Steam Hardware now available for Pre-Order

Jun 04, 2015

Valve, GameStop, EB Games, Micromania, and GAME UK today announced the first pre order offerings for Steam Hardware devices will begin at 10 am Pacific. A collection of hardware designed to expand the Steam gaming experience into the living room and beyond, the new Steam Hardware devices are targeted to arrive in North America and Europe this fall.

Portal is coming to Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2

May 05, 2015

Valve and Zen Studios have revealed the fruits of their recently revealed collaboration, taking one of the most beloved game series of the past decade, Portal, and giving it the pinball treatment! Portal pinball will be available on Zen’s pinball platforms, including Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2, on the week of May 25, 2015.

Valve to expand Steam Universe with Steam machines and SteamVR – will be shown off at GDC 2015

Feb 24, 2015

Valve will show a family of new Steam devices at next week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA. Products being demonstrated at GDC include Steam Machines with the final Steam Controller, new living room devices, and a previously-unannounced SteamVR hardware system.

Steam is hosting a Holiday Auction

Dec 12, 2014

This holiday season, Valve is introducing a new event that gives gamers the chance to recycle  Community items in their Steam Inventory for new games.

Valve introduces Steam Broadcasting, now in Beta

Dec 02, 2014

Starting today Steam gamers may watch their friends’ games through the click of a button via Steam Broadcasting, now available in beta.

Valve’s Documentary “Free To Play” is Free To Watch Starting Today

Mar 19, 2014

Free to Play, a documentary film from Valve that follows the lives of three aspiring professional gamers, is now available via Steam and Twitch, and coming soon to additional digital platforms such as YouTube and iTunes.

Steam adds “Recently Updated” section for better info on updates and discoverability

Feb 07, 2014

Valve today launched a “Recently Updated” section on Steam that highlights titles offering new and interesting updates, features, and/or content additions.

Reviews now in Beta for Steam

Nov 25, 2013

Valve today announced the beta launch of Steam Reviews, adding more ways Steam users may share their experiences with others and make more informed purchase decisions.

Steam announces that Family Sharing is coming soon

Sep 11, 2013

Steam Family Sharing, a new service feature that allows close friends and family members to share their libraries of Steam games, is coming to Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC, Mac, and Linux games and software. The feature will become available next week, in limited beta on Steam. 

Steam Family Sharing is designed for close friends and family members to play one another’s Steam games while each earning their own Steam achievements and storing their own saves and application data to the Steam cloud. It’s all enabled by authorizing a shared computer. 

“Our customers have expressed a desire to share their digital games among friends and family members, just as current retail games, books, DVDs, and other physical media can be shared,” explained Anna Sweet of Valve. “Family Sharing was created in direct response to these user requests.” 

Once a device is authorized, the lender’s library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.

For more information about Steam Family Sharing and the beta program, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/.