Steam’s beta client finally makes friend notifications behave on Deck
Valve's October 28 Steam beta fixes friend-join alerts that vanished in a rush, respects toast sound settings, and speeds up the Quick Access Menu on Deck.
Valve admits Next Fest lets low-quality games through, and tells developers to out-build the AI clones
Valve offered no new screening and no AI rule in Busan, as reported by Inven Global, so the job of beating clones lands on the developers…
Steam’s Personal Calendar is out of Labs for good, and Valve’s “no paid placement” line is the part worth holding it to
The feature itself is a tidy upgrade. The promise that nobody can buy a slot in it is the claim we can't check from the outside.
Steam’s Achievement Sets finally stop DLC from wrecking your 100% completion
Valve's new beta splits achievements into base-game and DLC sets that developers can add without patching. The seasonal part is the bit to watch.
Steam breaks its concurrent-user record again, passing 43.5 million on October 11
Steam peaked at 43,505,724 simultaneous users on October 11, per SteamDB, its third record of 2026, with a record 14.46 million of them actually in a…
09:20Epic says its new launcher beats Steam by 46%. It timed the Steam Valve replaced the day before
Epic's Preview launcher is quicker to its store page, but its headline figure was measured against a Steam client that Valve's October 13 update had already…
