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A dungeon crawler RPG, a "next-gen" RTS, and a moody survival game top Steam Next Fest's 50 most-played demos as Valve reveals record-breaking wishlists

This year's annual event racked in more than 3 million wishlists

GamesRadar

Dead Island 2 finally has a Steam release date, and Valve is giving away a co-op horror freebie to celebrate

You have less than 48 hours to snag Dead Island: Riptide for free from Steam

GamesRadar

This Steam Next Fest was dominated by two massive strategy games, and that feels weird for an event all about discoverability

Opinion| Homeworld 3 and Stormgate were huge hits in the latest festival

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Helldivers 2 blasts to the top of Steam's global top sellers chart, becoming Sony's biggest PC release as it launches alongside PS5

Over 80,000 PC Helldivers joined forces to defend Super Earth on launch day.

PC Gamer

Data strings in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update hint at two new Valve games, and one of them might just be Half-Life related

String theory.

PC Gamer

The maker of one of Counter-Strike's most iconic maps says he regrets selling it to Valve

"Had I known then how big CS:GO and now CS2 would be, I would never have sold it"

GamesRadar

The Half-Life vibes are intense in the free Steam demo for co-op survival game Abiotic Factor

And you're even better than Gordon Freeman because you'll actually use your brain for science.

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Manjaro Linux gaming handheld is the biggest Steam Deck challenger yet

A new Manjaro Linux gaming handheld will be launching soon and will be the first direct competitor to the Steam Deck.

Windows Central

I found the perfect Steam Next Fest demo for my Steam Deck OLED: a psychedelic shooter where you use one bullet to chain-snipe a bunch of cultists

The Steam Next Fest demo for Children of the Sun feels like a perfect match for the Steam Deck OLED and it's fancy new 90hz display.

GamesRadar

Counter-Strike 2 adds fan-favourite mode, its first weapon skins, custom sticker placement, and something a little shocking

Gear up.

PC Gamer

Surprise! Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is back

Valve dropped the Lunar New Year Sale event in 2022, but apparently it's had a change of heart.

PC Gamer

There's one thing gaming laptops need to learn from Valve, Lenovo, and Ayaneo handhelds: Trust us

The level of granular control over the hardware inside modern handheld gaming PCs is a million miles away from that available to gaming laptops.

PC Gamer

Radeon graphics cards maybe aren't as popular as AMD might like us to think they are, at least according to the Steam HW Survey

Either that or AMD has just been really, really unlucky in the survey sampling.

PC Gamer

Steam Next Fest countdown – here's when Valve's next demo extravaganza kicks off

The Steam Next Fest February 2024 start time is nearly here and with it so many demos

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‘It’s rotting young people’s brains’: the murky world of gambling in video games

In-game purchases of bonus items have long been available. But now gamers are being lured into casino-style betting to win them

PC Gamer

Steam bullied into adding a dwarf tag by the short king tag team of Deep Rock Galactic and Dwarf Fortress

It took some doing, but dwarves now have their very own featured category page on Steam. (And so do elves.)

GamesRadar

Steam survey suggests more players are upgrading to 16GB RAM

Valve's Steam hardware survey for January hints that more players are upgrading and using gaming PCs with 16GB RAM as a minimum rather than 8GB.

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'Dwarf' is now a tag on Steam following silly yet "very serious" demands from Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs

It's a big win for the little guys

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Tom’s Guide

Steam Deck OLED is vulnerable to burn-in — but only if you use it wrong

Thanks to the nefarious work of a “worse case scenario” app, one dedicated YouTuber has managed to blight his Steam Deck OLED with a form of burn-in. Hoo-boy does it take a monumental amount of time to get there, though.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk's Neuralink has stuck a device in someone's brain and he's already talking up its theoretical uses: 'Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist'

Transhumanism can wait. For now, Neuralink's first human patient is "recovering well".

GamesRadar

The MSI Claw will cost $699, and I think that’ll give the Steam Deck a boost

MSI Claw price information is now live, and it looks like the handheld PC will avoid fighting the Steam Deck when it comes to cost.

PC Gamer

Stormgate was already fully funded—then it earned $2M on Kickstarter

Frost Giant's RTS was the top videogame Kickstarter of 2023.

GamesRadar

Acer is “watching” the handheld gaming PC scene, and I hope that means budget options

Acer could eventually create a Steam Deck rival, as the company's is apparently watching the handheld gaming PC race with interest.

PC Gamer

Dark and Darker dev claims Nexon's preliminary injunction has been dismissed, court rules that the game 'cannot be considered an infringement of Nexon's copyright or trade secret'

The lawsuit is still ongoing, but this seems like a big win for Ironmace.

Tom’s Guide

My OLED TV has ruined Steam Deck OLED for me — here’s why

As much as our UK computing editor love his Steam Deck OLED, it just can’t compete with the experience of playing PC titles on a powerful PC on a colossal TV.

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