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Valve facing second, class-action lawsuit over loot boxes
By Andy Chalk published
news The consumer lawsuit comes just over a week after a similar suit filed by the state of New York.

Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day
By Rich Stanton published
News Today I learned what an exabyte is.

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'
By Nick Evanson published
News Sounds easy to do, not actually easy to do at all.

Counter-Strike's 'X-ray scanner' for loot containers is coming to Germany later this month
By Andy Chalk published
news CS2 players in Germany will soon be able to see what's inside containers before purchasing them—but it's not really the boon it sounds like.

Valve quickly updates its own Steam Machine update, recommitting to a 2026 launch despite AI woes: 'Nothing's really changed on our end'
By Ted Litchfield published
news A recent blog post from Valve made it sound like the launch could slip into 2027.

Valve nixes less confident Steam Machine language, recommits to 2026 release
By Andy Chalk published
news Valve has edited the blog post that kicked off speculation.

In the battle for our living rooms, Xbox Project Helix and the Steam Machine make for unlikely rivals on paper—but Microsoft's new PC gaming-capable console might be raising some eyebrows at Valve
By Andy Edser published
Console conundrum Two very different machines, perhaps closer than we initially thought.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back: 3 years after it was muscled out by Counter-Strike 2, CS:GO has its own Steam page again and has powered its way back onto Steam's most-played chart
By Andy Chalk published
news CS:GO was subsumed into Counter-Strike 2 a few years ago, but now it has its own Steam page again.

The massive difference between how well Resident Evil Requiem runs on the Steam Deck and an Asus ROG Ally just adds more fuel to the rumour that AMD has abandoned driver support for its Ryzen Z1 chips
By Nick Evanson last updated
News And if that really is the case, how long before it does the same with Z2 processors?
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