Best of Steam — June 2025

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   Code Monkey·51w

   Dev followed my FREE course, then made $150,000!

   A game development instructor shares success stories of students who learned from his free Unity courses and went on to create profitable games. The main example is Urban Jungle, a cozy home decoration game that generated approximately $150,000 in revenue after the developer started as a complete beginner and followed a 10-hour Unity tutorial. The post highlights multiple success stories and promotes various free programming courses, emphasizing how beginners can learn game development through structured tutorials and reverse engineering existing code.

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   80 LEVEL·50w

   Borderlands 2 Goes Free on Steam Amidst Intense Review Bombing

   Borderlands 2 became free on Steam but faced massive review bombing due to controversial Terms of Service updates by Take-Two and 2K. The new EULA introduces extensive data collection practices, bans mods, includes forced arbitration clauses, and restricts VPN usage. Players are protesting these privacy-invasive changes, resulting in only 18% positive recent reviews despite the free game offer.

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   Article

   The Verge·49w

   Steam is finally adding native support for Macs with Apple Silicon

   Steam now runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs through its latest beta client, eliminating the need for Rosetta 2 emulation. This update comes as Apple prepares to phase out Intel Mac support and limit Rosetta 2 availability after macOS 27. Users can access the native Steam client by opting into the beta program through Steam's settings interface.

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