Cheap Did Not Win: What 50 New Steam Releases Actually Cost This Week
The twenty best-reviewed new releases on Steam this week were, on average, four dollars more expensive than the thirty below
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Only Two Games on Steam Make You Write Real Code — The Rest Teach Logic Without Syntax
Only two games on Steam make you write real code. The rest of the “learn to program” shelf teaches logic
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Steam Deck Verified, Playable, Unsupported, Unknown — Only One of Them Is Actually Bad News
Steam Deck games fall into exactly four buckets — Verified, Playable, Unsupported and Unknown — and only one of them
Is Valheim Steam Deck Verified? Yes — But the Badge Does Not Cover the Part That Matters
Yes. Valheim is Steam Deck Verified — the highest of Valve’s four compatibility ratings — and that status holds for
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How Did Steam Achievements Leak for Unreleased Games? The “Hidden” Checkbox Does Not Do What Developers Think
Because marking an achievement “Hidden” in Steamworks does not hide that it exists. It hides the achievement from a player’s
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Steam Next Fest October 2026: Dates, Deadlines and Why Registration Already Closed
Steam Next Fest October 2026 runs from 19 October to 26 October 2026. Registration closed on 31 August, so if
What Steam’s AI Disclosure Rules Actually Require in 2026 (And What They Do Not)
You disclose AI that ships in the game and reaches the player. You do not disclose AI that only helped
87% of Steam’s Best New Games Launched on Discount. Should Yours?
Yes — and the reason is not that a launch discount sells more copies. It is that Steam only gives
What Is SteamDB? The Unofficial Steam Database — And Who Owns It Now
SteamDB is an independent, unofficial database that tracks everything Valve changes on Steam — prices, patches, player counts, unreleased apps
Is itch.io Down? We Checked — And the Error You Are Seeing Probably Is Not an Outage
Short answer: itch.io is up. We checked three separate itch.io endpoints from a server immediately before publishing, on 10 September