Steam Hype

Welcome to Steam Hype, the latest member of the Hookshot Media family of sites.

If you're a seasoned PC gamer, you'll no doubt be aware that Steam is where the "next big game" often begins its life, and we wanted to create a site that catered for the absolutely massive audience that predominantly exists on Valve's platform.

Whether you do your gaming on a PC rig worth more than the GDP of a small European nation or you play on the super-portable Steam Deck, Steam Hype will (hopefully) help you keep a finger on the pulse of new and interesting games on Steam.

As we all know, the sheer volume of games hitting Steam daily is truly overwhelming – over 19,000 were released on the platform in 2025 alone – and it's fair to say that discoverability isn't always great on the platform.

We firmly believe we can create a website and community to serve this area of gaming, offering expert curation and pointing players toward games worthy of their time, attention, and (of course) hard-earned money.

The impending arrival of the Steam Machine and Steam Frame couldn't have come at a better time, too, as we anticipate new hardware pulling even more people into Valve's vibrant ecosystem.

How do we make Steam Hype your number-one destination for Steam news, reviews, guides, and features? Well, I'm glad you asked...

  • Expert Curation: With over a hundred releases on Steam every day, we want to help the reader cut through the noise and spotlight the best games

  • All Killer, No Filler: Whatever the content, we value our readers' time and get to the point, fast, with real human insights (no AI-generated nonsense here)

  • Foster A Community: Video games are an inherently social activity - we’re building a place to discuss, debate and find like-minded gamers

We've also assembled what we believe to be the best team for the job. Leading the charge is Dominic Tarason, a seasoned writer who has worked with the likes of Rock Paper Shotgun, PC Gamer and PCGamesN, and has been curating Steam releases for ages now – you might already follow him on social media for this purpose alone, as he has a sixth sense for sniffing out both "the next big thing" and "the cool thing you missed and should play."

While Tarason brings with him a wise head and years of indispensable experience, our other key team member, Noah, is blessed with youthful exuberance as his superpower. A keen gamer on console and PC for some time now, Noah will bring a fresh perspective to the viral hits that seem to sweep across Steam each and every week. He's already cut his teeth writing for some of the other sites in our network (he's even starred in a Nintendo Life video when he was much younger), and can't wait to get started.

Finally, we have myself, and hopefully I'll be a familiar face to anyone who has been a long-time fan of sites like Nintendo Life and Time Extension.

I've been writing about games for 20 years now, and have contributed to the likes of Retro Gamer, GamesTM (RIP), Eurogamer and IGN during my freelance years. Since stepping up to a full time role in 2012, I've worked as editor on Nintendo Life and Time Extension, and will be assuming a network-wide editorial role with the arrival of Steam Hype.

All three of us can't wait to see what the future brings for this new site. As I'm sure you're keenly aware, the games industry, despite being one of the biggest forms of entertainment on the face of the planet, is going through a rough patch at present. You'd think launching a new website wouldn't be advisable, but we've been building them for over 20 years now – and, as an independent media company, we're somewhat protected from the corporate shenanigans that have rocked so many parts of the gaming landscape recently.

Hopefully, Steam Hype can become one of your favoured websites – we're certainly going to try our best to make that happen.