







Three PC builders on why they're not gambling on SteamOS.
What Valve got right and wrong with the Steam Machine
Valve's developers and Polygon's editors share thoughts on the potentially revolutionary new hardware

Steam Hardware - Steam Machine launches today! - Steam News
All the details on how to sign up, plus some background on how we got here.

How Everything Became Gambling
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.

'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam
'You work six years on a game, you line up press and events for the launch, and then some guy at Valve clicks on a checkbox and blocks everything.'

Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.

Steam Store
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

itch.io: "Open marketplaces can work"
For years now, it seems like any discussion of online gaming storefronts eventually comes back to Steam and Valve's inc…

Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console
Valve’s Fremont was real.



The Other Bubble
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team

Microsoft, I forgive you!
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
Steam Week in Review: 54 idle games released on Steam last week, and many look eerily similar
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending September 6.

The New Steam Hardware is AMAZING!!
Windows Was The Problem All Along
Why old games never die (but new ones do)
It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…
