Posts tagged Steam
The Steam “Grand Prix” Summer Sale Has Begun
Ready your wallets — the annual Steam Summer Sale has begun! This year’s theme is Grand Prix and the sale will run from June 25th to July 9th. As tradition, early shoppers were greeted with plenty of errors, extremely slow checkout, and quite possibly a black screen (maybe a white line if you were lucky)....
The PC Game Launcher War
In recent months, PC gamers have been at war with each other over the new Epic Games Store and Steam. Arguments include Epic Games paying developers and publishers to release games exclusive to the Epic Games store, a spyware problem, and Epic’s store being “bare-bones” compared to Steam. Epic Games launched their store on December...
Steam Now Accepting the Australian Dollar
Steam started to accept the Australian Dollar earlier this week, which comes as a relief to many Australian gamers. Australian Steam users should see their USD Steam Wallet balance convert to AUD automatically, and will no longer be able to make purchases in USD. Steam requires all publishers to set their game prices in AUD...
Valve Just Quietly Discontinued the Steam Link
It’s just been discovered that Valve has quietly discontinued Steam Link hardware. The last supply has just sold out in Europe and its almost gone in the US. It’s likely that this is due to the lack of sales, even when the Steam Link is going for as little as $2.50. All that’s really happening...
The Steam Summer Sale is Here!
Today, June 23rd, marks the start of the 2016 Steam Summer Sale! This year’s sale will last from today until July 4th, inevitably cleaning out our wallets and filling everyone’s gaming libraries with tons of titles. The theme is “Summer Picnic”, but there doesn’t appear to be any mini-games or special events related to the...