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Valve Bans Games Built on Blockchain, NFTs, and Cryptocurrencies From Steam Gaming Platform
17.10.2021
This past week, Valve, the parent company of the video game digital distribution service Steam updated its distribution onboarding guidelines. According to the newly updated rules, the company is banning any “applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange...
Valve removes blockchain games, tells users not to publish content on crypto or NFTs
15.10.2021
“Steam's point of view is that items have value and they don't allow items that can have real-world value on their platform,” claimed one game developer
Valve's Steam Deck Teardown Video Warns Against Tearing Down Your Steam Deck
6.10.2021
In a new teardown video demonstrating how (or rather, how not) to replace Steam Deck parts, Valve said that tampering with the handheld PC’s chassis to get a look inside “might mess things up, like, profoundly.” How profoundly you ask? The gaming giant said the batteries could explode, which might...
Valve Refunds All DOTA 2 Tourney Tickets Only 12 Days After Selling Them, Event No Longer To Have Live Audience
3.10.2021
Valve has canceled all plans to have a live audience at its large-scale DOTA 2 tournament, the International, as the number of covid cases in the host city of Bucharest, Romania continues to increase. The company also announced all tickets will be refunded immediately.Read more
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
Two Popular Team Fortress 2 Mods Temporarily Removed Due To 'Arrangements' With Valve
12.9.2021
Here’s an odd bit o’ news: Two popular Team Fortress 2 mods have suddenly and mysteriously been removed from the internet and can no longer be downloaded. According to the devs, this is due to “arrangments with Valve” but neither team has explained what that means. According to devs for both mods...
Valve Patched A Steam Exploit That Let Users Add Unlimited Funds To Steam Wallets
15.8.2021
A security researcher on Hackerone recently submitted an exploit that could be used on Steam to gain unlimited funds. The exploit has since been patched by Valve and the company awarded the user who discovered this exploit $7500. Read more
Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
12.8.2021
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.Read more
The Steam Deck Might Struggle To Play Some Games On Big TVs
8.8.2021
The Steam Deck, like the Nintendo Switch, can be docked and connected to a TV or monitor. Valve confirmed this back when it was announced. But now the publisher behind Steam has revealed that docking the portable PC won’t lead to any performance boosts in games. This could lead to some issues...
Valve Says It Hasn't Found A Game That The Steam Deck Can't Handle
25.7.2021
Valve’s Steam Deck is a powerful piece of hardware, based on the specs released. According to Valve, it’s powerful enough to play everything the company has tested on it at 30 fps or more. Read more
Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Valve Hopes To Avoid Thumbstick Drift On The Steam Deck
17.7.2021
Thumbstick drift is a nasty and frustrating problem that seems to have become more common on some consoles and devices. Valve is aware of these issues and says it has done a bunch of tests and picked high-quality and reliable parts to avoid the “risk” of stick drift becoming a problem with Steam...
eBay Is Already Filled With Steam Deck Scalpers Asking For Way Too Much Money
17.7.2021
Valve’s recently announced handheld PC, the Switch-like Steam Deck, isn’t out yet. But folks can preregister for an opportunity to buy it at a later date and some scalpers are already trying to flip these registrations for hundreds of dollars. Read more
Steam Deck Pre-Orders Start Off Shaky
16.7.2021
Today, Valve began taking paid reservations for its recently announced Steam Deck, a powerful portable PC that’s invited comparisons to the Nintendo Switch. But right after pre-orders went live, Steam collapsed into server errors and other frustrating hiccups. Read more
Steam Deck Might Not Play Some Of Steam's Most Popular Games
16.7.2021
The way Valve describes it, the new Steam Deck sounds like a tiny—but still alarmingly heavy—marvel, capable of running Steam’s vast library of games despite the beefy specs required to play many of them. However, it is at its core a Linux machine, and that may lead to some complications.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Steam Deck
16.7.2021
Two hours before preorders opened up for this fall’s Nintendo Switch OLED model, Valve took a break from not announcing Half-Life 3 to unveil a handheld of its own. The Steam Deck, named after Valve’s everyone-uses-it digital games storefront, allows you to play your entire Steam library on...
Gabe Newell Describes Steam Deck's Price As 'Painful' For Valve
15.7.2021
If you want to play Steam games on the go and don’t feel like waiting the requisite 0-100 days for beloved indies to get ported to the Nintendo Switch, Valve’s now offering an answer to your cries: The Steam Deck, a handheld with PC-ish specs and a surprisingly reasonable price tag. Valve president...
Valve’s Steam Deck Will Let You Shop On Epic Games Store
15.7.2021
Gaming consoles are territorial, fighting over exclusives and playerbases. You might think that, as a gaming handheld, Valve’s new Steam Deck is too, but the tech company says that’s not the case. Not only will you be able to download third-party apps onto the device, you’ll even be able to access...
Steam Deck Is Valve's Answer To The Switch, Out In December
15.7.2021
Steam Deck is a new portable gaming device from Valve that basically looks and functions exactly like a Nintendo Switch. Models start at $400 and will be releasing December 2021, Valve announced today over on Steam. Read more
Valve Finds A City Willing To Host DOTA 2's The International
8.7.2021
Already delayed from 2020, this year’s The International was supposed to take place in Sweden, until Sweden looked at the continuing global pandemic and said no thank you. So Valve had to scramble to find a city that would take the event, and in Bucharest, they’ve found it.Read more