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The overloading bureaucrat has been a fixture of the series since the beginning, but with Valve not making a new Half-Life for so long, we haven't heard much from him these days That all changed yesterday evening. Credit: Valve As we bid farewell to 2019 and head into a new decade, the voice actor for G-Man, Mike[...]

Valve Corporation has finally tallied up the votes and they have released the full list of winners for the 2019 Steam Awards today While there are some surprise winners in here, the voting for this is pretty predictable With Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Beat Saber sitting at the top, which also happens to be[...]

The last thing you want to do when hosting anything revolving around Dota 2 is to not compensate winners, because Valve gets even quickly 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[...]

Valve is learning today to be careful what you put on sale, as people might just buy it Such as the Steam Controller they threw on sale Several people are reporting through Reddit and Reset Era that they have been issued refunds from the company because they apparently don't have the supply to meet the[...]

"Awesome." Credit: Valve The news comes from Spencer's own Twitter feed, in which he was responding to some other gaming journalists and commentators on VR not being included on Scarlett We have the tweet for you below where he confirms he's played Half-Life: Alyx and likes it. Fair feedback I've said publically, I love how our industry has[...]

We're at the end of the year, which means it's awards season, as Valve announced voting has started for the 2019 Steam Awards From now until December 3rd, you can head to this link and vote for video games in a few select categories There isn't a ton, and you have to nominate at least[...]

Here's the specs as gather from a few different places. Credit: Valve Minimum (Standard) OS: Windows 10 Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 – 6GB VRAM Minimum (VR Specs) OS: Windows 10, SteamOS, Linux Processor: Dual Core with Hyper-Threading Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD RX480 Network: Broadband Internet connection Additional Notes: Available DisplayPort (Version1.2) and[...]

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[...]

CS:GO players got a nice surprise this week as Valve sent out a big update for the game called "Operation Shattered Web" For the first time in the game's history, you have the ability to unlock all-new T and CT-sided characters, which are equipable on any map Each of them with progression trees and rewards[...]

After years of demanding Valve get to work on a brand new Half-Life game, we finally got our wish, kinda Today the company announced Half-Life: Alyx The game has been a rumor for months with everyone who was "in the know" telling us it was going to happen but had no source to credit it[...]

Credit: Valve Steam just debuted a major overhaul to its main landing page In addition to revamping the way the library looks, it also introduced a way to help players stay on top of their game with a new Events tab. The Events tab is the result of the team knowing how important it is to be[...]

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[...]

Valve announced this week that a big update was finally added to Dota Underlords, giving players a lot more options during the haunting season Among the additions is a new Duos Mode, a Freestyle Mode, several new heroes for hire with some new alliances that can be formed A new Jail system, new UI to[...]

Valve Corporation launched a new system for Steam players to try out in beta as you can now experiment with Steam Remote Play Together The entire concept of the system is to essentially allow couch co-op onto your Steam account, as you can now invite Steam Friends for local multiplayer with a shared/split-screen system[...]

All coming in different waves so they don't drastically affect gameplay or esports in general. Credit: Valve This week, however, it looks like we'll be seeing some significant changes This post was made to the game's official Twitter account on Saturday, letting players know there would be fixes coming this week. We are working on a few fixes[...]

Of all the things you would think Valve could do for Half-Life 2 after 15 years, getting characters to blink probably wouldn't be high on your list But that's what the company did this week as they added a rare upgrade to the game that added a couple of items for players to try out[...]

Valve Corporation has made an announcement this week that it will be implementing a major update to the Steam Library this month You can read about the library updates here, and some additional improvements here, as the company will be retooling many things Aside from a new look, the library is meant to make you[...]

The International 2019 may have ended this weekend, but Valve is already planning for 2020 as Dota 2 will be headed to Sweden next year During this year's event, the company made the announcement both in the area and online, along with the artwork and video you see here While a specific date wasn't given,[...]

While many of us were excited to see three new characters be added to Street Fighter V this week, Valve was apologizing for messing it up While we and others have been giving praise to Capcom for the early reveal before EVO 2019, turns out it was Valve who leaked the info early on their[...]

The next big CS:GO tournament, StarLadder Major Berlin 2019, just got a big gaming partnership as Secretlab has joined on as the official gaming chair. 

Valve has introduced a brand new item from their Steam Labs wing as you can utilize a new program called the Interactive Recommender You can turn it on for your account right now at this link, but essentially, this is a way for Steam to recommend new games to you based on a variety of[...]

Valve has released a new mobile app this week for Steam, specifically for Steam Chat so you can use their chat service on your mobile device At a glance, the system looks like it operates much the same way Facebook Messaging does, just with more Steam integration and options, so it won't be too hard[...]

Valve has expanded its Steam Link app by porting it to iOS devices, so you can now stream your Steam library to any iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV device Along with the announcement, Valve also released the required specs for running the app: Requirements: iPhone or iPad using iOS 10 or higher Computer running Steam – Windows, Mac,[...]

Today, Valve introduced its brand new VR unit to compete with others on the market called the Valve Index, which will work specifically with Steam The Valve team is currently working on three games for the setup but won't say what they are, only showing off the hardware to the entire thing which looks like[...]

credit//Gearbox As one of their major promises last month, Valve swore to remove negative off-topic reviews from Steam, so users could no longer "review bomb" a game Friday saw the first of Valve's efforts to curb review bombs by clearing thousands of reviews off of the Borderlands series. Gearbox's landmark franchise came under fire by fans when[...]

The European Commission "EC" has sent Statements of Objections to Valve and five game publishers demanding that they stop geo-blocking games The statement of Objections sent to Valve is based on an investigation started by the EC back in 2013 The EC is alleging that the publishers and their distributors entered into agreements to include[...]

If you happen to be one of the people who own a Steam Link before it was discontinued by Valve, you just got an impressive update you'll enjoy The new update essentially allows players to use their service from practically anywhere The primary conditions are what you might expect, the PC needs Steam and needs[...]

It appears there's going to be a full-on war between Valve and Epic Games somewhere down the road, and this may be the second major shot to start it Game Informer reported earlier today that the Epic Games Store has been taking a few extra files they shouldn't be when you agree to a certain[...]

If it were us, we'd say you could only review a game if you actually OWNED the thing on Steam, but that's just us being practical. credit//Valve Some time ago we made some changes to how we presented the User Reviews for games, and their resulting Review Score We talked about those changes in this blog post[...]

If you ever needed to know how terrible of a society gamers can be, look no further than Steam this week as Valve had to remove a ton of content in wake of the New Zealand shootings According to a report from Kotaku today, the company had to take action against over 100 profiles on[...]