Steam articles

SteamOS 3.8.25 beta expands controller and handheld support

GeForce Now exploit unlocks full Windows desktop access

Valve publicly releases Lepton and FEX compatibility tools to power Steam Frame gaming

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is getting a rare full physical release on PC

007 First Light removes Denuvo DRM just two months after launch

Steam Deck price hike has completely destroyed sales, new data suggests

Palworld's 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players

FBI arrests 21-year-old accused of infecting 8,000 PCs with malware through fake Steam games

This PC gamer turned old SSDs into gorgeous cartridges for Steam games

Steam just made $11 billion in the last 6 months, and most of it came from older games

Bottom line: Steam just posted its strongest half-year ever. In the first six months of 2026, it's estimated that games sold through the platform generated $11.1 billion in gross revenue, a record haul for the PC storefront. That figure is close to what Steam generated across all of 2021, a year boosted by pandemic lockdowns – also only 21% of that revenue comes from games released in 2026. The rest came from older titles in Steam's back catalog.

EA's College Football 27 is getting review-bombed over hidden single-player microtransactions

Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there

An indie developer says Steam's refund policy cost his well-reviewed game 55,000 refunds

Steam Machine owner reports a "Red Line of Death" days after launch, but it fixed itself

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.