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Steam in-home streaming has been around for about six months now and is set to be one of the main selling points for Valve's upcoming Steam Machines. Up to this point, in-home streaming has been in closed beta but now the flood gates have opened and anyone who opts-in the …

More than half of all the games ever bought on Steam have only been played for an hour or less. That's according to new stats unearthed by Ars Technica when it did some digging into player profiles, also discovering some other surprising facts about our Steam buying (and playing) habits. …

Age of Mythology (AoM), while not quite as well remembered as Age of Empires, is one of the PC's classic RTS titles, and like Empires, it's getting a re-release on Steam. However, as well as being updated for modern PC compatibility, it's also getting a few tweaks to make it …

It seems that Microsoft has noticed how successful some of Steam's early access titles have become, as it expressed interest in the business model at the Game Developers Conference last week. Microsoft Game Studio boss, Phil Spencer, said that early access is “ripe for innovation on Xbox One”, however, that …

Valve finally opened up Steam's family sharing feature to all users this weekend, gamers can now give up to five accounts access to their libraries on ten separate devices. However, it's not as simple as typing in a Steam username and giving them access, you will have to log on …

Valve is handing developers the tools to set their own discounts and sales on Steam, the company has confirmed. This information came to light after a developer posted this screenshot on Reddit: The page is only accessible by developers that have published games through the Steam service and explains how …

Peter Molyneux led studio, 22Cans, upcoming game Godus, is said to feature a new kind of monetization system that “hasn't existed before” in traditional free to play games. Users who play Godus won't have access to the in-game store until they are deemed ready. Molyneux gave a pretty good description …

The past 48 hours have been a hotbed of roiling trust issues over in the Reddit Steam community, as one user claimed to have proof that Valve's anti-cheating software, VAC, was sending browsing history data back to Valve servers and effectively tracking all Steam gamers. However, now Gabe Newell, Valve's …

Valve has added a new feature to its Steam software, that lets you label and group games by tag, making it much easier to find the types of games you want. But it's not limited to genres or other ways we've grouped games before, as these tags are created by …

Free to play multiplayer mech shooter, Hawken,  is moving to the Steam platform, developer, Adhesive Games, has just announced on the company's blog. The existing launcher will move to Valve's platform and Adhesive is hoping that all of the game's current players will make the switch in time for the upcoming …

Valve is really pushing Linux, Gabe Newell see's it as the future of gaming and is trying to bring us closer to that with Steam OS and as a result, Valve is really keen to get some Linux developers on board. How is Valve going to reel in those Linux …

Over a dozen of personal computer manufacturers introduced their Steam Machines gaming systems based on Valve Software’s SteamOS at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. However, none of those PCs will enter the market before the software developer finalises its Steam controller as well as the operating system. The first …

Valve Software has added experimental support for Oculus Rift and other virtual reality (VR) headsets to Steam digital video game distribution platform. Owners of the VR gear can discover games that support virtual reality helmets in Big Picture VR mode. While at present the support poses interest only to select …

Late last night the Steam client was updated to bring family options to all Steam accounts, many users and even a couple of news sites misinterpreted the patch notes and thought that the long awaited sharing feature had arrived but this was unfortunately not the case, for now we've just …

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Yesterday Valve began showing off the first wave of Steam Machines due to release throughout the year but out of the lengthy list of manufacturers, it seems that Alienware could be the one to watch. Alienware has always been known for its stylish but arguably overpriced gaming PC's and laptops …

If you're at all interested in playing the Deadpool game, which was released mid 2013, then you might want to do it soon as the game is mysteriously disappearing from digital stores without explanation or warning. Deadpool the game was developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision, the …

GOG, the DRM free game store is currently giving away all of the pre Bethesda Fallout games, that includes Fallout 1, 2 and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. If you've ever been interested in exploring the background of the series then this is your chance. Be careful though, Steam has …

If you've been waiting around to find out when the Steam Machine hardware beta would start then you're in luck, it starts this Friday. However, if you're living outside of the US and were hoping to get in on it, then get ready to make a sad face. Valve's original …

Valve launched Steam recommendations back in 2010, allowing users to recommend titles to their friends and write what they liked about the game. Now Valve is evolving this feature into something a little more wide-reaching- Steam Reviews. These reviews will be available for the whole community to read, not just your friends …

Look out! Quick, gather up supplies, loved ones and weaponry, we have to get out of here. I'm serious, there's this massive seal attacking the city, we have to go. Wait, no, what are you doing? Don't go on your PC, those deals he's offering are lies, a distraction to …

Waiting for a game to download is always a pain, it's worse if you can't play another game in the mean time. Well luckily Valve is fixing that today as Steam now includes background downloads. If you want to kick back and slay some dragons while waiting for your chance …

Poor old Dark Matter, it's not having a good run of things at the moment. First it failed in its Kickstarter campaign and the development team was let go. Then when the game finally made it to Steam and gamers found out that it had a sliced and diced ending …

Last week Valve revealed the specs for the 300 prototype Steam Machines, based entirely on Intel and Nvidia hardware. Considering all the hype around AMD recently with the launch of the Mantle API and the forthcoming R9 290X graphics card, this move was surprising. It even led to  rumours that …

It's a great, great time to be a PC gamer. Not only is having a mid-range gaming setup going to cover you against most of the next-gen console developments, but Valve is set to produce its own Steam box system within the next six months using PC hardware – so …

Steam OS has been revealed as the first of three announcements Valve has planned for this week. What many were expecting to be the ‘Steambox' console turned out to be a whole new stand alone operating system, based on Linux architecture, designed for the living room. Valve has already improved …

Last week Gabe Newell hinted at a steam box announcement sometime soon. Now there is a website with space for three clocks, the first countdown has already begun, and it ends in 32 hours at time of writing. The signs pointing towards a console announcement are strong, the url ends …

Gabe Newell, the man behind Valve and the much loved Steam platform, gave a keynote presentation at Linuxcon yesterday, during which he went over how his vision for the future is to bind Linux and gaming together. However, the most exciting thing about his keynote was towards the end, where …

It was one of the better features that the new Xbox One had when it was first announced, but it was stripped away when we threw up our arms at the daily activations, perhaps never to be seen again. At least, on the Xbox One that is. On Steam though, …

Poor THQ. It struggles to stay afloat throughout 2012, finally announcing at the close of the year that it'll be shutting up shop for good, and it can't even rest peacefully in the grave. Along with several other creditors, Sega has announced its intention to sue the bankrupt publisher for …