Steam Replay, Valve’s take on Spotify Wrapped for the games you’ve played through Steam, is now available for your perusal.
Valve offered an end-of-year presentation from 2022, and it could be a pretty revealing glimpse of just how time-consuming most games have become over the past two years (or how much a game can really get stuck in your head).
You can access the data dump directly through the Steam app, your Steam Deck, or the web. For 2024, Valve tracked the number of games and demos you’ve played, the number of achievements you’ve unlocked, your longest gaming streak, and the games you’ve spent most of your time playing.
The company also collected data on how much time you spent playing on the Steam Deck, what genres you prefer, and shared some details about how the average Steam user plays. For example, the average Steam user played only four games this year, and unlocked 13 achievements.
According to my replays, most of my time on Steam this year was spent playing 1000xRESIST, Arco, Animal Well, and Balatro. Since I’ve been using the Steam Deck as a console since I bought it, that’s what I spent 100 percent of my time using Steam in 2024 on.
I imagine this is unusual for the average user, but it was the only surprise I found when digging into Valve’s data.
If you find something interesting in your Steam Replays, Valve has made it easy to make your replay public so you can share it with friends. If you’re proud of what you’ve done in 2024, you can even attach an overview of your stats directly to your Steam profile.
The latest MacBook Air is perfect in a number of ways: not only is it our top pick for the best laptop available right now, but we also consider it the best laptop for college students and the best MacBook for most people.
Apple hasn’t changed much in the latest version, but that’s to be expected since the previous entry was the most significant redesign in nearly a decade.
The new 13-inch MacBook Air has a faster M3 chip, as well as the ability to run dual external monitors (but only with the lid closed) and support for Wi-Fi 6E. There’s also a fingerprint free finish for the black “Midnight” model that actually works!
It’s hard to improve on a laptop we previously considered nearly perfect, but a new chip certainly helps. The M3 processor is about 20 percent faster than the M2 for both single-core and multi-core tasks, and it offers a significant GPU bump, along with support for real-time ray tracing.
Battery life remains best in class, with enough juice to last you several work days without a charger.