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18 articles stable

Steam has appeared in 18 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2021Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Valve, Shotgun.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-03-12
Game Developer 4 related

Valve says 5,863 games made $100K+ on Steam in 2025, up from ~3,000 titles that earned $100K+ in 2020, and Steam passed 42M peak concurrent users in February

The PC platform also passed 42 million peak concurrent users a few weeks ago.  —  Valve has revealed that 5,863 games released on Steam earned over $100,000 in 2025.

2025-07-16
Totally Human Media 4 related

Analysis: 7,818 game titles on Steam now disclose they use generative AI, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024

A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI.

2024-08-20
Bloomberg 30 related

Chinese-made, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong became Steam's second most popular title ever within hours of its launch, gaining 2.1M+ concurrent players

- The made-in-China blockbuster surpasses Cyberpunk play record  — Monkey King epic on track to set records for concurrent gamers

2024-03-20
The Verge 18 related

SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week

The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …

2023-09-13
Rock, Paper, Shotgun 3 related

A look at the “hectic evolution” of Steam, 20 years after Valve launched the beta, as rivals like the Epic Games Store and Itch.io fail to make much of a dent

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun :

2023-06-16
The Verge 7 related

Valve releases its Steam update announced in April 2023, offering a big UI makeover, unifying its Desktop, Big Picture Mode, and Steam Deck codebases, and more

Sean Hollister / The Verge :

2022-03-23
The Verge 33 related

Valve releases an alpha version of Steam for Chrome OS, available on select recent high-end Chromebooks, after Google announced the effort in January 2020

check out Steam on Chrome OS Abner Li / 9to5Google : Steam on Chrome OS is now officially available for Alpha testing Maggie Tillman / Pocket-lint : How to install Steam on a Chromebook: Everything yo...

2022-02-26
The Verge 28 related

Review of the $400 Steam Deck: customizable controls, powerful, and doubles as a Linux PC, but unfinished and buggy software, poor battery life, and a noisy fan

My favorite gaming PC ever made Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer : The Steam Deck is already the emulation system of my dreams Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica : A brief tour of the Steam Deck's Linux implementatio...

2021-10-17
The Verge 37 related

Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs”

Your move, Epic Games Store  —  Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam … Source: Steamworks Documentation .

2021-10-16
The Verge 33 related

Valve quietly updates Steam's rules to ban games “built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs”

Your move, Epic Games Store  —  Games that use blockchain technology or let users exchange NFTs or cryptocurrencies won't be allowed on Steam … Source: Steamworks Documentation .

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Steam has appeared in 220 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include A vulnerability in the Apache log4j Java logging library allows for remote code... and A review of Valve's $549 Steam Deck OLED: a great screen, a longer battery life, and.... Frequently covered alongside Valve, Steam Deck, Nvidia, the Steam Deck, and Apple. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from developer, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -10pts; developer -36pts; consumer -30pts
2024Q3developer +11pts; consumer +50pts; regulation +25pts
2024Q4enterprise +40pts; developer -25pts; consumer -10pts

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