Yesterday, Valve announced its portable Steam Deck console. Its cheapest version will be $50 more expensive than the new Nintendo Switch OLED. However, Gabe Newell believes that this is still a “painfully” low price tag.

Valve has announced a game console. It is portable, called Steam Deck and allows you to run PC games.

Indie studio Wolfire Games, known for the action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, initiated an antitrust class action lawsuit against Valve. The reason was the dominant position of the company in the PC market. The creators of Steam are accused of the fact that the high commission of the store allegedly forces publishers to raise prices and invest less money in development.Overgrowth

Valve has announced the official release of two new features on Steam at once. Playtest and simplified game search came out of beta. We share details about each of them.

Important news for developers and publishers on Steam. Now the UTM analytics menu has appeared in the Valve store, with which you can track advertising campaigns on the game page. Tags will allow you not only to find out the sources of traffic, but also to track the number of purchases and additions to vishlists.The new service is currently in open beta testing mode and is available on all accounts with permission to view marketing…

The animated series “DOTA: Dragon’s Blood” (DOTA: Dragon’s Blood) almost did not attract new players to Dota 2. However, the main character of the Netflix project has increased the popularity of one of the game’s characters in matches by several points.

Former developers of League of Legends, Halo, Overwatch and Dota 2 have founded a studio that will create multiplatform PvP titles. They have already raised $37.5 million, including from the Chinese giant NetEase.

The public beta of the Chinese version of Steam, for which the publisher Perfect World is responsible, has become available to local gamers. Now a little more than 40 games are available in the store, including the titles of Vavle itself.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

Steam has updated its own record for the number of users who were online at the same time. Yesterday, the peak online in the Valve store exceeded 26 million people for the first time.According to SteamDB, on February 7, 26,401,443 people were on Steam at the same time.

Valve is on the verge of a new trial. This time, Steam owners are accused of “abusing the market power of the platform.” They say that the company prohibits developers from lowering the prices of their games in other digital stores.

Steam presented the traditional list of the most successful new products of last month by revenue. In December, the top 20 included Red Dead Online, Worms Rumble, Haven and Cyberpunk 2077, which became one of the most popular games in the history of the store.Haven

The European Commission considered that Valve’s actions to link games to regions violate the antitrust legislation of the European Union. Together with her, five other publishers were fined for a total of almost €8 million. Valve plans to challenge the injunction.The fine was imposed based on the results of an investigation that began seven years ago.

Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?

Direct replenishment of the wallet on Steam may not be available for some users from the beginning of next year. It’s all about “changes in Russian legislation.”

Testing of new sections of the store has started on Steam. Now the entire catalog of games is divided into 63 categories — both genre and special, like adult-only content. All this is designed to simplify the search process and make it more flexible.The updated categories became available today as part of a new experiment in Steam Labs.

Valve may be preparing to merge the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If this happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (now only dozens of foreign titles are licensed per year).Prerequisites for the merger and possible consequences

The co-founder of Valve claims that due to remote work, the company’s productivity has fallen to 50-75%. As a solution to the problem, he considers the relocation of developers to New Zealand, where the strictest quarantine measures almost coped with COVID-19.

The weekly top of the best-selling Steam games was headed by Sea of Thieves. The title has already become the leader of the rating last month.

Valve is really preparing a new cloud service. It is called Cloud Play and allows you to play Steam games through third-party cloud services.