Recently it became known that Valve refuses to publish games on Steam, assets in which are created with the help of artificial intelligence. Several developers have told about this problem. Valve has now publicly commented on the situation.

Perhaps Steam has restrictions related to the use of artificial intelligence. Recently, a redditor under the nickname potterharry97 complained that his game was not allowed on the site due to the presence of AI-generated assets.

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, to do this, you need to multiply the number of subscribers on the Steam game page by a certain value. In his newsletter, he shared the current multipliers for 2023 (based on a survey of more than 125 developers):

Steam users are actively playing a low—poly analogue of Battlefield – indie shooter BattleBit Remastered for 254 players. On the night of June 20, its peak online on the Valve platform reached 61,390 people, according to SteamDB data.

From July 1, Steam disables support for “Google Analytics“. Apparently, in order to “sweeten the pill”, the platform promised to launch new tools for traffic analysis. About the upcoming innovations and the reaction of developers — in our material.

SteamDB service has published the top games that earned the most on Steam for the week from May 9 to May 16. It included Far Cry 6, which was released in the store last Thursday, and four Paradox Interactive projects were also placed in the top ten paid games at once.

On May 3, new rules for the placement of trailers began to take effect on Steam. Now developers can add a maximum of two videos before screenshots, all the others will be displayed at the end of the gallery.

Today, April 28, the release of the action Star Wars Jedi: Survivor took place. The game caused negative emotions among gamers: 75% of the reviews she received during the first hours on Steam were negative.

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.

Steam users were disappointed with the remake of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, a new Square Enix game that added a neural network. Within a day of its release, it received 90% negative reviews.

Valve has announced that from January 1, 2024, the Steam client will no longer work on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.

On the night of March 23-24, Capcom released a remake of Resident Evil 4. According to the SteamDB service, 11 hours after the release, the peak online game on Steam exceeded 124 thousand people. This is a record for the series.

The head of Epic Games criticized Valve for the limited capabilities of the Steamworks API for multiplayer games. In an interview with the PC Gamer portal, he stated that the company has seriously complicated the lives of both developers and other app stores.

The free distribution of the musical adventure game Figment on Steam has led to a significant increase in the game’s audience. The developers from the indie studio Bedtime Digital Games told about the success of the project in the Steam community.

The games of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy series and many other projects of Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics studios have become available to users from Russia again on Steam.

The action Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty has an extremely unsuccessful start on Steam. In the first hours after the release, the game collected 1.3 thousand negative reviews.

On February 25, Valve updated the Steam rules regarding keys for games. Expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the GameDiscoverCo newsletter spoke in detail about the changes. We have chosen the main thing.

On the night of February 20-21, Mundfish Studio released Atomic Heart. According to the SteamDB service, nine hours after the release, the number of simultaneous players in the Steam version of the shooter reached 23,720 people.

The Steam administration told what last year was like for the site. We have chosen the main thing.