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What To Expect From Valve (And Steam) In 2023
21.2.2023
Given its history of experimental hardware, its infamously vague responses when asked about what games its working on, its failure to produce much-desired sequels to beloved games, and the smashing success of its recent surprise handheld, the Steam Deck, Valve’s moves are tough to predict.Read more
PS VR2: The Kotaku Review
16.2.2023
VR is not the Future of Gaming™. Rather, it’s an active, thriving, wonderful part of its present with many great experiences to enjoy. PS VR2 joins in on that fun with one of the best headsets you can presently buy. But at a cost of $550 dollars for the unit and its controllers (in addition...
Valve Edits Blog Post, Walking Back Team Fortress 2 Hype
16.2.2023
It was pretty cool last week when Valve, developers of the ancient Team Fortress 2, said that the game was getting “a full-on update-sized update”. It is less cool a week later to find that the company has edited that announcement post in an attempt to pump everyone’s brakes.Read more
Hogwarts Legacy’s Steam Forums Are A Mess Right Now
10.2.2023
While not every Harry Potter fan is a transphobe like J.K. Rowling, the new open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy seems to bring out the most dedicated bigots out in full force. As of the pre-launch period, the game’s discussion forums on Steam, the leading PC platform, are filled with hateful...
16 Years After Release, Team Fortress 2 Is Getting A Major Update
10.2.2023
I know it is still available and being played, but Team Fortress 2 can at times feel like a game from a different age. Partly because it is, but also because it’s so old—and has gone so long without a major update—that you’d be forgiven for thinking it was on its last legs. But no!Read more
Pro Gaming Champ Says He Peed In A Bottle During $205,000 Tourney
20.1.2023
When you gotta go, you really gotta go. I just wish that esports tournaments felt the same about letting their competitors use the toilet. Pro player Oliver “Skiter” Lepko peed in a bottle during an ongoing DOTA 2 tournament, citing the organizers’ rules against going to the toilet during a match....
Amazon Bans Lost Ark Bots, Humans Caught In Crossfire
16.1.2023
Amazon’s Diablo-like RPG, Lost Ark, had over 1.3 million people playing it at launch. It’s cooled off since then, but there are still tens of thousands of people who log on every week to enjoy it. Or they would, if they hadn’t been banned for no reason.Read more
The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away
13.1.2023
Good Old Games, or GOG, the digital-rights-management-free PC gaming marketplace and platform from CD Projekt, has officially ended a service that already didn’t feel terribly long for this world. What once seemed like a promising way to slowly import portions of your Steam library to GOG, where...
12 Things Every New Steam Deck Owner Should Try Or Consider
10.1.2023
As one of the most powerful handheld devices out there, the Steam Deck is a great, one-of-a-kind gaming platform. While some games might require you to fiddle around with the graphical settings to get the best performance out of them, the experience of playing a game on the Deck is often...
A Fully Playable Left 4 Dead Prototype Has Been Discovered 15 Years Later
9.1.2023
A trove of Counter-Strike maps recently leaked on the internet, including a mod that was the predecessor to the survival co-op game Left 4 Dead. The mod is even fully playable, as long as you know how to set up your own server.Read more
The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: December 2022 Edition
3.1.2023
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Valve Reveals Plans To Improve Steam Deck’s Screen, Battery
15.12.2022
As we discussed earlier this week, the Steam Deck has had one hell of a launch year. It should be no surprise, then, that Valve has its eye on the future of its new handheld, which it has officially categorized as a “multi-generational product.” The company has now revealed a bit of what it’s...
The Steam Deck Had A Phenomenal First Year
14.12.2022
Though it’s hard to say whether or not “Steam Deck” has become a household name yet, it certainly deserves such a status after an impressive introduction. Valve’s mini-PC has had a one-of-a-kind first year, one that might make other platforms envious. After various attempts at getting into...
Vylepšený Portal s RTX vás vyvede z iluze, že máte výkonné PC
13.12.2022
Z patnáct let staré hry se díky moderním technologiím stala překážka i pro ta nezdatnější herní PC. Portal RTX zavaří i moderní grafické karty
One Of Steam’s Most Popular Games Is About Watching Rubber Duckies Float
12.12.2022
Idle games are one of the most surprising break-out niches of the last few years, although the genre’s name is something of a misnomer. For the first while, these games are typically anything but idle, as you frantically click until you reach a point where the game starts to play itself....
Milf Hunter Won A Steam Deck And You Didn't
9.12.2022
One of the main advertising gimmicks of tonight’s Game Awards was a promotion being run by Valve that would see one viewer win one of the company’s prized Steam Deck handhelds every minute.Read more
New games' biggest discovery competition? Old games!
6.12.2022
Also: Valve tells devs about Wolfire suit discovery, lotsa discovery news
Valve’s Giving Away A Steam Deck Every Minute During The Game Awards
2.12.2022
If you’ve been wanting Valve’s portable PC console, the Steam Deck, but lack the spare cash, Valve will be giving away a ton of them for free during next week’s annual broadcast of The Game Awards. All you have to do is watch The Game Awards through Valve’s streaming site. Oh, yeah: Remember when...
Fake Nintendo, Valve Twitter Accounts Are Already Out There, Be Safe Everyone
10.11.2022
The latest in a seemingly never-ending list of dire consequences for Twitter users in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase is a very predictable one: after overhauling the site’s verification system a flood of fake—and yet still “verified”—accounts have begun using the platform to fuck with people.Read...
No More Launchers For PC Games, Thank You!
4.11.2022
The was once a golden age of PC gaming where you could open up Steam (or even just launch an executable yourself!), boot up a game and the next thing you would see would be the game itself. For many big (and small) releases those days are now long gone, replaced by an era of launchers that are,...