SteamDB extension update: Steam Community achievements page overhaul
Achievements are grouped by update, DLC, and multiplayer categories. The extension is now localized into 45 languages.
Start typing to see game suggestions. This only suggests apps that have a store page.
Achievements are grouped by update, DLC, and multiplayer categories. The extension is now localized into 45 languages.
Steam Deck OLED is the same powerful handheld PC, but with an HDR OLED screen, a longer lasting battery, faster WiFi, and a slew of tweaks and improvements across the board.
Steam is implementing this with two new pricing regions: LATAM - USD (which includes Argentina) and MENA - USD (which includes Turkey).
Valve commits to refresh these price suggestions on an annual basis.
The days of uncontrollably downloading old game versions on Steam might be over
Reservations available starting July 16; shipping begins in December 2021
Valve has partnered with Perfect World to bring an onshore version of Steam to China.
As we are approaching the end of 2020, Valve have announced the dates for the halloween, autumn, and winter sales in an email to all Steam partners.
Taking a quick dive into how the Steam download and preload system works.
You might have seen news that there are over 1 billion registered Steam accounts. If you go solely by the account id, then sure you can assume that. However, the reality is that not all account ids are actually registered.
Valve did an AMA regarding Half-Life: Alyx right on reddit over at /r/HalfLife today.
Nzyme32 from resetera noted that Valve added a complimentary package which contains an unknown app (AppID 546560) to Valve Index related packages. In this post we'll delve into some of the history this app has.
After roughly one month in beta, Steam Remote Play Together is now released to all Steam users. With this feature, local multiplayer gaming is now extended to iOS and Android devices. Remote Play Together enables cross-platform play among friends across Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.
In response to today's statement of objections from the European Commission, Valve sent out the following press release:
This is not an April fools joke, here's a web archive of the Steam store page.
The opportunities on PC have never been bigger or more exciting, but capitalizing on those opportunities is easier said than done.
Lunar Sale begins today at 10:00 PST and will end on February 11th, 2019.
Perfect World and Valve announced an extension of their ongoing partnership to begin work on Steam China, which will provide Chinese gamers and developers with a new way to access Steam's expansive selection of games and entertainment.
The Steam Link app, designed to extend Steam's suite of services and accessibility, is now available free of charge for iOS and Apple TV users.
In recent time PUBG has made history largely thanks to Chinese players by becoming the most played game on Steam.
A short write-up on how the rating algorithm was made, and why it's probably a better estimate of the score.
The International Dota 2 Championships continue to set new records as the prize pool for the seventh annual event has already surpassed last year's largest ever e-sports prize purse of $20,770,460.
February 27, 2017 - LG Electronics will unveil its first VR HMD prototype at this year's GDC in San Francisco, CA. Being shown in Valve's GDC booth, the LG HMD prototype is designed to deliver a high fidelity, next generation VR experience.
STEAM AUDIO: SPATIAL AUDIO TECH ANNOUNCED, BETA SDK AVAILABLE NOW
In case you hadn't figured it out by the dedicated menu dropdown, we like stats. The most interesting (and most popular) stats we track are of how many concurrent players are using a specific app at a specific time.
The Steam Dev Days 2016 are coming to an end today. If you haven't already, check out our coverage of Day One.
The first day of the Steam Dev Days 2016 is upon us! Devs from all over the world are in Seattle to talk about Steam, VR and more!
Valve just released this press release (below) regarding the Steam Dev Days 2016, teasing near and long-term expansions to Steam and some new VR peripherals.
Older versions of Steam allow an attacker who observes a client connecting to Steam to read sensitive information sent over the network.
Blockbuster Hunger Games, Twilight, Divergent & Saw Franchises to Lead Roster of Lionsgate Feature Films Available to Steam Customers.
Even though this won't be news to you if you already follow us on Twitter, Valve sent us 2 press releases the past few days!
HTC and Valve today announced their 2016 CES Best of Show winning VR system is available now for pre order with first shipments targeted to begin on Tuesday, April 5th.
Earlier versions of this app had quite a bit of interesting stuff.
As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour.
Today we updated SteamDB with package names from Valve's new help website after Nephrite found a method to get them.
Valve today announces the official launch of its line of Steam Hardware devices in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.
As Valve moves closer to the SteamOS and Steam machines official release, they are putting a lot of effort into updating the Big Picture UI to provide a better experience for new users. One such change can be seen in a form of a greeting screen overviewing different aspects of Steam.
GameStop, GAME UK, EB Games, and Valve today announced dedicated Steam Sections launching this fall in GameStop (USA), GAME UK, and EB Games (Canada) stores.
Nick and Glenn from ValveTime here! We're taking over SteamDB for the weekend to bring you the latest Valve news straight from EGX 2015! This is our first time liveblogging, so we probably won't be very good at it! But stick with us - perfection takes practice!
High definition digital versions of all four of the movies in the cult classic "Mad Max" series, as well as the new Mad Max video game in the series are available for sale now via electronic sell-through (EST) from Steam.
HTC and Valve are showing off two new titles coming to the upcoming Vive VR system at this year's PAX Prime in Seattle, WA.
Rocket League, the popular and critically-acclaimed sports-action title from independent game developer, Psyonix, is one of the top games of the summer. Having sold more than 1 million copies via Steam since its release last month.
Now, just over a year on, we want to revisit the concerns we originally raised in the open letter, acknowledge the changes Valve have made to their processes over the last year, point out what we’re very happy with, and what we’re still not quite satisfied with.
Valve attended GDC in full force this year and talked about a lot of stuff. Here's everything they talked about it in one post.
A technical preview of the Vulkan API, with advanced techniques and live demos of real-world applications running on Vulkan drivers and hardware.
One of our top men is at GDC to bring you the latest from the show floor. We'll also be compiling experiences of people who just demo'd the stuff Valve has at their booth.
Valve announces a number of product and technologies at this week's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
It is the second day of talks at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco today, but the first day of talks by Valve employees.
There's a lot of SteamVR news going around, and with that news also some misinformation. We've written this article to expand on the history of the platform and hopefully clear up some things about it.
Valve is attending GDC 2015 in full force! Valve has announced that they are bringing the final version of the Steam Controller, some Steam Machines, new living room devices and the HTC Vive SteamVR HMD to GDC.
As you might already know, Valve generously released soundtracks for their games completely free of charge. However they don't let you download them without downloading the whole game, which is not ideal.
Since the previous Steam client beta release, there's some hidden tabletop code added to the Steam Client. It's clearly visible that this code is in early stages of the development, but this gives us a hint where Steam could be heading.
A peek at the new Steam Store (hint: it's blue)
This letter is collaboratively written by various members of Steam’s developer community regarding our concerns with Valve security behaviours.
A quick, semi-comprehensive guide as to why there’s probably more ‘Signs of Linux Support’ and ‘Game Possibly Works’ listed on the Linux Games page than there needs to be.
Valve has been busy updating the Steam Controller, and here's what the latest iteration looks like.
Gabe and friends are doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit, here's the highlights!
There are some exciting changes in today's Steam client beta update! First off, SteamVR (formerly known as OpenVR), Valve's alternate reality SDK, has been officially shipped. Hopefully we'll see some developer documentation pop up soon so developers can integrate it into their games.
Valve had a press event at CES this year. MaximumPCMag filmed the whole thing, you can see it here or read the summary below.
Valve's press event was short but sweet! Here's what we've learned.
Keep in mind that this feature is not officially released yet, it's not even in beta yet.
CES is coming up next week, Valve said there will be a number of third party manufacturers revealing their Steam Machines. Valve also has a decently sized booth at the event, so we might see some new stuff from Valve themselves as well!
Woohoo! It's finally here! This blog will mostly follow the structure of our "SteamOS: What we know and what to expect" blog post. We'll also include some speculation here and there based on our findings.
SteamOS is coming on Friday (Dec 13th) and we thought it would be a good time to summarize what we've learned about it so far.
TF2's 5th Annual Scream Fortress Event is out!
All information (including screenshots) in this post are to be treated as unfinished as these features are not officially available at the time of writing.
Valve has implemented In-Home Streaming in Steam. After some tinkering (technical stuff below), you get a new option, named "In-Home Streaming".
Valve announced their controller today. We've covered what we thought the controller would be in a previous post, but we'll just sum it up in one whole post with some more in-depth guessing.
Valve announced "Steam Machines" today. I'm still going to call them Steamboxes because Steam machine sounds stupid.
Day 1's Steam universe announcement was SteamOS. Valve completely blew our original predictions out of the water by basically announcing/hinting to all of them. Except for the actual Steambox.
SteamOS is here. Let's expand on some of the features Valve announced. What are they actually saying?
Our IRC bot has been merged with the updater that keeps this site up to date and has been renamed to "Steam Database Backend" which can be found on GitHub. As part of this merging process, most of the code has been rewritten to fix some bugs, improve readability and performance.
We'll be covering the announcements on our Twitter so be sure to follow us there if you'd like to stay up to date.
First day of summer sale was quite crazy not only for Valve, but us too.
The Summer Sale has started right on time, and as everyone suspected the Mystery Cards were to be used in the Summer Sale.
It’s around this time of year that wallets around the world start to tremble in fear of the impending Steam Summer Sale. So when is the Summer Sale actually going to start this year? Lets look at the facts:
You can now directly go to an app/sub if you know it's ID. Simply press ctrl+enter to go to the app page or ctrl+shift+enter to go to the sub page for the ID you entered.
Depots are no longer available through PICS (minus depot 7 and 8), this meant we were stuck with a whole lot of apps that would never get updated again. Old depot pages will display history and what subs they are included in (if available).
We've just updated our backend applications to use Steam's new information requesting system "PICS".
Last week, OpenSteamWorks suffered a loss of data due to a hardware failure. Amongst other things, they hosted game graphs that show how many players were playing applications. When it was apparent that it would not be coming back any time soon, we decided to make our own version of this.
Earlier today, after implementing a new method of gathering information (MDD) an entry called "Half-Life 4" appeared in our database.
We do what we do because we love information, and making it accessible for the everyday Joe.
Not a lot of changes today, major history updates though (which I'm sure some of you will like).
This is a changelog of (most) changes between the last changelog (February 12th) and now.
Yay! Steam for Linux just went out of beta!
Some people were asking us how we are getting all these prices in such a neat way, including different countries. So, here's a blog post explaining that!
A while back Valve introduced Blotter (part of the new Steam Community). You can open up Blotter by clicking on the Community tab in your Steam Client. See that "TAG WITH GAME" option? That auto-complete list contains apps of which Game Hubs were removed earlier today.
Since a few hours ago, we have started processing Steam Hub names in the database (hence why a ton of apps were "updated"). Some people noticed things such as Halo 3 appearing in the database.