Steam is down for Valve’s regular Tuesday maintenance
It’s Tuesday evening in the United States, and that means somewhere within the bowels of Redmond, Washington, engineers are banging away at some Steam...
Steam is helping indies survive China’s new-game freeze
China hasn’t approved any new games for release since March 28. That’s slowing down the growth of country’s biggest publisher, Tencent, and just about every...
MapleStory 2 hits 1 million downloads
Nexon’s MapleStory 2 has already attracted a huge number of players. The publisher confirmed that more than 1 million people downloaded the game through...
The anatomy of a game-key scam
If you’ve heard of Steam-key scams, you know that most of them seem too obvious to fall for. But some scammers are running sophisticated,...
Call of Duty’s Blackout is starting to chip away at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
It seemed like Call of Duty’s battle royale would tear people away from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds when it launched last week. And that is potentially...
783 dance pads and 27.2 million Xbox 360 controllers are connected to Steam
Valve Software doesn’t just distribute games and make digital hats. It also tracks how its Steam members interact with their software. Over the last...
Steam August VR hardware survey: Oculus Rift makes its biggest leap over HTC Vive
August’s Steam hardware survey results are now in, and the Oculus Rift takes its biggest leap over the HTC Vive yet. Last month’s survey showed less...
Gabe Newell struggles to say ‘triple-kill’ for his Dota 2 voice pack
Gabe Newell might have founded Valve, the company that made Half-Life and Steam, but he doesn’t understand the concept of “three.” And that’s a...
Valve registers the domain for Steam.tv (update: it’s streaming Dota 2)
It looks like Valve has registered for the Steam.tv domain, as SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik first spotted. By looking at the source data for the...
Uncle Death now has a PC, so Let It Die is coming to Steam
Grasshopper Manufacture’s free-to-play hack-and-slash adventure Let It Die is coming to Steam this fall. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America released it for PlayStation 4...