Valve made it roughly 15 times harder for indie games to reach a coveted Steam ranking, but one expert says an understated new Steam feature is doing god’s work

If the Steam homepage has looked a little different to you lately, there might be a reason for that, and I’m not talking about the Steam summer sale. Last month, Valve changed the requirements for a game to break into Steam’s “Popular Upcoming” feed, which is coveted among indie developers as a way to gain…