Steam is home to many tools and utilities alongside the trove of actual PC games, many of which can improve performance, aid in content creation, or fuel your streaming ambitions. Here are five non-game Steam apps I always keep on my PC ⤵️

From NWS Chicago: Temperatures warm through Memorial Day with highs back into the 80s. Daily lake breezes will keep temps cooler near the lakeshore. Widely scattered showers and possibly an isolated storm will move through late tonight then focusing mainly east of I-55 into Sunday. #ILwx #INwx

The Insider Gaming showcase features 12 world premieres and several more games never seen before in a showcase. With a goal of 1 million cumulative wishlists, these games need your support as they look to get funded! Tune in on May 28th at 3pm ET/12pm PT/8pm BST!

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has posted a touching tribute to Tom Kane along with an illustration of Professor Utonium and Mr. Harriman: “I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”

Chicago’s coyotes — the ‘ghosts of the city’ — help balance urban ecosystem. @MikeLoweReports wgntv.com/news/cover-s...

The runtime of this would sit 10th overall in Star Wars movie lengths between Episode V (2 hrs 7 mins) and Episode VI (2 hrs and 11 mins) 🍿

Film you watched more then six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Trek, LOTR, Marvel, Star Wars, Ghibli, Disney

We're lowering the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Future Call of Duty titles will join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate about a year after launch. You'll continue to enjoy current COD titles, hundreds of games on console and PC, day one releases, in-game benefits, and much more. Details: xbx.lv/48yXKJp

They turned the freaking logo gay too mwahahahaha Eat shit, Alex Jones.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

There's our watch #ilwx

Tornado watch up out west, timing still aligns with these storms arriving here between 8-11pm. All hazards possible this evening #ilwx

Been a wet spring so far across Chicagoland. From the station #ilwx

11 years ago today Rochelle-Fairdale tornado #ilwx

Our approach into ORD was the best on Friday!

Lightning Over City at 836pm on Thursday

God speed Artemis II

#SPC issues Day 1 Enhanced Convective Risk at Mar 26, 12:46z for LOT Link

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit

BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Colors for everyone #ilwx

The Tri-Colors are Flying this morning. Chicago gets ready to bring in the celebration of St. Patrick's Day today!

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season. This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

Quite a chase, followed one supercell the entire time and watched it produce 3 tornadoes. One captured below in Pontiac, another brief spin up near Herscher, and the back edge of the monster east of Aroma Park. Crossed the damage path as well with baseball hail in Aroma Park #ilwx

At 10:01am, it was 61 degrees, its now 43. Marine air is heading inland across NE IL (current rough position). #ilwx

Time to play the obs game #ilwx

Half day of work to go chase what looks like a classic Illinois setup

Post storm clouds earlier today #ilwx

Right into Three Rivers, confirmed TDS as well Not good #miwx

Michigan doing the thing #miwx Three Rivers is in trouble here

ChatGPT uninstalls jumping 295 percent and Sam Altman calling the Pentagon deal “opportunistic and sloppy” is not the comeback OpenAI was hoping for. Users are bailing, trust is slipping, and the apology tour isn’t slowing the fire down. Full story at Windows Central🔗👇 buff.ly/szGhItQ

Star Wars: Star Pilots features the voices of pilots from both the rebellion and empire during the Galactic Civil War. The main POV is Wedge Antilles, taking place after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. AND YES, BIGGS IS MENTIONED 🥳 Written by @chriskempshall.bsky.social , out this October!

Well, Hurricane Allen no longer sits alone at the top of the table… The post-analysis on Hurricane Melissa shows that maximum sustained winds in the storm peaked at 190 mph, tying it with Allen for the strongest hurricane by wind speed on record in the NATL basin.

Simple Saturday Start Silhouette. Today in Chicago.

Xbox as we've known it is now truly dead. A former AI exec taking over the reigns? Nahh sorry, don't trust you at all

It is way too early for this season to start

False Spring has begun. First 60 of 2026 #ilwx

This evening in Chicago on the eve of the National Wear Red Day. On Friday, get ready to GO RED in support of women’s cardiovascular health. Our skyline is already in red! More info at the American Heart Association of Illinois.

#nationalweatherpersonsday Graphic by Jared Rackley

2026 Stadium Series was the #NHL’s best outdoor game of 45 so far - not close. Scene. Vibes. Props. Show. Legit drama. Goalie fight. 4-goal comeback. Overtime. And Jon Cooper’s endless commitment to the bit in 38-degree weather in (!) Florida. What a night.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Update: 5.8" of snow which has mostly stopped albeit some flurries. 1.3" since last report. #ilwx

Update: 4.5" or snow so far, 1.8" since 830am #ilwx

2.7" of snow so far, 1.7" since last report. #ilwx

1" of snow so far near 52nd/95th in Oak Lawn. Neighborhood roads are snow covered. #ilwx

LEGO Reveals First Five Pokémon Sets Releasing Next Month insider-gaming.com/lego-reveals...

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

JD Vance Claims Renée Good Had No Authority To Be Alive In First Place