Valve Corporation Archives

Valve Corporation has launched its own end-of-year social media thing, as you can now take part in the Steam Replay 2022 In case you haven't been on social media this month, and to be real, we honestly don't blame you if you haven't; a number of different entertainment platforms have been doing their end-of-year recap[...]

Valve Corporation released a surprise notice today as they informed players that they will be delaying the release of the Steam Deck The company sent out this short notice, which we have for you below, letting people know that they will be pushing the item back a couple of months, meaning that gamers won't be[...]

Would you like to get your game into the next Steam Next Fest? Valve Corporation has opened up submissions to do so The company revealed their plans for the next festival, taking place from February 21st-28th, 2022 Those who are looking to take part in the event have until December 6th to register their game[...]

Valve Corporation revealed this week that they are bringing back the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest for 2021 this October As you might suspect, the event is taking place entirely online as they will be presenting the best in tabletop games this year from developers across the board All of them are available on steam to[...]

Valve Corporation has opened up a brand new competition for CS:GO as they have launched a new Dreams & Nightmares Art Contest This is a $1 million contest in which they are looking for ten original and shippable, dream-themed weapon finishes for the game Each of the ten winning entries will earn $100k for their[...]

Valve Corporation revealed today that they're bringing back the Steam Next Fest for the Fall as the next one happens in October Much like the previous incarnations of the event, this will be an all-out display of mostly indie video games that will have their own place in the Steam marketplace All of them will[...]

Valve Corporation revealed that they're producing a brand new mobile console called Steam Deck, which will release later this year This is their own version of a portable PC gaming device specifically set up so that you can access your Steam account through the interface and play games directly from the device It isn't clear[...]

Valve Corporation revealed their plans for the return of an in-person version of The International 10 – Dota 2 Championships this Fall The company posted this message today, which we have for you below, letting fans know that the event will be coming to Bucharest, Romania, and will be happening in early-to-mid October. The International 10[...]

Valve Corporation revealed this week they have renamed the Steam Game Festival to the Steam Next Fest, which will start in June The company didn't really give any kind of riveting explanation as to why they were changing the name, other than we highly suspect that don't want to be lost in the shuffle when[...]

You can read more about it below and check out the latest CS:GO trailer. The Broken Fang logo from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, courtesy of Valve Corporation.  New challenges await, with the all-new Retakes and the exclusive Broken Fang Premier Play new maps in every game mode, and see how you measure up in the Operation Stats page[...]

Valve Corporation revealed today that they have officially opened up nominations for the 2020 version of The Steam Awards They're back again as you can nominate new games into categories for them to potentially win an award The catch to the system (aside from the requirement of a Steam account) is that you can only[...]

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,[...]

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 got our wish as we got a new game, but it's a prequel of sorts, told from another character's perspective, and completely done in VR Which,[...]

During the coronavirus outbreak, Valve has obviously seen an uptake in traffic on Steam. Which has forced them to manage their bandwidth a bit.

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.

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[...]

But we'll see in a few years how he feels about the longterm if any of them start eating away at Steam's business. Credit: Valve Corporation "Competition in game stores is awesome for everybody It keeps us honest, it keeps everybody else honest," Newell says, "But it's ugly in the short term You're like, 'Argh, they're yelling,[...]

We wanted a favorite to come back. Credit: Valve Corporation Well, it looks like we're in for another round of this as the company announced on Steam that they're going to try again After getting feedback from players who did like the game, they're apparently going for a full reboot You can read the announcement below, but[...]

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[...]

Valve Corporation will unleash the game on February 25th The game has been in beta/Early Access mode on steam since mid-2019, but now the official release will put the full game up on both PC and mobile devices We also now know the game will launch in seasons, with Season One starting the day of[...]

Valve Corporation has alerted players that they will be changing their esports system for the CS:GO Major Championship Autumn 2020 An email was sent out giving preliminary details of how the system will work out following the ESL One Rio 2020 event As reported by HLTV, the new ranking system will include a combination of[...]

A report from DotEsports has confirmed that Valve Corporation is suing the Global Electronic Sports Championship (GESC) for failure to pay out a tournament from 2018 The total combined winnings that they have failed to pay come to $750k The two tournaments they failed to payout on were back in March 2018 and May 2018,[...]

This morning, Valve Corporation released brand new details and a proper trailer for their upcoming VR title, Half-Life: Alyx We now know that the game is set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 So we now know this is neither a sequel or a prequel, this is a story in the middle of[...]

Valve Corporation and Electronic Arts have announced a new partnership today as they will bring EA Access to Steam in November The partnership will officially kick off on November 15th with the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, giving Steam players access to the game on PC They've even started pre-orders today Here's a[...]

Get into the spooky swing of things with Steam's official Halloween sale, which is going on right now. Your wallet's about to be terrified.

Credit: Valve Corporation Steam has a massive library of games to choose from As it turns out, many of them also have local multiplayer modes Sometimes this doesn't work out, like if you have mostly online friends It looks like Steam is hard at work on a feature that could make this problem a thing of[...]

For those of you who have been complaining about the matchmaking setup in Dota 2 these days, it appears a fix is on the way.