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Valve Anti-Cheat’s “permanent” bans now have one major exception
Bans older than five years no longer apply to Valve's CS:GO esports events.
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Valve Ordered to Give Apple Information on 436 Steam Games As Part of Epic Games Legal Case
Valve, the makers behind popular game distribution platform Steam, will be forced to hand over aggregate historical sales, price, and other information on 436 games hosted on the store to Apple, as part of the Apple vs. Epic Games antitrust case.
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Valve says a growing number of people are playing Steam games with a controller
The number of daily average users playing a Steam game with a controller has more than doubled in the past two years, Valve has said. In a post announcing that all games currently using the Steam Input API are now fully compatible with the new PlayStation 5 controller (that means full support for the DualSense's LED, trackpad, rumble and gyro features), Valve revealed that people really do play PC games with controllers.
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Steam Seemingly Working on a Loyalty System That Could Get You Game Discounts
One of the developers behind SteamDB has revealed that Valve is seemingly working on a loyalty system that could potentially reward users with game discounts and virtual items. Pavel Djundik posted the news to Twitter, noting that the "loyalty awards" system would feature accruable points that can be redeemed for badge levels, and will allow reactions to user reviews. According to Djundik, there will also be "reward items" and perhaps a system where players can receive discounts on games as a reward for their loyalty to Steam.
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Valve Drops Mac Support for SteamVR Less Than Three Years After WWDC 2017 Announcement
As noted by UploadVR, Mac users will still be able to use SteamVR by running Windows with virtualization software like Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. Valve says legacy builds of the virtual reality platform will also remain accessible on the Mac by right-clicking on SteamVR in Steam and selecting Properties > Betas.
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Half-Life: Alyx - Zero Punctuation
I kinda feel bad for Valve. “Rejoice, ye faithful, for official Half-Life games have returned from their long hibernation in a giant coccoon of money! Now the true believers will be rewarded with – where the fuck is everyone?” We’re all in quarantine ‘cos of the global pandemic, Valve. “Oh. Would now be a bad time to ask people to buy our thousand dollar VR headset?” I rather suspect it would be, Valve, yes. Still, now could be the perfect time for the VR revolution since everyone’s stuck at home looking for ways to cover their eyes and ears and go la la la not listening to current events.
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Valve believes Half-Life: Alyx will be modded to play without VR
It’s a question of when, not if
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Valve explains why we still don't have Half-Life 3
Half-Life: Alyx is out today, it's a great VR game and a great Half-Life game, and perhaps best of all we don't have to stop joking about "Half-Life 3 confirmed!" because neither that nor the semi-sequel-ish Half-Life 2: Episode Three are still nowhere in sight. In an interview with IGN, level designer Dario Casali explained why, after 13 years, a proper Half-Life sequel still hasn't happened.
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Valve Explains Why Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Was Never Made - IGN
Valve explains the reasons behind one of the greatest cliffhangers in gaming history.
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Black Mesa review - a masterful remake that improves upon a classic
Typical, isn't it? You wait half your life for a new Half-Life game, then two come along at once... All eyes may be swivelled in the direction of Half-Life: Alyx landing like a gravity-propelled toilet later this month. Yet while everyone's eagerly setting up their VR headsets in preparation, another little chapter of gaming history has just written its final page. Black Mesa, the long-in development remake of Half-Life, is done. Dusted. Finito.
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Valve On Why Half-Life: Alyx Needed To Be In VR
We talked to Valve about how Half-Life: Alyx came to be and what it means for the series’ future.
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Metro Exodus performing ‘great’ on Steam after year absence, claims publisher
Metro Exodus is performing “great” on Steam following its recent return to the platform, according to the parent company of publisher Deep Silver. 4A Games’ post-apocalyptic shooter was originally due to launch on Valve’s storefront on February 15, 2019, but just two weeks before the planned release its publisher confirmed that the PC version would instead to be available exclusively through the Epic Games Store for one year.
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'Half-Life: Alyx' Launches Next Month But Index is Still Sold Out Across the Globe
Valve’s first flagship VR title, Half-Life: Alyx, is now set to launch on March 23rd but unfortunately the company’s Index VR headset is still just about impossible to buy direct. In the meantime, the shortage has seen secondary markets selling the headset at a 150% price premium. Valve Index Stock Check Following up on our global stock …
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VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S
It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward an estimated 2 million monthly-connected headsets.
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Portal’s abandoned prequel, ‘F-Stop,’ surfaces in a new video authorized by Valve
Also known as Aperture Camera, players solve puzzles by photographing and duplicating objects
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Valve's Cancelled Portal Prequel Revealed for the First Time
A new video series reveals and discusses the game mechanics of Valve’s cancelled puzzle game prequel to Portal.
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The Steam Winter Sale 2019 has begun
Do some last minute Christmas shopping today.
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The last Steam Controllers ever made sold out this week
The last Steam Controllers ever made are gone, sold out in a fire sale during this week's Steam Autumn sale for a fraction of the price.
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Steam now lets you invite iOS and Android devices to join PC multiplayer games remotely
Last month, Valve announced a beta of Steam Remote Play Together, which let you play local multiplayer games over the internet with your friends across Windows, Linux, and macOS computers. Today, Remote Play Together is officially available for everyone, with a what could be a really cool new feature — you can play with your friends using iOS and Android devices as well.
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Rumour: Valve is about to announce a VR game called Half-Life: Alyx
Valve are rarely interested in celebrating their own game's anniversaries, so take this rumor with a mouthful of salt. The source is apparently the same leaker responsible for the DOTA Underlords leak, and is quoting from an interview between "Geoff" (Geoff Keighley, in his capacity as the creator of the "Final Hours" documentaries about Valve games), Robin Walker (co-developer of Team Fortress 2 among other games), and an unnamed third person.
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