Pavel Djundik

Slopping tools for games is no longer hard with current AI models, they can fully reverse engineer the game, extract any data, manipulate memory of the running game (in this case to take high quality world screenshots). This is a progress tracker for Order of the Sinking Star (play it!)

New Source2 Viewer release featuring: - GPU driven rendering and meshlet culling - Support for modern Source 2 lights like omni2 and barn - Live rendered thumbnail view - Visibility (VVIS) cluster view - AnimGraph2 animation playback s2v.app#changelog

SteamDB now detects best suggested prices category instead of always using the nuanced category.

Source 2 Schema Explorer, generated from automatic game dumps: cross references, search by name, metadata, offsets, switch between games. s2v.app/SchemaExplor...

Inventory management in Arc Raiders is severely lacking. Since everything outside of the match in this game is managed with HTTP calls, it definitely would be possible to make a third-party app for managing it. Automatic crafting/buying, loadouts, etc…

I've tried using the 'for you' feed, and pressed a bunch show less like this, but the feed is still completely bad showing zero content I would have any interest in.

You can now walk in Source 2 Viewer. Full release notes: github.com/ValveResourc...

modern multiplayer games start sucking as soon as people start going for metas which ruins any fun. for example everyone now runs trigger nades in arc raiders, which can kill an entire squad in less than a second. devs already confirmed a nerf is coming, but they took their sweet time

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Steam(DB) has so many states a game can be in, a discord style tri-state toggles seemed like a good idea for filtering.

SteamDB has a new experimental filter on the sales page. Highlight rarer new historical lows where either: - Previous low was 1.5+ years ago, OR - 50%+ price drop from previous low

There's always a person that figure out how to fix a bug in winforms two decades ago (and the bug is still not fixed two decades later...) www.codeproject.com/articles/Add...

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Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025. Almost half of them have fewer than ten reviews.

Steam now warns if an item in your cart can be purchased cheaper as part of a bundle.

Very cool! They can't open source the C++ parts as Source 2 is obviously Valve's code.

X is where the news happen, except when cloudflare goes offline. Why isn't it hosted in space yet?

hl3 got announced but no one could see it because cloudflare is down

mainstream half-life 3 copium overdose is back on the menu it seems like

I've collected a bunch of information about the new @steampowered.com hardware (from various media; credited) and summarized it in the updated blog post: steamdb.info/blog/steam-h...

Valve has announced three new hardware products expanding the Steam Hardware family, all scheduled to launch in early 2026. Read more here: https://steamdb.info/blog/steam-hardware-2025/

Steam Frame, Steam Controller, Steam Machine announcement is expected soon, here's a first look!

It's rather ironic that I haven't been getting ads on twitch for months (because no one buys ads here), and now all of a sudden they keep repeating an ad for twitch turbo promoting ad free viewing.

the new steam controller 2 (triton) icon is just that, an icon. don't worry it has a dpad, two sticks, and more buttons.

It's currently not possible to view issues in the @github.com mobile app because they can't handle their own deprecations. Embarrassing.

Valve confirms Ricochet 2 🫨 * This is basically a response to mod 'Team Fortress 2 Classic' steamcommunity.com/games/354506...

@davidanson.bsky.social hey i hit your blog and some of the code blocks seem unreadable in dark theme here dlaa.me/blog/post/99...

You can now browse anyone's owned games or wishlist on steamdb with all the filters. It was partially possible before by specifying the accountid in the url, but now it's more obvious, and you can get to it from the calculator.

Too many games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Stability of Debian let me down a little bit today, I've updated @steamdb.info to trixie and that went smoothly, but then DNS queries started failing after a few hours. Caused by resolved bug introduced in June: github.com/systemd/syst... Usually debian packages are way behind.

I'm glad dhh is publicly talking about the overall complexity of modern development. steamdb deploys from a git commit in under 2 seconds, it's really invaluable.

New trademark for "Steam Frame" has been registered for new computer hardware uspto.report/TM/99370857

You should have a performance bar always available in production which has timings and logs all the individual queries. This helps you find bottlenecks that need attention just while you're using the site.

There's a reference to TF project in the source1import code, that means Valve are trying to import S1 assets into Source 2. This is still assuming that TF actually means Team Fortress. noticed by @gabefollower.com

.@steamdb.info now tracks VPK archive contents across all games

free ai tokens: make github issues with fake $ bounties so that AI bots try to claim them

Battlefield 6 is a lot of fun, shotgun is op as hell, and you can do a lot of tomfoolery with respawn beacons. The empire state map feels like a deathmatch map though, it's way too small.