Phoronix reported that Q2 2025 featured 872 news articles and 54 hardware reviews, with top stories including Linux kernel optimizations, NVIDIA Vera CPU, Intel Arc Pro B70, and AI/LLM impacts. Popula…
Fanatical's Very Positive Deluxe Collection bundle offers 11 Steam Deck-compatible games at up to 79% off, with prices starting at $4 per game when selecting five or more titles, undercutting Steam's …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve over Steam's AI disclosure policies, prompting Valve to make AI disclosures more prominent and hide AI-aided games from search results.…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Steam's AI disclosure requirement as a 'Scarlet Letter' harming developers, but data from a December 2025 Game Oracle study shows the label reduces reviews by 52.…
A developer built an open-source alternatives directory using a two-phase ETL pipeline with Turso libSQL and GitHub API. The project required a careful UPSERT strategy to avoid clobbering live star co…
Humble Bundle's 'Going Rogue: A Lite Heavy' bundle offers eight Steam Deck-friendly games for $10, saving over $140 compared to their $154 total value, and outperforming discounts from the ongoing Ste…
The Steam Summer Sale 2026 is live until July 9, offering discounts on thousands of games. PC Guide lists the best Steam Deck Verified games under $10, including hits like The Witcher 3, Hades, and Ho…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's decision to require AI disclosure labels on Steam games, calling it "really irresponsible" and arguing it harms developers by stigmatizing productivity to…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve's mandatory generative AI disclosure for Steam games 'irresponsible,' arguing it stigmatizes developers and harms their chances of success. In a PC Gamer interv…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's AI disclosure policies on Steam, calling them "really irresponsible" and claiming they make it harder for game developers to succeed. The remarks highligh…
The Steam Summer Sale 2026 is now live, offering deep discounts on thousands of games through July 9. GamingOnLinux recommends budget-friendly, Steam Deck Verified titles under £15, including Cyberpun…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Valve's mandatory AI disclosure tags for the Steam storefront, calling the requirement "irresponsible" and arguing it harms game developers. Valve updated its pol…
Valve released a Steam Deck Client update for the Stable channel on June 24, 2026, improving Remote Play with a 100 Mbit/s bandwidth option and adaptive bitrate up to 250 Mbit/s, overhauling the contr…
Games created using generative artificial intelligence tools sell up to 53% worse on Steam compared to traditionally developed games, according to a new analysis. The findings highlight consumer resis…
Techdirt contributor Timothy Geigner published a June 23, 2026 opinion piece accusing Kotaku of dogmatic AI coverage, citing articles by Zack Zwiezen and Rebekah Valentine that pre-judge AI use in gam…
Kotaku's coverage of AI in gaming has become dogmatic and pre-judges all uses of the technology, according to a Techdirt analysis. The outlet's writers express negativity toward AI tools in game devel…
I Am Your Beast, a revenge thriller FPS with 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam reviews, is coming to PC VR via Early Access on SteamVR later in 2026. The VR adaptation, part of the Flat2VR Spark program…
The AI Warning for Steam browser plugin has been updated to add Steam search filtering, allowing users to blur or hide games that use generative AI. The plugin, previously a script, now provides an un…
A developer has compiled a list of the best free games released recently, featuring titles like 'Control, I'm Not Coming Back,' a philosophical space narrative, and 'Tellyport,' a first-person puzzler…
A new analysis of Steam games released between January and October 2025 found that approximately 21% of titles disclosed AI use, but the impact on sales remains unclear. The study uses review counts a…