Tag: steam
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Valve Destroys Steam Gifting
Valve’s Kristian (no surname given) with a Steam blog post titled “Steam Gifting Changes”: Today we’re announcing changes to gifts on Steam. The gifting process has had a bunch of friction in it for a while, and we want to make it easier for you to share the games you love with friends. Steam Gifting…
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PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds
Multiplayer shooters are changing. What was a field dominated by arena free-for-all shooters and then samey-military combat games where the most significant change was the switch from World War 2 to the modern military aesthetic and then to the future has now become forked down the path of realism mixed with the old arena combat.…
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Valve’s War on “Fake Games”
Nathan Grayson: Valve is about to overhaul Steam in order to ensure that good games are visible and lazily developed games created for the purpose of making a quick buck—which Valve apparently calls “fake games”—sink beneath a sea of algorithms. I’m not sure how this works, Valve have gone from saying that they want to take…
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Andy Kelly’s Steam Link Review
PC Gamer’s Andy Kelly also posted his review of the Steam Link. In addition to having some success with playing over wi-fi, he’s also got a different perspective on what kind of game play it’s suitable for: I’ve also noticed the Link having a positive impact on my terrible attention span. When I’m playing at…
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Steam Link Review
The Steam Link is Valve’s tiny computer that links any HDMI display to your gaming computer, running Steam, over a local network connection. I’ve had it for a few months and have been enjoying it despite a few obstacles, some of which Valve can’t work around. The Link doesn’t take up a lot of space…