Valve has made changes to the refund policy on Steam. She began to take into account the time spent by the user in the game during the extended access period.

Valve has added a new set of family features to the beta version of the Steam client, allowing users to share access to games – family groups. They replaced Steam Family Sharing and the family browsing feature.

Valve has published a list of games that had the largest daily active audience on the Steam Deck between March 2023 and March 2024.

A few years ago, Valve employees decided to calculate the commercial efficiency of the company in terms of the ratio of net profit per employee per year and hour. They found out that in 2018, Valve surpassed such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in this indicator.

The Steam team shared the platform’s statistics for 2023. It turned out that by some indicators it was a record.

Steam has relaxed its policy regarding games created with the help of artificial intelligence. Now developers can release such games on the site, but only if certain conditions are met.

Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais told about the sales of the portable PC in a comment to The Verge. They did not give exact figures.

SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik noticed that Valve is working on new family settings on Steam. There are few details yet, but it is known that there are three functions.

Starting from November 20, Steam will stop selling games and other products for Turkish lira and Argentine pesos. The US dollar will be used instead of these currencies.

Valve has decided to increase the security level of Steamworks. The company notified the developers that now they will need to link a phone number to the account.

Valve has released a free multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike 2. The game replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and became available to everyone.

Last week, internal Microsoft documents used in court with the US Federal Trade Commission leaked to the network. Analyst Piers Harding-Rolls found in them a table in which Microsoft listed the ten largest companies in terms of estimated revenue from games for 2021.

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.

Immersion Corporation, a company specializing in feedback systems, filed a lawsuit against Valve. She claims that Steam Deck and Valve Index headsets violated seven of her patents at once.

In 2023, the Steam Deck will remain a niche device, but its sales will grow, Omdia predicts. According to analysts, Valve will sell 1.85 million portable PCs in a year — 14% more than in 2022.

We could not pass by the announcement of the sequel to one of the most popular games in the world (recall that DAU Counter-Strike on PC consistently holds above 1 million).

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.

Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the designers of the Steam Deck, said that Valve directly transfers money to more than 100 third-party developers of open source software. They help the company with work on the Proton compatibility layer, Mesa and Vulkan drivers, as well as Steam support on Linux devices and chromebooks.