The creator of the analytical service Steam Spy Sergey Galenkin told about the problems in the work of the resource. He tweeted about it on the service. According to Galenkin, the collection of up-to-date data is difficult due to the fact that Steam has closed access to users’ game libraries.

Steam started the year with records. The number of simultaneous users on the platform in the first week of 2018 exceeded 18.5 million people. This is the largest indicator in the history of the service, according to the Steam Database resource.

The Curators Connect feature has been launched on Steam, which allows game developers to send game keys to participants of the curated program without leaving the platform.

The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.

Forbes business magazine has included Valve CEO Gabe Newell in the top hundred richest Americans. Newell’s fortune is estimated at $5.5 billion.

Apparently, Valve is working on a new title — an unannounced cooperative action game for 4 players in a fantasy setting.

Valve intends to stop issuing Steam store game keys to the authors of “gambling-like projects” created for the sake of manipulating the trading platform’s capabilities.

Valve has announced the development of a new title based on MOBA Dota — a collectible card game Artifact.

Lilith and uCool mobile studios intend to sue Valve for the right to use the DOTA name.

Pirates can launch hacked games via Steam, disguising them as the work of the retro game Spacewar built into the service, the GytHyp website reports.

Valve intends to provide users with more information about the mechanisms of the Steam store.

Over the past 24 hours, Steam support has received 49,896 user requests for refunds for purchased games.

Valve has decided to strengthen the monetization of MOBA Dota 2 with the help of a Slithbreaker story campaign with a 4-player cooperative.

The author of the scripts of Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead, Chet Falisek, left Valve, where he worked for 12 years.

Valve has introduced several changes to the game rating system on Steam. Now it does not take into account the ratings of gamers who have access to the game for free.

The head of Valve, Gabe Newell, said that the company is preparing to present Source 2 to third-party developers, but first of all, development is carried out for its own needs.

On February 14, White Nights will host a session with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist on the Steam platform. We invite him to ask interesting questions so that he can answer them publicly at the conference.

The founder of Steam entered the Top 400 richest Americans according to Forbes. His fortune was estimated at $4.1 billion.

A major Steam update is coming soon. Valve recommends that developers prepare for it and work on screenshots for games so that they can then be shown on the store’s homepage.