One of the attendees of the Steam talk at GDC was able to share some new info/stats Valve shared:

• 5,863 games earned $100k+ in 2025. And the accompanying slide which shows the growth of that statistic.
• 1,500 games featured on Daily Deals. 69% of which have never been featured before.
• 8.2M customers bought a Daily Deal in 2025.
• 125% more players buying Daily Deals.
• 66% of players view Steam in a language other than English.
• Over 50% of active Steam users in 2025 played on more than one machine highlighting the importance of Steam Cloud-support.

Also:

• Valve speakers joke there will be no hardware announcements at GDC 2026 “unless anybody has RAM.”

I found myself playing Halo Infinite again recently for the first time in a couple years, and it makes me rather sad that its multiplayer was so broken at launch. So much stuff in the game actually feels great and works well now, but it took too long and it basically lost the entire playerbase before they could get the game working.

It does make me wonder though, lets say Halo Infinite or something like that had launched in a great state with a solid, well made online arena shooter. Do you think a game like that could succeed and hold a playerbase in today’s environment?

Looking back at e.g. the glory days of Halo 3, that game captivated people, so many people put hundreds or thousands of hours into the matchmaking with almost zero live-service support. There was no progression, a very limited selection of cosmetics to unlock, and a very small number of maps added over the game’s lifecycle, but it held people’s attention for so long.

I find myself really wondering …

This level of transparency should be industry standard…

A friend of mine created these. They’re so beautiful I wanted to share them with you. He’s experienced with miniatures, but this is his first time creating something on Arc Raiders.

Imagine bringing in your Bobcat IV to a duel..

It’s a lie Me and my friend ran a load of raids last night, he’s on 6% bonus, I’m on 12%.

Knowing 6% and 12% on small numbers means small differences, we didn’t empty scrappy until he was nearly full.

Not a single difference on the quantities we both had.

Furthermore, the length of time we spent up top made no difference either.

Either Embark are lying or scrappy is refusing to collect more until he gets a a pay rise.

Every freaking time I see a TTV player in the lobby, they try to get content out of you. On multiple occasions, they’ll shamelessly rat and then play the victim after trying to earn your trust.

So whenever I see a streamer in the lobby, I just wait for the best opportunity to take them down.

Embark please this would be awesome. They would have to be relatively the same duration as the current default one but embark could make some pretty cool knockouts to choose from instead of the current loony toons punch we always do. Imagine your last moments being a raider putting an anvil to your chin all menacingly. If you’re not sure what I’m saying look at apex legends’ finishers. It would be sick

Man, last night I screwed up and got killed by a Rocketeer on damn battlegrounds during the hurricane.

I had to crawl like 280m but I had like 26 minutes left and the survivor augment. I didn’t see or hear a soul for the 20 min crawl. I finally got about 50m from the Red Lakes Balcony Extract and it timed out, so I yelled into the wind, “Anyone have a defib?” This guy comes out of the darkness and replies, “Do you have the survivor augment?” I’m like, “yeah, and a hatch key”. I was saved!

What does he do? I was thinking he was gonna escort me or something to the hatch. Nope. He finished me and took my kit. Anvil splitter went bye bye.

LOL

My own random teammates killed me & wouldn’t revive me.

Are people loading in with the intent to kill their own teammates and take advantage when their health is low from fighting arc & gets some easy loot. They clearly loading in with a bunch of blaze grenades.

My friend almost left it there :D