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Digital Sun - the indie studio behind moreish roguelike Moonlighter and moody RTS Cataclismo - has delayed a planned Steam playtest for its next game, ReVamp, citing concerns over "games being reverse-engineered, cloned and published before the original is even out." Read more
CA plans to reinstate the original Total War Shogun 2 as the strategy game’s new remaster faces overwhelmingly negative Steam reviews.
The Epic Games Store free games for this week are stylish spy puzzler Agent A and sinister horror game Bad Cheese, so grab both right now.
Valve’s new Steam Achievement Sets are designed to support games that grow and evolve over time, and it’s available to test in beta now.
A new charity bundle gives you ten Steam games for a low price, with no filler and the ability to support a good cause along the way.
Evil Empire tells us how it’s grown from a Dead Cells support studio into a champion for indie games through the Triple-i Initiative.
Early access players are heaping praise on the new Call of Duty campaign, with Modern Warfare 4 Steam reviews currently 90% positive.
A new browser extension, aptly named Slop-Inator, flags any AI usage in Steam games, allowing you to cut GenAI out of your library.
I'll be honest folks: I didn't know that Steam's Personal Calendar feature was still technically in testing. I've been using it here and there to keep track of what's come out recently or what's coming out imminently, and have generally found it to be fairly reflective of the kinds of games I was interested in. It just worked! Yet lo and behold, a post from Valve went out yesterday announcing that the feature has launched out of Steam Labs "and is considered a full feature of the Steam Store." Read more
Blow up the bomb, everyone nearby dies. That’s been the deal since forever. Season 5 pokes a hole in it, and the fallout for how rounds end is sneakier than the patch notes suggest. Valve laid it out in a Steam post. The bomb no longer just cooks everything in a blast radius. Now the explosion rolls out from the site as a wave, travelling through the map. Cover finally matters after the plant Sit
Breach of Trust, the second paid expansion for Frostpunk 2, arrived on June 23 across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Two months on, its Steam rating tells an awkward story: Mixed, with 46 percent of 448 user reviews positive, and recent reviews trending Mostly Negative at 39 percent. Critics landed somewhere else entirely. The DLC holds roughly 75 on Metacritic, though from a small handful of review
Bulkhead’s 100-player shooter WARDOGS launched into Steam early access on September 10 and passed two million copies sold in under five days. It hit an all-time concurrent peak of 428,666 players on September 13, according to SteamDB. A week and a half in, the drop-off that usually follows a launch spike has not arrived. The game was still running between roughly 300,000 and 400,000 concurrent pla
A free Steam platformer lets one stranger play at a time, and 540 players sent 85,000 chat messages in 17 days.
Dragon Quest 3 still reigns supreme
The end of an era for a Steam legend
"Abhorrent," rules Tim Sweeney
Personal Calendars are finally live for real
Torchlight 2 now has a separate beta branch offering controller support and Steam-based multiplayer, but it won’t replace the original ARPG.
Trying to find games you’ll love on Steam can be daunting nowadays, so the new Personal Calendar is Valve’s answer, and won’t sell slots.
Steam is abuzz this week with a couple of long-anticipated launches, but in Forza Horizon 6’s case, at least, the game isn’t even out for what will be most of its players. The anticipated sequel in the open-world driving game series doesn’t officially launch until May 19, but owners of its most expensive version - the Premium Edition - can play it right now. Read more
