The Steam Review

Steam’s player statistics were taken down the other week, to a small amount of wailing and teeth gnashing in the forums. Now they’re back, and better than ever.

Because every damn game on Steam is up there.

IGN interviewed Doug Lombardi at a recent EA press event, and are now reporting Valve’s interest in making a gamepad peripheral.

England continues to be the epicentre of Steam discussion with the new blog Steam Report, launched last month by John Griffin and Andy Griffiths. There’s a double-act joke in there somewhere.

You can help with an academic survey on Steam’s user base.

Domain lookups show that Valve registered steammovies.com last May (thanks Michael). A whole domain for movies suggests very strongly that they intend to make a big thing out of the upcoming network.

Valve’s forthcoming puzzle game Portal will feature a system for importing and loading fan-made maps, according to Eurogamer’s recent preview.