Valve adds shorter comp games to ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’

A threatened IATSE strike against the Kennedy Center has been averted. Following late night bargaining Friday and a unanimous vote to strike earlier this week, stagehands represented by IATSE Stagehands Local 22 have reached an agreement for a new three-year contract with the management of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The agreement was ratified by the union’s membership at a meeting on Saturday.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentDwayne “The Rock” Johnson has conquered the box office, the wrestling ring, TV ratings and tequila sales — now, is he about to dominate the charts?In an unexpected career pivot, Johnson is about to make his rap debut as a feature on Tech N9ne’s new single, “Face Off.”Speaking to Variety exclusively, Johnson says, “I love music.

Selome Hailu editorNetflix announced that Bryana Salaz, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ciara Riley Wilson and Shiv Pai have joined the cast of “Freeridge,” the upcoming spinoff of “On My Block.”The young adult comedy will reveal another side of the fictitious L.A.

Valve has released a YouTube video detailing how to safely open and exchange the thumbsticks and SSD in the Steam Deck, while frequently reminding us doing so may break the console.In the video, we see someone remove the casing from the unreleased Steam Deck and replace a thumbstick and the SSD drive.

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag’s efforts to expand their family have put a strain on their nearly 13-year marriage.

Emily Van Camp is opening up about her exit from The Resident.

The Resident has ended on a heartbreaking note for Nic Nevin, played by Emily Van Camp.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive lets fans play a second Wingman mode within a futuristic research facility reminisce of the Half-Life series.As spotted by PCGamesN, the fan-made map – called Orion – is set in “a remote top secret research facility” that is under threat by a mysterious group.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“BMF” has been renewed for Season 2 at Starz.The series debuted just four days ago on Sept. 26.

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story, Schmigadoon!) is the final addition to the cast of Argylle, an actioner from Apple Original Films and Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Studios, which is currently in production in Europe.

Valve Index virtual reality system may be an untethered device, not requiring a physical connection to a powerful gaming PC.That’s according to a recent datamine of Steam VR files, at least. As reported by YouTuber SadlyItsBradley, a string of data was found pointing to the codename for the Valve Index 2.

The Paley Center for Media has hired Elizabeth Rojas Levi as SVP Communications and promoted Rene Reyes to VP Public Programming and Festivals.

Over the last few days a small storm has been brewing around Valve based on a decision that was seemingly not supposed to be public, and it turns out that’s because it wasn’t true. Originally discovered by SteamDB creator, Pavel Djundik, it seems that older builds of games would be impossible to download once a new Steam version hit, which was a concern to people for a number of reasons.

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Xbox team will open GI Live with a speech and developer roundtable session next week.Kicking off proceedings for this year’s GI Live, an annual event hosted by GamesIndustry.biz, the ID@Xbox team will give a talk titled ‘Independent Creator Success On Xbox’.

Last week, the Kennedy Center marked its golden anniversary with a grand spectacle in the Concert Hall, a live event full of several thousand masked guests that also doubled as the center’s public reopening after 18 months of the pandemic.“The 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert,” directed and choreographed by Emmy-winner and Tony-nominee Joshua Bergasse, featured a parade of performing artists of the highest caliber that lasted for over two and a half hours.

Naman Ramachandran John Malone’s multinational telco Liberty Global — owners of “Fleabag” and “1917” producer All3Media and joint owners with Telefonica of the merged Virgin Media and O2 – has reached an agreement sell its Polish operations to the iliad group’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play.Liberty Global has agreed to sell UPC Poland for a total enterprise value of PLN 7.0 billion ($1.8 billion).

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve is changing Dust 2 so that attackers can no longer land potential kills at the start of rounds.In patch notes posted yesterday (September 21), developers outlined the change as a “slight visibility tweak from T spawn through mid”. While this is worded pretty tamely, the actual change has a major effect on Dust 2.As demonstrated below, attackers on Dust 2 no longer have a direct line of sight to the double doors from spawn.

Steam owner Valve has plans for a new method of downloading games, allowing players instant access to software while it’s installing.The system is found in a new patent filing, which you can view online here and here.