
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.

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.