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Steam Spy compares April data to show that Top Ten best-sellers remain stable while more and more games struggle to find traction
Read More »Lionsgate films now available via Steam
Movie giant Lionsgate has signed a deal to sell its movies via Steam. The agreement launches with over 100 of the company’s films available on the service including the likes of Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergent. The selection appears to be more limited in the UK, however, where only ten …
Read More »Steam to start accepting Bitcoin payments
Support for virtual currency coming soon, with Valve promising it has ‘a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility ‘ in place
Read More »Stardew Valley passes 1m sales in under two months
Lone dev Eric Barone’s Harvest Moon-a-like is the second-biggest paid Steam release of 2016, according to SteamSpy
Read More »Valve blocks indie games store Itch.io app from Steam
Itch.io, the distribution platform aimed at indie and experimental games, has been refused from launching its app on Steam. The PC platform previously opened a page on Steam’s Greenlight service, aiming to drum up support for its unique mix of more obscure titles to come to the marketplace in addition …
Read More »Indie marketplace Itch.io’s Steam release halted by Valve
‘We just don’t have the tools and processes to handle many types of non-gaming software right now,’ platform holder explains after blocking Greenlight app
Read More »ESL One Cologne to become next Valve backed CS:GO major
Valve has announced that the upcoming ESL One Cologne tournament will be the next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major. The event, which is set to run between July 5th and 10th at the LANXESS Arena in Cologne, will feature a one million dollar prize pool for the top eight teams from …
Read More »Valve loses Australian refund lawsuit
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Valve’s Steam service breached Australian consumer law. A disagreement between Valve and the ACCC kicked off in 2014 when the Steam owner was sued over its lack of refund policy. Such a policy was eventually introduced last year, but that …
Read More »Coder exploits Steamworks loophole to release unverified game
Ruby Nealon snuck Watch Paint Dry onto Steam store after his warnings about virtual backdoor went ignored by Valve
Read More »Web developer sneaks game onto Steam without Valve’s permission
An English web developer going by the name Ruby has successfully uploaded a game to Steam, without Valve’s permission, to illustrate a security loophole. The game, if you can call it that, was called Watch Paint Dry. It was a spoof title, really, and has since been removed by Valve. …
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