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A day after social media went after Valve for allowing a game called Rape Day on Steam, the platform issued a statement about the situation The statement, which you can read below, is pretty brief and to the point, as the company has let fans know the game will not be released on their platform[...]

A lot of people are questioning the approval system Valve currently uses today after a game called Rape Day made its way onto Steam If you haven't seen social media on this, Twitter basically exploded yesterday evening when several gamers found a new indie game in which you control a serial killer rapist during a zombie apocalypse[...]

The Steam Awards have announced the winners of the 2018 round, and in a surprising upset, their Game of the Year award went to PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds.

Well, that was a thing. The 2018 Steam Awards were announced earlier today, and they failed to do the one thing an awards show should do: honor the previous year's games.

I can no longer bear the weight of my sins, which is why I've decided to come out with the truth and apologize for lying." In March of 2018 Valve memorialized Sketchek in Team Fortress 2 with a new passive ability for Pryo's Axtinguisher called "Sketchek's Bequest." In the new video, Sketchek states, "I wish they didn't add it[...]

If you're a regular Steam user, then you're used to Valve asking for yearly voting on games with awards that don't really hold a ton of meaning to them It's basically a way for the company to measure engagement and hand out little trophies on Steam pages to games every year, and it really doesn't[...]

THQ Nordic decided to address the concerns players had over shifting Metro Exodus over to the Epic Games Store this week, while the author of the series disagreed with the move.

The folks at Valve are none too happy with Deep Silver this week, after the company removed Metro Exodus from Steam and made it an Epic Games Store exclusive The move is a little surprising but not entirely out of the blue since a lot of publishers have openly been considering making the same move[...]

Valve teased its plans for 2019 in a Steam Community post today, which mostly looked at how the digital store held up in 2018 The end of Valve's retrospective included a segment on what Steam users can expect to find in the coming year While the list released doesn't reflect the entirety of Valve's plans for[...]

With the cheating recently being caught in the esports community, it looks like Valve decided to do a little spring cleaning in advance and took action against 17,000 accounts, resetting everything back to nothing for those who were caught cheating or used unfavorable tactics in matchmaking to get themselves into ranked matches. Today we reset roughly[...]

Valve has released a new update for Artifact which focuses on the skill rating and account leveling systems as well as some card balance changes, new features, and bug fixes. With the Build Your Legend update, Artifact now has an independent skill rating system for constructed and draft games It also includes a new account levelling system that tracks[...]

Those who have been looking to use Steam Link on a Raspberry Pi, you're in luck, as Valve has made a downloadable app to work with the hardware The company released the information today with very little fanfare, just a set of instructions on how to download the app and how to apply it to[...]

The folks at Valve released new info today about a brand new addition to CS:GO called "Danger Zone" Surprise! It's another battle royale game Along with that news comes the awesome revelation that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has officially become a free-to-play game on Steam, so anyone who has yet to buy or own it can now do so[...]

Valve offered this statement after, but took no action against either team, letting the teams themselves deal with the matter. Valve will not tolerate racist language between pro players in any form We think it is really damaging to the entire Dota community whenever even a single professional player uses discriminatory language. credit//Riot Games To date, Kuku has yet[...]

  Valve's new game, Artifact, launched today alongside a brand new comic based on the game Valve released the first in what is now a series of Artifact comics on Monday ahead of the launch, with the second comic releasing today alongside the game. Titled Prelude and Call to Arms, the two comics focus on stories from the world of DOTA, which[...]

Valve has been low-key looking to revamp Steam for the last few years, though much of the information on the PC gaming platform's redesign have been shrouded in mystery It is a Valve product, after all, which means things are much more opaque than they are in the rest of the industry However, Steam Status[...]

If you happen to be one of the people currently using one of Valve's Steam Link devices, you're also going to be one of the few using it soon The company kind of quietly announced they would not be making any more hardware for the service, and that the remaining items would be sold off[...]

Earlier today, Valve released a beta of their new card game Artifact, but the game already came with some issues that players do not like Usually, when a game is released into beta, you expect there to be problems because that's what a beta is for To test things out and help the devs find[...]

An interesting piece of info this week as there was apparently a bug in Steam's system that could grant you access to every game managed by Valve And when we say every game, we mean EVERY game The exploit allowed people access to essentially get free game codes out of the marketplace whenever they wanted if[...]

To prepare for the launch of their newest game Artifact at the end of this month, Valve is running a preview tournament for the game this weekend Starting tomorrow, 128 players will compete in Artifact matches for a modest prize pool The point of the tournament is more to show off the game and get players interested[...]

Valve has sent out a notification to players who have signed up for the beta of Artifact that it will not be coming in October after all The message below was received by players who had either signed up for the beta or received a copy during their time at PAX West this year, alerting[...]

It appears Valve is now taking an active role in purging troll-like games from Steam's library, as they've removed several from the system today According to their own system reports, as well as a report that was done by PC Gamer, 179 titles were removed from the library with such wonderful titles as LOGAN vs KSI,[...]

Valve has brought their DOTA card game, Artifact, to PAX West this weekend And yes, it is fully playable on the show floor. Artifact is notable not just because it was designed by Richard Garfield and uses DOTA characters and lore, but because it is Valve's first proprietary game since DOTA 2 was released in 2013. All attendees at PAX can check[...]

Would you watch a streaming service if Valve ran it? That's the question of that day now that the word is out that there's a Steam channel in the works Venture Beat is reporting that SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik discovered the domain Steam.tv had been registered by Valve and confirmed after checking the source code and[...]

Valve has finally snatched up a very important piece of a larger puzzle they collected earlier as Olly Moss has joined the team If you're not entirely familiar with the situation, Firewatch was an awesome game from 2016 created by Campo Santo, a company co-founded by Moss along with Nels Anderson, Jake Rodkin, Sean Vanaman[...]

Valve has announced the release date for its next game, the Dota 2 themed card game Artifact for November. The common feeling around Valve for the past few years is that they aren't in the business of making games any more Of course, this isn't true at all The team maintains games like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and[...]

Valve has confirmed that writer Jay Pinkerton, who co-wrote Portal 2, has returned to the company after leaving last year. credit//Valve Valve, at least in recent years, seems to have distanced itself from big, single-player releases While Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike have continued development, the company has moved away from putting out new games in[...]

This led Valve to shut down their system in both those countries until they could find a solution The solution they came up with: eliminate the ability to open them. The latest update to go out for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is to make it so that the system doesn't change for anyone in the world, meaning[...]

Usually, we don't like to promote giant sales happening unless they're a big deal, but the latest one from Valve is kind of a big deal Right now, Steam is holding their annual Summer Sale that is going until Thursday, July 5th While the company has promoted a ton of content on the front end[...]

These include CS:GO, H1Z1, Killing Floor 2, Rust, and a few others. But their biggest money maker appears to be PUBG, or at least that was the case until last month, when Valve decided to bring the hammer down on them as best they could. According to Reddit, the company has put a ban on all the[...]