Steam down on Christmas Eve as holiday traffic overwhelms the site. It's the second outage today; DownDetector reports spikes ...

Steam, the popular gaming platform operated by Valve, encountered a widespread outage on Wednesday, December 25, 2025, leaving thousands of users unable to connect to servers, access the Steam Store, ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Apple TV reportedly ran into problems on December 12 with thousands of users complaining about issues. At the time of writing, Downdetector showed over 4,500 people facing issues. Apple TV was ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe ...

If you play games on PC, you’re probably well acquainted with Steam already, which means you may also have a handle on some of its biggest limitations. Steam is by far the most popular digital ...

The video game industry has a discoverability problem. Sure, you're bound to know a new Call of Duty is releasing this fall, but what about Double Fine's Keeper? By player Steam player counts, it ...

Update: Steam is back online. If you want to play some games, you need to be prepared that Steam is offline right now. It is not the problem with your Internet. We all can’t join servers. It seems ...

A new Steam beta update is making it easier for gamers to check the status of Secure Boot and TPM on their gaming PC, must-have requirements for anti-cheat in plenty ...

Users have confirmed they’ve fixed the Steam connection problem error by running Valve’s gaming client with administrator rights. So, that could be a good ...

Despite the problems, the concurrent player numbers are doing really well. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The problem, going by ...