Tag Archives: steam

Valve has been on a spree recently, updating many of its services while giving others a facelift. Following the Steam Families revamp and the just-announced Steam Screen Recording function, Valve’s Steam Charts page has just gotten a new section. Making the announcement on Twitter, the official Steam Deck page revealed …

Yesterday, we reported on the unfortunate announcement that Microsoft’s Forza Horizon 4 will be delisted later this year “due to licensing and agreements with our partners”. As has been the case with many soon-to-be-delisted games, Forza Horizon 4 has now shot to the top of the PC charts, breaking its …

In the age of social media, it has become increasingly common for players of all kinds to clip and share various gameplay recordings – so much so that all current-gen consoles offer some kind of screen recording functionality. Steam Deck players in particular can now benefit from Valve’s newly announced ‘Game Recording’ feature – though the software is available to PC users as well...

Get ready to loosen the grip on your wallets as Valve has just announced that the Steam Summer Sale is coming. The annual event is a PC gamer's dream, offering a plethora of titles at impressively low prices. Scheduled to kick off on Thursday, June 27th at 6 pm, the two-week sale will run until Thursday, July 11th at 6pm...

In recent weeks, a game simply titled ‘Banana’ has been topping the Steam charts and accruing hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. The game is simple, it shows a banana on the screen and all you do is click it as many times as you feel like. The game is …

Sony caught flack recently for forcing all Helldivers II players on PC to create a PlayStation account in order to continue playing the much-loved title. The backlash was swift and Sony eventually conceded. That said, they did reveal that future PC titles would require such an account in order to …

CI Games has recently announced that a sequel to Lords of the Fallen (2023) is in the works and will be exclusively published by Epic Games for PC, at least at launch. The decision not to release the game on Steam has surprised many fans, considering the success of the …

Square Enix producers have been teasing a return to Final Fantasy Tactics for quite some time now but so far, nothing has been officially announced. That may change quite soon, with Jason Schreier reporting that the remaster is on the way.  Jason Schreier, formerly of Kotaku and more recently of …

Over the past few days, you may have noticed a mysterious new game topping the Steam charts. The clicker game ‘Banana' has been rapidly gaining players, rocketing up to almost 850,000 concurrent players over the weekend. Why is everyone seemingly obsessed with a new game where all you do is …

2024 marks the 35th anniversary of the Prince of Persia franchise. While Ubisoft had not released a new entry in years, the publisher surprised many with the launch of the excellent metroidvania Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown back in January. As has been the case for many years now, …

Since 2014, the Jackbox Party Pack series has released a ton of fun collections of mini games, with each entry adding some new experiences, alongside sequels to their other mini games. In the past decade, the series has seen 10 Party Packs released, each with their own set of games …

In recent weeks, Valve has been holding private playtests for its next game, Deadlock. This appears to be a mash-up between elements of Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2. Many gameplay videos have leaked so far, showcasing characters, mechanics and maps. Despite the game being an open secret at this …

Sony has slowly but surely been bringing its first-party line-up of PS5 exclusives to the PC platform. During last night’s State of Play, the console manufacturer officially revealed that the next PS5 title coming to PC is none other than God of War: Ragnarök – set to arrive this September.

MultiVersus has had a weird road to release. The game was technically out, and even purchasable from late 2022 to mid 2023. Then, out of nowhere, the development team announced that the game would be ‘shutting down' after a six-month long beta, before re-releasing in 2024. Now, MultiVersus has finally …

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was one of the very first games to support first-generation VR headsets, with a VR version of the game being sold for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive back in 2015. Unfortunately, the game will soon be delisted from Steam. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter …

Ubisoft surprised us all when it announced that it had teamed up with indie studio and Dead Cells’ developer, Evil Empire, to work on a new roguelite game in the Prince of Persia series. Dead Cells is one of the highest-rated modern rogue-style games, so now we get to see …

Recent leaks have revealed Valve's next game, Deadlock, which is currently undergoing playtests ahead of an official launch later in the year. The game aims to combine elements of DOTA 2, Team Fortress 2 and Tower Defence, all wrapped up in a magic-infused 1940s art style, not too dissimilar to …

There have been plenty of rumours over the years claiming that major game publishers have put in offers to acquire Valve, the company behind huge IP like Half-Life and Portal. Given that Valve also owns and operates the Steam Store, the company has never exactly been hurting for cash, so …

Back in 2021, Square Enix announced that it would be bringing the entire Kingdom Hearts series to PC for the first time. This exciting news was somewhat hampered by the revelation that the games would be exclusively available via the Epic Games Store and would not be coming to Steam. …

Ghost of Tsushima has finally arrived on PC, and as expected, it's a success. With a peak concurrent player count of over 77,000, it's already PlayStation's most successful single-player game to launch on Steam. Following its debut on Steam on May 16th in its Director's Cut form, Ghost of Tsushima …

Aside from Counter-Strike 2, we've known that Valve has been hard at work on another project over the past year. The game formerly known as Neon Prime is seemingly being play tested by hundreds of players, leading to leaked screenshots and other details.  The game previously codenamed Citadel, which then …

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut will not be accessible for most of the day on release. The game launches tomorrow on Steam, bringing the game to PC for the first time, complete with the Iki Island expansion and the Legends multiplayer mode. As the game has been out for roughly …

After being delayed last week, Evil Empire has now announced the new release date for The Rogue Prince of Persia. The new game, developed by a team of rogue-like specialists who also worked on the massive indie hit ‘Dead Cells', is now due to launch on the 27th of May.  …

Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima is coming to PC later this week. However, it has been removed from sale on Steam and other PC storefronts in over 100 countries and regions that Sony's PlayStation Network does not serve. This move mirrors the ongoing regional delisting issues of Helldivers 2, which …

We've known about Marathon for a while now, with Bungie rebooting its classic pre-Halo sci-fi shooter for the modern era, as a multiplayer extraction shooter. The original Marathon games aren't exactly widely available today, but Bungie is making it easier for fans to go back and see how Marathon started …

Over the past week we have seen a massive shift in the narrative towards Microsoft and Xbox, primarily stemming from the recent closure of 4 internal Bethesda studios including Tango Gameworks of Hi-Fi Rush fame. In protest of this decision, fans have flocked to Hi-Fi Rush – making it the …

The team at Arrowhead had quite the weekend, after scrambling to reverse a crucial decision from the game's publisher, Sony. In the immediate aftermath of PSN account linking being announced, it came to light that thousands of people had bought Helldivers 2 in countries where PSN is unavailable. To fix …

After a longer wait than anticipated, Hades 2 officially launched into Steam Early Access this week. Supergiant's big sequel is getting off to a hot start too, garnering over 100,000 players at launch.  Supergiant first launched Hades in 2020, with the game being an Epic Games Store exclusive for its …

Helldivers 2 has made plenty of headlines since launch but it was finding itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons last week. On Friday, Arrowhead and Sony announced plans to require PSN accounts in the PC version of the game, despite the fact that the game was sold …

The full release for Hades put SuperGiant Games on the map back in 2020, winning multiple BAFTAs, Game Awards and more. Following the surprise announcement of a sequel back in late 2022, Hades 2 has now officially entered Early Access. It was already known that Hades 2 would launch in …