{
  "id": 18043229,
  "title": "Valve announces changes to Steam's review process, as a surge in game submissions pushes review times to \"up to 12 business days\", instead of the usual 3-5 days (Jay Peters/The Verge)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/valve-announces-changes-to-steams-review-process-as-a-surge-in-game",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-03T23:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/games/1025722/valve-steam-game-increase-submissions"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Valve has announced changes to its Steam review process due to a significant surge in game submissions. In a recent post, Valve acknowledged that it now takes \"up to 12 business days\" to review games, up from the usual \"3-5 days\". This delay is largely attributed to the need to re-review games. To address this issue, Valve has implemented several changes to the release checklist for developers. These changes include requiring developers to run games through Steam for a minimum of five minutes, ensuring achievements are ready, and confirming required common redistributables such as DirectX or Visual C++. Valve also stated that they will continue to make improvements to the build review process.",
  "summary": "Valve admits that it's now taking ‘up to 12 business days’ to game submissions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "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."
}