Valve spruces up the Steam store with better social features, networking, and reach
Valve’s Steam digital game store has new competition for developers from the rival Epic Games Store, and so the company is upgrading its features to...
Valve plans to mitigate ‘off-topic review bombs’ on Steam
Valve is once again looking at ways to improve user reviews on Steam. As it turns out, it didn’t exactly fix the problem last...
Valve launches Steam Link Anywhere and better networking features
Ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week in San Francisco, Valve is adding a couple of new features for its Steam digital game...
GB Decides 112: Anthem has destroyed 99.9% of all PS4s
On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeffrey Grubb has never played World of Warcraft, but he has played House Party...
This chart visualizes why live-service games are the ‘it’ thing for publishers
The video game business is an expensive and risky hit-driven market. But live-service games are altering this dynamic. Instead of trying to hit a...
Cloud gaming will determine the new lord of digital distribution
Nearly 15 years ago, most video games were sold in brick-and-mortar stores. Valve was about to launch Steam, and people could anticipate that digital...
GDC survey: Half of game developers support unionization, believe Steam is too greedy
A survey of game developers shows that nearly half of game developers support game industry unionization, a majority believe that Steam no longer justifies...
How Valve is changing Steam in 2019
Valve Software is finally facing some major challengers in the PC gaming space, and it is planning a number of updates to keep its...
Monster Boy sells 8 times more on Switch than PS4 and Xbox One combined
You know what would be good on the Switch? Everything. And most games that are on Nintendo’s handheld/home console hybrid is enjoying the benefits...
Oculus Rift leads again in Steam’s December hardware survey
I was half expecting to write that the combined power of the Vive and Vive Pro had allowed HTC to regain the top spot...