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Valve is selling a real-life CS:GO Five Year Veteran Coin
Are you a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive veteran? Then the Valve Store on WeLoveFine has a real-life version of the Five Year Veteran Coin for you to pre-order, and it is going for $45 ( R650) and will begin shipping mid-June. The offer isn't open to everyone, if you haven't earned the coin in the game, then you're not eligible to pre-order this physical version. In order to preorder the coin, you have to log in with your Steam account, where valve will check if your inventory has the coin.
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This sounds like one hell of a Steam sale
Everything* is 20 percent off on Steam *—The game called "Everything." Other games sold separately.
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Steam Summer Sale 2017 Dates Revealed
The Steam Summer Sale 2017 dates have been revealed. June 22nd to July 5th. Mark your calendars and maybe hide your wallets as Steam gets ready to slash it’s prices once again. The leak comes from a Valve email to developers as per the usual leak. The date is only one and a half months away. Many believe the sales have been a bit lackluster in recent years due to the removal of the Flash Sales. However, they had to be removed thanks to the new refund system.
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Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming
The illusion behind the "Good Guy Valve" reputation.
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Valve confirm they've hired the Kerbal Space Program team
The Kerbal Space Program community has been abuzz today with the news that a portion of the KSP team at Squad have been hired by Valve. It all began when an ex valve artist spoke about the hires during a recent podcast. Further reading: The best VR games.
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Steam just keeps growing according to a presentation Valve did recently, UI update is coming
I knew Steam would be growing, but I didn't think it would be growing that quickly. By the looks of it, since 2015 they're about 2.4 million away from doubling the concurrent users record. It might sound like a lot, but they've already gone from 8.4 to 14 million.
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More than 40,000 Steam users were banned the day after the Summer Sale
The end of the 2017 Steam Summer Sale also marked the end of the line for more than 40,000 Steam users who were hit with the Valve Anti-Cheat banhammer. The big swing took place on July 6—the Summer Sale ended on July 5—and is far and away the biggest single-day ban wave in the history of Steam, nearly tripling the previous mark of 15,000 bans that was set on October 12, 2016.
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Steam Gains 1.5 Million New Members a Month, Now Bigger than Xbox and PlayStation Combined
PC gaming is dead! Oh wait, let me put that tired cliche back in the bin where it belongs. PC gaming is more alive than ever, with Valve revealing there are 33 million players active every day on Steam, and 67 million every month. In fact, new players are coming to Steam at a rate of 1.5 million each and every month.
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Steam has launched over 1,000 games in 7 weeks following Direct introduction
In June, Valve shuttered its community vote-driven Greenlight initiative after five years of service. In its place came Direct—a system that allows developers the chance to get their games on Steam for a $100 fee. At the time, Valve said this: "With this transition to Steam Direct, we'll be keeping an eye on new submissions and making adjustments as necessary. We aren't quite sure whether there will be a lot more new submissions, just a bit more, or even fewer."
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Valve Just Announced A New Game, But Don't Get Your Hopes Up
No, it's not 'Half Life 3.' Valve just announced 'Artifact,' a new card game version of 'Dota 2.'
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The indie games are too damn cheap
An average indie title these days is priced $8.72 on Steam. During the last Summer Sale the price went down to the mind-boggling $4.63 and yet the average sales are at their lowest at 21,000 copies. Small indie titles usually have a smaller audience save for a few outliers. The problem with our approach is that people seem to normalize extremely successful breakout hits while assuming everything that didn’t sell north of a million copies is a complete failure.
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Dota 2 is getting review-bombed because people think it "killed” Half-Life 3
Dota 2 is getting review-bombed by angry Half-Life fans who believe Valve’s continued support of the MOBA comes at the expense of a third instalment of the beloved series. The Half-Life games are on our list of the best shooters on PC. Why? Well, yesterday we reported how Valve alumni Marc Laidlaw - a former Valve writer who worked on the Half-Life series before becoming the lead writer for Dota 2 - has written a "fanfic" (his words, not mine) blog that gives us an insight into what Episode 3 might have been.
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Dota 2 is getting negative Steam reviews because there's no Half-Life 3
Last week, former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw posted a synopsis of the Half-Life 2: Episode 3 story he had planned out before the developer distanced itself from its most famous series. Styled as gender-swapped fanfic, it was a fun glimpse into what could have been. But it also reminded some people that they were angry with Valve, and they promptly took to Steam to bomb the user reviews for Dota 2.
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The state of Steam: Read what PC devs really think
The following is a survey of more than 200 registered Steam developers, concerning their opinions about the platform in 2017 and what they would most like to see improved. It comes out to nearly 100 pages, including quotes and survey results about Steam reviews, the volume of games on Steam, and more. For a breakdown of the major issues—including why only 39 percent of the surveyed developers believe Valve currently earns its cut of sales on Steam—check out our article here.
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Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
Steam made an announcement saying "As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin."
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Why isn’t the Age of Empires remaster coming to Steam? Microsoft say it’s on Valve
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is out February 20, bringing back the classic RTS with 4K visuals, UI improvements, and changes to things like pathfinding to make the game more palatable in a modern context. But there’s been one major sticking point hampering potential excitement for the title: it’s exclusive to Microsoft’s unpopular Windows 10 Store. These are the best games on PC.
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Gabe Newell: 'Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again'
Valve was 'jealous of Nintendo,' now has the expertise to 'develop hardware and software simultaneously.' At a presentation for upcoming Dota 2-themed card game Artifact at Valve's offices in Bellevue, Washington today, Gabe Newell reiterated that Valve is getting back into developing new games beyond its current roster of multiplayer titles. After talking about Valve's focus on Steam and hardware during the past several years, which he described as...
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Gabe Newell: 'Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again'
At a presentation for upcoming Dota 2-themed card game Artifact at Valve's offices in Bellevue, Washington today, Gabe Newell reiterated that Valve is getting back into developing new games beyond its current roster of multiplayer titles. After talking about Valve's focus on Steam and hardware during the past several years, which he described as "an investment in the future", Newell said "Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us. So that's sort of good news. Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again."
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How Campo Santo’s Move to Valve Does, and Doesn’t, Affect In the Valley of Gods
Firewatch developer Campo Santo recently announced its entire team would be leaving life as an independent studio behind to join Valve. And while that move may seem surprising, it’s born from Campo having found itself in its own unexpected situation. “We made the dream game. We made the game that wasn't supposed to make all the money. We made a sad guy in the woods, psychological-slash-dramatic personal quest,” Campo Santo co-founder Sean Vanaman told IGN in a phone interview.
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Steam could soon require parental consent for players under 16
Steam users below the age of 16 could soon require parental permission in order to maintain full access to the platform. Changes to the JavaScript of the platform’s sign-up page were issued last night, with code referring to ‘parental consent dialog’ and ‘parental email’. The changes are thought to be as a result of changes mandated by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws, which apply to the storage of data by European Union companies, as well as companies whose customers reside in the EU.
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