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Valve says Steam users downloaded 100 exabytes of games in 2025, and are averaging 274 petabytes of installs and updates every day

Today I learned what an exabyte is.

PC Gamer

Valve just scored a historic win against a prolific patent troll — and even got $152K out of it

Serial patent litigator Leigh Rothschild tried to sue Valve in 2022 despite an existing agreement, so Valve went on the offensive and just won its case. Setting a precedent for the patent troll industry.

Windows Central

Steam reportedly raked in a record-breaking $1.6 billion in December with Arc Raiders alone moving over a million copies

PC gaming remains a big deal.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises $252 million for brain computer interface venture — but Merge Labs is still in an early research phase

OpenAI has signaled its intentions to become a major player in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) with a $252 million investment in Merge Labs.

Tom’s Hardware

A 16-year-old, 180p clip of Valve's Gabe Newell nailing the piracy issue is making the rounds online and only feels more relevant today: "People are happy to pay money" for "a great product delivered on their terms"

It's always been that simple

GamesRadar

GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his 'inability to count to three' — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike

GameStop just released a press release saying that it will help Valve co-founder Gabe Newell learn how to count to three.

Tom’s Hardware

Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead writer Dan Houser says "AI is eventually going to eat itself," and that the people behind chatbots and AI models "aren’t fully rounded humans"

Houser's now working on his own franchise

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Estimates peg Valve as a capitalism fusion reactor, making such ungodly money per employee that it's no wonder Gabe Newell bought all those yachts and the whole damn yacht company

But bear in mind estimates are all we have to go off until an accountant leaves Valve's books in a bar.

PC Gamer

Joining Valve's Gabe Newell at the altar of AI, Ubisoft CEO says the controversial tech will be "as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D"

Ubisoft is using generative AI "in all our studios and offices"

GamesRadar

Windows 1.0 released 40 years ago today - and started Microsoft's road to success

Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.

TechRadar

Inside billionaire Gabe Newell's new $500 million superyacht, which has a submarine garage and its own hospital

Newell, 62, has a lot to celebrate this month, including his gaming company Valve announcing three new pieces of hardware.

Fortune

Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

"We knew we were asking for unusual things," says Newell, "and Oceanco embraced it with open arms."

PC Gamer

I reported on the failure of Valve's first Steam Machines 8 years ago—this time I think they have it right

The original Steam Machines didn't kick off a new era of PC gaming, but Valve's second attempt just might.

PC Gamer

Valve on viral marketing and leaks: 'Everybody assumes we have some sort of like grand plan... and it's literally just somebody fat fingering something'

You're probably thinking about this sort of stuff a lot more than Valve is.

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Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now

Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

PC Gamer

Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'

It'll be fine, right? It'll be fine.

GamesRadar

After Randy Pitchford had a game cancelled by EA, he was called by Gabe Newell out of nowhere to ask if he wanted to work on Half-Life: "I don't believe in manifestation - I believe in coincidence"

Half-Life: Opposing Force would release nine months later

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Steam removes 2D platformer allegedly infected with malware, but not before it apparently steals over $150,000 in cryptocurrency from players

The threat called BlockBlasters has now been blasted away

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Congress calls Gabe Newell, Twitch and Discord CEOs to testify in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting

At a hearing this October.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: 'People talk s**t at me in chat' and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis

But he loves 'em anyway.

GamesRadar

Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says "people talk s*** at me in chat, and about once a week people say, hey noob, uninstall the game" but "that's really about their enthusiasm" so he still plays Dota 2 "every day"

Even Gabe Newell isn't immune to being flamed in MOBAs

TechRadar

Valve has introduced significant UI updates to Steam, and gamers are thanking 'Lord Gaben' yet again

Valve has improved its Steam client in one big update, with new additions to its user interface and accessibility, alongside several fixes.

Dot Esports

Gaben admits playing Dota 2 ‘every day’ despite online toxicity

I was more excited about Gabe's "Welcome to The International" speech than the games that followed.

GamesRadar

Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean

Gabe Newell's Inkfish has added the RV6000 to its fleet

GamesRadar

Steam founder Gabe Newell predicts AI will be "10 times as significant as the impact of CGI," tells film directors to act more like 19-year-olds with chatbot girlfriends and "actually use this tool"

OK, Steven Spielberg

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