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Steam announced that it will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method. This news is going to affect players who were purchasing Steam games with Bitcoin, but doesn't appear to change things for those using other methods of payment. Steam says it will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on their platform due to high fees and
Valve announced that they will replace Steam Greenlight with Steam Direct. The reason for the change is to better serve their goal of making customers happy. Steam decided it needed to move away from a small group of people at Valve trying to predict which games would appeal to different groups of customers. Steam Greenlight was launched because Valve felt it
It has been said that Minecraft is similar to LEGO. People use small bricks (either physical or the pixilated kind) to build structures and landscapes. That comparison just got a bit more apt with the release of LEGO Worlds. It's now available on Steam as an Early Access Game. Steam is offering Early Access right now to the LEGO Worlds
Steam has come up with a unique way to fight against spam. Steam users need to spend at least $5.00 USD in order to have full access to all of Steam's features. The purpose is to limit what spammers and “malicious users” can do. The reasoning behind this decision is explained by Steam as: We've chosen to limit access to
When people think of gaming systems, they often imagine large beige or black boxes overflowing with cables and accessories. And while these types of rigs may be fine with a certain class of gamer, there are many who'd prefer something compact and sleek to take them into their preferred virtual worlds of play. For those who'd like to devote a
Steam has launched the beta for Steam Broadcasting. I think it is clear that this will put Steam in direct competition with Twitch for both viewers and streamers of video gaming content. Steam Broadcasting is currently in beta. As of December 2, 2014, people can watch their friends play video games on Steam “with the click of a button”. The
Two popular Valve games, Portal and Portal 2, have arrived on Steam for Linux. The two games, released in 2007 and 2011 respectively, have previously been available for the Windows and Mac platforms. This latest Valve game release for Linux is very good news at a time when Steam for Linux usage has been sinking. The April figures for the Steam