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Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'
By Rich Stanton published
News "I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

As the Nintendo eShop fails to protect from 'eslop', indie devs reflect on how it affects their work and why Steam is just better: 'Their algorithm will more or less naturally bury AI slop'
By Elie Gould published
News "You just get filed into an endless list of releases."

Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans
By Joshua Wolens published
News I hope you kept the receipt.

Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad
By Joshua Wolens published
News The new rule seemingly coincided with a large number of adult games being delisted from the platform.

Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back)
By Morgan Park published
NEWS Steam briefly died and came back alive.

Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'
By Joshua Wolens published
News "You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."

Update: Valve only blocked a creepy fascist Mount and Blade: Warband mod in South Korea, not worldwide, and the mod's own author took it down entirely
By Ted Litchfield last updated
news The story now lines up with prior Valve moderation decisions.

What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'
By Rick Lane published
Digital fossils Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.
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