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Valve Issues 40,000 VAC Bans Since Summer Sale ended!

Gabe Newell has been busy. Since the Steam summer sale ended, he hasn’t been spending all of his time rolling in his money. Admittedly, probably a good portion of it, ...

July 10, 2017 at 3:41 pm by

Valve Adds Phone Number Requirement for DOTA 2 Account

Valve is going to require DOTA 2 players to register a valid phone number in an effort to combat “Smurfing”—a term used when a secondary lower level account is ...

April 22, 2017 at 10:12 pm by

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to Get Source 2 Update in Summer 2017

During a presentation for its release in China, it has been revealed that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be getting ported to the Source 2 engine in summer 2017. This ...

April 12, 2017 at 9:05 pm by

Gabe Newell: Open Source will Make VR Great

Valve’s Gabe Newell is betting the farm on virtual reality. Valve famously teamed up with HTC to produce the Vive, regarded by many to be the premier VR headset on the ...

February 15, 2017 at 10:00 pm by

Valve Admits Deliberately Trolling over Half-Life 3

Half-Life 3. By now, you’d think we’d be sick of the sight of that title. Its release – or lack of – has been teased for over a decade. In the meantime, we’ve been ...

February 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm by

Valve Kills Steam Greenlight and Launches Steam Direct

After a controversial 5 years, Valve is finally ending Steam Greenlight. Greenlight allowed the community to vote on which games they thought should be sold on the digital ...

February 11, 2017 at 5:15 pm by

Gabe Newell Confirms Valve Developing 3 New VR Games

Speaking at a press briefing at the Valve offices at Seattle, Washington, company founder Gabe Newell discussed Valve’s foray into virtual reality and has confirmed that ...

February 11, 2017 at 1:00 am by

US Travel Ban has Negatively Affected Valve Says Gabe Newell

Gabe Newell, the president of Valve, candidly spoke about the latest US travel ban in a roundtable with gaming journalists at their Bellevue, Washingon studio offices ...

February 10, 2017 at 5:02 pm by

Valve Retires Dust2 From The Active Duty Pool

An era is coming to an end as Valve has announced that it is removing the popular and classic Counter-Strike map Dust2 from the active duty group. While this piece of news ...

February 6, 2017 at 4:45 pm by

Steam Makes Moving Game Install Folders Easier

Every now and again, whenever you pop open Steam to play your games, Valve pushes out a quick update. Most of the time, these updates don’t do much if anything visible ...

February 4, 2017 at 5:30 pm by

Europe Investigates Valve over Steam Geo-Blocking

The European Commission (EC) is opening an antitrust investigation into Valve’s game distribution platform Steam to determine if its content geo-blocking is in breach of ...

February 2, 2017 at 7:57 pm by

Gabe Newell Confirms More Games on the Way in Reddit AMA

It’s not Half-Life 3, at least we don’t think it is, but it’s now confirmed that Valve is working on some new games, and that’s a step in the right ...

January 18, 2017 at 11:00 am by

Valve Fined $3m for Refusing Steam Refunds

Valve has been fined by the Australian Federal Court for failing to fulfil refunds on its game distribution platform Steam. The company was hit with the biggest possible fine ...

December 23, 2016 at 5:00 pm by

Steam Services Are Currently Down on a Global Scale

If you’ve tried to connect to the Valve’s Steam network and were unsuccessful, then you’re not alone. It looks like the entire service is down on a global ...

December 23, 2016 at 4:28 pm by

Steam Winter Sale Date Leaked

Are you looking to get some great gaming deals? Even though the Steam Autumn Sale has not long finished? Good! Because we’ve got another big Steam sale just on the ...

December 5, 2016 at 2:50 pm by

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