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In early 2017, Valve rounded up a bunch of press outlets and began explaining its future plans for Steam and game releases. Later on in the year we received a teaser for Artifact, a Dota 2-themed card game and after that, things went silent. That silence ended this week, with …

Following in the footsteps of his father, Gray Newell, has co-founded a new independent game studio called Naetyr. Opening up about his first game, a work-in-progress titled Fury, Gray hopes to step out from Valve co-creator Gabe Newell’s shadow and craft something of his own merit. Considering Fury is still …

Maltese video game publisher Insel Games has been under fire recently, as an employee email leaked suggesting that it was pressuring its staff to write positive emails on its latest title Wild Busters. Strictly prohibited in Valve’s terms and conditions, this has led to the studio being forcibly removed from …

Update (13/02/18): Over the weekend, someone managed to get the rumor mill swirling by hijacking the Left 4 Dead 2 Facebook page link. The troll in question managed to assign the link to a fake personal page for Valve developer, Ted Carson, who has been tied to Left 4 Dead …

Last week, Counter-Strike co-creator Jess Cliffe was arrested for his alleged sexual exploitation of a minor. Cliffe has now been formally charged with commercial sexual abuse of a child, resulting in the judge deeming him “a risk to the community.” The charge came alongside the release of a statement of …

Jess Cliffe, famed for co-creating Counter-Strike has been arrested in Seattle for the sexual exploitation of a child. As of yet, authorities have yet to charge Cliffe with any crime, but his employer, Valve Corporation has suspended his employment until further notice. Reports originated from a local Seattle news outlet, …

Dota 2’s lead developer IceFrog announced that the Valve title will be changing up how it dishes out its updates, moving from larger incremental updates throughout the year to a bi-weekly approach containing smaller patches. Before the new system is put in place, however, Valve’s last supersized patch landed in …

It is a well known fact at this point that Microsoft is struggling when it comes to delivering first-party content for PC and Xbox. With that in mind, it wouldn't be crazy to think that the company would be looking into buying out other studios. Several big names have been thrown around this week, with the rumor mill pointing towards PUBG Corp, EA and perhaps the most unlikely, Valve.

Way back in August 2014, prior to Steam's refund system coming into place, the Australian Consumer Rights Commission began investigating Valve over its Steam consumer policies. It took a few years, but eventually the ACCC convinced an Australian court to fine Valve $3 million for violating Australia's consumer laws surrounding …

If you are holding off on buying any games and saving your cash for the next Steam Sale, then we have good news for you. Today, someone leaked the sale dates for Steam’s ‘Lunar New Year' event. Over the last few years, Valve has made it easier than ever for …

Over the last couple of days, Valve has faced some criticism from Linux players after reports came in that automatic VAC bans were being passed down to those with ‘catbot' in their Linux username. For those who don't know, a catbot is an aiming cheat for Team Fortress 2, for …

Steam is essentially the home of PC gaming at this point, so if you want to see what games did well this year, then there is no better place than Steam's top seller list. This week, Valve published its list of the top 100 selling games on Steam over the …

Back in August, Valve did the unexpected and announced a brand new game. It's called Artifact and all we really know about it so far is that it is a spin-off card game based on Dota 2. Things have been quiet since the initial announcement, but this week we learned …

Over the course of this year, PUBG has gone on to become the biggest game on Steam, even going as far as to dethrone Dota 2. It looks like this has caught Valve's attention, as the developers behind Counter-Strike: Global Offensive appear to be working on their own survival-style battle …

Back in October, Valve revealed its plans to let developers send their games directly to Steam Curators. Dubbed Steam's Curator Connect, the process has been in beta for the past few weeks before Valve surprisingly released the platform today. As the backend is only available for Steam developers to view, …

Due to the fanfare surrounding digital currencies last year, Steam began accepting Bitcoin as an official method of payment for its games and services. Since then, the Bitcoin network has been charging more for transaction fees despite rapid changes in its valuation, causing Valve’s gaming platform to drop the method …

It looks like there is a new Portal game on the way, but probably not the one you were expecting. Rather than a Valve-made sequel to Portal 1 and 2, today ‘Headup Games' announced that they would be releasing ‘Bridge Constructor Portal', a spin-off of the Bridge Constructor series. Headup …

Valve has been tinkering with the Steam Store page regularly throughout the course of 2017. Previously, Valve has made changes to how Steam Reviews work but after some reflecting, the team has decided to make some additional improvements to make user reviews more helpful. Up until now, Steam's most helpful …

Back in August, when Microsoft first began rolling out its wave of Windows 10 Mixed Reality headsets, the company confirmed that it would be working to enable SteamVR support. With SteamVR enabled, these headsets will get access to a broad range of games and apps currently available to HTC VIVE …

Valve has been working on making big changes to Steam throughout 2017, with the goal of squashing asset flippers, making recommendations more useful and giving more options to curators. Yesterday, the company announced another big change making its way down the pipeline, allowing developers to send Steam games directly to …

If you are holding off on buying any games and saving your cash for the Winter Steam Sales, then we have good news for you. Today, someone leaked the sale dates for Steam’s Halloween, Black Friday and Winter sales, so you can get a jump start on preparing your wallet. …

It’s well known that Valve made a lot of money from a considerably small team, however just how rich Steam boss Gabe Newell is has always been up for debate. According to Forbes’ top 400 richest people in America this year, however, he has made the top 100. Good-man Gabe …

While Oculus started off with a focus on seated virtual reality experiences, Valve has always focussed its efforts on ‘room scale’. At the moment, SteamVR supports two Base Stations for detecting 12×12 feet playspaces. With SteamVR Tracking 2.0, this will be upgraded to support four base stations and up to …

Yesterday it came to light that Valve would be putting out an updated and refined version of Counter-Strike’s most iconic map- Dust2. At the time, we only had one screenshot to look at but now, Valve has released a full look at the new version of the map, which makes …

At Steam Dev Days 2016, Valve mainly focused on hardware, gathering developers and walking them through new tools for virtual reality. This is also where we got our first peek at Valve's upcoming ‘Knuckles' controllers for the HTC VIVE. At the time, one Valve developer teased that software announcements would …

This year, Valve has been on a mission to be more transparent and turn Steam into a better place for gamers. Part of that involves cracking down on low-effort and poor quality titles being dumped on Steam. Yesterday, Valve began doing just that, taking close to 200 games off of …

It's been a heartbreaking slew of what-could-have-beens concerning Valve lately, with Half-Life's lead writer having revealed his plot behind Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just last month. Now, artwork from former employee Drew Wolf suggests that fans might have missed out on a four-player co-op fantasy game. Wolf released details on …

Whenever there is a major controversy surrounding a game or a developer, we often see fans resort to ‘review bombing'. This is essentially where players flood a game's Steam page with negative reviews as a way to get their point across. Sometimes these negative reviews aren't relevant to the game …

We have known for several months now that LG is planning to follow in HTC's footsteps by releasing its very own SteamVR headset. Now it seems we could be edging closer towards a launch, as the headset was recently spotted being shown off at an event in South Korea. The …

Valve has a trend of releasing more and more games per year, with 2016 seeing the release of what was nearly 40 percent of Steam’s entire library. Having already passed 3,000 titles this year, 2017 is on track to surpassing a record breaking 5,000 games. The staggering numbers are thanks …