Valve gave Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View a facelift on Monday. Now called Steam Families, the combined and revamped feature allows six-person user groups to play each other's titles, ...

As more people get Steam Decks and other handheld PC consoles, which are much easier to share among households than a PC, it was integral for Valve to make its generally barebones family-sharing ...

Expanded parental controls, including the ability to allocate 'Child' and 'Adult' roles, are also available. Adults can limit what games can be accessed, set playtime limits, and restrict access to ...

With the Steam sale raging, more players than ever are online and gaming in their spare time. However, it can get obnoxious to keep buying games if your family members or significant other(s) already ...

What just happened? Around a decade ago, Valve introduced a generous feature to Steam that enabled friends and family members to share each other's game libraries. This week, the company revealed ...

Dave is a veteran game newswriter and has reported for a variety of outlets for over a decade, writing news, reviews, guides and more for online game sites wherever he can find them. Valve introduces ...

Growing up, I shared my Steam account with my brother. We constantly had to coordinate who could play what and when, which led to a lot of bickering between gaming-obsessed teens. The cure to that ...

Steam Deck owners are increasingly turning to their phones to tame sprawling libraries, tweak performance and squeeze more ...