Valve puts some elbow grease into Steam Remote Play—maybe one day you won’t have to install additional tools to get the best in-home game streaming experience

I don’t think I’ve encountered anyone, in the wild, who actually uses Steam’s Remote Play game streaming feature since the days of the hardware Steam Link (and what tremendous days they were). In 2026, I think most people making use of in-home streaming tend to default to programs like Apollo and Moonlight. But Valve keeps…

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Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests

The Steam Deck was once a budget champion, but no longer. Ever since the price hikes earlier this year, Valve’s handheld has become difficult to argue for as a value proposition—and according to recent sales estimates by Boiling Steam, it appears that consumers may agree. The site has attempted to estimate the number of Steam…

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Arc Raiders’ matchmaking optimisation is live as Embark warns players they may experience longer queues than usual ‘since it’s now working harder’

The biggest thing to happen in Arc Raiders recently (if you don’t count the Expedition near miss) was Embark’s decision to rework the matchmaking to be more attuned to players’ actions in solo, duo, and trio queues. The only problem with having better matchmaking is having to wait a bit longer in queue for the…

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ZeroSpace is an impressively ambitious RTS-RPG featuring a Helldivers 2-inspired Galactic War, but the streamer pandering is a real bummer

It’s dangerous to get too excited about a new RTS. Just look at what happened to Stormgate. So I’ve been cautious with ZeroSpace. It’s an RTS built in the classic mould—think StarCraft 2—featuring proper basebuilding and potent hero units. So far, pretty familiar. But there’s more. ZeroSpace also boasts an RPG campaign with dialogue trees…

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Marathon’s experimental PvE mode is live, immediately tripling its daily player count

Today, Bungie launched Marathon’s 1.1.5 update, featuring its awaited Vault Breaker experimental PvE mode which offers a two-week window for players to contend with the typically-endgame Cryo Archive map and its many hazards and puzzles without any twitchy, murderous squads of competing players hanging around. Shortly after the Vault Breaker update went live, SteamDB charts…

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Hasbro takes $56 million hit over multiple game cancellations, but it’s still talking about how Baldur’s Gate 3 is key to its future success

Two years after boasting about how hard it was going on videogames, Hasbro has recorded a “$56 million non-cash impairment” in its second-quarter financial report, arising from the cancellation of several games in development that were expected to release “in 2028 and beyond.” First things first: As PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens explained when Sony took…

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