Reddit users have discovered a security flaw in Steam, that allows for users to find out the e-mail addresses of other users.

Don’t panic though, all that can be done through the process to find it is that e-mail preferences can then be altered, but the actual address tied to the other user’s account can’t be changed to something else, nor can very much else be done with the ‘access’ to the address. Still, it’s not exactly comforting knowing that people can find out your e-mail address without you knowing.

The process involves something to do with using a cached token that is can change the e-mail preferences of an account. That same token is used instead of a login if a user wishes to unsubscribe themselves from e-mails without logging in. The token is a long, randomly generated one; but not much use if the token is being cached and stored for later use.

The method is not able to target specific addresses, but will reveal e-mails to other people without permission and if it can be used to edit the settings of another person’s account there’s a possibility that there could be other undiscovered vulnerabilities lurking that could change other, more potentially damaging settings of accounts. Valve have been notified of the exploit though, so here’s hoping that this hole will soon be plugged, along with any others they might discover during the plugging process.

Steam is currently holding a sale. Yes, another one – just after New Year and Christmas ones.

This time the sale is on the top 100 best selling games of the last year, and the games in there are pretty much the most talked about and popular games of 2016, as you would expect. The game are ranked in categories of Platinum, Gold, Silver and so on. It’s also been judged on the basis of gross revenue which means that some free to play games with microtransactions are in there, such as Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2.

Lower down the table you’ll find the likes of Kerbal Space Program, Youtubers Life Cooking Channel, DayZ, Terraria and The Forest. Higher up though tends to be reserved for some of the biggest and most well-known games, with Silver containing Payday 2, Planet Coaster, Smite and others; Gold containing Stardew Valley, Doom and Dead By Daylight; and Platinum holding CS:Go, Fallout 4 and even No Man’s Sky, which shows that sometimes even negative reception can’t stop a game selling well.

If you’re interested in buying one of the games (if the previous sales left you with any), or even just curious as to which games made the list, check out the sales page here.

We might be in 2017 right now, but there’s no doubt that the last year left its mark – especially in the way that a good number of famous ‘idols’ passed on in 2016. One such idol who recently left us was Carrie Fisher, most famously known for her role as Princess and then General Leia in the Star Wars films; although she was also known for her writing and script doctor skills, being a mental health advocate and much more.

Now, like others before her, Carrie Fisher is due to get a tribute to her added into the virtual space universe of Elite: Dangerous. Posting on the Frontier Forums about the passing, executive producer Michael Brookes wrote: “Sad news indeed. A ‘Fisher’s Rest’ outpost will be added to the game in the 2.3 release.”

As mentioned, Fisher is not the first to be given a tribute in the game, with Leonard Nimoy giving his name to a space station that was orbiting the game’s equivalent of the planet Vulcan in the year of 2015. Later that year upon the passing of author Terry Pratchett, a starport known as ‘Pratchett’s Disc’ was added into the game making reference to Pratchett’s most popular and well-known book series.

Update 2.3 will be coming to the game sometime in the early part of this year.

Amazon Game Studios announced earlier this year that they were launching a new mythical sports themed action MOBA style experience known as Breakaway. Fast forward a few months, and the Alpha for the game has just ended. I had a chance to put in quite a bit of time with the game, and my first impressions were positive. Being an alpha, there were of course performance and matchmaking problems. Lonesamurai for example, was never able to even play the game, an issue we still haven’t found the root case of. That being said, the game looks promising, and we’ve put together a little video detailing the game, it’s positives and negatives for you.