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Valve has just upgraded Steam Achievements, and you can try it out now
Valve’s new Steam Achievement Sets are designed to support games that grow and evolve over time, and it’s available to test in beta now.
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New Deadlock hero Violet is a map-manipulating menace with powerful movement tech
Valve shows its creativity once again with new Deadlock hero Violet, a painter capable of altering the battlefield with quick brush strokes.
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Grab ten Steam games including Blue Prince, Peak, and Vampire Crawlers for just $25
A new charity bundle gives you ten Steam games for a low price, with no filler and the ability to support a good cause along the way.
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Steam Next Fest has been dominated by AI. A new browser extension helps you cut through the slop
A new browser extension, aptly named Slop-Inator, flags any AI usage in Steam games, allowing you to cut GenAI out of your library.
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I've got egg on my face because Steam's Personal Calendar feature has apparently been a test this whole time and is only now actually a fully fledged component
I'll be honest folks: I didn't know that Steam's Personal Calendar feature was still technically in testing. I've been using it here and there to keep track of what's come out recently or what's coming out imminently, and have generally found it to be fairly reflective of the kinds of games I was interested in. It just worked! Yet lo and behold, a post from Valve went out yesterday announcing that the feature has launched out of Steam Labs "and is considered a full feature of the Steam Store." Read more
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Valve dev mentions Half-Life 3’s rumored codename on stage and fans are freaking out
Valve composer Mike Morasky said HLX, the rumored Half-Life 3 codename, in a public GameSoundCon Q&A.
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Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud
There's no mistaking it this time—he said it.
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The CS2 bomb doesn’t kill the way it used to
Blow up the bomb, everyone nearby dies. That’s been the deal since forever. Season 5 pokes a hole in it, and the fallout for how rounds end is sneakier than the patch notes suggest. Valve laid it out in a Steam post. The bomb no longer just cooks everything in a blast radius. Now the explosion rolls out from the site as a wave, travelling through the map. Cover finally matters after the plant Sit
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Five months of decline: Counter-Strike 2 keeps bleeding players
Counter-Strike 2 can’t seem to stop the outflow. According to fresh Steamcharts data, the game’s average concurrent player count has slipped for the fifth month running – the kind of prolonged slide Valve’s shooter last endured back in 2021. The stats were flagged by the account NartOutHere. 📉 For the past 5 months, CS2’s average player count has gone down every single monthCould this be related
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Still mad at Valve for Steam's AI disclosures, Epic Games boss criticizes "forcing developers"
"Abhorrent," rules Tim Sweeney
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The best thing Valve has added to Steam in years just graduated to "full feature"
Personal Calendars are finally live for real
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Steam's new Personal Calendar aims to solve game discovery without trapping you in a bubble
Trying to find games you’ll love on Steam can be daunting nowadays, so the new Personal Calendar is Valve’s answer, and won’t sell slots.
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Half-Life 3 speculation reignited by Valve dev mentioning three sweet little rumored codenamey letters amid technical chat about video game noises
Wake up. There's Half-Life 3 chatter occurring again. This time because, about an hour into a panel about sounds in video games, a Valve composer has uttered three eyebrow-raising letters. HLX. In an industry rife with acronyms, what's so special about this one? Well, it's a rumoured codename for the next entry in the aforementioned series about a man with a crowbar, for one. Read more
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Half-Life 3 is back in the news again as Valve developer accidentally sort-of references it in public, reigniting hope once more
It's been 19 years since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and yet the ceaseless clamour for a Valve game with a number '3' in its title continues. And following a swell of reports suggesting Half-Life 3 isn't just real, its development is well underway, a Valve developer has gone and sent the internet a-chatter all over again by publicly, albeit accidentally, referencing its codename during a livestream. Read more