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This week, AMD has announced that it is teaming up with Valve to bring support for AMD's TrueAudio Next technology to Steam in an effort to improve audio in virtual reality content. By baking TrueAudio Next in with Steam Audio, virtual reality titles will get increased acoustic complexity and detail, …

The Forest, one of the earliest Steam Early Access games to reach prominence, is finally getting its full release this year. After four years in open development on Steam, the team behind The Forest will be launching version 1.0 in April. In an announcement this week, studio Endlight Games announced …

Way back in August 2014, prior to Steam's refund system coming into place, the Australian Consumer Rights Commission began investigating Valve over its Steam consumer policies. It took a few years, but eventually the ACCC convinced an Australian court to fine Valve $3 million for violating Australia's consumer laws surrounding …

If you are holding off on buying any games and saving your cash for the next Steam Sale, then we have good news for you. Today, someone leaked the sale dates for Steam’s ‘Lunar New Year' event. Over the last few years, Valve has made it easier than ever for …

If you are in need of a new game to jazz up your weekend, then we have the competition for you. For the next 24 hours, we are running a caption contest, the winner of which will receive a STEAM game of their choice. It's open WORLDWIDE and we'll pick a winner tomorrow afternoon!

While other online game distributors like GOG, Humble Bundle and first-party Publisher stores exist, Steam has long dominated video game sales on the PC platform. Enter Robot Cache, a new store front that aims to offer some big changes to the scene, allowing players to sell their digital games. Robot …

Final Fantasy XV is finally coming to PC in just a few short months. The game was announced for Steam at Gamescom last year with a Q1 release date but now we have an exact launch date, alongside system specifications to run the game at 4K. There are even some …

Over the course of 2017, Facebook cut the price of the Oculus Rift down again and again, closing the year out with a £350 holiday sale for the HMD and Touch controllers. Back in November, we learned that these sales brought Rift and Vive usage up to very similar levels …

Steam is essentially the home of PC gaming at this point, so if you want to see what games did well this year, then there is no better place than Steam's top seller list. This week, Valve published its list of the top 100 selling games on Steam over the …

While it might not hit the insane numbers that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has, Rainbow Six Siege's 25 million+ total players is a far cry from the games initial branding as a failure. Since its Operation White Noise update, it seems Ubisoft continues to top records as Siege has surpassed 100,000 concurrent …

Back in October, Valve revealed its plans to let developers send their games directly to Steam Curators. Dubbed Steam's Curator Connect, the process has been in beta for the past few weeks before Valve surprisingly released the platform today. As the backend is only available for Steam developers to view, …

Due to the fanfare surrounding digital currencies last year, Steam began accepting Bitcoin as an official method of payment for its games and services. Since then, the Bitcoin network has been charging more for transaction fees despite rapid changes in its valuation, causing Valve’s gaming platform to drop the method …

Last night, Valve kicked off its Steam Autumn Sale and so far, there are some excellent deals to be had on many PC games. There are even a few surprisingly high discounts for recently released titles, like Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Middle Earth: Shadow of War. For starters, …

Valve has been tinkering with the Steam Store page regularly throughout the course of 2017. Previously, Valve has made changes to how Steam Reviews work but after some reflecting, the team has decided to make some additional improvements to make user reviews more helpful. Up until now, Steam's most helpful …

Back in August, when Microsoft first began rolling out its wave of Windows 10 Mixed Reality headsets, the company confirmed that it would be working to enable SteamVR support. With SteamVR enabled, these headsets will get access to a broad range of games and apps currently available to HTC VIVE …

Back in September, following on from the Oculus Rift's summer sale price cut, we noticed that the headset had received a big boost in users on Steam thanks to the monthly Steam Hardware Survey. Now, the Rift price cut has been made permanent, and the headset's share of the Steam …

Valve has been working on making big changes to Steam throughout 2017, with the goal of squashing asset flippers, making recommendations more useful and giving more options to curators. Yesterday, the company announced another big change making its way down the pipeline, allowing developers to send Steam games directly to …

If you are holding off on buying any games and saving your cash for the Winter Steam Sales, then we have good news for you. Today, someone leaked the sale dates for Steam’s Halloween, Black Friday and Winter sales, so you can get a jump start on preparing your wallet. …

Back in 2002, Illusion Softworks released Mafia, a great example of a classic open-world game that went on to spawn a very popular franchise. Unfortunately in 2012, the game vanished from digital stores like Steam, as the music licenses had expired. Now five years later, Mafia is available once again …

It’s well known that Valve made a lot of money from a considerably small team, however just how rich Steam boss Gabe Newell is has always been up for debate. According to Forbes’ top 400 richest people in America this year, however, he has made the top 100. Good-man Gabe …

Long before Titanfall hit the scene, Hawken was the go-to mech shooter on PC. The game originally launched back in 2012 in beta form before rolling out as a free to play game on Valve’s Steam service in 2014. Since then, the game has transitioned to consoles and the PC …

Team NINJA had a hit on its hands earlier this year with the launch of Nioh. While the game has been shackled to the PlayStation 4 platform since its launch in February, that will be changing relatively soon, as it has just been announced that the Samurai-focussed action game is …

This year, Valve has been on a mission to be more transparent and turn Steam into a better place for gamers. Part of that involves cracking down on low-effort and poor quality titles being dumped on Steam. Yesterday, Valve began doing just that, taking close to 200 games off of …

There might be quite a bit of buzz surrounding Call of Duty: WWII but the jury is still out on how good the game will actually be. If you would like to get a feel for the game's multiplayer ahead of time, then you can jump in to the open …

Whenever there is a major controversy surrounding a game or a developer, we often see fans resort to ‘review bombing'. This is essentially where players flood a game's Steam page with negative reviews as a way to get their point across. Sometimes these negative reviews aren't relevant to the game …

We have known for several months now that LG is planning to follow in HTC's footsteps by releasing its very own SteamVR headset. Now it seems we could be edging closer towards a launch, as the headset was recently spotted being shown off at an event in South Korea. The …

Earlier this month we watched PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ascend to the top of the Steam charts, taking over Dota 2's top spot that week. Now over the weekend, the game has set another record, PUBG has now had the most concurrent players of any game in Steam history. As seen by …

Valve has a trend of releasing more and more games per year, with 2016 seeing the release of what was nearly 40 percent of Steam’s entire library. Having already passed 3,000 titles this year, 2017 is on track to surpassing a record breaking 5,000 games. The staggering numbers are thanks …

Over the course of the Summer, Oculus has been making a big push to get the Oculus Rift and Touch controllers in the hands of more consumers. Not only did many games go on sale but the Rift+Touch bundle was cut down to just £399 and it appears to have …

Last night, Microsoft began discussing its virtual reality plans for Windows in more detail, with more headsets on the way and plenty of software support lined up. We already know that Microsoft has some first-party games planned, including a Halo VR game but it seems that Microsoft has also been …