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Navigate the Steam store with the latest on Valve’s AI rules, massive developer lawsuits, and the best new trial software.

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Valve Corporation
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Free client; per-title purchases
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132 million MAU
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Key Takeaway Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2026
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Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2026

Navigate the Steam store with the latest on Valve’s AI rules, massive developer lawsuits, and the best new trial software.

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Tracking: Valve opens Steam Controller reservations, could Steam Machine follow? - VideoCardz.com / GameNative adds Lossless Scaling (Multi) Frame Generation for Steam games on Android - VideoCardz.com

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Tracking: Ukrainian-made Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City 2 finally has a release date, and you can play the first hour right now on Steam / The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer, Valve confirm as the pair join the Verified program

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How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Members of our development team will personally participate in discussions on the Steam forums and in the Expeditions Discord server, gathering feedback and taking suggestions from the fans that will help inform how we focus our efforts as we get closer to finishing our game.”

Expeditions: Samurai announced for 2026 early access release on PC | RPG Site
Are you accessing its full potential?

The Steam Deck has an architectural secret that puts it significantly more secure than practically every other gaming handheld. It has the power of an immutable file system. The concept of an immutable file system is that the core operating system directories are entirely read-only. Valve locks down the operating system cores so that random app installs, script execution, or accidental user terminal blunders can never break or corrupt the boot files. There is an A/B partition safety net, too. SteamOS uses dual system partitions: Partition A and Partition B. When Valve pushes an OS update, it s

I stopped using my Steam Deck as just a handheld after discovering Desktop Mode
Which one should be your pick?

The answer to this question will depend exclusively on where most of your game library lives. The Big Picture Mode, however stunning, only helps you to access your Steam library, and for someone whose collection is exclusively on Steam, it is the more mature option on Windows. That being said, the answer going to be quite different for the vast majority. Most PC gamers in 2026 have a game library that's scattered across Steam, Epic, GOG, Game Pass, and whatever launcher a publisher decided to force on them this year. The Xbox Mode works as an antidote to this problem by consolidating all of it

Steam's Big Picture Mode finally has competition, and it's from Microsoft
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