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Valve Will Examine Copying of Steam Data by Epic Games Store
Valve has answered the controversies related to Epic Games Store client, which allegedly downloads sensitive user data related to their Steam account.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 17, 2019
Steam Promises to Eliminate Review Bombing
Valve announced that it will battle the occasional waves of negative reviews on Steam, so-called review bombing, issued for reasons completely unrelated to the game and aimed only at lowering the score of a specific title.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 16, 2019
Valve Announces Steam Link Anywhere and a Web API for Developers
Valve decided to show how busy they are even before the GDC has started and revealed the Steam Link Anywhere service, enabling us to use Steam Link through the Internet, and shared the technology for free with all developers who might be interested.
hardware & software
Conrad Hazi
March 15, 2019
Artifact - Valve Lays Off Two Lead Designers
Artifact's situation is getting progressively worse. As it turns out, the title has lost its two lead gameplay designers, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias.
video games
Adrian Werner
March 9, 2019
CS GO Patch Improves Optimization
Valve released new updates for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. One of them added an option to improve performance by reducing CPU memory usage.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
March 8, 2019
Valve Fires Employees
Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.
video games
Bart Swiatek
March 8, 2019
Rape Day Removed from Steam
Valve took a lot of flak recently for allowing Rape Day, a controversial title that deals with violence against women, to be released on Steam. The company has decided to intervene and removed the game from Steam's offer.
video games
Agnes Adamus
March 7, 2019
Here's How Devs Manipulate Release Dates on Steam
Mike Rose, the founder of No More Robots, has noticed a peculiar unfair practice adopted by some developers on Steam. Here's the trick - a fake release date is being set, and changed, to keep the title on top of the recommended upcoming titles list.
video games
Milosz Szubert
March 6, 2019
Artifact Players are Abandoning Ship
Artifact The Dota Card Game from Valve keeps losing players. In the last month, the game had as little as 700 simultaneous players and the number is constantly dwindling.
video games
Adrian Werner
March 4, 2019
Valve Acquires Dota Auto Chess Devs?
New rumors about a possible acquisition of Dota Auto Chess developers by Valve are surfacing on the web. According to VPESports, the company is considering to change the popular mod into a commercial one and take over its developer.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
February 21, 2019
Dota 2 Popularity Reaches Two-Year Peak
The number of Dota 2 community members have returned to its 2017 levels. What contributed to the current state of affairs it the Dota Auto Chess mod, developed by the Chinese team at Drodo Studio.
video games
February 11, 2019
Over Million Bans On Steam - Valve Slashes CSGO Cheaters
Valve continues to fight cheaters. In January, more than one million cheaters were banned with the VAC protection system. Most of them are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
February 6, 2019
Valve Announces the Steam Awards 2018 Gala
Valve is preparing a special announcement gala for the results of Steam Awards 2018.
video games
Milosz Szubert
February 5, 2019
Steam has 90 million monthly and 47 million daily users
Valve has released a report summarizing the past year on Steam. We learned, among other things, that the number of monthly users of the service reaches 90 million people.
video games
Adrian Werner
January 15, 2019
8 changes coming to Steam in 2019
The annual Steam summary has brought a list of changes to be implemented to the service in 2019.
video games
Milosz Szubert
January 15, 2019
CEO of Epic Games richer than Gabe Newell
According to Bloomberg, Tim Sweeney, the owner of Epic Games, is on the list of the 500 richest people in the world. What's more, he was ahead of the Valve's boss Gabe Newell.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
January 10, 2019
Valve gives record number of bans in December, mainly in CS:GO
Valve had a very busy December. Last month, more than 609 thousand bans were given, which is a record in the history of the VAC system.
video games
Adrian Werner
January 8, 2019
Co-writer of Half-Life 2 episodes returns to Valve and other news from the world
In this set of world news we inform you about the amicable settlement of the Westworld dispute between Bethesda and Behavior Interactive with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the return of the Half-Life 2 episodes scriptwriter to Valve Software.
video games
Milosz Szubert
January 7, 2019
XP and Vista no longer supported by Steam
Valve has decided to end any remaining support for Windows XP and Vista from January 1, 2019.
hardware & software
Agnes Adamus
January 2, 2019
Steam's most popular and profitable in 2018
Valve have presented lists of games that were the most popular among the users of Steam.
video games
Bart Swiatek
December 28, 2018