Valve Corporation revealed today that they have thrown in a new update to Steam that will allow you to use a PS5 controller, if you wish. Over the past few years, that company has been making it so that if you want to switch from the mouse and keyboard and want to use whatever remove […]
Valve Corporation revealed a new addition to Steam for game developers as you can bow try out your game with Steam Playtest. This system is the company's way of giving you a way to set up your game on their system without making it officially live and testing out everything related to their system. Essentially […]
Valve Corporation revealed a brand new event will be coming to Steam in the month of October with the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest. As you might suspect from the name, the event will be covering all things tabletop gaming that takes place in video games. The event will run totally online from October 21st-26th, 2020, […]
The Esports Integrity Commission Launches announced that they have launched a new investigation into recent CS:GO cheating issues. Multiple coaches from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive were suspended from teams Hard Legion, Heroic, and MIRB for exploiting a bug in the game that allowed them to spectate a game from anywhere on the map they desired. Essentially, […]
Valve revealed this morning that they will be holding the Autumn Edition of the Steam Game Festival in October this year. After the rousing success of the previous festivals and the way they attracted people online, it appears this will now be a continuing tradition. The Autumn Edition will run much like the Summer Edition […]
As of when we're writing this article, Steam has apparently suffered a widespread service interruption that has taken down the service. Reports started hitting social media around 12pm EST that people were losing connections to multiplayer matches and that games were not loading properly to online networks from titles like Rocket League, CS:GO, and Dota […]
What's scarier than playing through P.T. on PlayStation 4? Playing it in virtual reality. Of course, that game doesn't actually exist. What does, however, is a mod that turns Half-Life: Alyx into P.T. A talented modder named AmbientDruth brought this terrifying prospect to life via the Steam Workshop, and you can download it for free […]
Another event has been rescheduled this week as Valve sent out a notice to media today about the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition. If you're not familiar with this festival, it's basically a chance for indie developers to show off all of the latest indie games coming out. Many studios are taking advantage of it […]
For those of you who actually want to play the updated Dota card game Artifact, a beta of version 2.0 is coming from Valve next week. The developers made the announcement earlier today, letting players know that the beta will basically test "boring stuff", and that invites will start trickling out soon. First with original […]
If you happen to be a frequent user of Steam, it appears Valve may be making your usage worth it as it appears a new system is coming. In what seems like an oddity to add that could possibly be beneficial to some, it looks like Valve will be adding a new user loyalty rewards […]
We're getting a new CS:GO tournament as Red Bull and FACEIT have come together to create the Red Bull Flick international tourney. This new Pro-Am event will be 2v2 and will feature multiple championships and qualifier types. This includes National and Pan-National tournaments, which will take place on FACEIT. This system apparently originated in Turkey […]
Some good news for developers looking to show off their indie games on Steam as the Steam Game Festival will return this June. The company announced the event today with the dates of June 9th-14th, as it will be designed to give a spotlight to indie games coming up over the next calendar year. They […]
For those of you without a VR setup show ant to experience Half-Life: Alyx, there's a new mod out there that lets you play it normally. Valve Corporation released the highly-anticipated addition to the Half-Life saga last month, after years of people demanding we finally get a proper sequel to the game. We kind of […]
During the coronavirus outbreak, Valve has obviously seen an uptake in traffic on Steam. Which has forced them to manage their bandwidth a bit. The company sent out a notice yesterday about some of the changes they were making to their services. Chief among them was the fact that they were now going to spread […]
If there's one thing Half-Life fans have accepted, it's that Gordon Freeman's life is uncertain now. At least, until Half-Life: Alyx came out. One of the aspects to the game is that while it is a VR title set in the Half-Life universe, it is meant to not be a prequel or a sequel of […]
Half-Life: Alyx may be out into the world right now, but it almost wasn't to be as Valve Corporation at one point considered doing Portal in VR. The news comes to us from VG 24/7, who had an interview with Valve programmer and designer, Robin Walker. In it, he reveals they were exploring doing VR […]
The last thing you'd expect a Valve employee to say is that competition with Steam is great. But that's pretty much what Gabe Newell recently said. In a recent interview with Edge Magazine, Newell basically said competition is a good thing as it "keeps us honest". You can read a couple of snippets of the […]
A couple of years ago at The International 2017, Valve debuted a brand new card game called Artifact, which went over with the crowd like a fart in church. You don't have to take our word for that, you can watch a reaction video of the crowd as this is exactly how millions of Valve […]
This morning, BLAST Premier announced that they will be partnering with audio company EPOS for their CS:GO events going forward. The two will apparently be working together to improve audio and communication plays in esports. However, neither company really went into detail as to what that meant. We're guessing based on what EPOS does, specifically […]
Well, that's new! Rather than picking a city on their own, Valve Corporation has put out an open call for someone to host a Dota 2 event. But not just any Dota 2 event, they're looking for someone to host The International 2021, their primary global championship esports tournament. The company sent out this press […]
