🎮 This Week's Steam News: Steam Deck 2 Rumors & Crimson Desert Surging! - 2026.04.04 | Steam

Hello, fans! It's your Game Collector, whose Steam library is overflowing with games but has no time to play them! 😂 Did you all snag some god-tier games on Steam this week? Today, I've brought a bunch of Steam news that will threaten our wallets and make our hearts race, so grab a cup of coffee and let's take a look together! ☕

💻 Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? Steam Deck 2 News!

Are you all enjoying your Steam Decks? We've heard some interesting news about the next-generation device, 'Steam Deck 2'! Rumor has it that Valve is targeting a 2028 release for the Steam Deck 2 ^[1]. Especially this time, instead of sticking to custom chips like before, it's highly likely they will adopt off-the-shelf AMD chips ^[1]. It's a strategy to prevent specs from becoming outdated due to custom chip inventory management or development delays, and to focus on optimizing SteamOS for the latest chips ^[1]. As competition in the UMPC market heats up, it seems Valve is moving quickly!

🚀 Surging God-Tier Games & Wallet-Stealing Sales

South Korea's Pearl Abyss's 'Crimson Desert' is in insane form! It recently climbed to #2 on Steam's global top-selling games list ^[2]. Moreover, after fully reflecting user feedback in a recent update, its Steam user reviews surged to 'Mostly Positive', and it entered the top 3 most-played games ^[8]! Aren't you excited about the birth of a domestic single-player god-tier game? And attention, Pump It Up veterans who used to frequent arcades! 'Pump It Up Rise' has been officially released on Steam ^[3]. It reportedly supports optimized charts not only for keyboards and gamepads but also for the Steam Deck environment ^[3]. Let's burn it up with our fingers at home! 🔥 We can't miss the sale news. Capcom is offering historical low discounts on masterpieces like the Monster Hunter World, Rise, and Resident Evil series on Steam ^[9]. If you haven't bought them yet, now is your chance!

🛠️ Valve's Sword Dance & Steam Platform Issues

Valve recently performed a sword dance to clean up the ecosystem, massively suspending a whopping 960,000 farm accounts ^[10]. Accounts that were cheating in games like CS2 were completely wiped out ^[10]. It feels so refreshing! Also, Valve signed a royalty-free Steam export license agreement with 's&box' ^[11]. With this platform created by the Garry's Mod developer, it's expected that indie developers will be able to release games on Steam more easily ^[11]. There was also a major issue regarding platform policies. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning about the 'debanking' issue, where adult games were being kicked off Steam due to pressure from payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) ^[4]. It's welcome news that Steam is fighting back against the censorship pressure from payment processors and protecting the platform's autonomy ^[12].

🎲 Exciting Indie Game Stories

The indie scene is really fun these days too. A game called 'Racoin', which mixes arcade coin pusher games with deckbuilding, hit #2 on the Steam global top sellers with its novel idea ^[5]. It seems to have really hit the spot for users' tastes! There was also a funny-but-sad happening where a paid game called 'Dice Eater' was permanently converted to free on Steam due to a developer's mistake ^[6]. A similar thing happened in the past with 'Pico Park' ^[6]. Lastly, a spicy piece of news. The developer of the indie game 'Peek' made a statement on their official SNS to users complaining about slow updates, saying "updates are not a right" ^[7]. They mean they have their own cycle, but I wonder how the users will react.

That's all the news for this week! I hope everyone takes a game out of their library and enjoys playing it this weekend! I'll be back next week with more fun stories! 🎮✨