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Latest Steam Client Beta backport keeps Windows 7 and Windows 8 gaming PCs on life support
By Zhiye Liu published
Gaming enthusiast Eazy Black has backported the latest Steam beta client (December 4, 2025 build) to support Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Helldivers 2 install size slashed from 154GB to just 23GB
By Kunal Khullar published
The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.

The Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles, Valve aiming to compete with PC market only
By Hassam Nasir published
Do not expect $500 price tags.

Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft
By Jowi Morales published
Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025.

Qualcomm refines Windows on Arm gaming with broad feature release
By Aaron Klotz published
The gaming experience on ARM is slowly making progress.

Vulkan-to-DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve's Proton now supports AMD's FSR4 and Anti-Lag, while Nvidia's DLSS4 remains unsupported
By Aaron Klotz published
Version 3.0 of Proton gets released, featuring a variety of bug fixes and performance improvements for DX12 games, and also adds support for big features such as FSR 4, Anti-Lag, and Work Graphs.

AMD's FSR Redstone officially debuts in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
By Hassam Nasir published
Ray Regeneration is essentially neural upscaling, but for ray tracing data.

New DirectX7 emulation tool brings more games to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and other Linux distros through Vulkan
By Aaron Klotz published
An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to Linux through emulation with Vulkan.
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