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Way back in February, Square Enix stated that it was interested in bringing more Final Fantasy games to the PC platform and now, it is delivering on that as the publisher has announced that the Final Fantasy XIII ‘Lightning' trilogy will be coming to Steam. The first game in the …

According to Intel, there are currently 711 million PC gamers in the world, which works out as one in every ten people on the planet. In addition, the desktop is “alive and well” with innovation thriving in all form factors. Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum, Kirk Skaugen said: “desktop is alive …

DayZ launched on Steam's early access program last year and since then, millions of excited fans have bought the game, dismissing the fact that it is far from being finished. As a result, users are starting to complain that these early access builds are still missing many features. Now DayZ …

Capcom will be bringing Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, over to Steamworks early next year. The three games currently reside on Microsoft's widely unpopular Games for Windows Live service. The publisher said that the move has come around due to fan demand: …

It's no secret that several big publishers have attempted to break away from Steam, EA switched to its own Origin service, Ubisoft released uPlay and now it looks like Warner Bros might be getting in on the action with its own digital distribution platform. Warner Bros is behind several big games …

The latest Steam client beta update will bring better support for AMD graphics cards while using the Steam in-home streaming feature. These optimizations come shortly after Nvidia announced that it has been working with Valve to incorporate hardware encoding features for streamers using Nvidia GPUs. Those of you who own …

Last week it was revealed that the Australian Consumer Rights Commission was planning to take Valve to court over its refund policy. At the time, Valve stated that it was making “every effort to cooperate with with the Australian officials on this matter,” and now we know exactly what changes …

Dinosaur survival sim The Stomping Land was one of last year's little Kickstarter success stories, pulling in over $100,000 for the fledgling developer, SuperCrit. For a while all seemed well, with regular updates, trailers, feature lists and eventually, an early access release on Steam. However in the last three months, …

Valve and Nvidia have teamed up to improve the performance of Steam's in-home streaming feature by adding in support for hardware encoding on Nvidia GeForce graphics cards. This new feature works in a similar way to Nvidia's own ‘Game Stream' implementation for the Nvidia Shield handheld and tablet. Valve's own …

Planetary Annihilation, the Kickstarter success, is due to be fully released and come out of Early Access next week. The game raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and now just under two years later, we'll get to see the final product. For those of you who aren't familiar with Planetary Annihilation, …

Are you in need of something to play this weekend? Valve has you covered as Borderlands 2 and Dishonoured are both free on Steam for the next few days. In addition, 2K Games is having a publisher sale, you can pick up Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition at 75 …

According to a survey conducted by the Independent Game Developers Association, most game developers would rather work at Valve than any other company. This may not be all that surprising as Valve is a massive company in the PC gaming space, holding the increasingly popular Steam platform, which boasts a 65 …

It turns out that digital downloads made up 92 per cent of all PC game sales worldwide in 2013, according to a new analyst report. In addition, that figure is supposed to grow over the next few years. The figures were obtained by Analyst, DFC Intelligence, which points out that these statistics …

Hideo Kojima has officially announced that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes will both come to the PC platform via Steam. The announcement was made at the MGS livestream at Gamescom last night. Metal Gear Solid enjoyed a long and successful life as …

Steam has grown up a lot over the past decade, going from a curious way to get hold of Valve games, to the dominant portal that we all experience our titles through on the PC, but it's not in its final form just yet. There's a range of updates coming …

Valve may have sneakily given us our first look at the Source 2 engine as Dota 2's workshop tools, in-game assets and code all appear to have been ported over to the company's long awaited engine update in a new set of Workshop tools. Community developers took to Reddit to …

It turns out that Early Access title and Kickstarter success, The Stomping Land, is not dead- it's just switching to a new engine. After months of silence, the developer behind the game has finally spoke out to combat recent rumors suggesting that the game had been abandoned. The developer behind …

Valve originally revealed the Steam controller last year but since then, it has gone through a lot of changes. In-fact, Valve has delayed its entire Steam Machine initiative until next year in order to tighten up its gamepad. Now Valve has shown off the latest change to its pad, it …

Last week, KitGuru was invited to a press event in London, where Nvidia showed off its Shield tablet and controller for the very first time.  The Shield tablet has been designed to deliver a console experience through Nvidia's own technologies such as Shadow Play and Game-Stream. The device aims to deliver console …

The Kickstarter funded game Yogventures, based on characters from the popular Youtube channel, Yogscast, has been cancelled, with developer Winterkewl going under. Yogscast staff have apologised to backers and have announced that they are now working with Nerd Kingdom, the developers of TUG, to try and deliver comparable rewards. In …

A new campaign for physics based puzzler Portal 2 has been released on Steam, licensed by Valve, making it about the most official update to the game in a long time. Featuring a new type of gun and a focus on gel rather than portals, the game comes with new …

Bohemia Interactive has announced that it will be updating Arma 2: Operation Arrow Head in order to transition the game from Gamespy to Steam. Bohemia's official announcement said: “As you may have heard, GameSpy is discontinuing its services and it was therefore of paramount importance to offer an alternative for the …

Progress on DayZ seems to be moving slow, it's out in Early Access form but there is still a long road ahead before it is officially done. However, changes are coming and Dean Hall has gone ahead and listed six upcoming features that will change the game for the better. …

While we might not all be thrilled with the way Valve handled this year's Steam Summer Sale, in terms of getting people to play games, it was a resounding success. Over this weekend the digital distribution platform broke all previous records for concurrent players, topping eight million. This is its …

We are receiving a lot of reports from you guys telling us that Steam is currently revoking Sniper Elite III keys bought from sites like CDKeys and Kinguin. Valve has yet to offer an official explanation or statement but this could be a sign that the company is going to …

Steam accounts are under attack from a new phishing scam that tricks users in to downloading malicious software that bypasses Valve's Steam Guard system, according to Malwarebytes Unpacked. Valve launched Steam Guard in 2011 and has since made it mandatory for all Steam trades. Steam Guard works by placing an SSFN …

If there's one thing PC gamers hate, it's those horrible, by-the-numbers, mobile gaming mechanics championed by the likes of King and Zynga. The micro-transactions, pay to win scenarios, games that become more about some meta-management, rather than actually playing the game itself. Scores of companies have been smashed for this, …

The Steam summer sale creeps up on us every year, usually it just appears one day and PC gamers world wide reach for their wallets. However, this year we might have some time to prepare as rumors are suggesting that the sale could start this week. The sale usually begins …

Valve's Early Access program has already helped some smaller developers get their games out but now bigger studios are starting to see the value in keeping the community involved throughout the development process. EA's DICE is considering an Early Access style approach to game development. The same goes for ex-Valve …

The Steam Machine initiative is all about making PC gaming more accessible on smaller screens, smaller devices and lesser hardware. The Steamboy project is combining all of these elements by creating a handheld Steam Machine, which would be perfect for in-home streaming. Final specifications are being kept under wraps for …