Steam Guard won't be the only new feature Valve is introducing to its digital distribution and online-gaming platform this month. Beyond the new security measure, Valve today announced that it has ...

Steam switched to the SILK audio codec, as used by Skype, in an update launched today. This brings "a significant improvement to Steam's voice chat quality," according to Valve. While the old codec ...

Game download community Steam has begun to use the SILK codec as part of its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service, greatly improving the quality of audio. The SILK codec was originally ...