Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), officially released Steam Trading Cards, a new service that rewards gamers for gaming on Steam. Expanding out of beta today, Steam Trading Cards will allow customers to earn Steam rewards for playing the games they l... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Steam Trading Cards, a new service that rewards gamers for gaming on Steam. Released in beta today, Steam Trading Cards allows customers to earn Steam rewards for playing the games they love. Those wh... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the addition of an Early Access section to Steam's library of over 2,000 titles. Steam Early Access titles allow the community to get involved early and play select titles during their development. Th... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the launch of Steam Guides, a new capability of the platform that allows players to create and/or find guides for their favorite games or Software titles on Steam. Steam Guides lets players create ... more.

The Steam Holiday Sale is on now and runs until January 5, 2012.  There are huge savings throughout the store, with daily deals, flash sales, and catalog discounts. Additionally, every twelve hours there will be a chance for gamers to vote on a select game to go on sale. This year, we've taken some of the guesswork out of when your favorite games will be on sale.  You may now organize your... more.

Valve today revealed the third set of games and first set of Software titles to advance through Steam Greenlight and be offered worldwide distribution via the popular platform for games and software. The latest collection of games and first set of Software titles to advance through Greenlight were selected for having either the highest number of positive votes or on an incredible upward traject... more.

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the launch of a limited access beta for its new Steam for Linux client. The Steam for Linux Beta client supports the free-to-play game Team Fortress 2. Approximately two dozen additional Steam titles are now also available for play on Li... more.

Valve and UOL BoaCompra recently announced an agreement that today brings Steam gamers payment options in Brazilian Reais starting with Boleto. In addition, the coming months will bring more local payment methods to Steam provided by BoaCompra including deposits, account transfers, PagSegura and local credit cards. Steam is a leading platform for PC and Mac games with over 2,000 titles... more.

Valve today revealed November 30th as the target date for announcing the next set of titles to launch via Steam Greenlight. Given current voting, at least 10 more game titles are expected to be offered worldwide distribution agreements via Steam. In addition, Valve hopes to announce Greenlight's first graduating class of Software titles, with at least five Software titles targeted for inclus... more.

It has been one year since Steam Workshop launched as a submission path for game items created and sold by gamers. It began with Team Fortress 2, and the Workshop has quickly grown to support many others including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Portal 2, Sid Meier's Civilization V and more with different models of player-created content, exposing many players to the world of modding along the... more.