A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes... Monkey bomb squad. Dieselpunk artillery. Offroad driving. Cthonic jungles. Spelunking on other planets. Electronics repairs. Gold mining. 5v5 soccer. V I D E O G A M E S.

The summer showcase of summer showcases, on Steam. Lots more where this came from over at store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_...

New: A Refreshed Steam Store Home Page. After a bunch of testing and improvements in the client beta, the new storefront design is live. Personal Calendar, smoother discoverability queue, improved gamepad nav, and way more. steamcommunity.com/games/593110...

Big day for devs working on a desktop companion game where a capybara escapes from a zoo, organizes and cleans a house, starts a poker game with some wolves, and learns a new language! (new tags and other tag improvements) store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

Steam Controller incoming!

Steam "House and Home" fest is zany and wonderful and raises important questions like "Are you insane" and "wait can I play as the racoon" and "What else has The Rat Zone presented because my interest is extremely piqued" @therat.zone

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This morning somebody at GDC asked me if there was any chance we could make Wishlist data easier to access... Well would ya lookie here! steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike. When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players. That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

lol here's a good one from just yesterday. Love me some material efficiency. All about that pressure and performance rating.

Another cool thing about developer homepages: when you follow a game studio you like, we automatically let you know about new games that they release, for instance... @strangescaffold.bsky.social

Developer/Publisher home pages are already super valuable, especially for building an audience over time.This morning we launched a huge update to customization. If you haven't already made a home page for your game studio, now is a good time to start! store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Hydraulic valves, piston valves, pressure regulator valves... you name a type of valve, somebody has emailed me a price sheet for it. "Valve business guy" means wildly different things depending on whether you make video games or not.

Steam Next Fest is back with new demos from now until March 2! Check out of demos of every genre and wishlist your favorites. Browse by genre, theme, or feature, or check out the For You tab for recommendations based on what you've been playing! store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

happy next fest day to all who celebrate, 'tis the season for getting alerts that a bunch of studios & games are dropping new demos. store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

By including the i-shaped trophy in their roman numerals logo, the NFL made it look like Super Bowl 59 instead of Super Bowl 60. LIX <> LX This concludes my sports analysis for the day.

Is your game currently released and playable in Early Access on Steam? If so, you have a new (totally optional) tool to share your planned 1.0 release date, once you are ready to do so! store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

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2026 has already been very busy for the Steam team with a bunch of new updates and tools in the first few weeks of the year. Follow the Steamworks Dev blog below, or here on bsky @partner.steamgames.com , to stay up to date. steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

"You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."

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On Fox 9 just now they interviewed a woman at the scene in Minneapolis. She says she’s not an activist but felt a call to action like she hasn’t felt since 9/11. She says she was raised to love America. She says she’s never felt scared of the government in her life, until now.

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New options on Steam make it easier for developers and mod authors to work together in ensuring compatibility of mods as games evolve. Extremely cool for games that have an active mod community! store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

Steam Replay 2025 is out!

"Due to breach in the Desimone Levee, this area is under a GO NOW evacuation notice. Leave immediately if you are in this area."

It's Steam Awards season again- go visit store.steampowered.com/steamawards/... (or via the Steam client or mobile app) to submit your nominations.

you had me at high-stakes volleyball roguelite store.steampowered.com/app/3861120/...

Welcome to fam, ya'll! -Steam Controller -Steam Machine -Steam Frame (Growing our @steampowered.com Hardware Family in early 2026)

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In case you missed it: the top 50 demos from Steam Next Fest, October 2025 store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes...

New game discovery option from our team! We're launching this feature as a Steam Labs experiment. We'd like your feedback to help make the best possible version of this tool. Read on for more details. store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

Now that the October edition of Next Fest is officially closed, the Most-played demo recap is here! store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes... If you want to join the bandwagon, come check out everyone else's favorite demos. Some of the demos are still up!

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New from our team: see discount performance at a glance. Plus other useful stuff like revenue-per-day across the discount, and the number of times you've run that discount before. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

"A game you followed in Steam Greenlight has just released!"

"When there are enough reviews written in a particular language, Steam will calculate a review score for that language. The Review Score displayed to users will be based on their primary language." Learn more about our process and tradeoffs here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

new for game devs: w i d e s t o r e plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description. steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Feels weird to be talking about autumn and winter already, but: our big seasonal sale schedule looks a bit different this year. Game devs, check out the calendar if you want to plan ahead. store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Useful resource for game developers thinking about Early Access for their next launch:

Steam Automation Fest is now live! Watch your head - this Fest is full of conveyor belts, factories, crafting, and all sorts of games that scratch the optimization itch. On now until July 21st! store.steampowered.com/category/aut...

This story first dropped months ago but it's a phenomenal read.

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Thanks for hosting us, Busan Indie Connect! #BusanIndieConnect

New today: IPartnerFinancialsService is a simple new API which does pretty much what you'd expect: retrieves all the useful info about revenue, units, key activations, bundles, and in-game transactions. Read more: steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...