{
  "id": 10758478,
  "title": "Valve is changing Steam's homepage discounts and events section to go the way of the algorithm to get you to look at, and buy, obviously, more games",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/valve-is-changing-steams-homepage-discounts-and-events-section-to-go",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-29T19:09:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-is-changing-steams-homepage-discounts-and-events-section-to-go-the-way-of-the-algorithm-to-get-you-to-look-at-and-buy-obviously-more-games"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Go ahead and boot up Steam for me. Underneath the ad banner for whoever paid to be there for that day and the featured and recommended sections, you'll find a section titled discounts and events. As it currently stands, this section is hand curated by Valve to highlight some site-wide relevant sales. But Valve have been changing Steam up a lot in recent years, namely a widening of every aspect of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/why-so-many-steam-games-have-weirdly-similar-and-forgettable-names",
        "published": "2026-09-29T19:08:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}