Indie studio Failbetter Games, which created the Fallen London and Sunless Sea projects, came up with a flash mob #loveindies with an appeal to support independent developers. During the week of the flash mob, the guys received 95 new reviews for their games.

Quick sales will reappear on Steam two years after Valve canceled this feature. Developers will be able to choose for how many hours the cost of the title will be reduced.

The PC version of the multiplayer RPG Fallout 76 will be distributed only through the service Bethesda.net , the game will not appear on Steam.

Now users who purchase questionable products from the Steam Store will receive notifications from the store before the transaction. This is how Valve fights the trade in fake game items.

The Abstractism platformer, which could be purchased on Steam, installed Trojans on players’ computers and used them for mining cryptocurrencies. Perhaps it was all some kind of subtle trolling.

It seems that the new update of the indie adventure No Man’s Sky has brought the game back to life. Having lost almost the entire audience, the game returned to the top 10 popular titles on Steam.

Games with erotic content are temporarily not allowed to be released on Steam – until Valve completes a filtering system that will allow players to exclude such projects from the issue.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.

A new Steam update and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Dutch and Belgian players have been released. Gamers are not allowed to open loot boxes on their own, but you are welcome to buy their contents in the Steam market.

The tab with games not yet released on Steam has been improved and renamed to “Popular Future Products”. Now this list will be formed taking into account the interests of a particular user to make the search more productive. The developers recognized that when the list was simply replenished with all future titles, it was practically useless.

At the last session , White Nights performed Jean-Peter Ewert, who deals with business development and legal issues of Steam. He talked about how the platform works now. We offer a recording from the speech, which also included his comment about Steam Spy.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

Before the end of the summer sale, Steam published a list of the best-selling and launching games of the season. What projects were included there?

The new method of counting game owners on Steam, which has already been adopted by the Steam Spy service, no longer works. This possibility was eliminated by Valve itself, said the author of the method, indie developer Tyler Glaiel.

The growing popularity of the Discord messenger poses a real threat to Stream, according to SuperData analysts. If Steam ceases to be a platform for user communication and remains only an online store, large companies will leave it in order not to share their revenue with Valve.

The developer of the indie platformer The End is Night, Tyler Glaiel, gave the Steam Spy service a code that, according to him, will increase the accuracy of estimates of game sales on Steam.

A week ago, Valve updated the social functionality of the Steam platform, making it somewhat similar to the online gaming messenger Discord. On June 21, Discord also released an update that allows you to launch games through clients, as well as follow the news and events of friends, which, in turn, brought its capabilities closer to the Valve service.

The Steam administration continues to struggle with low-quality content. The new rules of the platform restrict the access of games to the achievement system and registration in the game catalog until it reaches a certain level of trust of players. To do this, the title needs downloads and gaming sessions of real Steam users.

Valve continues to improve the social capabilities of the Steam platform. The company announced an updated chat system with support for videos, GIFs, tweets and other media content.