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'Nearly All' Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
"Worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced," Valve says.
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Steam sale dates have leaked again
It's that time of year again, by which I mean time for people to complain about how much better the Steam sales used to be back in their day. Get your complaining pants ready for the following dates, as provided by Steam Database on Twitter.
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The 15-year evolution of Steam
A visual history of what became PC gaming's preferred way of buying, playing, and updating games.
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Steam should let users resell games, French court rules
French Steam users have the right to resell games, a Paris court has ruled in a case brought by a consumer group. The years-long case isn’t fully settled because Valve can yet appeal, and why would they not? This is still a big decision. The official line so far has been that games bought in a downloadable form, without a physical form like a disc backing them, cannot be resold.
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Second hand in digital age? A French court rules that Steam must allow resale of games
Video game lovers who have a certain age remember the time in which we could buy a game and at the end of reselling it but second hand in the digital age?
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Your rare achievements on Steam will now glow gold
Looks like some game achievements on Steam just got a lot shinier. Following the new new-look Steam library beta’s arrival, which went live yesterday, some users have spotted something pretty dazzling – some rare achievements now glow gold.
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Valve proposes game-friendly changes to the Linux kernel
Linux has never been a hot gaming platform. Valve, creator of the Steam game engine and network, has long wanted Linux to replace Windows as the PC gaming platform. Indeed, Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO, once said, "Linux is the future of gaming." That didn't happen, but Valve didn't give up on Linux. Now, Valve is doubling down on Linux, by proposing changes to the Linux kernel to make it more gaming-friendly.
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Valve proposes game-friendly changes to the Linux kernel
Valve has long wanted Linux to be a serious gaming platform. It's now taking its efforts into the Linux kernel itself.
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This Year's Steam Summer Sale Was A Mess, Game Developers Say
This year’s Grand Prix-themed Steam summer sale was a bumpy ride, to say the least. Two weeks ago, Valve apologized and altered the sale’s meta game—in which players join teams and “race” against each other for prizes—after players found it unbalanced and confusing, and developers suffered a bloodbath of sudden wishlist deletions. Now, with the sale winding down, it seems that Valve’s efforts weren’t enough to undo the damage the confusing sale structure did to indie developers.
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Valve to continue Steam gaming on Ubuntu Linux
But, the gaming company isn't happy with Canonical and will try to work closer with other Linux distributors.
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Canonical returning 32-bit Ubuntu Linux support after gaming uproar
32-bit software should be functionally obsolete, but it turns out to live on in a 64-bit computing world. So, Canonical is putting 32-bit libraries back in to its next Ubuntu Linux releases.
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Steam will no longer support Ubuntu, say Valve
Steam is dropping official support for Ubuntu, which is currently the world's most popular desktop Linux distribution. The bombshell news was delivered by
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Steam has one billion accounts and 90 million monthly active users
While it’s ostensibly pretty amazing that Steam’s population now equals almost a seventh of that of the entire world, a significant number of these are undoubtedly spam, scam, alt, and bot accounts. Probably tens, maybe hundreds of millions. One in seven people on the planet are not PC gamers.
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There's a 1 percent chance Valve announces a Half-Life VR game this week
Predicting what Valve is and isn't going to do is a losing game, even with reliable information, so I'm giving myself a 1 percent chance of getting this completely right. Valve is going to reveal the specs of its VR headset, the Valve Index, very soon, and we have good reason to believe it'll reveal some VR games along with it—one of which is rumored to be a Half-Life game.
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Black Mesa has now been in development longer than Duke Nukem Forever
Black Mesa is a fan-made remake of the original Half-Life which was excellent enough to be approved for sale on Steam. It’s been in Early Access since it hit Steam in 2015, and we’ve spent most of that time waiting for the frequently-delayed Xen release. Black Mesa has been in various stages of development for over 14 years now, and this month its development time has surpassed that of Duke Nukem Forever.
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Valve just surprise revealed its own VR headset called the Valve Index
Unexpectedly on a Friday night, Valve has surprise launched a teaser site featuring a brand-new virtual reality headset, called the Valve Index, that appears to be a device of its own making and not one in partnership with its longtime VR partner HTC. The teaser site spotted by Ars Technica offers no information other than that the Index’s supposed release date is May 2019.
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Valve's New 'Steam Link Anywhere' Service Streams PC Games to Mobile Devices, Excluding Apple's
Valve today announced an expansion of its game-streaming app Steam Link, now named Steam Link Anywhere (via The Verge). The original Steam Link app let users stream PC games on Steam to a mobile device within their home, but Steam Link Anywhere lets users stream games from their PC to any compatible device with internet service, excluding Apple devices. Apple rejected the original Steam Link app due to "business conflicts," while the app went on to see a release on Android.
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The Outer Worlds and Control will launch on the Epic Store, not Steam
During its GDC 2019 Unreal keynote this morning, Epic announced that it has partnered with 2K's Private Division label to distribute The Outer Worlds and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey on the Epic Games Store. PC Gamer has learned that The Outer Worlds will also release on the Microsoft Store, but will not appear on other stores on PC for at least a year—that includes Steam.
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Linux gaming is on a life-support system called Steam
In September 2013, Valve founder Gabe Newell gave a rare, 20-minute presentation at LinuxCon. He called Linux "the future of gaming," predicting that as the industry became more user-driven and connected across both distances and devices, an open-source foundation would be the only way to keep pace with coming innovations. With the standard, proprietary operating systems powering Windows, Mac and consoles, Newell argued, all control over content, pricing and change rested in the hands of billion-dollar corporations. Linux offered a chance for all players and developers to shape the marketplace.
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Steam Achievements Unknowingly Reveals More Mortal Kombat 11 Characters
We only have a month plus to the official release of the Mortal Kombat 11, the game is said to launch on the 23rd of April, 2019 and it will be available for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While we take a sit back and wait for the MK11 to arrive, a batch of of hidden trophies for the game has recently appeared on Steam Database, apparently teasing the comeback of MKX's E-tron Black.
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