In February 2014, Roberto Ranieri lost a small fortune in hats. Ranieri was trading hats in the popular game Team Fortress 2. It was his second time trading in-game items for real-world money. He ...

A few weeks ago the digital distribution juggernaut Steam rolled out a curious new program involving levels for your Steam account, badges, and trading cards - virtual trading cards. If a game ...

Valve will make some key changes to Steam's trading card economy in an effort to stop "asset flippers" from making cash on badly optimized game clones. Steam's digital trading card economy is quite ...

Steam’s recently introduced trading card system might just be the most brilliant consumer loyalty program ever devised within the video game industry. Hyperbole? Maybe. But Steam trading cards are the ...

A reference image for something called Steam Trading Cards has been spotted in the Steam database. With no statement from Valve forthcoming it look like we need to start playing the guessing game.

Steam trading cards are currently in beta, and they're really weird. An adjacent but separate system to achievements, they land silently in your Steam inventory as you play. Some are earned in-game, ...

Steam is making significant changes to its Trading Card system to combat fake games and help the store's discovery algorithms. Trading Cards were introduced in 2013 as small collectibles that the ...

Steam is much more than a digital marketplace for PC games. Over the years, Valve as expanded the platform in various ways, turning it into more of a social media platform. Along with achievements, ...

Valve is implementing some big changes to Steam Trading Cards in an effort to combat "fake games" and improve the overall Steam Store experience. Added in 2013, Steam Trading Cards are collectibles ...

Valve announced a major overhaul to the way it handles Steam trading cards with games, to combat what it describes as “bad actors.” Moving forward, trading cards will only be issued in games that have ...

Just as promised , Steam Trading Cards is now live . The virtual cards can be earned by playing participating games on Steam, trading with other users, or buying on the Steam Marketplace. Complete a ...

Hey, do you play Steam? No, I don't mean do you play games on Steam. I mean do you play Steam, the platform itself? Do you care about your profile level, your badges, the optimal allocation of your ...