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Steam’s Big Discovery Update Is Hurting Some Indie Developers’ Games
14Last week, Valve released an update as part of a recent push to make it easier for users to find new, under-the-radar games. The update purported to decrease the presence of popular games in Steam’s recommendation algorithms, increase overall variety, and give people a more personalised selection of games. However, the update appears to have…
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Steam Libraries Are Getting Long-Awaited Overhaul In September
In the time since Valve first started alluding to (and accidentally leaking mock-ups of) a mysterious Steam library overhaul, eras have ended, empires have risen and fallen, and we’ve all grown weary and hunched. Or at least, it feels that way. Now, the time for change is nearly upon us: Valve will begin rolling out…
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Valve Backtracks After Banning Hacker For Publicly Disclosing A Vulnerability
Valve has admitted it made a mistake banning a white hat hacker who detected a vulnerability on Steam and disclosed the exploit publicly, after Valve initially classified his reports as not applicable.
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DayZ Has Been Removed From Steam In Australia
DayZ has officially been refused classification for almost two months now, but after a lengthy delay and the fact that Valve doesn’t exactly operate on the same wavelength as Australia, the survival shooter remained available for sale. Today, that is no longer the case.