Steam Hub
Steam Hub — a media site dedicated to the gaming industry. It publishes fresh news, in-depth reviews, market analysis, and original articles. The platform serves as an independent source of information, helping gamers navigate the world of games and helping developers find their audience.
Data Sources for Media
Official Steam Data (Direct Machine Reading):
Game pages on Steam—price, release date, description, screenshots, discounts (Taken directly from Steam)
Steam News and Updates—patches, announcements, developer messages.
Third-Party Websites:
Online games—how many people are playing to gauge popularity. We take this from SteamDB (this is the most popular site for Steam game statistics)
Third-party sites of popular game companies—to ensure you don’t miss any news.
What Requires Manual Review:
Social media posts, press releases, and developer blogs on Discord and Reddit—these might be comments from an individual developer unrelated to the game.
Announcements from exhibitions and ceremonies (The Game Awards, Gamescom, Xbox Developer Direct)—these are needed to plan material and team activity time in advance (to instantly publish news or announcements from exhibitions).
From Our Readers:
Telegram and Discord Steam Hub—mini-reviews, questions for developers, polls. These are not news items, but topics for original content. (We must always credit the author and the volume of content they have written).
Data schema (where the machine is, where the human is)
Information Gathering — Automated The program automatically pulls data from Steam pages and news feeds, compiling it into a single table (game title, date, news type, source link, text).Selection — Machine Suggests, Human Decides The machine eliminates duplicates and flags dubious sources. In the morning, the editor reviews the list and chooses what will be worked on. The machine does not decide what to publish on its own.Drafting — Automated Artificial intelligence extracts and writes the main points of the news story. A link to the original source is always retained. The draft cannot proceed without a link.Review — Human Only The editor verifies the facts against the original source, deciding whether to add more content, publish, or not. No material goes live without the editor’s approval.Updates — Machine and Human The machine monitors new patches and comments. The human determines whether the material needs updating and logs any AI errors for future performance improvement.
Rules for automated services
No editor for publication exists. Any text under the Steam Hub brand (news, review, selection, headline) must be human-approved. Automatic publishing is prohibited.AI writes a draft, but it does not verify facts. Release dates, pricing, patch contents, and developer quotes must be verified against official sources.The editorial opinion is not written by a machine. Review scores, verdicts, and the «Game of the Year, according to Steam Hub» are formulated by a person. AI can gather facts, but not a stance.We record AI errors. If the machine confuses a fact, distorts a quote, or suggests a clickbait headline, we must document it. This is necessary to train future AI variations and to understand exactly where it is likely to make a mistake.The official source is more important than a third-party one. If Steam data and data from a third-party site conflict, we trust Steam. Third-party feeds are for noticing news, not for confirming it. Complex topics are written only manually. Scandals, layoffs, accusations, and industry conflicts do not go through the automated draft. Only manual review. AI can assist with background information, but not with formulating accusations. (Many news sites have lost credibility due to unverified accusations against individuals)
