Steam articles

Too many games, not enough players: the industry's growing challenge

The takeaway: New technology and democratized development tools have supercharged the way games are created and sold. The result? An explosion of creativity like never before. But there's a catch: a marketplace so overcrowded that even the best games struggle to be seen. For players, this is a golden era. For developers and publishers, it's an escalating arms race where only a few titles manage to break through.

Steam beta helps players prep for games requiring Secure Boot or TPM

Steam user becomes first person to own 40,000 games on the platform

Secret Service investigating Steam account linked to suspected Charlie Kirk shooter

Borderlands 4 launches to 'Mixed' Steam rating due to performance issues and bugs

Big Steam update enables custom sorting, CPU temp monitoring, and much more

In a nutshell: The September 9 Steam client update is one of the largest in recent memory. It introduces dozens of bug fixes and several new features meant to improve the user interface, controller inputs, and performance monitoring. One notable addition is CPU temperature monitoring – but enabling it requires users to decide whether they trust Valve with access to the Windows kernel.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's launch crashed Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo stores

Valve files "Steam Frame" trademarks – Fremont console, new VR headset, or something else?

August Steam survey: AMD loses CPU ground to Intel, top GPU changes again

Valve's Fremont SteamOS console surfaces with six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

Highly anticipated: Valve's long-rumored return to the living room is starting to look real. A new Steam Machine – like device, codenamed Fremont, has surfaced on Geekbench, hinting at a serious play for the console space. Powered by a custom AMD APU with six Zen 4 cores and a Radeon RX 7600 GPU, it suggests Valve may not just be experimenting this time, but it may be gearing up to compete head-on with traditional consoles.

Valve pulls GPU monitoring tool from Steam after claiming it's more accurate than Windows Task Manager

Indie studio urges fans to pirate game rather than play Roblox imitation

Battlefield 6 beta peaks at 326K players, now Steam's 39th most-played game ever

July Steam Survey: RTX 5000 surge, new top GPU, 4 in 10 participants using AMD CPUs

What just happened? Here's a clear indication that the supply and pricing problems which have plagued Nvidia's RTX 5000 series are easing: the cards experienced a large uptick in user share in the latest Steam survey. However, there's still no sign of AMD's 9000-series in the main GPU chart, where the RX 7600 XT has only just appeared. Elsewhere, we've got a new most-popular card among participants, and AMD processors have passed a milestone.

Sony ad reveals plan to bring PlayStation titles to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC

Steam beta update rolls out redesigned store, makes game discovery easier

Steam and AAA games now run on RISC-V thanks to emulator breakthrough

Gabe Newell says he works for fun and scuba dives daily in surprise YouTube interview

Stardew Valley is now the highest-rated game on Steam

Why it matters: As a foundational title in the "cozy game" subgenre, Stardew Valley has remained one of the most successful indie games for much of the past decade. With Steam player counts higher than ever over the past year, Eric Barone's pixel art farming simulator now also holds the highest user rating on the platform.

Analyst reveals why most Steam gamers leave half their libraries unplayed

Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation

Steam survey's top graphics card changes again as four RTX 5000 GPUs enter chart

New Steam in-game performance overlay breaks down actual FPS and generated frames

The Alters developer forgot to alter its AI text before launch, studio responds after fan backlash

Scammers are stealing indie games and selling them on Steam