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Valve’s alteration of how it conducts its Steam Winter Sale appears to have paid off. In short: More customers bought more games across more of the Steam catalog,” was the headline summary of a Valve post that was seemingly mistakenly posted to the Steam VR page, although not before it …
Read More »HTC Vive pre-orders go live in February
One of the big three virtual reality companies has said consumers will be able to pre-order its headset next month. HTC, which has partnered with Steam to make the Vive, will begin accepting pre-orders on February 29th. Oculus Rift made a similar announcement last week, although that was just two …
Read More »Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has left Valve
'I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production,' says co-creator of beloved franchise
Read More »Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture might be launching on Steam
It seems that The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture could be coming to PC. Banner art for the previously PlayStation 4-exclusive has been spotted in Steam’s database, pointing towards the title’s release on that platform. This isn’t the first hint that Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture would be …
Read More »Two hours and counting: How to keep gamers playing (and paying) beyond Steam’s refund barrier
Six months after Steam launched its divisive refund programme, Slitherine’s Olivier Georges examines how developers can overcome the platform’s ‘two-hour frontier’
Read More »PC Rise of the Tomb Raider confirmed for January release
Microsoft has announced that the PC edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider will be hitting Steam and Windows 10 at the end of January. The action adventure title will be coming out on January 28th, according to the publisher. This is in line with what was leaked from Amazon …
Read More »Steam games made over $3.5bn in 2015 – report
Games sold over Steam generated over $3.5bn last year, according to analytics site Steam Spy. The outlet – run by one Sergey Galyonkin – claims that 3,000 new games were released on the platform (up from 1,900 in 2014), and the number of concurrent users reached a whopping 12 million …
Read More »Steam suffered a major Christmas day security hiccup
Valve’s powerhouse PC gaming platform Steam suffered a significant security breach on Christmas day. The company has confirmed that between 19:50 and 21:20 (UK time) on December 25th some users were able to see the personal details of other users’ accounts. During the period, those who browsed pages containing personal …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers: December 13-19
Grand Theft Auto V has taken the top spot on Steam’s latest weekly best-sellers list. The game jumped ahead of Fallout 4 thanks to a feature discount promotion during the period, thus it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see Bethesda’s recent release retake the top spot next time …
Read More »Now French consumer group is taking Valve to court over pre-owned re-sales
First it was Germany and now France is doing its bit to try and force Valve to allow Steam users to re-sell their digital purchases. French consumer association UFC-Que Choisir is unhappy about some of clauses in Steam’s subscriber agreement, as translated by Reddit. As with the German case, UFC …
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