
Valve Explains What Caused the Steam Christmas Day Catastrophe
Valve has shed some light on the difficulties so many users experienced with PC gaming digital storefront Steam over the Christmas holiday.

Valve has shed some light on the difficulties so many users experienced with PC gaming digital storefront Steam over the Christmas holiday.

A massive security issue has darkened Christmas for PC gamers, with an unknown number of users’ accounts on mega digital games retailer Steam being compromised.

Steam accounts are falling victim to rampant hijacking. In response, Valve has decided to implement some much-needed safeguards to the process.

Just in time for Thanksgiving binges, Steam has launched the Exploration Sale, going from now through December 1st.

The Advertising Standards Agency is taking Valve to task for its “misleading” discount of Grand Theft Auto V during its Summer Sale in June.

The worst video game journalism on planet Earth is published by Gawker, on its Kotaku gaming vertical. This week, resident brainiac Nathan Grayson of “I slept with Zoe Quinn and didn’t disclose that I’m in the credits of her game even though

In a final bow to overwhelming consumer pressure, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced on October 31st that they would be offering full refunds of Batman: Arkham Knight, “regardless of how long you have played the product.” The Arkham Knight drama

Last week, several Steam users had their accounts hacked via a glitch. While Valve initially labeled the glitch as only a “bug,” it recognized that there was a larger problem on Saturday, July 25, and fixed it immediately.

After being pulled along with many other Marvel titles, action game Deadpool has been put back on sale on Steam. This re-release comes in the midst of a buildup of publicity and excitement for the Deadpool movie, which casts Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool and is set to debut on February 12, 2016.

Steam updated its policy on fraudulent trades to note that users who are scammed will not have their items returned. The service will ban scammers and lock accounts that have been hijacked but believes that “all trade scams can be avoided.”

While Kudo Tsunoda, development head of Xbox, revealed that the company is “working closely with Valve” to offer Windows 10 as the optimal gaming platform for the Vive Developer Edition of Valve’s SteamVR virtual reality headset, which is to be released in spring 2015, Valve was not at E3’s first-ever PC Gaming Show on Tuesday, June 16.

Steam has premiered its own controller and link device, allowing gamers to play any titles in their Steam library on their television.

PC gaming digital distribution service Steam changed its refund policy this week to grant gamers two weeks to return items, for any reason, as long as they have not been played for more than two hours, but game developers disagreed on whether this would help or hurt the industry.

Angry emails from consumers could cost video game software company Valve over $1 million in “just a couple of days,” according to CEO and founder Gabe Newell.

Valve, the company behind phenomenally successful video game distribution platform Steam, has found itself in a pickle after announcing new payment options for its “modding” community that were not fully understood by its customers.