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Sep 30Wed
  1. 游戏LOOK47

    Behind Steam's "Exposure Hunger": 470 Game Festivals in 6 Years, Yet Two-Thirds of Games Never Get In

    An analysis by the game marketing blog How To Market A Game counts 470 third-party online game festivals around Steam, yet only about 31% of new games released since 2020 have appeared in one, leaving two-thirds with no access at all. The Wandering Village topped the list with 59 festivals, while Lost Twins 2 joined 35 festivals but drew only 53 reviews after launching last year. A YouTube channel was also reported to sell exposure, with a $2,228 package yielding just 1,622 impressions and zero wishlist growth.

  4. Rock Paper Shotgun67

    Deadlock update adds six new heroes, over 10,000 voice lines and a map visual overhaul

    Valve shipped a large update for Deadlock, which is still not officially released, adding six new heroes: Nurse Harrow, Rat King, Solomon, Deadman Danny, Baba and Violet. The update also reworks the visuals of all three main lanes and adds four districts, improves UI and HUD elements such as healthbars and an event feed, reworks the ping system, and adds over 10,000 non-ping voice lines with a dialogue player. It further introduces a parry cooldown display, custom lobbies supporting up to eight spectators, and accessibility options including enemy colour changes, auto movement and firing, and voice over subtitles.

  6. Rock Paper Shotgun58

    Valve is turning Steam's discounts and events section into algorithm-driven personalized recommendations

    Valve announced that Steam's discounts and events section will move away from hand curation to more dynamic and personalized recommendations. In a blog post, Valve said that after months of testing dynamic recommendations in place of some curated spots, it showed 10x more games per day in that section and saw meaningful increases in store page visits, wishlists and cart additions. Valve said it has no definite date for the change and is still tuning the details.

Sep 24Thu
  1. Rock Paper Shotgun62

    Beat Saber announces its biggest update yet with hand-tracking and a bare-handed Flux mode

    Beat Saber has announced its biggest update yet, arriving in Spring 2027, adding a new bare-handed mode called Flux in which players punch, prod and slap notes instead of using sabers. Flux launches with 35 songs and showcases the update's new hand-tracking, which also works with the traditional saber modes. The campaign is being refreshed with new missions, checkpoints and a light narrative element, alongside a progression system for unlocking saber, beat and bomb cosmetics.

  3. 游戏LOOK12

    Gabe Newell's Odd Hobby: Practicing Mongolian Throat Singing in the Office, Valve Staff Complained About "5 Months of Torment"!

    Minh "Gooseman" Le, co-creator of Counter-Strike, recalled on the Indie Game Joe podcast that Valve founder Gabe Newell became obsessed with Mongolian throat singing after watching a documentary on the technique, practicing almost daily in the office for about five months. Le also said Newell collects cold weapons, and that the singing Vortigaunt in Half-Life 2 used recordings of Newell practicing throat singing.

Sep 23Wed
  1. Rock Paper Shotgun38

    Steam Machine handles Control Resonant capably, but promised Steam Deck support is a letdown

    Control Resonant runs at a playable 40-50fps at 1080p on Medium settings on the Steam Machine, but struggles on the Steam Deck, where even the Handheld preset with FSR Performance rarely reaches 30fps. The game also has a 105GB install size and lacked public SteamOS hardware compatibility ratings a day before release. The author does not recommend playing it on the Steam Deck and advises against enabling ray tracing.

  2. Rock Paper Shotgun60

    People Playground shuts down its Steam Workshop again over a malicious mod

    People Playground developer Mestiez said on September 22 that the Steam Workshop had been disabled hours earlier because of another malicious mod, calling this one especially bad. Players who used mods between 6PM and 8PM CEST on September 21 are urged to run antivirus scans, delete all mods and avoid launching the game until the developer says it is safe. According to Kotaku, this is the second malware attack via a Steam Workshop mod on the game in a year, after a similar incident in February.

  3. Rock Paper Shotgun22

    JSAUX's Prebuilt Steam Machine Faceplate Screens Arrive, Cheaper Than Valve's DIY Inkterface Build

    JSAUX's Steam Machine E-Ink and Pixel Matrix faceplates are now on sale for $100 and $90 respectively, undercutting the $104.50 component cost of building a panel via Valve's open-source Inkterface project. Both offer performance monitoring, clock, weather, calendar and photo frame modes switchable in SteamOS quick settings, with companion software due via Steam from early October. The E-Ink panel refreshes only once per minute, while the Pixel Matrix trades detail for colour and retro charm.

Sep 21Mon
  1. Rock Paper Shotgun23

    Steam Frame's first post-launch update speeds up charging and fixes a mic bug

    Valve has released SteamOS 0.3.0, the first post-launch software update for the Steam Frame, bringing "substantially faster" charging, a fix for a "garbled audio" microphone bug, and improved controller tracking while haptics are active. The update also improves system stability under high load, fixes the per-app Motion Smoothing "Force Always-On" setting being ignored, and changes the developer playable performance criteria to allow any resolution instead of 1440p.

Sep 18Fri
  1. Rock Paper Shotgun58

    Denuvo sues anonymous cracker voices38 over bypassing DRM on 26 games

    Denuvo filed a DMCA complaint on 14th September in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against a person or group called voices38, accusing them of circumventing anti-tamper technology on 26 games including Black Myth: Wukong, Resident Evil Requiem and Doom: The Dark Ages. Denuvo does not hold the copyrights to those games and instead invokes the provision against bypassing digital locks, seeking damages and an injunction against removing anti-tamper software from any past, present or future game. Denuvo knows the cracker only through a Discord ID, a Reddit account and a few Steam profiles, naming the defendant as an unknown individual or entity alongside 10 other unnamed defendants; Torrent Freak suggests the filing is partly meant to let Denuvo subpoena Valve, Reddit and Discord for more information.

Sep 16Wed
  2. GamesIndustry.biz36

    Why the publisher of Nintendo Life is launching a new PC gaming site, Steam Hype

    Hookshot has launched Steam Hype, a PC-focused outlet dedicated to "what's hot and what's next" on Steam, marking its fifth site alongside Nintendo Life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension. The site emphasizes human-led curation and recommendation, with a monthly playlist of new titles and a weekly list of notable updates and releases, overseen by Damien McFerran and led editorially by Dominic Tarason. Hookshot CEO Dickens says the company's majority-independent ownership lets it expand while others contract, with a goal of breaking even within a year.

Sep 15Tue
  3. GamesIndustry.biz78

    Valve opens Steam Frame waiting list, starting at $1,059

    Valve has opened a waiting list for its Steam Frame VR system, offering 256GB and 1TB models. The 256GB version costs $1,059 (£889) and the 1TB version $1,299 (£1,089), both with a 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16GB of RAM, two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx included, but no power supply. Steam Frame will support Android games because it uses the same Android APKs developers already use to port mobile titles to Android-based devices like Meta Quest.

    Why this: Valve opened the Steam Frame waiting list and published full specs and prices for both models, letting readers decide whether to join.

  4. Game Informer82

    Valve opens reservations for Steam Frame VR headset and reveals pricing and specs

    Valve opened sign-ups for the Steam Frame VR headset, with registration running for 72 hours until 1:00 PM ET on September 17 and the first wave of customers notified from September 18. The wireless headset streams VR and non-VR Steam games, ships with two controllers and Half-Life: Alyx but no power supply, and costs 1,059 USD for 256GB or 1,299 USD for 1TB. A 59 USD ergonomic accessories kit is also available.

  5. Steam22

    Steam Party-Based RPG Fest Now Live

    Steam Party-Based RPG Fest is now live! These games let you build multiple characters, allowing you to build different archetypes for each. So gather your wizard hat, your archer bow, and your warrior shield because you're going to need them all!

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  1. Steam22

    Steam Pins & Pegs Fest Now Live

    Steam Pins & Pegs Fest is now live with all kinds of pinball games, pachinko/bagatelle-inspired games, brick breaker games, and of course bowling games for you to check out. Plink, plonk, and ping your way to victory until Aug 20!

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  1. Steam News12

    Team Fortress 2 Update Released

    An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released and will be applied automatically when the game is restarted. It updates the Taxi Cabbed war paint, fixes sticker mip settings and incorrect wear textures, and updates or adds tournament medals. The koth_dryfield map fixes the teleporter prison exploit, broken RED hut geometry, and a flying RED roof, while improving balcony access and adding missing player clips.

Jul 15Wed
  1. Steam News8

    Team Fortress 2 Update Released

    An update for Team Fortress 2 has been released and will be applied automatically when the game is restarted. It fixes missing sound for the Circuit Breaker taunt, renames the "Northern Nights" Summer 2026 Unusual effect to "Polar Prism," and updates several cosmetics and maps. Map changes include improved outdoor lighting on koth_dusker and crash and spawn room fixes on cp_premuda.

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  1. Steam News12

    Team Fortress 2 Update Released

    An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released and will be applied automatically when the game is restarted. It fixes material and team color issues on several items and adjusts zipline dismount speed and delays on pl_redwood, while koth_camp_saxton received major optimization improvements.

Jul 9Thu
  1. Steam News8

    Team Fortress 2 Update Released

    An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released and will be applied automatically when the game is restarted. It adds a second style to the Beachcomber's Brim that was originally missed, fixes a naming conflict for the Northern Nights, Umbral Lights, and Solar Singed Unusual effects, and addresses visibility issues with the Blissful Butterflies and Wispful Wings effects. The update also fixes truncated style names for the Hard Hearing, the backpack image alpha channel for the Pyro's Overalls, and alpha channels for the Sandwich Diner and Sideshow war paints, plus removes rogue pixels from the Team Union war paint.

Jul 8Wed
  1. Steam News38

    Team Fortress 2 Summer 2026 Update Released

    Team Fortress 2 has released its Summer 2026 update, adding 6 new community maps including Dryfield, Camp Saxton, Shorelight, Redwood, Premuda, and Mojave, plus the Summer 2026 Cosmetic Case and War Paint Case. The update also adds 4 community-contributed taunts and 12 new Unusual effects, with the Summer event running through September 15th, 2026. It includes general security and stability improvements and numerous community fixes.