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Upcoming Valve Announcement To Discuss New Release For SteamVR

Valve has announced Half-Life: Alyx, its “flagship [virtual reality] game” for SteamVR. It will be unveiled on November 21 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET.

Nov 19 2019 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Valve Opens Up Remote Play Together Feature In Steam Beta Program

Steam’s new Remote Play Together feature hit the service’s beta program today.A few weeks ago, Valve announced the feature for fans of local multiplayer games like Towerfall Ascension or Nidhogg. Instead of forcing players to invite their real life friends over to play video games with them in person, players can now connect over the […]

Oct 21 2019 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Steam Award Nominees Announced- Steam Winter Sale Coming Later This Month

Valve has announced the final list of nominees for the 2018 Steam Awards, and has also confirmed that the Steam Winter Sale will begin on December 20. Game of the Year: Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Monster Hunter: World Kingdom Come: Deliverance Hitman 2 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey VR Game of the Year: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR VRChat Beat […]

Dec 18 2018 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Four Classic Valve Games Join The Enhanced Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Team

Four new Xbox 360 titles will be available enhanced for Xbox One X: the historic collection of Valve’s Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, Portal: Still Alive, Left 4 Dead, and Left 4 Dead 2. These new additions join the 17 previously released enhanced Xbox 360 titles such as Red Dead Redemption and Skate 3 for a total of 21 Xbox One X Enhanced Xbox […]

Oct 19 2018 | Posted in Video Games,XBOX 360,XBOX One | Read More »

Valve Has Updated Steam Wishlist to Include Compact Mode

Valve has made improvements to the Steam Wishlist. The update adds more filtering and sorting options, such as a compact mode, and shows more relevant information such as review score and Early Access state of games. Valve announced the update on the Steam blog, explaining the changes had been made with users’ feedback in mind. […]

Feb 21 2018 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Valve Has Kicked Off the Steam Store Winter Sale and Voting for the the Steam Awards

Valve has just kicked off its annual Winter Sale, for the next two weeks PC gamers will get to enjoy deep discounts on a ton of different titles. The sale goes through 1pm ET on Jan. 4, 2018. In addition to offering games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Dishonored 2 going on sale, […]

Dec 22 2017 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Long Awaited Dota 2 Update to Arrive on November 1st

Valve’s been tormenting Dota 2 players for a while now. The 7.07 update, The Dueling Fates, was coming, but everyone wondered when. And what would it bring with it? There were teasers, sure, but not much solid information. Finally, Valve has announced the release date for the big update, and it’s soon: November 1. Now […]

Oct 20 2017 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Dota 2 Tournament Has a Record $23 Million Prize Pool

Valve’s annual Dota 2 championship, The International, will kick off later today. Teams from around the world will compete from August 7-12 for the record-breaking $23 million prize pool–and, you know, bragging rights for being the best at the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title. The tournament’s prize pool is raised via sales of The […]

Aug 7 2017 | Posted in PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Steam Has 67 Million Monthly Active Users

Valve revealed at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle that Steam now has 67 million monthly active users. In materials sent to Tom’s Hardware, the company also said that its game platform has 33 million daily active users and peaks at 14 million concurrent users each day. Note that Valve is specifically talking about the […]

Aug 7 2017 | Posted in News,News/Reviews,PC Games,Video Games | Read More »

Listing for Dota 2 Printed Comic Collection Has Appeared on Amazon

Back in late February Valve promised its fans that a printed version of the didgital comics that were produced for Dota 2 are also being created in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics. The initial announcement didn’t mention a release date but it looks like we finally have one anyway. According to an Amazon listing, Dota […]

May 22 2017 | Posted in Comics,Entertainment | Read More »