Valve announced that its Steam online game platform will officially drop support for the Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 platforms starting January 1st, 2024. Once it reaches the end-of-support ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Valve is ceasing Steam support for systems running 32-bit versions of the Windows 10 operating system (OS) on January 1, 2026. In a recent Steam Support blog, Valve explained that Windows 10 32-bit is ...

According to the official Steam Hardware Survey for December 2023, 98.95 percent of users on Windows are using Windows 10 or 11, with just .93 percent of users still clinging to Windows 7, Windows 8, ...

As for the reasoning, this isn't a decision spearheaded by Valve, as Steam relies on an embedded version of Google Chrome, "which no longer functions on older versions of Windows." In addition, future ...

If you’ve yet to upgrade Windows to more recent versions like Windows 10, you may find yourself in a pinch next year when it comes to running the Steam Client. As was recently announced in a Steam ...

If you primarily use Steam for PC gaming but are using hardware that only supports a 32-bit version of Windows, you may want to consider upgrading soon. You'll want to do so because Steam will be ...