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Images showing what is reportedly Valve‘s next game are circulating on social media.

Helldivers 2 is now unavailable for purchase in over 150 regions, and Steam is issuing refunds for the game, regardless of playtime.

Louis Gossett Jr., who made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and had a prolific, successful career across film, television and stage - as well as voicing the friendly Vortigaunt aliens in Half-Life 2 and its follow-up Episode One - has died.

Microsoft’s head of gaming has discussed what he’d like to see in a potential Xbox handheld.

Valve has announced Steam Families, a new way to share games, monitor children’s activities and streamline purchases on Steam.

Ahead of the Epic Game Store’s launch in 2018, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney called Valve executives “assholes” in a heated email concerning platform fees.

Valve has launched Steam‘s Spring Sale.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was the most played game on Steam Deck over the past 12 months, according to Valve.

Two years after Steam Deck launched, over 14,000 games are now compatible with Valve’s handheld.

Capcom may be preparing to release a Dragon’s Dogma 2 demo.

Pocketpair has published Palworld’s early access roadmap, which is viewable below.

Palworld now has the second highest concurrent player count in Steam‘s history.

Palworld has hit the fifth highest peak concurrent number of Steam players for any game in the service’s history.

The developer of the recently struck down Portal N64 port has shed some more light on what happened and told fans to not be mad at Valve.

A fan-made remake of Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine has been cancelled after the ambitious project, three years in the making, ran into a double-whammy of recent development issues and a legal takedown from Valve.

A recently released fan mod for Portal 2 adds 40 new test chambers for players to wrap their heads around, including new mechanics and a brand new story.

Portal: Revolution is an eight hour fan-made Portal 2 prequel, with 40 new test chambers, voiced characters and new puzzle mechanics. It looks seriously impressive and it's out now, with a trailer below.

Steam users who opt-in to Client Betas can now hide their games from people on their friends list. The new update also includes adding new features to the Steam Shopping Cart. This includes private shopping, inline gifting, and cart sharing between devices.

Valve's making a list, and checking it twice; it's gonna find out who's naughty and nice. And if you happen to be on its Naughty List — which pretty much applies to any one of the «thousands» of DOTA 2 players now identified as being dirty, filthy cheaters — you can expect a cheerfully gift-wrapped lump of toxic coal and a permanent ban in your stocking as your festive treat for 2023.

Valve have asked Steam Deck owners to stop inhaling the fumes from the Steam Deck’s air vent, after the portable PC’s uniquely moreish smell became an obsession among the community.

Half-Life recently received a big update to celebrate its 25th birthday, but a significant bug remained. In a famous scripted sequence during which a long, green tentacle busts through a window and drags away a scientist, the scientist and the tentacle would be mis-aligned, making it look like the scientist floated out of the window of his own volition.

Half-Life turns 25 years old tomorrow, with new maps and updates to celebrate. Valve also reunited the game's original developers for an hour-long making-of documentary in which its original programmers and artists reminisce about creating the first-person classic at a time when many of them had never shipped a game before.

Half-Life came out 25 years ago tomorrow and to celebrate Valve ahve released an anniversary update. It includes four new multiplayer maps, updated graphics settings, and fully verified Steam Deck support. It also includes some new multiplayer models and skins, including proto-Barney and the original design for Gordon Freeman, pictured above.

Seminal first-person shooter Half-Life turns 25 this weekend, and developer Valve is celebrating the occasion with a special anniversary update adding new and restored content, alongside a bunch of other things. Oh, and it's made the game free to claim and keep starting today.

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Devolver have released a Let's Play for robo-philosophical puzzler The Talos Principle 2 in which the Let's Player is GLaDOS, nemesis of Valve's Portal games, with which The Talos Principle has a few things in common. They've brought on original Portal voice actress Ellen McClain to narrate the footage, and the result is genuinely quite funny. As you'd expect, GlaDOS isn't that impressed by Croteam's work. I score this a 7/10 on the Hoot And/Or Holler scale.

Even though CS2 has just released, fans have been comparing it constantly to CS:GO, and some are mourning the differences. The intense FPS game retains much of the charm its predecessor had and improves upon a lot of the problems CS:GO was infamous for, such as graphics issues and other technical problems. However, while it is a fair argument to say the game has only just gotten out of beta, there is much to be desired, especially when evaluating its performance and bug issues. Naturally, no game is perfect on launch, but Valve’s player-base has high expectations some think haven’t been met. In this article, we will cover features that are missing from the game, as well as some prevailing issues and glitches.

Xbox parent company spent a lot of money on Bethesda and Activision Blizzard, but its ambitions don’t end there. Many gamers now know Xbox head Phil Spencer’s desire to acquire gaming giant Nintendo. However, the Microsoft executive had also discussed the possibility of acquiring Steam operator Valve.

Update: As it turns out, the companion app is outdated and has since been removed from the Google Play Store. So no Half-Life-related news at Gamescom (yet).