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The Steam Awards have announced the winners of the 2018 round, and in a surprising upset, their Game of the Year award went to PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds. Other nominees for the 2018 Game of the Year award included Monster Hunter: World, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Hitman 2, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. While several big name games from 2018 were not[...]

The 2018 Steam Awards were announced earlier today, and they failed to do the one thing an awards show should do: honor the previous year's games As we've discussed earlier, every year the awards are voted on by the users of Steam, and usually, all they ever do is post a tiny logo on that[...]

If you're a regular Steam user, then you're used to Valve asking for yearly voting on games with awards that don't really hold a ton of meaning to them It's basically a way for the company to measure engagement and hand out little trophies on Steam pages to games every year, and it really doesn't[...]

First up, THQ posted this notice on their Twitter, letting fans know that it wasn't simply an out-of-the-blue decision made on either their part, but that Koch Media (who owns the property) made the call to move from Steam to be an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC That's a really interesting note that in[...]

The folks at Valve are none too happy with Deep Silver this week, after the company removed Metro Exodus from Steam and made it an Epic Games Store exclusive The move is a little surprising but not entirely out of the blue since a lot of publishers have openly been considering making the same move[...]

You can sign up for the open beta here. Project Winter will release in Early Access on Steam, Humble, and Greenman Gaming for PC on February 7th, 2019 Early Access will set you back $19.99USD, but it does come with controller support which is a nice bonus for an early access title for those of us who[...]

Valve teased its plans for 2019 in a Steam Community post today, which mostly looked at how the digital store held up in 2018 The end of Valve's retrospective included a segment on what Steam users can expect to find in the coming year While the list released doesn't reflect the entirety of Valve's plans for[...]

The latest game to officially join the crossplay club on all three consoles and PC this week is Rocket League, as it was announced by Sony this morning. 

Studio 8 has revealed their newest project, the modern fantasy MMORPG Astellia, which will be playable at PAX South later this week.

QC Games announced that their co-op action game, Breach, will be coming to Steam Early Access on January 17, 2019 Disrupting the traditional action-RPG genre by fusing explosive combat, RPG-like depth, and a flexible, customizable open-class system, Breach lets players to build their ideal hero and battle monsters on an adventure that fuses both modern Earth and a more mythological[...]

KOG Games released a new playable character for 2.5 D action MMORPG Elseworld today, Laby is mostly a melee brawler but with a twist.

Valve has released a new update for Artifact which focuses on the skill rating and account leveling systems as well as some card balance changes.

Valve has been low-key looking to revamp Steam for the last few years, though much of the information on the PC gaming platform's redesign have been shrouded in mystery It is a Valve product, after all, which means things are much more opaque than they are in the rest of the industry However, Steam Status[...]

The GOG sale is running through November 27th. Highlights of the sale include: Beloved good old games only on GOG.COM: Soldier of Fortune (-20%) Soldier of Fortune: Payback (-20%) Soldier of Fortune II (-20%) SWAT 4 (-50%) 75% off, the sweet spot between big deals and the most wonderful games in history includes: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Zeus + Poseidon (Acropolis) Crysis Dragon Age: Origins Theme[...]

If you happen to be one of the people currently using one of Valve's Steam Link devices, you're also going to be one of the few using it soon The company kind of quietly announced they would not be making any more hardware for the service, and that the remaining items would be sold off[...]

An interesting piece of info this week as there was apparently a bug in Steam's system that could grant you access to every game managed by Valve And when we say every game, we mean EVERY game The exploit allowed people access to essentially get free game codes out of the marketplace whenever they wanted if[...]

Noble Muffins and PlayWay's Thief Simulator debuted only a few days ago and it has already hit the top of Steam's bestseller list, which is a pretty awesome achievement for a sim. The premise of Thief Simulator is exactly what you'd expect Players free roam sandbox neighborhoods, observe their targets, gather information that will help them, and rob[...]

The exclusive offers from the various pre-order packs include Steam Early Access, and unique in-game items like sprays, dance emotes, digital artbook, and much more. Also for those gamers registered for upcoming Breach Technical Alpha this weekend, please note the following days and hours to jump into the game – also content creators are allowed to record and livestream[...]

Beyond the Summit is picking up hosting  duties for the tournament broadcast on SteamTV The tourney is an all-draft event with a 7-round Swiss bracket on Saturday Sunday will feature a single-elimination bracket format to decide the winner from the top 8 players Festivities begin at 9AM PST both days. The coolest bit about the tournament[...]

Midgar Studio and Playdius announced today that they will be releasing Edge of Eternity into Steam's Early Access this December The JRPG has been looking mighty impressive in teasers, but finally, we'll have a chance to mess with it a bit in a few weeks as they release the game on December 5th We have the[...]

Deep Silver has gone ahead and made Metro 2033 free to download and play for 24 hours on their Steam page No real reason was given by the publisher as to why they did this yesterday, but it appears you have until roughly 12pm PDT to take advantage of it If you don't know much[...]

Today, Six Foot officially released their F2P team spaceship shooter Dreadnought on Steam, fully updating the game while letting players keep what they've earned so far If you've already been playing the game in early access, the short version is you basically got a technical and graphical upgrade as soon as you download the latest update[...]

It appears Valve is now taking an active role in purging troll-like games from Steam's library, as they've removed several from the system today According to their own system reports, as well as a report that was done by PC Gamer, 179 titles were removed from the library with such wonderful titles as LOGAN vs KSI,[...]

According to 4Gamer, the HD versions will be released on two different dates for different systems, as the PC/Steam version will be coming out on December 7th and the Nintendo Switch version will be released on December 21st. Neither outlet has posted an official store page for the game yet, which leads us to believe we're[...]

Below is a preview of what they intend to add to the game, along with a specialized note from the devs about why they've chosen to do this while the game is still technically unreleased by Steam standards. credit//Creepy Jar We understand that many Early Access games are left in limbo with updates that are few and[...]

  Square Enix announced that a slew of titles from it's immense Final Fantasy series are coming to the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and even Steam The majority of the releases are going to hit the Switch, as announced in tonight's Nintendo Direct, but the Xbox One and PS4 are also getting some pretty major releases. The[...]

Players will even be able to buy and sell cards on the Steam Community Marketplace, which is a pretty solid way to handle a digital TCG trade system. Artifact is slated to release on Steam on November 28th, 2018 It will be playable on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems An Android and iOS launch will follow[...]

Indie dev studio Shiver games is continuing the creepy saga of tiny murderous child Lucius in Lucius III which will hit Steam at the end of the year This is a direct sequel to Lucius and Lucius II, so if you haven't played those, you might want to pick them up and give 'em a shot before snagging the[...]

Double Fine Presents and Beau Blyth announced this morning that Samurai Gunn 2 will be coming in 2019 to PC and Nintendo Switch.

If you'd like to get your hands on a copy of The Last Remnant for Steam, you only have a little bit of time left to do so An official post was made this week on the game's Steam page letting people know that the game would be taken away and delisted as of September 4th[...]