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Gaming

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In Brief

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Mar 21, 2025

Security

Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords

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Feb 18, 2025

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Security

Valve removes Steam game that contained malware

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Feb 13, 2025

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Apps

Backyard Baseball ’97 is back, with a re-release coming soon on Steam

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Sep 25, 2024

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AI

Valve responds to claims it has banned AI-generated games from Steam

Devin Coldewey

Jul 3, 2023

Transportation

Tesla’s latest OTA update adds Steam games, Apple Music, Zoom and a wild light show mode

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Media & Entertainment

Steam (officially) comes to Chrome OS

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Media & Entertainment

Netflix adds more games, including Riot Games’ otherwise paid title ‘Hextech Mayhem’

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Media & Entertainment

Valve’s Steam Deck will go on sale February 25

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Hardware

Valve launches Steam Deck, a $400 PC gaming portable

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Featured

Despite pandemic, gaming is well-positioned to withstand recession

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Media & Entertainment

Game downloads will be throttled to manage internet congestion

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Mar 24, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Steam will soon let you play local-only multiplayer games with far off friends

Greg Kumparak

Oct 10, 2019

Media & Entertainment

Steam Labs lets you peek into Valve’s experimental projects

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Jul 11, 2019

Media & Entertainment

Northzone’s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming

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Media & Entertainment

Google’s Game Builder turns building multiplayer games into a game

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Media & Entertainment

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Media & Entertainment

Valve’s Steam Chat gets its own iOS and Android apps

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May 21, 2019

Media & Entertainment

Steam Link now lets you beam Steam games to your iOS devices

Greg Kumparak

May 15, 2019

Media & Entertainment

EU goes after Valve for ‘geo-blocking’ Steam activation codes

Lucas Matney

Apr 5, 2019

LEGO launches the Education Spike STEAM system for grades 6-8

Brian Heater

Apr 2, 2019

Hardware

Valve lets you stream Steam games from anywhere

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Mar 14, 2019

Media & Entertainment

The legendary and indescribable Dwarf Fortress goes non-ASCII and non-free for the first time

Devin Coldewey

Mar 13, 2019

Media & Entertainment

Gaming clips service Medal has bought Donate Bot for direct donations and payments

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Mar 5, 2019

Featured

Why longer term sheets are better

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Feb 27, 2019

Hardware

Steam fights for future of game stores and streaming

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Feb 26, 2019

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