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Valve could be prepping to roll out 30-day Steam price tracking in the US, making it harder for publishers to mess with discounts

It already exists in some EU countries.

PC Gamer

Rumored feature coming to Steam that will help you track prices, and Microsoft should copy it immediately for Xbox and PC

A Steam backend update suggests expanded price history tracking could be on the way. The feature highlights a gap on Xbox, where users still rely on third party tools to track game pricing.

Windows Central

A 100% discount on Steam is way better than a regular giveaway, indie boss says after Graveyard Keeper ploy pays off: "It’s why the original game spiked so fast and so hard"

Graveyard Keeper 2 got a huge boost out of this Steam strategy

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Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client's backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, letting you see if the game currently costs the lowest it has been in…

Tom’s Hardware

Valve's Steam price history feature could be extended to all regions — but it needs one big change before the Steam Machine's launch

The Steam Machine is seemingly still a long way away from launch, but that isn't stopping Valve from preparing its Steam store for its arrival.

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One YouTuber has built their own $950 Steam Machine, with a custom wood panel, because 'Valve was taking too long'

"I think we can make something that's cheaper, faster, and overall better than what Valve has to offer."

PC Gamer

Xbox co-creator is more interested in Switch 3 than Project Helix because Nintendo hardware is "at least really interesting and cool, even when it fails"

"Even Wii U was interesting and cool," Seamus Blackley argues

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Valve’s Steam Controller launch looks imminent based on new public records — and it might finally give me the perfect excuse to build a custom Steam Machine

Valve may not be ready to launch the Steam Machine just yet, but there's more positive news on its main accessory.

TechRadar

Valve is now sitting on lots of Steam controllers, so releasing them before the Steam Machine is a no-brainer

Valve just received what could be its "first large quantity" of Steam Controller stock, and if we're lucky, it could mean the Steam Machine is inbound.

GamesRadar

A Valve developer has just made it easier to run games on Linux with 8 GB cards thanks to a simple fix

You just need to be on an Arch-based distro, for now.

PC Gamer

The Steam Machine could pull some pretty big moves with just 8GB VRAM, thanks to a savvy Valve engineer

Valve engineer Natalie Vock has come up with a clever way to optimize 8GB VRAM in Linux that could give the Steam Machine a big helping hand.

GamesRadar

PS6 rumors suggest the next console war will be fought on a completely new battlefield, and the Steam Machine might be in prime position

Rumors point to three PlayStation 6 devices launching in the next generation, but this shift in priorities could see Steam Machine steal the win.

GamesRadar

"Gabe's crazy" – Father of Xbox "vastly more excited" about Steam than Project Helix because Valve "f*** up business" and do "weird stuff"

Gabe Newell and the gang are "relentlessly focused on cool games"

GamesRadar

"What else were Steam Deck users to do but create their own solutions?": I watched Valve's Linux-first handheld turn into a Windows 11 experiment in its community

Valve's Steam Deck is a great piece of hardware that runs SteamOS out of the box. What about Windows? Well, it's possible, but not without some help from a community of enthusiasts.

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Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs — breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat

Natalie Vock, a dev on Valve's Linux graphics driver team has introduced new fixes that optimize VRAM usage for games in Linux. Previously, any background task could make the OS evict game data from VRAM and throw it into system memory, but now it'll be able to correctly prioritize the…

Windows Central

Is Valve prepping its own AI for Steam?

Reference to something called SteamGPT has appeared in a datamined Steam update, which could mean that Valve is bringing in AI to help speed up support requests and to buff anti-cheat. Here's what you need to know.

GamesRadar

Half-Life writer was surprised how few FPS games followed Valve's approach to story: "Medal Of Honor, for instance, and Call Of Duty both followed those principles, but it was inconsistent"

You see bits of Half-Life's narrative design in Call of Duty, but much of Valve's influence came in other forms

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Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions

It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...

GamesRadar

Decades ago, Gabe Newell revealed that Super Mario 64 influenced Half-Life, and it seems future Steam god GabeN was a lot better at Nintendo's platformer than Valve's FPS classic

Newell figured somebody needed to "add a deathmatch mode to Mario 64" so he could prove his chops at Valve

GamesRadar

"SteamGPT" mentions in Valve's code flagged by online sleuth, sparking fears of an AI Steam chatbot that will screw up your support requests and hallucinate anti-cheat

Valve hasn't commented on the nature or validity of "SteamGPT"

GamesRadar

Portal 2 devs went through "nasty crunch" to get Valve's all-time classic out the door, partly because they kept "adding stuff" despite deadlines: "My wife was getting really tired"

The GLaDOS effect

Tom’s Hardware

Steam files suggest Valve is developing internal'SteamGPT' AI bot — aimed at tackling customer support tickets and CS2 anti-cheat

Leaked Steam files show that Valve is developing a "SteamGPT" AI bot that will help its employees with customer support and anti-cheat in CS2.

Windows Central

"I know that a lot of PC gamers are resistant to AI": SteamGPT shows up in datamined Steam files, suggesting Valve plans to add AI to help in these two key areas

GamesRadar

Valve admits it's "time to make some bigger improvements" to Steam's mod system, drops massive Steam Workshop update with "completely rewritten" pages

The Steam Workshop should look and run a lot better

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