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Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats

Amid an army of rivals, is the Steam Deck OLED still worth picking up? I'd argue yes, with caveats.

Tom’s Guide

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 launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

The new system, enabled by default, generates review scores based on your specific language, rather than all of them.

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Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs

"Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us"

GamesRadar

Steam's new Performance Overlay is more accurate than Task Manager, says Valve — GPU utilization monitoring comes directly to Steam in latest client beta

Valve’s Steam Beta is testing an overlay that tracks GPU usage more accurately than Windows Task Manager, including multi-process games. Early rollout is inconsistent, but once stable, it could give gamers real-time, reliable performance stats without extra apps, rivaling tools like MSI Afterburner.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe

Mmm, sweet accuracy.

PC Gamer

Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs

I don't know if the new Steam layout will save lives, but I think it looks better.

PC Gamer

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Gaming handhelds are the new netbooks — will they suffer the same tragic fate?

It's easy to draw similarities between the rise of netbooks in the late '00s and gaming handhelds today. Will they meet the same end, or will gaming handhelds hold on?

Windows Central

I can’t believe this abandoned Valve game still has players and is fun 4 years later

I'd rather say the game is "stable."

Destructoid

Steam games no longer purchasable with PayPal in most countries — Valve offers no timeline for a potential fix

Millions of Steam users worldwide can no longer use PayPal for purchases in most currencies, leaving affected regions to rely on alternative methods or Steam Wallet codes. Valve cites a bank decision behind the disruption but gives no clear timeline for restoring support, impacting global gamers.

Tom’s Hardware

I turned a Rockstar PS2 classic into a cozy game and it proved that the Steam Deck's greatest strength is in being the anti-Switch 2

Now Playing | Why would I play new games on a Switch 2 when I can play old ones on my Steam Deck?

GamesRadar

Steam dropping PayPal support for all but 6 currencies is "related" to pressure from banks and card companies to remove NSFW games, Valve confirms as censorship controversy continues

"We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain"

GamesRadar

Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

The problem first came to light about a month ago, but Valve has only now offered an explanation.

PC Gamer

Team Fortress 2 player cooks themselves by destroying a Golden Frying Pan worth $6,800—for the second time

There are only a few hundred in existence, and now one less.

PC Gamer

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Windows Central

“The Timeline Is Uncertain” — Steam and PayPal Divorce, and Valve Says It’s All About Money

PayPal abruptly dropped support for certain currencies on Steam in July 2025, and Valve has now added a new disclaimer to the checkout page explaining the situation.

International Business Times UK

Amid Mastercard-Visa Censorship Fiasco, Trump Hits Back at Financial Giants Over 'Unlawful Banking'

President Trump's Executive Order on Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans seeks to stop banks from denying services based on political, religious, or lawful business activities.

PC Gamer

The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so

You can disable it if you want, though.

International Business Times UK

'Vile: Exhumed' Banned on Steam for 'Sexual Content' — Dev Strikes Back with Free Release: How to Play It Free Today

'Vile: Exhumed' banned on Steam for 'sexual content'. Developer releases it free online. Learn how to download and play it today for free.

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TechRadar

The Steam Deck OLED's RAM is now upgradable via unofficial modding, but I'd avoid it for one big reason

The Steam Deck 2 isn't here yet and might not be for a long while, but a hardware modder has just upgraded the OLED model's RAM for better performance, a process that isn't ideal for beginners.

PC Gamer

Valve's superfans are back to break the player concurrent record for Portal, but the challenge may be steeper than anyone has realised

#RememberPortal hopes to give Valve's puzzler a big player boost.

TechRadar

Only two things are stopping me from moving to SteamOS on my desktop PC permanently – the moment they're addressed, I'll be saying 'adiós', Windows 11

The end is almost here for me and Windows 11 on my desktop PC. It's just a matter of time till I switch to SteamOS, but I just need two things to be addressed before I commit to it.

PC Gamer

Steam for Chromebooks is getting axed in 2026 instead of exiting its 4-year beta

Google does not seem to be making good on its promise to make Chromebooks gaming laptops.

GamesRadar

We can thank Valve and Team Fortress 2 for the best weapon in Crysis 3: Crytek lead says "I was playing a lot" of TF2 using the Sniper and his bow, and wanted a composite bow of his own

Crysis 3's iconic bow is a distant ancestor of TF2

GamesRadar

I tried Hori's Steam controller, and it feels almost as quirky as Valve's original version - for better or worse

The Wireless HORIPAD for Steam does a great job of capturing the quirky identity of the original Steam controller. I'm not sure that works in its favor, though.

PC Gamer

You probably have like $100 in Steam trading cards on all those games you've never played, and you can get it without ever actually launching them

We're all just workers on Gaben's farm.

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