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Valve brings back game streaming with Steam Link Anywhere

As the dream of cloud-based gaming comes closer to being a reality, Valve has gained new enthusiasm for the idea of players accessing their bountiful Steam libraries while being away from their PC’s. While the company swiftly killed off production of the original Steam Link box and controller in November of 2018, they have been working in secret on a software approach towards the same concept in the form of Steam Link Anywhere. Continue reading Valve brings back game streaming with Steam Link Anywhere

PC gamers report that Epic launcher collects their Steam friends & play history, Epic Games responds

A few hours ago, Resetera’s member ‘Madjoki’ discovered that Epic Launcher collecting players’ Steam friends and play history. Going into more details, Madjoki found out that Epic Games Launcher on start up searches for Steam install and proceeds to get list of files in your Steam Cloud. This also includes game saves for every user that has logged in on your PC. Continue reading PC gamers report that Epic launcher collects their Steam friends & play history, Epic Games responds

Steam announces its best new, top selling and most played games of 2018

Valve has revealed the best new, top selling and most played games of 2018 on Steam. Valve categorized the top selling winners into four groups: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Top New Releases are arranged by month and Most Played games are categorized into four groups: over 15K, 25K, 50K, and 100K simultaneous players. Continue reading Steam announces its best new, top selling and most played games of 2018

New Steam Play allows Linux gamers to play Windows titles via Proton and the Vulkan API

Valve has released a new and improved beta version of Steam Play that allows Linux gamers to play Windows titles. In order to achieve this, Steam Play includes a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton, to provide compatibility with Windows game titles and uses the Vulkan API. Continue reading New Steam Play allows Linux gamers to play Windows titles via Proton and the Vulkan API

Here are the top 100 games with the highest amount of players on Steam right now

It appears that Valve has leaked the total number of players for almost every game that is currently available on Steam right now. A recently discovered hole in Valve’s API allowed gamers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for Steam games that featured Achievements. Continue reading Here are the top 100 games with the highest amount of players on Steam right now

Netherlands Loot Box Ban Affects CS:GO and DOTA 2 Players

I think many might have seen this one coming. On the 19th of June, Valve issued a statement to all Counter Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2 players in the Netherlands that they will no longer be able to purchase online loot boxes since it is now officially against a ruling issued by the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit (translates as Gaming Authority). Continue reading Netherlands Loot Box Ban Affects CS:GO and DOTA 2 Players

Steam will end official Windows XP and Windows Vista support on January 1st, 2019

Valve has announced that Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems on January 1st, 2019. What this basically means is that the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows after that date and as such you won’t have access to your older games that could – theoretically – still run on these operating systems. Continue reading Steam will end official Windows XP and Windows Vista support on January 1st, 2019

Valve opens up its Steam gates to all developers, will only ban “illegal” or “trolling” games

Valve has just announced that it will open up its Steam store to all developers. The company will no longer police its content, meaning that it will welcome all sorts of games to its library, unless they are illegal or trolling games. Continue reading Valve opens up its Steam gates to all developers, will only ban “illegal” or “trolling” games