PC version of Rockstar’s highly anticipated gaming title ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ will be available for pre-loads via Rockstar Warehouse and Steam starting April 7. The update, put out on Rockstar’s support…
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Valve makes Captcha a must for Steam trading
Valve has announced it has added a Captcha system to Steam’s trading process in a bid to curb unauthorized trades. Announcing the change, Valve’s John Cook said “We’re updating trading to include…
Steam surpasses 8.5 million concurrent users milestone
PC gaming platform Steam has surpassed 8.5 million concurrent users mark on January 2, 2015. Just last week Steam’s game and player stats page showed users reaching out at 8,357,541 mark. However,…
Valve rolls out Steam Broadcasting to rival Twitch
Valve on Tuesday rolled out a new broadcasting feature dubbed Steam Broadcasting that will let users “watch friends play, with the click of a button.” The Steam Broadcasting beta will allow Steam…
Valve’s Steam Music Player will let gamers listen to music while playing games
Valve’s own Steam Music Player has been finally launched for Steam client users enabling them to listen to their music collection while playing games on the digital platform. This means Steam gamers…
Steam, other Valve services down
The Steam platform and all the other services provided by Valve are currently down except the SteamDB database – an outage that isn’t preplanned and one that hasn’t been explained either. Valve…
GTA V for PC being tested on Steam?
According to reports few lucky users are already testing GTA V for PC on steam – the version of the game, which has been awaited since the release of GTA V last…
Sniper Elite 3 users being offered Target Hitler DLC for free post Steam key blockades
Users who used stolen access keys purchased from third party distributors found themselves locked out of the game.
Amazon starts displaying Metacritic scores for games
Amazon has begun displaying scores from Metacritic, the popular game review aggregation site, alongside game listings, earlier on Wednesday. Metacritic rates games, music, films, and more on a scale of 1-100 based…
Steam Family Library Sharing now open to all Steam users
Valve has pulled its Steam Family Library Sharing feature out of beta and made it available to all users allowing them to share games with each other. Lenders, users who intend to…
Eight years on Garry’s Mod surpasses $30m in sales milestone; Rust did it in 3 months
Facepunch founder Garry Newman revealed in his tweet that Garry’s Mod has surpassed $30 million sales, around eight years after its initial release. Garry’s Mod, a sandbox physics game, originally released as…
Valve discounts over 80 titles from Ubisoft on Steam
Valve is cutting down prices of over 80 Ubisoft titles on Steam in a 4-day sale this weekend starting February 20 through to February 24. Some of the discounted titles include Assassin’s…
SteamOS alchemist update brings Intel, AMD graphics support
Valve has released an update for its SteamOS dubbed alchemist, which adds the much awaited AMD and Intel graphics support allowing users to build their own steam boxes. Valve had opted to…
Valve strengthens Steam Family Sharing security with two-factor auth, lender approval
Valve has changed how the Steam Family Sharing works by adding two-factor authentication and lender approval process. Valve wants to ensure more control in the hands of lenders thereby reducing the risk…
Steam & Origin servers hit by separate DDoS attacks
The same individual / group which claimed the responsibility of taking down Dota 2, LoL, Quake Live, Club Penguin, Battle.net servers a couple of days back have taken down EA’s Origin servers…