Category: Steam

Economy simulation and city management may not be the first thing most people think of when they think about video games. But it is one of the most longstanding genres in gaming, going all the way back to the 1980's.

Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.

Valve have finally done it, they've actually gone and made Boomer Shooter an official category on Steam. Since there's quite a lot of them now, and more releasing every day, it makes a lot of sense.

Yesterday, January 7th, Steam hit a new all-time record for concurrent users online showing that nothing can stop Valve's growth here thanks to the popularity of video games.

One missed from yesterday Friday, January 5th is that Valve released another Preview update of SteamOS for Steam Deck with a couple more useful changes.

Portal: Revolution is a new fan-made campaign for Valve's popular puzzle game Portal 2, and it's now available free on Steam for owners of the game to install and play through.

Here's an up to date look at the current state of the most played games on Steam, and how many of they run on Steam Deck and Linux as a whole. 

You'll be forgiven for forgetting about the supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM, a game that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter way back in February of 2013 but it's really actually getting close to release now.

Not too long after hitting 12,000 games, the Steam Deck now officially has over 13,000 games rated either Verified or Playable. There must be a little something for every type of gamer now right? My backlog is terrifying.

With Steamboat Willie now being in the public domain, no doubt we're about to see a lot more of it. One of the first is Victorian Clambake's game The Caribbean Sail which added Steamboat Willie as a playable character.

Early last month Valve put up a Release Candidate for the next version of Proton, which it seems went completely under the radar. Due to this they've not had much feedback for Proton 8.0-5 so time to get testing.

Ocean adventure game Sail Forth from Festive Vector and The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild released back in December 2022, and it just got a big free upgrade with more to come.

MystiveDev emailed in about Chasmal Fear, an upcoming horror shooter you play as if you're viewing it from a bodycam set in an underwater facility.

Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.

Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.

Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.

Hopefully, like me, you’ll have booked a bit of time off around the festive period. And coincidentally, Valve’s Winter Steam Sale kicked off just a couple of days before Christmas. Since so many of us and our friends are off, this marks the perfect time of year to dip your toe into the wonderful world of co-operative games.

It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.

Need a new puzzle game to add to your collection? Good news for you, as The Talos Principle 2 has now been bumped up to Steam Deck Verified status after testing from Valve.

Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.