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Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens
6 Jan 2026 at 8:13 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Johnologue
Quoting: zerodoggthe "denuvo watch" curator
Sounds useful, I'm looking for that now!
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch [External Link]

Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out.
I like/use both. This particular use of "AI" doesn't bother me much, although I agree with many of the arguments against it in general. In a similar vein, I hate that so much bot traffic makes the web worse for us humans, but I like being able to use bots that pull ProtonDB info or show where the cheapest price is into the Steam page for me.

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
23 Dec 2025 at 7:02 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShmerlA better question is how old hardware has to be (x86) to be 32-bit only. AMD stopped making 32-bit processors by early 2000s and Intel shortly after.
Intel dragged things out a bit with Celeron, and then Atom. Killing off IA64 in favor of AMD64 was probably a tough pill to swallow for some over there. 😆

Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting
19 Dec 2025 at 8:21 am UTC

I'd been tempted when it was on sale on Fanatical recently, so I couldn't resist Dead Island 2 Ultimate for $7.

Zombie horde shooter World War Z is getting a big The Walking Dead DLC
18 Dec 2025 at 5:42 pm UTC

I assume the first video on the Steam page is the same as the YouTube trailer; YouTube seems to be actively hostile to non-Chrome browsers yet again.

Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered
13 Dec 2025 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 1

I don't know when they started doing projects like this.
It's been a decade of it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/312840/Fahrenheit_Indigo_Prophecy_Remastered/ [External Link]

Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
10 Dec 2025 at 7:47 am UTC Likes: 1

To add another wrinkle - how about a Flatpak that manages AppImages? :grin:
https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever [External Link]

HELLDIVERS 2 file-size on Steam gets massively reduced
4 Dec 2025 at 8:13 am UTC

Once games didn't need to come on disks developers basically stopped caring.
In the days of games that spanned multiple CDs, like Tex Murphy for example, they would duplicate some assets so that you wouldn't have to change discs as often. There was a tangible benefit to that. Duplicating GBs of data on a HDD to reduce seeking sounds pretty asinine; who benchmarked an improvement when doing that, and how long ago?

There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam
4 Dec 2025 at 8:00 am UTC Likes: 2

Millennium + Extendium looks very enticing, for adding SteamDB, Augmented Steam, and ProtonDB Peek functionality into the Steam client. Does anyone have experience (positive or negative) they can share? I don't want to break Steam. :grin: