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Lawsuit Claiming Steam Gives Valve Too Much Power Is Moving Forward After All
11.5.2022
A U.S. district judge has decided that an antitrust lawsuit against Valve over how it operates and uses the Steam platform can move forward. The company suing Valve, Wolfire Games, alleges that the Half-Life and Portal developer uses its digital storefront and its huge amount of control over the...
The Steam Deck Can (Officially) Now Run A LOT More Games
3.5.2022
When Valve’s Steam Deck launched back in February, it could only certifiably run a (relative) handful of the platform’s 1000s of titles. The exact number was 399, but now, just a few weeks later, that figure has roughly tripled.Read more
Portal Writer Wants Valve To Make Next Game Before He's 'Too Old To Work' On It
18.4.2022
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of the Portal series, would love to work on a third game. There are just a few problems: He’s one developer out of hundreds of staff and he’s not sure that Valve would go for another Portal game’s profit margins.Read more
Does Valve’s Steam Deck Really Offer The Power and Versatility Of PC Gaming?
9.3.2022
I was, I am happy to admit, a Steam Deck skeptic. Valve’s history with hardware does feel an awful lot like Captain Ahab’s history with Moby Dick. While all have their passionate defenders, the Steam Controller, Vive VR, and Steam Link can reasonably be chalked up as something short of colossal...
Gabe Newell’s Problem Isn’t With NFTs Or Metaverse, But The ‘Bad Actors’ Behind Them
3.3.2022
Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has given his two cents on the gaming world’s interest in NFTs and the metaverse.Read more
Nifty News: Snoop Dogg and Gary V have $95M in NFTs, Dolly Parton’s Dollyverse and more…
2.3.2022
Popular K-Pop singer Sunmi faced a backlash after launching NFTs, Valve CEO Gabe Newell has boldly praised NFT tech while ragging on people in the space, and Dolly Parton launched Dollyverse NFTs
Valve CEO Gabe Newell Praises NFT Technology, Criticizes Bad Actors
28.2.2022
Gabe Newell, founder and CEO of Valve, a popular company in the PC gaming market, has revealed his take on crypto and NFTs when applied to games. In an interview with gaming media, Newell validated the NFT technology that makes it possible to create these digital representations. However, he also...
Valve Open To Having Game Pass Come To Steam
26.2.2022
Game Pass is currently one of the best deals in gaming. For $15 a month you get access to a rotating list of 100s of games, from small indies like Unpacking to big blockbusters like Halo: Infinite. You can play them on Xbox or PC, or stream them just about anywhere else. Valve CEO Gabe Newell...
The Steam Deck Compatibility Test vs 810 Steam Games
24.2.2022
Valve just released a new feature that lets you sign into Steam and check to see how many of the games in your library will run on the new Steam Deck handheld. I’ve ended up with a lot of games over my time in this job, from all kinds of genres and eras, so figured running the test on them might...
Valve Announces Cloud Saving For Steam Deck
26.1.2022
Valve announced a big feature for its highly anticipated Steam Deck: cloud saving. The cloud saving option will allow players to seamlessly transition from playing on PC, Steam Deck, and back again without losing any saved data.Read more
What To Expect From Steam And Valve In 2022
19.1.2022
It’s shaping-up to be another record-breaking year for Valve-owned digital storefront Steam thanks to massive games like Elden Ring and Starfield, and new hardware like the Steam Deck. Last year was a sleepier one when it came to PC blockbusters due to covid-19-driven game delays, but 2021’s loss...
Court Dismisses Lawsuit By Parents Whose Kids 'Gambled' With CSGO Skins
14.1.2022
On January 7, a U.S. federal court dismissed the final lawsuit against Valve regarding the company’s alleged facilitation of what plaintiffs claimed amounts to illegal gambling in CSGO matches. This was the last case in a series of claims brought to the court by parents whose children had purchased...
The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2021
16.12.2021
Face it: The past year has been…not great. Over the course of 2021, the global temperature rose at a once again alarming rate, Marvel released not one but two panned films, and we’ve all gotta come to terms with the sobering realization that this covid-19 pandemic might never fully end. A fitting...
I Like The Steam Deck's Box Art
3.12.2021
Valve has released hardware before, but nothing quite so big and ambitious as the Steam Deck before. And releasing proper hardware means Valve had to think of something a software-first company hasn’t had to think of very often: what should its box look like.Read more
Valve's Steam Deck Probably Won't Get Exclusive Games
2.12.2021
Valve has confirmed that for its upcoming handheld device, the Steam Deck, the company won’t be encouraging the release of any kind of exclusive games that you couldn’t also get on a desktop computer or laptop.Read more
Steam Deck Delayed, Valve Apologizes
10.11.2021
Valve has delayed the release of its Steam Deck handheld by several months, it announced in a blog post today. The anticipated handheld will now start rolling out in February 2022, pushed back from an initial December release.Read more
Ubisoft will seek to invest in and create blockchain games
29.10.2021
The firm is backing Animoca Brands, creator of popular metaverse game, The Sandbox
26 NFT Developers Send Very Sad Letter To Valve After Steam Ban
29.10.2021
Earlier this month Valve instituted a ban on all cryptocurrency and NFT sales on Steam, which not only laid down rules governing the future sales (or lack thereof) of titles on its platform, but also booted a few games off that had already launched and were based on the technology.Read more
26 companies and advocacy groups call on Valve to reverse its blockchain games ban
26.10.2021
“The potential blockchain gaming ecosystem will grow to be orders of magnitude larger than it is now, by the end of this decade," said Enjin CTO Witek Radomski
Valve's New Rating System Shows Which Games Play Best On Steam Deck
19.10.2021
Gaming on-the-go has gotten a lot of much-needed attention lately with not only the Nintendo Switch and the shiny new Nintendo Switch - OLED Model, but with the highly anticipated Steam Deck as well. The upcoming portable gaming PC enables players to take at least a decent chunk of their Steam...