The Latest Breaking News from Valve

What are your most-played games on Steam, and why have you spent so many hours on them?

Multiplayer shooters, grand strategy games, and MMOs sure do eat up the hours.

PC Gamer · Dec 7, 2024

Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics

Fremont may be the codename for a new and improved Steam Box, featuring a mobile chip and discrete GPU from AMD.

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 7, 2024

Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS

Valve has published branding guidelines which make its intentions to deliver SteamOS 3 to a wide range of third party hardware platforms clearer than ever.

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 5, 2024

Nintendo Switch 2 has new competition — leak claims Samsung is building a handheld games console

Several leaks have arisen that, when put together, indicate Samsung could be developing a new handheld console.

Tom’s Guide · Dec 5, 2024

The 10 gaming trends for 2025 that will transform how we play and create

Our expert games writer predicts the gaming trends for 2025, including Nintendo Switch 2, the rise of indie gaming, the impact of generative AI and how Unreal Engine 5 will shake things up .

Creative Bloq · Dec 5, 2024

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."

PC Gamer · Dec 4, 2024

Now that Steam Deck has made good on the failed promise of Steam Machines, it looks like Valve is paving the way for third-party devices "powered by SteamOS"

The Steam Machine dream may yet live

GamesRadar · Dec 4, 2024

Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after complaint from UK Counter-Terrorism police, dev says 'we see clearly the double standards'

Steam favours a hands-off approach, but in this case its hand was forced.

PC Gamer · Dec 2, 2024

Valve stiffed speedrunners by adding an invisible wall in its Half-Life 2 tuneup, so now it's fixed the fix and says 'enjoy'

Fetch my pipe and gravity gun.

PC Gamer · Nov 30, 2024

Garry's Mod dev says he didn't want to sell it originally because no one would pay for it – 25 million copies later, he admits he was wrong

We'll never get away from Skibidi Toilet

GamesRadar · Nov 29, 2024