Steam launches Summer Sale with up to 95% discounts on «the best games of all time»

News Games 06-28-2024 at 12:35 comment
Steam has launched its traditional Summer Sale, which offers discounts on games up to 95%. This year, Valve has prepared a selection of 22 «best games of all time». The discounts in this selection range from 85% to 95%.

Banana’s developers say that their clicker — is not a scam, but «a legitimate glitch for money». We believe them, we believe them

News Games 06-20-2024 at 12:34 comment
AestheticSpartan, one of the developers and co-owners of the recently popular Steam clicker Banana, saidthat the game’s team said goodbye to one of its members due to his possible involvement in Steam fraud. The developer of Banana assures that the team is not involved in fraud, and that the earnings are completely legal.

Learn, Steam — GOG gaming marketplace will allow you to inherit your account, but there are nuances

News Games 06-07-2024 at 14:00 comment
After publications Ars Technica on Steam accounts not being inherited after owner’s death, GOG game store reported a website that is ready to help users transfer their accounts in the event of their death, but spoke about the complex legal nuances.

Fan remake of Fallout 2 will be an open-world RPG and will be released on Steam

News Games 06-04-2024 at 22:37 comment
The Fallout 2 game has recently held a new wave of interest thanks to the popularity of Amazon’s Fallout series. A team of enthusiasts is creating a remake of Fallout 2 based on Bethesda’s game engine and wants to release it on Steam.

God of War Ragnarök will be released on PC on September 19 — PlayStation Network connection required

News Games 05-31-2024 at 11:00 comment
During State of Play, Sony announced that God of War Ragnarök will be released on PC on September 19. The game received new trailer and is already available for pre-order. The new God of War will receive a port almost two years after its launch on PlayStation 4 and 5. But it seems that not everyone will be able to play on PC

Ghost of Tsushima became the most popular single-player PS game on Steam — online peak reached 77 thousand.

News Games 05-20-2024 at 13:15 comment
Ghost of Tsushima debuted in 2020 as a PS4 exclusive, and last week it finally launched on PC. Interest in the game was so high that during the first weekend it became the most popular single-player PS game on Steam by the number of simultaneous players.

Sony won’t link Helldivers 2 to PlayStation Network account after Steam users protest

News Games 05-06-2024 at 11:15 comment
Sony Interactive will not be linking Helldivers 2 on PC to PlayStation Network accounts after more than 200 thousand negative reviews and the game’s removal from Steam in more than 170 regions. The need to register with PSN would have made the game unavailable in many countries.

Helldivers 2 became unavailable on Steam for 170+ regions due to PlayStation Network binding — users dropped the rating

News Games 05-05-2024 at 20:48 comment
The game Helldivers 2, which has gained popularity since the beginning of this year, is no longer available for PC through Steam in many countries after the announcement that a PlayStation Network account would become mandatory for players. The problem is that PSN operates in a relatively small number of countries. The situation has led to the…

Steam statistics for April: Windows 11 reached 45.15%, Intel share loss, more laptops with RTX

News Games 05-03-2024 at 20:12 comment
In the April statistical survey Steam, we can see three tangible trends. The share of Intel processors has fallen to 65.63% after recently rising to 68.1%, the number of laptops with RTX 3060 and RTX 4060 has increased, and the share of Windows 11 is also growing steadily, despite its overall slight decline in recent years.

Steam will not refund if you launch the game 2 hours before the official release

News Games 04-24-2024 at 11:31 comment
About 8 years ago, Steam introduced a refund mechanism for purchased games. It was useful in cases where the game was not as interesting as it seemed or the computer did not provide a comfortable level of performance. To get a refund, you had to spend no more than 2 hours in the game and send a request for a refund within 14 days after the…

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is the dominant video card among Steam users, and the Ukrainian language ranks 14th

News Devices 04-03-2024 at 10:51 comment
A March survey of Steam users showed a significant increase in the number of owners of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards. Despite the fact that this model is about 3 years old, it currently dominates the discrete video cards with an indicator of 6.92%. Compared to the previous month, its share increased by 0.75%. The second place was taken by…

Hermetica game on Steam brings medieval whimsical illustrations to life

News Games 03-31-2024 at 15:11 comment
To a journalist PC Gamer Christopher Livingston had a chance to play Hermetica at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The game demo is available at Steam. It takes place in Toledo, Spain in the 16th century, and is filled with characters from the bizarre illustrations of medieval books and maps.

Steam has a new category of system requirements for games – Ultra

News Games 03-21-2024 at 11:51 comment
Currently, Steam lists two system configurations in the «System Requirements» section for games. One of them lists the «Minimum» system requirements needed to run the game. However, you should not expect high performance or picture quality in such cases.

Steam Family Groups. Valve announced the next major update [What’s new and how to test it]

News Games 03-19-2024 at 10:20 comment
On the evening of March 18, Valve released an update to the Steam beta, which introduced Family Groups with shared access to games.

Steam sets a new record with over 36 million simultaneous players

News Games 03-18-2024 at 10:24 comment
Steam continues to set records for the number of simultaneous users for the third week in a row. Since the beginning of spring, user activity has been increasing every weekend, and this week it has set a new record.

Shared DisplayPort and HDMI connectors: the Steam Machine prototype did this 11 years ago

News Devices 03-17-2024 at 16:37 comment
One of the first prototypes of Steam Machine, the Xi3 Piston mini-PC, was reviewed in detail on the Bringus Studios YouTube channel. This PC of 2013 runs Windows instead of the Linux-based SteamOS operating system. According to Bringus Studios’ tests, the PC that Xi3 later released under the name Piston has mediocre gaming performance, and…

Spring sale has started on Steam – discounts up to 95% off

News Games 03-15-2024 at 08:52 comment
Steam decided to celebrate the arrival of spring with a seasonal game sale. The service offers «watch» and «listen» games at a discount.

Valve updates Steam — improved shopping cart and ability to hide games from friends

News Games 03-05-2024 at 09:33 comment
On the night of March 5, Valve released a Steam update that brought several new features. It was tested in the Steam beta from the end of December and now it has become accessible to all on the desktop client, mobile app, and Steam Deck.

New Steam record — over 34 million simultaneous users

News Games 03-04-2024 at 09:53 comment
Valve’s Steam gaming platform continues to grow in popularity. It has set a new record for the number of simultaneous users. On March 3 at 16:00 Kyiv time on Steam there were 34,649,583 online users.

The full version of Death From Above is now available on Steam. This is an arcade simulator of a combat drone during the Russian-Ukrainian war.

News Games 02-22-2024 at 14:51 comment
Death From Above, an arcade combat drone simulator developed by Rockodile and published by Lesser Evil, was released on the Steam platform. Death From Above is set during the Russian-Ukrainian war. You play as a drone operator of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating deep behind enemy lines. You observe the battlefield and destroy the occupiers…

Spelling error report

The following text will be sent to our editors: