43 stories tagged valve, newest first.
113 points by 4gateftw | 229 comments
IGN news article reporting that Steam users want a filter to hide AI-generated games as Steam Next Fest is flooded with low-effort AI titles.
458 points by speckx | 92 comments
Phoronix news article on Valve developer Timur Kristóf's AMDGPU kernel driver work improving support for old GCN 1.0/1.1 AMD graphics cards on Linux, presented at XDC 2026.
680 points by bsimpson | 521 comments
Steam store product page for Valve's Steam Frame VR headset and controllers, part of its Steam hardware lineup.
328 points by WithinReason | 61 comments
Ars Technica article on a 12TB leak of Steam data revealing over a decade of unreleased PC game content, including cut Portal 2 material and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 hints.
529 points by ahlCVA | 99 comments
GamingOnLinux article reporting that Valve has released the Steam Machine e-ink front display design on GitLab under the MIT license so people can build their own.
1859 points by theschwa | 1620 comments
Valve's Steam store news post announcing the launch of the Steam Machine, a compact living-room gaming PC for playing Steam games on a TV.
1665 points by haunter | 564 comments
Digital Foundry news article reporting that Valve has released CAD files for the Steam Controller under a Creative Commons license for modders.
675 points by hkmaxpro | 306 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that Steam on Linux usage rose above 5% in Valve's March 2026 Steam Survey, more than double macOS's share.
599 points by yellow_lead | 318 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that Meta uses the SCX-LAVD Linux scheduler, originally built for Valve's Steam Deck, on its large servers.
785 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 437 comments
Heise news article reporting that the HDMI Forum still blocks an open-source HDMI 2.1 driver for Linux, preventing Valve and AMD from enabling it on the Steam Machine.
892 points by evolve2k | 756 comments
The Verge report and interview revealing Valve is behind efforts to run Windows games on Arm hardware, tied to Steam Machine and possible Steam phones.
470 points by AshleysBrain | 68 comments
A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.
803 points by TingPing | 291 comments
Igalia blog post describing its open-source engineering work helping Valve power the new Steam hardware devices announced in November 2025.
492 points by moonleay | 375 comments
Blog post by Xe Iaso arguing that Valve's new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame, alongside the Steam Deck, position it to win the console generation.
385 points by doener | 122 comments
Phoronix news article on Valve announcing a new Steam Machine Linux console, a new Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame VR headset.
2818 points by davikr | 1408 comments
Valve's Steam store product page for the Steam Machine, a compact cube-shaped gaming PC for playing Steam games on a TV.
1762 points by Philpax | 636 comments
Valve's Steam store product page for the Steam Frame, a VR headset with controllers, under the tagline "Your games in every dimension."
657 points by haunter | 386 comments
GamingOnLinux article reporting that Linux reached 3.05% of Steam users in the October 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey.
434 points by perihelions | 521 comments
Polygon article reporting that Counter-Strike's in-game skin economy has lost nearly $2 billion in value.
488 points by asnyder | 412 comments
New York Times article on how Counter-Strike, a mod built in a dorm room by Minh Le, became a billion-dollar game; the page loaded as a bot-block screen.
491 points by croes | 479 comments
PC Gamer article on Mastercard denying blame for NSFW game removals while Valve says payment processors cited a Mastercard brand-damage rule.
816 points by freedomben | 792 comments
PC Gamer article reporting Valve's confirmation that credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam.
479 points by dmazin | 202 comments
A Digital Antiquarian essay by Jimmy Maher on the history and making of Valve's 1998 first-person shooter Half-Life.
1772 points by davikr | 371 comments
GitHub commit in ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013 adding the Team Fortress 2 SDK source code, with over 5,000 changed files.
542 points by Trasmatta | 107 comments
Eurogamer news article reporting the death of Viktor Antonov, art lead on Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, at age 52.
789 points by sbarre | 230 comments
A GitHub Pages project describing the Steam Brick, a Steam Deck mod that removes the screen and controls, leaving only a power button and a USB port.
424 points by Philpax | 174 comments
Valve's official page announcing the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update, showing the game's City 17 plaza with the Half-Life 2 logo.
430 points by Venn1 | 130 comments
Blog post by Timothee Besset explaining how Valve improved Steam client stability on Linux by addressing unsafe setenv/getenv use in multithreaded code.
868 points by jrepinc | 595 comments
GamingOnLinux news article reporting that Valve now requires Steam games to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on their store pages.
602 points by todsacerdoti | 102 comments
A blog post explaining how video games use color lookup tables (LUTs) for tinting and color grading, with WebGL examples showing how to implement them.
327 points by freudenjmp | 33 comments
Blog post investigating a decade-old Steam bug (the "No user logon" error) affecting Valve games like Counter-Strike 2.
421 points by muterad_murilax | 206 comments
Blog post by iliana etaoin describing how she forked SteamOS 3 and built custom atomic A/B update images for a living room PC.
333 points by marconey | 122 comments
Valve's hour-long YouTube documentary marking the 25th anniversary of the video game Half-Life.
509 points by Philpax | 211 comments
Valve's official page for the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update, celebrating the 1998 game's release with new content and improvements.
331 points by neffo | 48 comments
A Mastodon thread by Valve's Jake Rodkin explaining how the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer was lit using Steam Deck OLED screens inside a giant metal orb.
870 points by robbiet480 | 592 comments
Valve's Steam store page introducing the Steam Deck OLED handheld, highlighting its HDR screen, longer battery life, and faster downloads.
714 points by WithinReason | 224 comments
Phoronix news article on a Linux Foundation Europe Open-Source Summit talk by Igalia highlighting Valve's upstream contributions to Linux via Steam Deck and SteamOS.
350 points by skibz | 110 comments
GitHub repository for Portal 64, a fan-made demake of Valve's Portal for the Nintendo 64 console.
368 points by Sporktacular | 296 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Linux has overtaken macOS in Steam's hardware survey share, driven largely by the Steam Deck handheld.
579 points by ekianjo | 354 comments
A Mastodon post from Boiling Steam reporting that over 75% of tested Steam games are rated playable or verified on the Steam Deck.
587 points by Wouter33 | 300 comments
Reddit post in r/aigamedev where a developer shares Valve's rejection of their Steam game over AI-generated assets lacking clear intellectual property rights.
333 points by Lammy | 219 comments
Dolphin emulator blog post announcing its Steam release is indefinitely postponed after Nintendo issued a DMCA notice to Valve against its Steam page.
576 points by rurban | 307 comments
Slashdot story reporting that Valve restricted the Steam accounts of about 2,500 users who marked a negative game review as useful.