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The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'

But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."

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Valve confirms pressure from banks and card companies is to blame for the storefront axing adult Steam games: "Loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles"

The company is removing "certain" titles only

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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

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This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'

And now it's fit with Nintendo DS Lite shoulder buttons, amongst other Frankenstein fixes.

PC Gamer

Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: 'A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples' time'

"The key is to ignore all the distractions."

PC Gamer

Valve boss Gabe Newell shares his "daily routine," which is shockingly like his Steam God persona: "I get up, I work, I go scuba diving, work some more" then "go on a second scuba dive or I go to the gym"

"I work seven days a week"

GamesRadar

Valve's Gabe Newell predicts AI will lead to a "funny situation" where "people who don't know how to program" could be "more effective" than people "who've been programming for a decade"

From his Steam throne, Valve billionaire says businesses should just "listen to your customers and focus on them"

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Steam takes down tons of porn games, cracks down on "certain kinds of adult-only content" — here's why, and its new policy (UPDATE: Valve responds)

Porn games have been on Steam for years now, but many just got taken down from the platform after a recent policy change. Here's Valve's new rule.

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Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'

"I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

PC Gamer

The best Steam Deck games worth playing in 2026

From Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley, these are the 15 best Steam Deck games to play in 2026

GamesRadar

CS2 skin collectors can finally breathe a sigh of relief thanks to new Steam feature

Skins economy is finally under protection.

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"If I had stayed with Valve, I would have been able to retire by now": OG Counter-Strike co-creator 'Gooseman' "kind of regrets" leaving Valve, says he "made some poor business decisions" but grew as a dev

"By the time Valve contacted us, that's when we thought this could go down in history"

GamesRadar

Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans

I hope you kept the receipt.

PC Gamer

Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad

The new rule seemingly coincided with a large number of adult games being delisted from the platform.

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Windows 7 running natively on a Steam Deck is an affront to science — this tinkerer has Microsoft's OS booting in portrait mode

It boots, but there's something wrong with it. Then again, if "Bob Pony" devotes any more time to this unusual project, that could all change.

GamesRadar

ROG Xbox Ally price leaks seemingly just surfaced online, and I'm pretty worried for the Asus handheld

Asus ROG Xbox Ally price leaks briefly popped up via a Google search, and the supposed MSRP could hamper the handheld in its fight against the Steam Deck.

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How to fix Dead by Daylight Error Code 8012

Here's how you can resolve the pesky 8012 Error Code in DBD.

PC Gamer

Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back)

Steam briefly died and came back alive.

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Video game voice actor strike secured anti-AI protections—now it’s time to push the tech out of the industry as a whole

Video game voice actors will have it easier with AI, but we need the thing gone for good.

GamesRadar

"Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years": Modder who spent "over a decade" fixing broken games with the "Swiss Army Knife of PC gaming" drops Valve, saying it has "fragmented PC gaming irreparably"

Special K's Kaldaien is fed up

Destructoid

This indie title just dethroned a Valve classic as best-rated game on Steam

AAA gaming has nothing on small indie teams.

PC Gamer

Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope'

"You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want."

PC Gamer

At the request of South Korea, Valve pulled a mod from Steam that glorified the country's military dictatorship

Gross mod, troubling precedent?

PC Gamer

What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

Tracing the history of an ancient Valve artefact.

PC Gamer

Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee

Halo Goldsource brings Slayer and Firefight into Valve's classic shooter.

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