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Valve sued for 8 million over alleged price restrictions

Valve sued for $838 million over alleged price restrictions

People Do How To attempt To sue valvewith the most common claim being that Steam has some sort of monopoly on the PC gaming market. This is probably because Steam may actually have some sort of monopoly on the PC gaming market. The latest attempt to break the Washington-based developer’s stranglehold comes from the small ...

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Discord targets bots to spy on user data

Discord targets bots to spy on user data

Last week, journalists’ cooperative 404 media reported on Spy Pet, a website that crawled through billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and sold access to that data for just $5. After investigating the matter, Discord announced that the accounts associated with this repository have been suspended and the company is considering legal ...

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Steam no longer officially supports Windows 7, 8 or 8.1

Steam no longer officially supports Windows 7, 8 or 8.1

The fateful day has come: If you’re still using Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you may soon need to upgrade to Windows 10 or 11, as Valve’s wildly popular digital storefront Steam no longer officially supports these older operating systems. The 10 Most Played Games on Steam Deck: October 2023 Edition Valve initially announced that ...

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Over 14,000 games were released on Steam in 2023

Over 14,000 games were released on Steam in 2023

Steam is by far the strangest online store. Valve’s massive PC game distribution, built on itself over the last twenty years, is a bunch of overlapping design decisions where algorithms rule over coherence. In 2023, over 14,500 games will descend into chaos. That’s too many games. The Ten Most Played Games on Steam Deck: March ...

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Stop huffing the fumes

Stop huffing the fumes

photo: Valve / Kotaku / Fizkes (Shutterstock) Valve has a message for everyone (including me) who loves to be angry Steam deck Exhaust fumes: no more. Please. The Ten Most Played Games on Steam Deck: March 2023 Edition Have you ever taken a break from playing your Steam Deck to sample the complex scents wafting ...

Steam updates code of conduct and bans gambling

Steam updates code of conduct and bans gambling

Picture: Valve Steam’s online code of conduct has just been updated and mostly contains the expected wording, which explicitly forbids illegal activities, harassment, use of cheat programs and tampering with the Steam client. However, a new addition to the code of conduct is a strict ban on “commercial activities,” which includes gambling, a controversial topic ...