Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Valve

Steam Deck OLED stock is drying up, Valve confirms — and the RAM crisis has me worried for the Steam Machine

Valve just confirmed the Steam Deck OLED may be “out-of-stock intermittently” due to the RAM price crisis. That makes me nervous about the Steam Machine.

Tom’s Guide

Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages — supply of popular gaming handheld in trouble because of massive AI demand

Valve is blaming memory and chip shortages as Steam Deck availability becomes intermittent in several regions.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve breaks its silence on Steam Deck OLED scarcity and yes, it's because of the RAM and storage crisis

AI continues to mop up all the components you need to play videogames.

PC Gamer

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

I'm sad Deadlock is 'just' a MOBA—not because I don't like them, but because I'm in love with Valve's lore and characters enough to want any other game instead

An RPG, an MMO, an FPS—I'll take anything, man.

PC Gamer

‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviews

The Guardian - UK

Even Valve is impressed by Deadlock's most dedicated simp, who spent hundreds of hours voting 813 times during Old Gods, New Blood: "Every single one was for Celeste"

A total of 60,776,963 votes were cast

GamesRadar

Steam Is Adding Hardware Specs to User Reviews in New Beta Update

The optional new feature aims to add further nuance to game reviews.

Operation Sports

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Stardew Valley-inspired life sim dev "working with Valve to ensure all fake reviews - positive and negative - are flagged and removed," insists it's not behind fake Steam positivity

The Starsand Island devs "are disheartened to see the obviously fake positive reviews"

GamesRadar

Deadlock icon Celeste survives her first round of nerfs, with fans hoping Valve's mere "slap on the wrist" isn't the last for the dazzling hero

"She is still the strongest hero in the game by a mile"

GamesRadar

Steam to add hardware specs to reviews — optional feature could help you dodge poorly optimized games

Steam revealed in its Client Beta patch notes that it will let users show the specifications of their hardware when leaving reviews. This should help other players considering a title see if the feedback was affected by the reviewer's hardware, although Valve says that this feature remains optional.

Tom’s Hardware

All of Deadlock's new heroes are now released—but please, pity the poor schmuck that spent anywhere between 252-378 hours pouring votes into Celeste, who came second to last

That's around 13 hours of gaming a day for 19 days straight.

PC Gamer

The latest Steam beta lets you give Valve your frame rate data, focusing on SteamOS devices to 'learn about game compatibility'

Anything that improves SteamOS is a win in my book.

PC Gamer

Valve trials new Steam reviews option that lets you include your hardware specs, letting everyone know if those performance issues are a you problem

It will be easier than ever to silently judge people

GamesRadar

Steam reviews set to show a player's specs so it's easier to know if you'll share their experience or they misread the minimum

Though that's only if users choose to add it.

PC Gamer

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

GamesRadar

Steam might stop dev from releasing viral horror game just by ignoring them: "Be prepared for the game to be delayed until further notice"

Welcome to Doll Town might need to delay its welcome

TechRadar

Valve's Steam Deck OLED is out of stock in the US, and I think we can guess why

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are out of stock in the US, and the RAM crisis looks like it may be responsible again.

PC Gamer

All models of Steam Deck are sold out in the US and fingers are inevitably already pointing at the memory crisis

This isn't getting any more fun.

Is this the end of the Steam Deck? All models sold out, but there's still hope

RAM shortages might be in play here

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

3 best Steam games to download first – on Steam Deck and Legion Go S

PC handhelds have changed the game, and these three great are perfect fits for portable play

Dot Esports

Valve sets key dates for Dota 2 TI 2026 in Shanghai

The schedule is locked in for this year's most prestigious Dota 2 event.

Windows Central

The Steam Deck OLED is quietly vanishing from storefronts — and fans are asking questions

Steam Deck OLED has gone out of stock across the US and several Asian storefronts, with Valve yet to comment. While Europe still shows availability, speculation is growing around supply pressures, pricing, and future hardware plans.

PC Gamer

Valve isn't putting Gordon Freeman into any new games, so Deadlock modders have taken matters into their own hands

Close enough, welcome back Half-Life.

Tom’s Hardware

Steam Deck availability goes up in smoke — suddenly goes out of stock in US, Asia stores

Speculation has risen about component shortages.

GamesRadar

"I could see $1,000": Steam Machine is "a PC with console benefits" and console hardware struggles, analyst says, and "whatever the next Xbox thing is, it's going to be just like it in a lot of ways"

Valve's living room box faces major production challenges this year

The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games.

1 … 18 19 20 21

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Memory

9,391 stories

Artificial Intelligence

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.