The discontinued Steam Controller may be getting a sequel. Valve is reportedly mass-producing a successor alongside a mysterious VR controller.
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Alongside anniversary festivities, Half-Life 2's concurrent player numbers have exploded over the weekend on Steam, 20 years after the iconic game's launch.
Just as Half-Life 2 turns 20, Valve has released a massive update that combines the base game and all episodes, while also adding cut content, Workshop support, developer commentary and more features.
Valve is rolling out a new update for the Steam Link app that brings multiple new enhancements for Android TV.
Valve has just announced a brand-new Steam Deck OLED variant that takes up a white profile, and with a higher price-tag. Not many of them are being produced by the company though.
Valve's new Steam Game Recording suit of features is now available for everyone, letting players record, replay, edit, and share their gaming clips with ease right from Steam.
Windows 11 is becoming more popular not only among regular consumers but also among gamers, with the OS holding nearly 52% on Steam.
Any existing or upcoming Steam game with a kernel mode anti-cheat is now required by Valve to disclose it on the store page in a new section.
Valve's latest edition of the Steam Halloween Sale is now available, hosting discounts for everything spooky, and many that are not spooky, on its PC games storefront.
Valve has launched the latest edition of its Steam Next Fest event. It lets Steam PC players check out lots of free demos of upcoming games until October 21.
Valve has announced a new collaboration with Arch Linux. The company will financially support work on critical projects such as a build service and secure signing system.
Valve has made it so that Deadlock cheaters can be turned into frogs before they are banned. This is done via a public vote during matches.
There is evidence that Valve is working on a version of Steam that will run on Windows 11 with Arm-based processors.
Valve's Steam PC game store and service blew away its concurrent player record once again today, with over 38 million players online for the first time.
The latest game category sale event from Valve's Steam service is the Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Fest. It runs through 1 pm Eastern time on Sept. 23.
Steam reached another concurrent online player high record earlier today, with  37,789,483 gamers online at once.
The Steam Families feature suite has officially left beta testing. The update overhauls Steam Family Sharing and Parental Controls of the PC gaming client.
The Crew 2, the open-world racing game from Ubisoft that launched in 2018, is currently the fifth best-selling game on Steam because of its $1 sale promotion.
Officially, Valve's Steam PC game service had 37,609,063 concurrent players online earlier today, reaching yet another record.
The original Risk of Rain studio Hopoo Games has revealed that its team is now officially developing games with Half-Life and Portal maker Valve.
Valve's Steam has started another one of its niche game sales events, the Space Exploration Fest. From now until Sept. 9, you can save on many space-themed games.
Deadlock, Valve's next game, is still invite-only, but over 100,000 concurrent players were online playing the game this week.
Valve's numbers show that Steam reached a peak of 37,266,405 concurrent players yesterday. This beats the previous record of 36,928,521 players set in mid-June 2024.
Valve has finally posted a page on its Steam website for Deadlock, a game that already has many players testing it out online.
Valve announced yet another update for the review section on Steam. The platform has made it easier to spot game reviews from Steam Deck owners.
Black Myth: Wukong, the newly launched fantasy action RPG from developer Game Science, has already set a record with the most concurrent players online for a single-player game ever on Steam.
Valve has released official drivers for the Steam Deck OLED, allowing users to swap the original operating system with Windows if that is something they want to try on their handheld consoles.
Steam reviews have been hit with a heavy change, with Valve now prioritizing showing useful reviews over those with memes, jokes, or things like ASCII art. The change is now live on all store pages.
Valve has confirmed that it is working on bringing SteamOS support to rival handheld devices like the ROG Ally. Dual booting into Windows on the Steam Deck is still far away, though.
Deadlock, a hero shooter game from Valve that the developer has not officially announced yet, still had close to 17,000 concurrent players on Steam this weekend, according to the SteamDB site.
A well-known Valve data miner claims that he has found evidence that Valve has been developing the long-awaited Half-Life 3 after a voice actor seemed to hint at the game in a recent resume.
Valve has published the latest results of its monthly Software & Hardware Survey. According to the findings, Windows 11's market share dropped a bit in July 2024, going below the 46% mark.
Valve's Steam service has launched its latest niche PC game sales event. This time it's Tower Defense Fest and you can save big on games in that genre on Steam from now until August 5/
Valve has delivered a major update to the game demos that Steam offers to PC gamers. It lets developers set up game demos with complete store pages, user reviews, and more features.
Some documents in a court case involving a lawsuit against Valve have revealed some financial data for the private company, including its number of employees and the gross pay up until 2021.
While Windows 11 has an overall much smaller market share than Windows 10, on the gaming side, things are going better. Valve reports that Windows 11 is very close to overtaking Windows 10 on Steam.
Valve's Steam gaming platform has reached a new concurrent player peak. Earlier today, the service had over 36,900,000 players at once, beating the old record that was set in March 2024
The Steam Summer Sale of 2024 is finally here, and it is featuring discounts for almost everything on the PC games store. Even a special "Deep Discounts" section promotes 95% off games.
Valve has announced that 15 percent of gamers on Steam use controllers daily. While that's still a small percentage of Steam gamers, that's up from around 5 percent of gamers in 2018.
The Game Recording feature on Steam lets players capture footage in the background with minimal performance loss when using AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. There are built-in editing tools too.
