At long last, the Nintendo Switch has a serious challenger. On Thursday, Valve announced the Steam Deck — a handheld device capable of playing PC games. The Steam Deck has a similar layout to the Switch, with a 7-inch touchscreen, an analog stick on either side, ABXY buttons, and a D-pad. This December, the Steam …
Nintendo’s Switch console has been a massive success for the company thanks to the unusual proposition the Japanese giant made gamers. The Switch can be used in tablet mode and in full console mode to play the same amazing Nintendo games that fans love, including the popular Mario franchise. That’s why the Switch gets away …
The biggest digital PC game store on the planet is currently down for many users as a partial outage appears to be affecting Steam on Thursday. Affected users are having trouble accessing both the Store and the Community pages, but even as I write this, service appears to be coming back for many users globally.
In order to celebrate the impending release of Half-Life: Alyx in March, Valve has made every main Half-Life game in franchise history free to play on Steam from now through the day the VR title launches. You won’t actually own these games (unless you buy them), but you can add them to your library temporarily …
We’re just a few weeks removed from the Steam Autumn Sale, but if you missed out on any of the deals last month, you are going to get a second chance. This week, Steam kicked off its annual Winter Sale, and as always, there are thousands of PC games on sale. Whether you’re looking for …
We’ve covered dozens of great Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals over the past few weeks, but if you have been waiting for discounts on digital PC games, this is your time. On November 26th, Steam kicked off its annual Autumn Sale, and there are a ton of games on sale from now through Monday, …
The digital content distribution wars heated up once again on Monday as Deep Silver and Epic Games teamed up to announce that Metro Exodus — the upcoming entry in the first-person shooter series — is going to be exclusive to the Epic Games store on PC. While this news on its own isn’t terribly interesting, …
When Epic Games announced last month that it would be launching its own digital game storefront to compete with Steam, it caused quite a stir. Steam has spent over a decade and a half establishing itself as the premiere platform for buying PC games online, but if any company was going to be able to …
Steam isn’t the only digital PC game store, but it has long been the dominant player in the industry. Many developers have attempted to break the Steam stranglehold with their own proprietary offerings — Origin, Uplay, Battle.net — but those stores are typically limited to games from the developers that run them. There simply aren’t …
Ah yes, it’s sunburn and BBQ season, which means it’s time yet again for the PC gaming overlords at Valve to open the floodgates of low prices, and boy oh boy are there plenty of publishers who have jumped on board. The Steam Summer Sale just kicked off, and even though it’s only the first …
