If Steam reports a game as installed on disk but the title doesn’t appear in your Steam Library, don’t panic — this is a common, often fixable mismatch between the client’s catalog and what’s on your hard drive, and it usually comes down to a few predictable causes and recovery paths.
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Remedy’s terse social-media defense this week ended one conversation and opened another: yes, Alan Wake 2 would not have existed without Epic Games Publishing — but the splintering of PC storefronts, the economics of exclusivity, and the real-world fallout for mid‑sized studios have renewed a...
The resurgence of DIY Steam Machine-style rigs has a new, unlikely protagonist: secondhand mining hardware built around the ASRock AMD BC-250 APU. What began as a practical recycling move—mining blades and single-purpose cards flooded the secondary market after crypto’s decline—has morphed into...
Windows 11 has quietly — and then not so quietly — become the dominant desktop operating system among Steam users, a shift that marks a dramatic reversal of the Windows 10-era balance and signals real consequences for gamers, PC builders, and IT managers alike. Valve’s monthly Hardware &...
AI’s appetite for memory and storage has reshaped the PC market faster than many hobbyists expected, and the idea that this is a coordinated plot to “kill local PCs” is seductive—but misleading. What’s actually happening is a mix of market concentration, prioritization of higher‑margin AI...
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Valve’s Steam client has completed a long‑running technical migration: the Windows desktop launcher is now a native 64‑bit application on modern Windows 10 and Windows 11 installs, and Valve has set a firm end‑of‑support date for 32‑bit Windows clients — existing 32‑bit installs will stop...
Valve’s Steam client for Windows has completed a long-anticipated migration to a native 64‑bit application and, in the process, has set a firm deadline for the end of support for 32‑bit Windows hosts: after January 1, 2026, Steam will no longer issue updates, fixes, or technical support for...
Valve has quietly completed a long‑expected modernization of its Windows desktop launcher: the Steam client now ships as a native 64‑bit application on Windows 10 (x64) and Windows 11, and Valve has set a firm end‑of‑support date for Steam on 32‑bit Windows — installations running 32‑bit Windows...
Valve’s Steam client has completed its long-expected migration to a native 64‑bit Windows application and formally set a hard cutoff for updates to 32‑bit Windows installs: after January 1, 2026, Steam will no longer receive feature updates, bug fixes, or security patches on 32‑bit Windows...
Valve’s migration of the Steam desktop client to a native 64‑bit Windows build and the company’s formal end‑of‑support date for 32‑bit Windows installations mark the final chapter for an architecture era that has lingered longer than many users realized. The change is narrowly scoped — it...
Valve has begun the final phase of a long‑running modernization: the Steam desktop client is now a native 64‑bit application on Windows 10 (x64) and Windows 11, and support for 32‑bit Windows installations will be frozen and then retired on January 1, 2026, after which Steam will no longer ship...
Valve will stop updating the Steam client on 32‑bit Windows systems as of January 1, 2026, moving Windows support to 64‑bit only and effectively ending updates, patches, and technical support for the tiny fraction of users still running 32‑bit Windows builds.
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Valve has formally signaled the end of an era for legacy Windows desktops: beginning January 1, 2026, the Steam desktop client will no longer be supported on 32‑bit installations of Windows, and the launcher itself has been transitioned to a native 64‑bit build on modern Windows systems. The...
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Valve has begun the long‑anticipated migration of the Steam desktop client on Windows from a mixed 32‑/64‑bit footprint to a native 64‑bit application, and the company has set a firm end‑of‑support date for 32‑bit Windows installations: January 1, 2026.
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Valve’s Steam Machine is shaping up to be an intriguing living‑room PC, but recent tests show a clear and repeatable weakness: a GPU with only 8GB of dedicated VRAM can become a performance bottleneck — and, in current SteamOS betas, that bottleneck appears worse than the same hardware running...
Microsoft’s blunt advisory that Windows 11’s experimental “agentic” AI features introduce novel security risks has refocused a long-running debate about where convenience ends and vulnerability begins — and it arrived not as a marketing footnote but as a front‑page safety notice built into...
Valve is moving the Steam client on Windows to 64‑bit only, and the company has set a firm cutoff for legacy 32‑bit Windows updates: existing 32‑bit clients will receive updates only until January 1, 2026, after which Valve will stop issuing fixes, features, and support for 32‑bit Windows...
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Valve has quietly re-entered the living‑room hardware race with a compact, SteamOS‑first mini‑PC called the Steam Machine, accompanied by a new Steam Controller, and a long‑rumored VR headset (the Steam Frame, formerly "Deckard")—a lineup that aims to bring Steam, PC flexibility, and...
Valve’s new Steam Machine promises console‑style convenience with PC performance, but the one‑line truth for multiplayer fans is blunt: the Steam Machine will inherit the Steam Deck’s anti‑cheat problem unless publishers, anti‑cheat vendors and Valve change course — and right now the technical...
Valve’s surprise hardware salvo landed like a thunderclap: a compact new Steam Machine that Valve says is “over 6x more powerful than the Steam Deck,” built to deliver 4K/60 gaming in a palm-sized cube and accompanied by a refreshed Steam Controller and the Steam Frame VR headset. Early hands‑on...