We saw the PlayStation Store’s Golden Week Sale, and Steam has its own going on right now with a variety of JRPGs, fighting games, action games, visual novels, and more at discounted prices until May 6, 2019.

The Steam Video section has been retired and a number of unspecified videos not related to games will also be retired.

Valve announced this week that they are releasing a Beta version of Steam Play Proton, that uses a modified version of Wine to allow games with no Linux compatibility be installed and played.

On January 1, 2019, people will no longer be able to use the Steam client on computers running Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Steam China, a version of Steam China, is being prepared by Valve and Perfect World Games.

Erik Johnson from Valve released a new statement regarding Steam Store content policies, following warnings to visual novel makers on Steam last month that were later retracted.

Valve’s Steam Link app successfully launched for Android devices earlier this month, and was also set to come out for iOS as well, but the app was denied despite being approved earlier, citing ‘business conflicts’ as a reason.

Several developers of visual novels and games with erotic content on Steam have recently been hit with warnings from Valve threatening to remove the games from the store unless the game is updated to remove said content.

Valve announced that new Steam apps will be coming out in the following weeks for both iOS and Android.

The Steam Controller team announced that its latest Client Beta has added support for the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, including its gyro function that you can try out with action and FPS games.

Valve has released updates to Steam’s privacy settings, giving users more control over who sees what. An “invisible” mode is planned for a future update.

The changes will affect the scheduling of gifts, the way gifts are resolved if they are declined by their recipient, as well as the way gifts are sent cross-country.

Natsume’s sci-fi/western action title is set to release sometime this year, though no exact date has been given at this time.

The game will feature bonus content including a 10-track original soundtrack and a digital “Memorial Book” over 100 pages.

The PC version set to release on Steam will feature 1080p graphics, as well as the addition to climb, dash, and crawl through the game’s dungeons.