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Review: Xbox vets debut ‘Roundguard,’ an accessible blend of the most addictive games

I called Roundguard dangerous when I saw it at last year’s PAX West, and now that I’ve played the full… Read More

Valve debuts new searching features for Steam and releases 1.0 version of ‘DOTA Underlords’

Valve Software this week announced the debut of a new set of search features for its popular online storefront Steam,… Read More

Fan-picked Steam Awards highlight the effect of competition on Valve’s digital gaming empire

If there’s a theme for the nominations in Valve’s Steam Awards this year, it’s how growing competition in digital gaming… Read More

‘Destiny 2’ nabs No. 1 spot for Steam games in October — here are the top 20 releases from Valve

Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software released the latest revenue figures for its online storefront Steam, tracking the top 20 Steam releases… Read More

First impressions: Bungie’s new independence starts on the moon with ‘Destiny 2: Shadowkeep’

Destiny 2’s new expansion, Shadowkeep, is a surprisingly good pick for a Halloween game. It’s still Destiny 2, so you’re… Read More

The future of ‘Destiny 2’: Newly-independent Bungie unveils seismic changes for flagship game

Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based studio behind franchises such as Destiny and Halo, broke several months of relative silence today with… Read More

Microsoft to bring Game Pass streaming service to PCs, and sell its own games on Valve’s Steam platform

Microsoft today announced several new PC gaming initiatives, a series of moves that fit with Microsoft’s evolution as a more… Read More

Review: ‘Swag and Sorcery’ from tinyBuild is a lot of things, but mostly it’s about the grind

tinyBuild, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash. and Amsterdam, is a development studio and publishing house dedicated to bringing out video games… Read More

Review: Paint a fantasy landscape with indie game ‘Eastshade,’ developed by Seattle-area studio

Eastshade feels like somebody made an entire game out of a launch trailer. About five minutes after you start a… Read More

Valve unveils new features and a new look for Steam in business update at GDC

Valve announced big changes coming for its widely used Steam video game platform, including a new feature, Events; a new… Read More

Washington-based brothers behind ‘Dwarf Fortress’ to unexpectedly launch cult indie game on Steam

The cult indie hit Dwarf Fortress is unexpectedly coming to Steam. Silverlake, Wash.-based designer Tarn Adams, the primary creator of Dwarf… Read More

Game review: Explore and colonize other worlds in ‘Astroneer’ … if you can get past the learning curve

Even after spending the better part of 12 hours exploring it, I still don’t quite feel like I have a… Read More

Game Review: Play through the occasionally frustrating adventures of a 16-bit superhero in ‘Grapple Force Rena’

The Sega Genesis is best-remembered for Sonic the Hedgehog and its lineup of sports games, but one of the backbones… Read More

Steam’s top sellers of 2018 show “games as a service” isn’t going away anytime soon

One of the big trends in video games over the past couple of years has been the concept of “games… Read More

Discord increases pressure on Steam, announcing aggressive new developer revenue share

The competition for digital distribution platforms for games is really heating up in terms of developer revenue. Earlier this month… Read More

Epic Games uses its ‘Fortnite’ cash to challenge Steam in the digital-storefront ring

Epic Games, the video game developer behind Gears of War, the Unreal Engine, and the Fortnite franchise, announced on Tuesday morning with a… Read More

Valve’s new Steam revenue-sharing tiers spur controversy among indie game developers

You may have missed it, since Nov. 30 was a big news day (the G20 economic summit in Buenos Aires,… Read More

Steam adds new tools to help users find games they want — and avoid ones they don’t — in its store

It’s been a strange summer for Steam. Since the implementation of the Steam Direct program last year, the service has… Read More

Tozai Games bringing classic shooter compilation ‘R-Type Dimensions’ to Nintendo Switch and Steam

Tozai Games, publishers of Spelunker and Lode Runner Legacy, announced Wednesday that it’s bringing R-Type Dimensions to the Nintendo Switch and the… Read More

Valve’s new Steam Play beta boosts Linux as a rival to Windows PCs for gamers

Valve is best-known these days for its monstrously popular online storefront Steam, but has also spent much of the last… Read More

A tiny independent Steam game was almost certainly a cryptojacking scam

Here’s the short version: it was discovered over the weekend that an indie game available on Steam, Abstractism, was not… Read More

Valve will launch ‘Steam China’ as it aims to attract more Chinese gamers

Valve today announced “Steam China,” a new video game marketplace that will help the Bellevue, Wash.-based company reach more Chinese… Read More

Valve will stop removing controversial games on Steam unless they are ‘illegal or straight up trolling’

Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” according… Read More

Valve removes controversial school shooting game and denounces developer as ‘troll with history of customer abuse’

Valve Software removed a game that simulated school shootings, following a nationwide outcry to ban the title, and slammed the… Read More

Valve criticized for allowing distribution of game that simulates school shootings on Steam platform

Update, Tuesday evening May 29: Valve removes controversial school shooting game and denounces developer as ‘troll with history of customer… Read More

After battling Microsoft in video games for years, Valve’s Steam is on a collision course with Apple

COMMENTARY: If you play games on your PC at all, you likely have a somewhat complex relationship with the Bellevue-based… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: The great privacy debate — and how companies like Apple could benefit

How should gadget fans think about privacy? Geared Up cohost Andru Edwards, for one, says growing concerns about data privacy… Read More

Follow-up: Valve updates the world on the fate of Steam Machine game consoles

It turns out that the Steam Machines aren’t dead. Yet. Over the weekend, several websites, the first of which appears… Read More

Seattle born and raised, ‘Lode Runner Legacy’ is coming to the Nintendo Switch

Tozai Games, the Seattle-area game developer, is bringing its action-puzzle game Lode Runner Legacy, the most recent installment in the… Read More

Pluto VR launches virtual reality communication app on Valve’s Steam gaming marketplace

Seattle startup Pluto VR has launched its first product. The company focuses on applications for people to communicate within virtual reality, and… Read More