Steam Updates User Interface, Adds Note Taking System, Enables Hardware Acceleration on Linux and Mac

Most of these changes have also been incorporated into the Steam Deck.
Valve Told Nintendo About Dolphin Coming to Steam

“Given Nintendo’s history of taking action against some emulators, we brought this to their attention proactively after the Dolphin team announced it was coming soon to Steam.”
Steam to Ditch Google Analytics in Favor of Their Own Solution

“We’ve come to realize that Google’s tracking solutions don’t align well with our approach to customer privacy.”
Steam Deck Updates for the Week of April 24th (Plus Massive Beta Desktop Client Update)

Oh, and did you know that 8-year-old Shift key bug has finally been fixed?
You May Never Be Able to Write a Negative Steam Review Again

And if you mark a negative review as ‘helpful’, you might not be able to make any more votes.
Selling a Game? You’re Only Allowed 5K Steam Keys

Anything more than that will have to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Transferring Games Between Your PC and Deck Will Soon Be A Lot Easier

Steam data miner and SteamDB founder Pavel Djundik discovered way back in October peer-to-peer Steam downloads on the local area network.
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Then, just this past Friday, Pavel found a string in the last Steam update:
This feature allows your PC to transfer game files to and from other PCs or Steam Decks on your local network, reducing your Internet traffic while downloading or updating a game.
According to his Tweet, this “can limit to own devices, friends, or any user.
Valve Introduces Steam Replay

It’s not really news at this point (that’s what happens when I’m a day late), but Steam now has a Replay feature. This gives you an overview of what your top games were for that year, top genres, the platforms you played on percentage-wise, etc. Let’s go over what I played this year.
I played 75 games, 42 of which were new. Top games, ordered from most-played to least, include: