The Latest Breaking News from Steam

Palworld lead calls Factorio "one of the most influential games" on Steam, and "can't imagine" how different the gaming landscape would be without it

Factorio is ending development of major updates with 2.1

GamesRadar · Jun 1

Steam Week in Review: 4 Backrooms games released on Steam last week, joining a list of over 500 cash-ins, parodies and legitimate contenders

All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending May 30.

PC Gamer · Jun 1

Young gamers are hating on the Backrooms movie for the most ridiculous reasons

Gen Z at it again.

Destructoid · May 31

Backrooms to triple previous A24 opening weekend record at $85+ million

Maybe Michael Bay shouldn't have nuked the Skibidi Toilet movie after all.

PC Gamer · May 30

How to get real-life Steam money from TBH: Task Bar Hero

Stonks!

Destructoid · May 30

Balatro publisher Playstack only discovered it because they had a guy checking all the new releases on Steam every day: 'I saw the game the day it went up on Steam'

"I went to Twitter at the time and contacted LocalThunk. I think he had maybe two or three followers."

PC Gamer · May 30

Legend has it that The 7th Guest's creators were 'fired' on the spot after pitching the game—it's 'hyperbole,' but not entirely untrue

The classic puzzle game began as notes on an airport napkin before "blowing minds" at CES 1991.

PC Gamer · May 29

Paralives fans can make all the NSFW mods they like "so long as it follows Steam's guidelines" – and with how popular The Sims 4's WickedWhims is, I think they might

Adult content also needs to be "properly tagged," of course

GamesRadar · May 29

Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney slams Valve over Steam Deck price hikes — mocks founder Gabe Newell over rising costs of megayachts

The Epic Games chief took potshots at Valve CEO Gabe Newell's expensive megayacht collection after sharing the Steam Deck's massive price hikes on X. The post compared the $240 to $300 increase on the Valve hardware to the $50 to $100 jumps on the Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 family.

Tom’s Hardware · May 29

Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'

Maybe Sweeney isn't the best person to make this point.

PC Gamer · May 29