Valve is giving Steam Deck game devs real player performance data
…Now, Valve is giving developers a peek behind the curtain on Steam. For games that are Steam Deck Verified, developers will get a readout of the last 30 days of average frame…
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Steam is building a game performance estimator for your PC
…But it'd be a help for Valve, too. Who knows how many players take advantage of Steam's rather lenient return policy because of hardware issues? (Well, Valve knows, I guess…
A Valve engineer's Linux patch makes 8GB AMD GPUs better at gaming
…A Valve engineer seems to have been working on the problem, and a new kernel patch for AMD graphics cards could deliver greater performance on Linux. The engineer in question is Natalie…
When will the Steam Machine land? Valve doesn't seem to know
…If you've been following along you know that as recently as a month ago, Valve said that "Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year…
Is VR gaming now dead in the water?
…It's Valve. The Steam Frame is in trouble Valve, which has virtual reality hardware in both its past and future. Valve, which still hosts dedicated VR spaces on Steam, the de…
Don't pay scalper prices for a Steam Controller
Happy May 4th, the day when Valve's Steam Controller goes on sale and nothing else significant at all. It doesn't take space wizard powers to predict that the redesigned Steam…
Steam delivered 2 billion Blu-rays worth of downloads in 2025
…In 2025, Valve's dominating platform delivered 100 exabytes of data to users—that's 100 million terabytes of data (or 2 billion standard dual-layer Blu-ray discs). As Valve explains…
I don't need Windows 11 anymore. One final tool freed me from Microsoft
…That's a weird thing to say as a writer for a site named PCWorld. But it's been a long time coming, a slow mix of broad tech trends, feeling betrayed…
Acer’s new Intel gaming handheld picked a terrible time to show up
…But in 2026, as memory and storage shortages cripple the consumer PC market, things are a lot more complicated — just ask Valve. Acer's back at Computex 2026, announcing a fresh gaming…
Linux users surge on Steam, doubling in a year
…The most common Linux variation is, unsurprisingly, SteamOS, the operating system Valve created more than a decade ago and now uses for the Steam Deck handheld. SteamOS is also available for other…