Steam is buckling down on user transparency when it comes to reviews and recommendations. Anyone writing a review or recommending a game must now disclose any paid endorsements, something that people should have been doing anyway but it is nice to see Valve enforcing it now. Disclosure must also be …
Read More »Valve did not just give everyone in the EU a chance for game refunds
A lot of publications are reporting this morning that Valve just made it possible for everyone to receive refunds on games they don't like within a 14 day period of purchase. If true, that would be great and would show a real about turn from the company that has been …
Read More »The goat from Goat Simulator may end up in Dota 2
We might end up seeing the goat from Goat Simulator as a character in Dota 2 thanks to the Steam Workshop voting system. The goat would become a custom courier in the game, the mod is being backed by Coffee Stain Studios, the team behind Goat Simulator. The developers are …
Read More »Valve gets an F for customer service from Better Business Bureau
Valve is great at many things, It brought us the Steam client, developed several fantastic games and has always worked to push PC gaming. However, many will agree that its customer service is often pretty bad and its policies aren't anywhere near as consumer friendly as its competitors, most notably …
Read More »Next Team Fortress 2 money maker: user made taunts
It's no secret that Valve's self-perpetuating user-made content trading on Team Fortress 2 and DotA 2 has been a massive success. Tens of millions of dollars have been made by the players, with Valve taking a cut of every transaction that goes on. It's not all about the money of course, as …
Read More »Valve talks Half-Life VR and why it might not happen
There has been a lot of exciting Valve news over the last week or so, the company just started demoing its own virtual reality headset, it showed off a new Portal technical demonstration running on the Source 2 engine and HTC managed to end up teasing a new Half-Life game …
Read More »Gabe Newell claims Valve has solved the VR motion sickness problem
The man himself, Gabe Newell, is confident that Valve has solved the virtual reality motion sickness problem with its new headset, ‘The Vive', claiming that “zero percent of people get motion sick” while using Steam VR technology. Virtual Reality had some initial problems with causing motion sickness, although over the …
Read More »Zotac unveils Steam Machine with Intel ‘Skylake’, GeForce GTX 970M graphics
Zotac, a leading maker of advanced graphics cards and small form-factor personal computers, this week announced its first Steam Machine. The personal computer, which is due to be launched sometimes in November, will be very small and rather stylish. However, this does not mean that Zotac’s SN970 will offer mediocre …
Read More »Valve updates Steam with list of upcoming hardware
Valve has updated its Steam Universe page with a list of hardware all due to launch later this year, kicking off the company's assault on living room gaming. The Steam Universe page originally launched towards the end of 2013, when Valve announced the Steam Machines, controller and OS. On the …
Read More »Valve was showing off a Source 2 Portal VR demo at GDC
When Valve announced the Source 2 engine and began showing off its VR headset at the Game Developers Conference, many were hoping that we would finally see a new game as well. Well it turns out that Valve did demo something new at GDC, it was a Source 2 version …
Read More »HTC apologizes for teasing Half-Life 3
HTC has apologized after teasing a new Half-Life game for the company's upcoming virtual reality headset, ‘The Vive', which was developed in collaboration with Valve. The drama all kicked off yesterday when HTC Chairwoman, Cher Wang, suggested that a new Half-Life game was on the way in an interview with …
Read More »Valve: Steam Machines will launch this November at ‘console prices’
Valve Software finally announced launch timeframe and approximate prices of Steam Machines at the Game Developers Conference 2015. It looks like machines running the company’s own operating system tailored for video games will finally hit the market late this year and will not be too expensive. The software developer said at …
Read More »HTC to build VR headsets with SteamVR tech
It looks like something more than background support will come from Valve's VR efforts, as an announcement this weekend from HTC pegs it as teaming up with the smartphone maker to deliver a brand new virtual reality headset, known as the HTC Vive. Even more exciting however, is that beyond …
Read More »Valve to show off new gaming hardware at GDC
Valve has announced its plans for the Games Developers Conference. At the event next month the company will be showing off its own virtual reality hardware, the final Steam controller and new Steam machines, which are due to launch this year. The Steam client currently has a virtual reality mode …
Read More »SteamVR hardware could finally soon be upon us
It's been a while since we have heard anything about Valve efforts to dip its toes into the virtual reality hardware market, but it seems that the wait may very soon be over. At GDC 2015 between March fourth and sixth they have officially announced that they will be showing off a, …
Read More »Dota 2 reaches over 1,000,000 simultaneous online players
One of the wonderful things about the Steam platform is that it is incredibly open with its statistics, showing how many people are playing different games and how many users are online at all times. This is something that is pretty unique amount digital distribution platforms and it allows us to …
Read More »Valve to showcase ‘the latest Steam Machines’ at GDC next month
Valve Software said this week that it will demonstrate “the latest” living room PCs running its own operating system at this year’s Game Developers Conference early next month. The company did not disclose whether those will be commercial products and the launch of appropriate hardware is imminent. This week Valve began …
Read More »Valve suspends 19 more CS:GO pro players for match fixing
Counter Strike: Global Offensive's competitive scene is becoming harder and harder to take seriously as now a further 19 more professional players have been suspended by Valve for match fixing and then placing bets on the outcome in order to profit. Three more teams, Epsilon eSports, WinnerR and ESC Gaming …
Read More »Steam beta update lets you keep better track of DLC
A new Steam client beta update has rolled out, bringing with it a new feature to help keep better track of all the downloadable content you own for any specific game. Those using the beta version of the client will now see a DLC section in the Steam library. Now …
Read More »Valve to show off Khronos glNext at GDC next month
The next version of the OpenGL graphics API is set to be revealed next month at the Game Developers Conference, with Valve to give the presentation. The event page for the conference has been updated with a new session listed, titled ‘glNext: The Future of High Performance Graphics'. The session …
Read More »Steam Workshop makes creators $50 million richer
Valve's Steam Workshop was first launched in 2011 for Team Fortress 2 items and allows players of Valve and Steamworks-enabled games to download user-created content for their games. In Valve's own games you can also pay for some of these items and it seems that this can now be considered a success, …
Read More »CS:GO professional players banned following match fixing scandal
Last week it was discovered that a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive match between teams iBUYPOWER and NetCodeGuides.net may have been fixed, netting several players thousands of dollars through ill placed bets. Valve has since confirmed that match fixing did take place and has banned a total of seven people from …
Read More »Steam can show average ISP speeds in each country
Valve has added many useful features to Steam over the years but one that you may have overlooked is the Steam Stats page, which was updated to let you check the data rates and average speeds for different Internet Service Providers in each country and region. Valve is calling this feature …
Read More »What else could you do instead of beating your Steam library?
It is pretty common for Steam sale veterans to accumulate an ever growing backlog of titles that will unfortunately remain uncompleted for the weeks, months or maybe even years following the initial purchase. At one point in time you have probably thought about conquering your backlog, and now you can …
Read More »Valve adds Captcha security to Steam Trading
Valve has been tightening up the rules on Steam Trading over the last month or two. First the company imposed new rules on Steam Gifts to combat key resellers and now extra security measures are being added to the Steam trading feature, with Captcha verification. The Captcha verification process will protect …
Read More »AvP 2010 and Alien: Colonial Marines reappear on Steam
Update: Both Alien Vs Predator 2010 and Alien: Colonial Marines have been put back on Steam. Sega has not released a statement to clarify exactly what happened or explain why the games were removed in the first place. Original Story: It looks like Sega has removed Alien: Colonial Marines from the …
Read More »Steam Machines are dead according to Origin PC CEO
During an interview with GameSpot today at the Consumer Electronics Show Origin PC CEO Kevin Wasielewski revealed his thoughts on the state of Steam Machines and they are not great. He did however have some positive news about Valve's Steam Controller though, in that it has now been finalized after several iterations and …
Read More »Valve won’t be holding a developers conference this year
Valve has decided that it won't be holding another Steam Dev Days developer conference this year but will instead be focusing on making announcements at GDC in a few months time. Steam Dev Days launched last year as a two day event, which saw developers come together to discuss Steam, …
Read More »Gabe Newell has been turned in to a Dota 2 character
Gabe Newell has been turned in to a Dota 2 character, thanks to a new skin that turns the game's shop keeper in to a heroic version of Gaben himself. The skin isn't available just yet but you can upvote it on the Steam workshop in order to get it put …
Read More »Valve kicks off 2015 with new Steam user record
Valve's new year is off to a good start as the Steam concurrent users record has been topped. A total of 8.46 million users were using Steam a few hours in to the new year, beating out the previous record, which was set all of the way back in June. …
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