Valve recaps a record 2020 for Steam and looks ahead to China launch this year January 14, 2021 at 1:54 pm Steam’s user community broke a lot of records during the socially-quarantined year of 2020. (Valve Software image) Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software posted its latest year in review for Steam, its online gaming storefront. It provides a look back on 2020, as well as a roadmap for what’s coming for Steam in 2021. This includes the official debut of Steam in mainland China, more experiments in Valve’s Steam Labs program, and continuing Valve’s ongoing investment in gaming on Linux. The big news here, at least as far as Valve is concerned, might be its plan to launch an official Chinese version of Steam later this year. Steam’s international version has technically been available on mainland China for years, primarily boosted by the international popularity of Valve’s