Steam is a popular online game distribution platform by Valve Software, the creators of Half-Life. It was definitely one of the first movers in the niche and moved from a rough start to a popular platform used by millions of gamers. Steam for the most part works just fine, the platform does have a few [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The Steam forums were for a time not accessible a few days ago. What felt like a hardware or software issue at that time was actually more serious than this. Users who visit the Steam forums today see an announcement on the first page that informs them that the Steam forum and Steam databases have [...]

Categories: Security

Normally I review free games every Saturday here on Ghacks, but I’d like to make an exception for some exceptional games. There is a Sega sale on Steam currently where you can buy lots of games at good prices. Among the games are all games of all Mega Drive collections that Sega released until now. [...]

Categories: Games

I started playing Team Fortress 2 when the beta came out and continued to play it once Valve released the game on Steam, and later on to the retail market. Team Fortress 2 back then was a perfect blend of a fast paced shooter that reminded gamers more of the good games of old times [...]

Categories: Games

If you are using the Steam gaming platform for some of your gaming, you might want to make it the central hub for all of your gaming programs. Adding all games to the game list in Steam could make it more comfortable to launch those games, especially if the Steam program is open anyway on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

While we are gamers at heart here at Ghacks, we usually do not write that much about gaming. But when someone drops a bomb, we have the urge to tell the world. I have been playing Team Fortress 2 since beta, quit twice since then but always came back to the game. It was one [...]

Categories: Games

Steam users have several reasons for backing up some of their Steam games. Maybe they want to move the games to a new computer so that they do not have to download the games again there, or they would like to save their single player save games to copy them to another system or preserve [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Especially gamers need to make sure that their video card drivers are up to date. Why? Because those drivers may add new features, improve compatibility of games or the overall performance while gaming or performing other gpu intensive tasks on the PC. Up until now, this had to be done manually. Gamers had to check [...]

Categories: Windows

Valve’s Steam platform offers a very comfortable gaming platform. It is probably one of the best examples how an online distribution system can be successful. Not everyone likes Steam on the other hand, which is understandable as it has its quirks and problems, just like any other kind of gaming platform. One of the most [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic