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 :
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 :
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...
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...
Amazon's new PC game New World is a hit, with hundreds of thousands on Steam playing it at any given time, representing a leap for Amazon's gaming ambitions
but it's too early to determine that Evan Lahti / PC Gamer : After years of failure, Amazon has a hit videogame Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : Amazon Finally Makes a Video Game People Want to Play With ...
Valve says its Steam Controller, launched in 2013 as part of the failed Steam Machines program, will no longer be made; last units will sell for $5/controller
sells remaining stock for $5 each Rachel Kaser / The Next Web : RIP Steam Controller 2015-2019: Valve is selling off its inventory Christine Fisher / Engadget : Valve's Steam Controller is dead Niels ...
Fortnite-maker Epic Games announces a PC and Mac game store to rival Steam's, coming “soon”, with 88% of revenue going to developers, up from 70% on Steam
Fortnite-maker Epic Games is capping off their insanely successful 2018 with an even more ambitious product launch …
Valve's Steam Machines, the SteamOS gaming boxes from various vendors that debuted in 2015, are removed from the Steam store's front page amid waning interest
Fraser Brown / PC Gamer :
A look at VRChat, a free app for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with over 1.5M installs on Steam, which lets users create and explore virtual worlds with other people
It was in the depths of the Mickey Mouse dungeon, the music of the Mouse's rap album coursing through my headphones, that I decided VRChat was brilliant.