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Steam, the Epic Games Store and other game developers – via a controversial email from CEO and founder Aleksandr Agapitov.Agapitov contacted 150 fired employees through email on August 3, stating that “my big data team analyzed your activities” and accused them of being “unengaged and unproductive employees”.The email starts by saying:“You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and

Half-Life 2 has reportedly been given Valve‘s blessing, with an official Steam page in the works.Filip Victor – who previously created Half-Life 2: Update – is currently working on a complete remaster of Half-Life 2 and all Episodes which Valve has reportedly given the green light.Reporter Tyler McVicker stated that he is “able to confirm this projects legitimacy” and that the remaster is “coming soon to Steam” with Valve’s consent.I have been able to confirm this projects legitimacy, being made

Steam Deck developers have discussed how Steam’s past hardware helped shape the upcoming handheld PC gaming device.The developers spoke about the Steam Deck in an interview with IGN at the beginning of the weekend (July 30).

Valve has defended why the company chooses to take a 30 per cent cut from all products sold on Steam.Valve has claimed that an antitrust lawsuit filed by Wolfire Games “fails to allege the most basic elements of an antitrust case” and denies using its market dominance to overcharge developers.The lawsuit was filed in April and claims that Valve takes an “extraordinarily high cut” from sales, further alleging that due to the 30 per cent cut, “competition, output, and innovation are suppressed, in

Valve has launched a new client beta for Steam, and with it a new visual redesign for its UI that looks better and more useful.A full list of changes to the Steam client beta were posted on the Steam Community page.

Steam Deck‘s early prototypes was apparently called the “Ugly Baby” according to a Valve developer.In an interview with IGN‘s Ryan McCaffrey, Gabe Newell and Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais discussed the Steam Deck and revealed some of the other names the handheld device originally had.Some early names were things like “Steam Buddy” and “Steam Pal” as Newell said in the interview, while Griffais revealed that the Steam Deck had some “pretty terrifying prototypes” so the team “gave them

Nintendo have revealed their new Switch OLED while Valve have announced details of its new handheld PC device, the Steam Deck. Despite the comparisons, some of the Valve team have explained how different the two consoles are.Yes, the two consoles look very similar but Valve designer Greg Coomer explains that it was just a coincidence.

Steam Deck reservations from its site. Some were listed for over £700.Valve’s handheld PC system, the Steam Deck, is set to release next year.

Valve has said there have been no problems with running the latest games on the Steam Deck.In a recent video interview with IGN, Valve developers discussed the Steam Deck’s technical capabilities, and the custom APU (accelerated processing unit – AMD‘s own brand of CPU) that is able to deliver “the best performance and the best battery life possible”.According to developer Pierre-Loup Griffais, the team had been testing games from across the Steam back catalogue.“But the real test for us was

Valve has announced that Steam Next Fest – which will feature hundreds of game demos – is returning this October. Running between October 1-7, Steam Next Fest is a “multi-day celebration of upcoming games” that will offer demos, developer livestreams, and chats with teams currently making titles as well.Originally called Steam Game Festival, the revived Steam Next Fest also had an event in June.

PC gaming handheld Steam Deck will mean the end of the existing ‘Big Picture mode’ on Steam, Valve has confirmed.Big Picture mode swaps the web browser-style layout of the default Steam client for a cleaner user interface emphasising larger tiles for games.

Valve‘s newly announced handheld, Steam Deck, has already been generating interest in the industry, and that includes Ubisoft who may be considering putting its games back on Steam.The publisher had previously pivoted away from the PC platform, instead partnering with the Epic Games Store, while also running its own digital storefront.However, as reported in IGN, an investors call yesterday (July 20) with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot hinted that the Steam Deck might persuade the company to release

Steam Deck, the upcoming portable PC from Valve, has had its technical specifications updated which indicate a better memory bandwidth.Spotted by Twitter user Locuza (thanks, PC Gamer), the tech specs webpage for the Steam Deck has updated to show the RAM being quad 32-bit channels with speeds up to 5,500 MT/s.A discussion and curiosity is resolved now.Van Gogh, which is used by Valve's Steam Deck, has 4 UMCs.I expected 4x 16-Bit (a memory channel under LPDDR5 is actually 16-Bit wide).

Steam Deck as the leader in a new category of PC-based handhelds, one that could have “long-term benefits” for Steam.In an interview with IGN, Newell explained that he viewed the Steam Deck as the start of a new “product category”, and hopes that other PC manufacturers will join in.“Our view is, if we’re doing this right, that we’re going to be selling these in millions of units,” said Newell.“And it’s clearly going to be establishing a product category that ourselves and other PC manufacturers

Steam Deck consoles are already being listed on Ebay, with scalpers charging in excess of $1,000 (£726).Announced last week, the Steam Deck will provide PC gaming on the go in a device that can be connected to a display like the Nintendo Switch.Preorders for the console went live on Friday at 6pm BST, but the demand for the Steam Deck quickly proved too much for Steam’s servers, which crashed.

Dota 2 fan decided to draw the games heroes in just a minute each, and shared the results of this task online.Redditor LiquidEV set themselves the challenge of drawing 120 of Dota 2’s heroes, but only gave themselves 60 seconds for each and every sketch. You can see the post embedded below.

Valve‘s new Steam Deck has been designed to let players access their PC gaming library on the go, just like any PC.However, as reported in The Verge, as the Linux-based SteamOS also powers this new handheld, this impacts what games are compatible on the system.Less than 15 per cent of all games on Steam officially support Linux and SteamOS.

Nintendo Switch OLED’s £309 price point, the newly announced Steam Deck’s starting price of £349 sounds like a significant bargain. However, Valve president Gabe Newell shared that the price has drawbacks for the company.Speaking to IGN, Newell said the company needed to be “very aggressive” in terms of pricing, citing price performance as “one of the critical factors in the mobile space”.While his immediate priority was on Steam Deck’s performance and experience, especially in the hands of PC

Epic Games, has shared his own excitement following the announcement of Valve‘s Steam Deck console.Taking to Twitter yesterday (July 15), Sweeney shared the Steam Deck announcement to his own page with some positive words.Describing it as an “amazing move” by Valve, Sweeney seemed particularly excited by the “open platform where users are free to install software o[f] their choosing”.Predictably, he mentions that users can choose to download “Windows or other stores”, which likely suggests that

Valve is entering the handheld market with the Steam Deck, a handheld PC that can play your entire PC library on the go.After months of speculation about the SteamPal, a Valve-produced Switch-esque PC, Valve’s offering seems fairly comprehensive.Technically, it’s no slouch.

Half-Life is one of the most iconic titles in video gaming history, and now Brett Johnson – a former level designer on the game at developer Valve – has been revealing some of the secrets of the original title’s creation.The major revelation is that the classic first-person action game had some pretty terrible working titles, at least early on in its development.

Valve‘s popular competitive game Dota 2 has got the go ahead on a new location for its yearly tournament, The International, with a £29million ($40million USD) prize pool.The tenth International (TI10) for Dota 2 is going to be held at the Arena Nationala in Bucharest, Romania, and will begin on October 7.The group stage will run until October 10, with the main stage beginning on October 12, and the finals planned for October 17.

Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online will be getting DLSS support in the games next update, according to Rockstar Games.In a blog post detailing the July 13 update, Rockstar said: “Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online on PC will offer Nvidia DLSS support to all Windows users with eligible Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) has seen a player count drop of close to 17% on Steam since Valve started charging for Prime Status.According to SteamCharts, CS:GO saw a drop of 16.75% (that’s 110,541.8 users) in its player numbers from May to June this year.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players have discovered that they can mess with their teammates using the in-game radio commands.Players have discovered that they are able to trigger radio voice clips on command in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by pasting codes into the in-game console.This function also lets players bind the character death sound to a key, letting them play it multiple times in succession (thanks The Loadout).Players are also able to send text via the console that looks

Team Fortress 2 has hit a new all-time concurrent player peak, shortly after its latest patch released.Valve‘s long running multiplayer game, Team Fortress 2, has hit its all-time concurrent player record of over 150,000 players according to SteamDB, the highest it has been since December 2020.Team Fortress 2 originally launched in 2007, but has only been supported in fits and starts recently.Last week, the game received its first patch in over 100 days, which added the Summer 2021 Cosmetic Case

Dota 2 championship tournament, known as The International, is no longer taking place in Stockholm, where it had been scheduled for since 2020.The tenth tournament, The International 10, had already been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and had been rescheduled for this August.As reported in PC Gamer however, the Dota 2 tournament is no longer able to take place in Stockholm as the Swedish government has refused to classify The International as an “elite sporting event”.In an update

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and with it comes updates, fixes and a new element to the game, radiation.Developer Blackbird Interactive said in the ‘Pretty Rad Update’ that radiation will create “spatial challenges” via changing circumstances.

Steam has reportedly introduced a new restriction that will make it harder for users to purchase games from other regions.As discovered by SteamDB, Valve has recently allegedly placed a limit on how often users can change their Steam account’s country.

Valve has released a new update for Team Fortress 2.Details were provided in full on the game’s official website yesterday (June 22), which stated that the update would be applied automatically upon restarting the game.While not a significant update, players can nonetheless look forward to new cosmetics.The update adds the Summer 2021 Cosmetic Case, which contains 18 new community-contributed items and six new community-created unusual effects.The rest of the updates are geared towards “numerous

Valve has confirmed that Dota 2 is getting an ‘all new’ summer event later this week – the mysteriously-titled, Nemestice.It was first announced via a blog post about the upcoming TI10: The International – Dota 2 Championships in Sweden.Forced to move the championship as Sweden refuses to classify The International as an elite sporting event, Valve snuck the news of this new event in at the end.“We remain committed to hosting The International this year in a way that is both safe for all

Valheim mod that supports VR headsets now has motion control support, after its initial release back in April of this year.VHVR allows players to play Valheim with “native Open VR support in full stereoscopic 3D”, according to the mod page on Nexus Mods. The mod supports motion controls for Oculus Touch and Valve index, with Vive bindings usable but currently untested.It also adds motion tracking to multiplayer, meaning you can “wave hello at your friends”.

Portal and Left 4 Dead, has today (June 21) joined the team at Xbox Game Studios.In a Tweet posted earlier this afternoon, Xbox Game Studios confirmed that Kim Swift would be joining them “to accelerate our innovation and collaborate with independent studios to build games for the cloud.”Our team focuses on three pillars in our games: Community, Innovation and Inclusivity.

NVidia and Valve are working together to bring DLSS to Linux.NVidia has announced that it is bringing Deep Learning Super Sampling or DLSS to gamers who are using Valve’s Proton compatibility to run Windows games on Linux operating systems.DLSS works by rendering games at a lower resolution and then using machine learning algorithms to upscale the image, resulting in a higher quality image at a lower performance outlay from the user’s hardware.Reporting on the story, The Verge discovered that

Valve has announced changes to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with a number of features no longer available to free players.Previously, new players of the free-to-play competitive shooter would have access to drops, Ranks, Skill Groups, and a free path to Prime matchmaking, that is playing with players who have Prime status by paying for the game.In a new blog on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive website, it claims that “those benefits have become an incentive for bad actors to hurt the

Valve is currently building a Switch-inspired portable gaming PC called the ‘SteamPal’.News of the console’s existence came via ArsTechnica yesterday (May 25). The SteamPal’is rumoured to be an all-in-one PC console which features a built-in gamepad and touchscreen controls.According to multiple sources, the SteamPal could arrive as soon as the end of the year.