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Rape Day Removed from Steam

Agnes Adamus, 07 March 2019, 13:56

Valve took a lot of flak recently for allowing Rape Day, a controversial title that deals with violence against women, to be released on Steam. The company has decided to intervene and removed the game from Steam's offer.

Here's How Devs Manipulate Release Dates on Steam

Milosz Szubert, 06 March 2019, 13:17

Mike Rose, the founder of No More Robots, has noticed a peculiar unfair practice adopted by some developers on Steam. Here's the trick - a fake release date is being set, and changed, to keep the title on top of the recommended upcoming titles list.

Last Two Shovel Knight Expansions Delayed and Other News

Milosz Szubert, 19 February 2019, 16:42

Today's collection of short news: the last two expansions for Shovel Knight, as well as the SIGIL mega mod from Johna Romero are delayed, Steam info corner gets a new layout.

Here Are the Winners of Steam Awards 2018

Michael Kulakowski, 08 February 2019, 23:02

During a special, short broadcast Valve has presented this year’s winners of The Steam Awards gala, awarded by the users of Steam in several rather unique categories.

Over Million Bans On Steam - Valve Slashes CSGO Cheaters

Jacob Blazewicz, 06 February 2019, 23:44

Valve continues to fight cheaters. In January, more than one million cheaters were banned with the VAC protection system. Most of them are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players.

Valve Announces the Steam Awards 2018 Gala

Milosz Szubert, 05 February 2019, 14:12

Valve is preparing a special announcement gala for the results of Steam Awards 2018.

Metro Exodus only on Epic Store until February 2020 [Updated]

Konrad Serafinski, 28 January 2019, 21:29

Deep Silver and Epic Games announced that Metro Exodus will be an exclusive Epic Store title for one year.

Steam has 90 million monthly and 47 million daily users

Adrian Werner, 15 January 2019, 21:53

Valve has released a report summarizing the past year on Steam. We learned, among other things, that the number of monthly users of the service reaches 90 million people.

8 changes coming to Steam in 2019

Milosz Szubert, 15 January 2019, 12:58

The annual Steam summary has brought a list of changes to be implemented to the service in 2019.

Steam hosts more than 30 thousand games at this point

Bart Swiatek, 14 January 2019, 12:21

Steam host more than 30 thousand video games at this point. The fact that most of them came out in the last 2 years is, however, symptomatic.

The Division 2 system requirements revealed - no Steam support

Heros99, 09 January 2019, 22:23

Ubisoft revealed the full hardware requirements of The Division 2. At the same time, the company decided to take a courageous step: the shooter of Massive studio will not be available on Steam.

Valve gives record number of bans in December, mainly in CS:GO

Adrian Werner, 08 January 2019, 15:25

Valve had a very busy December. Last month, more than 609 thousand bans were given, which is a record in the history of the VAC system.

Steam Hardware Survey - December 2018

Michael Kulakowski, 05 January 2019, 16:27

Steam platform has published the results of the December hardware survey of its users, which is based on data shared by them.

XP and Vista no longer supported by Steam

Agnes Adamus, 02 January 2019, 11:22

Valve has decided to end any remaining support for Windows XP and Vista from January 1, 2019.

The most popular games among pad users were revealed on Steam platform

Adrian Werner, 30 December 2018, 21:05

Valve company has released interesting ranking lists, presenting the most popular games on the Steam among players using game pads.

Steam's most popular and profitable in 2018

Bart Swiatek, 28 December 2018, 17:00

Valve have presented lists of games that were the most popular among the users of Steam.

Steam Winter Sale is here! Lots of titles available in special offer

Konrad Serafinski, 21 December 2018, 20:42

The annual Winter Sale on Steam platform has started. Everyone will find something interesting to buy.

Valve cuts own revenue share for Steam sales

Michael Kulakowski, 03 December 2018, 13:16

Valve changes publishing policy on Steam. After exceeding a certain level of revenue generated by the sale of the game and its DLC, the company will reduce its share.

Fallout 76 is not coming to Steam, Bethesda confirms

Mathias Zulpo, 07 August 2018, 11:05

Fallout 76 is not making it to Steam, Bethesda said in an official statement. Valve's platform will be replaced by the developer's own Bethesda.net launcher. This applies both to the BETA, and the full game.

Cryptocurrency miner is pulled from Steam after it starts selling fake Team Fortress 2 items

Mathias Zulpo, 31 July 2018, 18:08

Abstractism appeared as a fun, relaxing game for half a dollar. There are many of them on Steam, but this one was special – because it was used for mining cryptocurrencies.

Steam Awards winners revealed; GTA V and Euro Truck Simulator 2 got two awards each

luckie, 02 January 2017, 14:35

Voting is over, so is counting. It's time to reveal Steam Awards winners in several categories, such as: Villain Most In Need Of A Hug, Just 5 More Minutes, or Whoooaaaaaaa, dude!

Find interesting games faster thanks to Steam Discovery Update 2.0

luckie, 08 November 2016, 13:43

Browsing through the Steam Store hasn't been overly convenient so far. Fortunately, the Discovery Update 2.0 has implemented a bunch of cool features that make the interface clearer.

Valve cracks down on bullshots – only real screenshots allowed on Steam

luckie, 02 November 2016, 15:32

Updated Steam rules require developers to only upload real screenshots in the screenshot section. No more concept art and optimistic promotional graphics are allowed.

No penalties for violating Steam Early Access rules – Valve chooses communication over supervision

luckie, 04 October 2016, 12:19

It turns out that Steam Early access has no solid rules governing how the program should be used by developers, not to mention some overall guideliness. Instead, Valve requires its participants to maintain clear communication with players.

Techland wants its games’ stats removed from SteamSpy

Mathias Zulpo, 28 August 2016, 16:50

Techland requested that all the statistics regarding the developer’s titles were removed from Steam Spy. The plea has been rejected by the site owner, Sergry Galyonkin, as sharing that kind of info does not impact the developers in any way.