No Man’s Sky has been in a great position over the last couple of years. While the game initially disappointed at launch, Hello Games has been hard at work on several big feature updates since then. This year, No Man’s Sky Next launched, bringing in huge overhauls, adding proper multiplayer …
Read More »There are just two days left to transfer your Destiny 2 content to Steam, F2P content detailed
Back in June, Bungie made several huge announcements for Destiny 2. For starters, the game is leaving Battle.net behind and relaunching on Steam. The base game and Year 1 DLC content are also being packaged together and put out as the free to play ‘Destiny 2: New Light'. There is …
Read More »Shenmue 3 Kickstarter backers can still request a Steam key but getting one isn’t guaranteed
Shenmue 3 caused some controversy earlier this year after moving away from Steam and opting to launch as an Epic Games Store exclusive. This can be easier to accept when fans haven't put money towards a game yet, but in the case of Shenmue 3, the game was heavily crowdfunded, …
Read More »Divinity Original Sin 2 has cross-save between Steam and Nintendo Switch
Divinity Original Sin 2 is one of the best RPGs of the generation, with Larian taking what was learned from the first game and improving in almost all areas. Recently, the game made its way over to the Nintendo Switch, granting the ability to take the game with you on …
Read More »Valve will appeal ruling on pre-owned Steam game sales
Yesterday, we learned that a French judge had ruled that Valve is not allowed to prohibit users from re-selling their digital games, ordering that the clause be removed from the Steam policy and terms of service. Valve hadn't responded at the time, but the company has since confirmed its intent …
Read More »French judge reportedly orders Valve to not prohibit re-selling of digital games on Steam
A French Court has ruled that Valve must not prohibit Steam customers from re-selling digital games, but is a pre-owned market for digital games feasible in today's industry? What would this mean for other digital platforms and digital entertainment mediums?
Read More »Rockstar is the latest studio to release its own game launcher
Over the years, we have seen a number of publishers/developers break away from Steam in order to set up their own game launchers and sell games directly to customers. In the case of EA, all games are only available through Origin on PC, while others like Ubisoft and Bethesda are …
Read More »Steam’s long awaited library overhaul is now live
For years, we have been hearing that a group at Valve has been working on revamping the Steam interface. Last year, some progress was finally made with an all new chat system. Now this week, the beta version of the new Steam Library page has begun rolling out. The Steam …
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Read More »Steam library overhaul is coming this month
We’ve known for a while now that Valve has been working on a UI overhaul for Steam. We saw the first part of this in last year’s Steam Chat update and next, the Steam library will be getting an overhaul. We had a preview of these changes earlier this year …
Read More »Spyro Reignited Trilogy finally lands on PC and Switch
Back when the Spyro Reignited Trilogy was announced for Xbox One and PS4, a mistake on the game's website led us to believe that the game would also be coming to PC and Nintendo Switch. Months past with no official announcements but now, the remastered Spyro games have officially landed …
Read More »CS:GO skin scammers are now targeting Steam review sections
Over the years, Valve has opened up the Steam platform a ton, adding lots of features and making it easy participate in the Steam community via the Workshop, Marketplace, Reviews and groups. Unfortunately, this also opens up the door for scammers attempting to take advantage, with CS:GO skin scammers making …
Read More »Win a PC game of your choice this weekend! (Closed)
Update: This competition is now CLOSED. Our winners this time are Matthew Soule on Facebook and JedixJarf over on our Discord server. Both winners have been contacted and will get their games very soon. If you missed out this time, then keep an eye out as we'll be running another …
Read More »Valve to fight EU antitrust charges while other publishers settle
Back in April, we learned that the European Commission was investigating major game publishers and platform holders over content geo-blocking. Valve/Steam, Capcom, ZeniMax, Koch Media, Bandai Namco and Focus Home Interactive were all named as part of the antitrust investigation. Most of the publishers plan to settle in an effort …
Read More »Ubisoft executive says Steam’s business model is ‘unrealistic’ now
Earlier this year, we saw Ubisoft begin transitioning away from supporting Steam and instead focusing its efforts on uPlay and the Epic Games Store. Since then, an executive at the publisher has spoken out against Valve's business model, bringing back criticism against the Steam revenue cut. Speaking with The New …
Read More »Ashen is the next game to be coming to Steam after Epic Games exclusivity
Last week, we learned that Supergiant's new game, Hades, would finally be heading to Steam following a period of Epic Games Store exclusivity. Now, another game is joining the ranks of former exclusives, with 2018's ‘Ashen' heading to both Steam and GOG this year. The choice to turn Ashen into …
Read More »The best universal game launchers to unify your PC games collection
Sick of having to open a ton of launchers to access all of your PC games? Here are some handy universal game launcher alternatives to re-unify your library.
Read More »Supergiant’s Hades is coming to Steam this year
Supergiant has made some excellent indie games over the years, from Bastion in 2011 to Pyre in 2017. Last year, the team launched a brand new project into early access called ‘Hades’, which many of you might remember as the very first Epic Games Store exclusive. That exclusivity is coming …
Read More »Destiny 2 PC owners can now transfer their accounts over to Steam
Back in June, Bungie made several huge announcements for Destiny 2. Not only are we getting a new expansion, but cross-save is being implemented across all platforms, the base game is going free to play and Destiny 2 will officially be moving over to Steam. This does mean that once …
Read More »Age of Empires 1 & 2 Definitive Edition are coming to Steam and Game Pass
Back at E3, Microsoft announced that Age of Empires II Definitive Edition would be releasing this year, across Steam and Xbox Game Pass for PC. We've been patiently waiting for more news since then and last night during the kick-off to Gamescom, we got a proper release date, alongside the …
Read More »Valve cracks down on Steam Workshop skin scams
Last week, we learned that Valve was making changes to Steam in an effort to crack down on developers abusing the store’s ‘upcoming releases’ list. Now this week, the Steam team’s attention is turning towards the community workshop, where CS:GO, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 items will now need …
Read More »Developers now need Valve’s approval before changing release dates on Steam
Over the years, Valve has made attempts to be more developer friendly by making it easier to get onto the Steam Store and giving developers more control over their store pages, sales discounts, community pages and other aspects. Unfortunately, sometimes these systems are abused, most notably, Steam's front page ‘upcoming …
Read More »Valve launches ‘Steam Labs’ to openly share experimental features with Steam users
micro-trailers, an automatically generated daily games show and a new recommendation system are amongst the first experiments.
Read More »Steam Summer Sale ends in a few hours so use up your remaining Grand Prix tokens
The Steam Summer Sale is coming to an end today but if there is anything you still want to pick up, then you still have a few hours left to do it. More importantly, you should double check your Steam Grand Prix event tokens, as you can use them to …
Read More »Steam will ‘likely be able to continue’ to officially support Ubuntu
Earlier this week, Valve raised concerns around Ubuntu and Canonical’s plan to remove 32-bit software support. Valve said that it would need to drop support for the popular Linux distro if this happened and would need to begin recommending something else for users. Since then, Canonical has said that it …
Read More »The Steam Summer Sale is now live
Just as previously leaked, the Steam Summer Sale has officially gone live today. As is the case during the sale season, the Steam servers are currently under heavy load and are being somewhat unstable for now. If you do manage to get it to load though, then you will be …
Read More »Valve is looking for a new Linux distro to support as Ubuntu plans to drop 32-bit
For a long time now, Valve has been a bastion for PC gaming on Linux. While news on SteamOS seems to have slowed down to a crawl, in the last year Valve has released Proton, a compatibility tool that allows thousands of games to run on Linux without official support …
Read More »Valve officially launches Dota Underlords in open beta across PC, iOS and Android
After just a few months of work and a short amount of time in closed beta, Valve has officially begun rolling out Dota Underlords for anyone to play. Not only is the game already available to play for free on PC, Mac and Linux, but the mobile versions have also …
Read More »SEGA still owns Alpha Protocol IP but music rights expired
Yesterday we learned that Sega had pulled Obsidian’s cult classic espionage RPG, Alpha Protocol, from sale on Steam. This was a surprise move that came without warning. At the time, a Sega spokesperson said that this was due to the company’s publishing rights expiring but it turns out that they …
Read More »Sega has pulled Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol from Steam
Alpha Protocol isn’t brought up nearly as often as some of Obsidian’s other RPGs but the game has gone on to become something of a cult classic in the years following its 2010 release. Unfortunately, it looks like digital availability of the game is in flux right now, as SEGA …
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