leaked online more than a week before its official launch date. The racer is due out on May 19 for the general public and May 15 for buyers of the premium edition but according to reports, the game has been cracked and is readily available online for PC if you know where to look.

Steam Controller sells out in 30 minutes as scalpers push prices to $300

Winners & losers: The Steam Controller is here! Well, it was here for a whole 30 minutes before it sold out. Predictably, the $99 device has already been grabbed by a slew of scalpers who are charging around $300, and sometimes more, for one on eBay.

Portal 2: Community Edition enters open beta with enhanced graphics, larger maps, and new modding tools

The big picture: Portal 2, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, continues to receive mods, but its implementation of Valve's Source engine is showing its age. To address that, modders have spent the past several years building a new version of the game, with Valve's blessing, that enables enhanced graphics, larger maps, and more complex fan-made campaigns.

A four-day Steam freebie turned into $250,000 for an indie game

The takeaway: A recent free-game promotion on Steam is drawing attention to how giving away a title can still generate substantial revenue when there is a clear path to selling additional content. A four-day free giveaway of Graveyard Keeper, a title published by tinyBuild, generated roughly $250,000 in revenue, according to CEO Alex Nichiporchik. Most of that money came afterward, as new players who claimed the free copy went on to purchase downloadable content for the game.

Steam might soon display 30-day price history for game deals

AI is now taking over game servers, and Stormgate is the first casualty

Facepalm: Multiplayer servers for the real-time strategy game Stormgate will go offline at the end of the month after the infrastructure provider that hosts them was acquired by an AI company and began winding down its gaming services. The shutdown shows how AI infrastructure expansion is now affecting not just PC hardware supply, but also the backend services that many modern games rely on.

Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data

The takeaway: Valve appears to be preparing a new feature that could make one of PC gaming's biggest uncertainties – performance – more transparent. Newly uncovered code in the Steam client suggests players may soon see estimated frame rate data for each game derived from real-world gameplay metrics shared by other users.

Crimson Desert hits 4 million sales despite rocky launch

SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine and other non-Valve hardware

Death Stranding 2 leaks early as unencrypted Steam build spreads online

Downloaded a malware-infected Steam game? The FBI wants to hear from you

Game devs cash in: Nearly 6,000 Steam games earned over $100,000 last year

Valve details performance targets for Steam Machine and Steam Frame

Steam delivered 100 exabytes of data last year, about 274 petabytes per day

Valve insists Steam Machine launch is still on track for this year

Capcom's PC sales hit a record 50%, fueled by Steam's global reach

Steam will soon let users add hardware specs and performance data to reviews

Minecraft clone Allumeria was kicked off Steam after an AI bot filed a copyright claim