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Steam Sets New Lifetime User Record

I think we all knew this was coming since a lot of us have been off for the holidays. However, it seems that Reddit and SteamDB have spotted a new lifetime milestone for Steam. Both the Lifetime Concurrent Users metric, and the…

David’s 2021 Steam Winter Sale Recommendations

The weather (and pretty much everything else) outside is frightful, but once again, the Steam sales are quite delightful. I hope you’ll find the continuation of my biannual tradition of writing up a lengthy list of game suggestions during this year’s Steam…

Steam’s 2021 Autumn Sale is Now Live

The year is winding down, the leaves are changing colors, and as if on cue, Valve has launched its annual Steam Autumn Sale. This week-long event serves to give legions of PC gamers here in the U.S. an excuse to both spend…

Leaked 2021 Steam Sale Dates Officially Confirmed

It would seem that in an unprecedented move, Valve has responded to the leaks foretold by the Steam sale-predicting wizards over at Steam Database. Thankfully, rather than politely asking the fine folks who operate SteamDB to stop leaking information about upcoming Steam…

Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details

Back in July, I rounded up all the officially confirmed knowledge I could find about Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck into an article. Even at that point, I had a sneaking suspicion that my work would soon be rendered obsolete because Valve would…

Upcoming Steam Next Fest Dates Revealed

It is nearly time for another Steam Next Fest, folks. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of what a Steam Next Fest entails, allow me to briefly bring you up to speed. A Steam Next Fest (formerly known as the Steam Games…

Steam’s Storage & Download Updates Now Out of Beta

Back in early August, I penned an editorial about what I consider to be wonderful new features that had been recently added to Steam’s beta client. More specifically, these features are an updated Downloads page that provides Steam users with considerably more…

Dates for 2021’s Final Steam Sales Have Leaked

Here we go again, folks. It would seem that enough time has passed since this year’s Steam Summer Sale ended to where the wizards over at Steam Database have been able to make their usual prognostications about the dates of future sales.…

On Steam’s New Storage and Download Managers

Those among our readers who have opted into Steam’s beta client and its accompanying frequent updates have likely found a few new bells and whistles within Valve’s venerable digital distribution platform as of late. Thanks to another of those recent updates, whose…

All We Currently Know About the Steam Deck

Recurring readers may recall that back in late May, I wrote about a rumor regarding the possibility that Valve might be working on a handheld console intended to run Steam games. That rumor went on to speculate that if Valve played their…