While Valve's willingness to experiment with Dota Underlords is certainly commendable, sometimes all that tinkering results in quite a few problems. Most notably, the last few major patches have greatly increased the average match length, to the point that they sometimes even exceeded actual

While Dota 2 updates may be slow, there is no denying that they pack one hell of a punch once they finally do arrive. There is no better example of this than the most recent "The Outlanders" update as it has not only introduced two new heroes and what seems like a million balance changes, but

[Update]: Half-Life: Alyx has now been officially unveiled by Valve!

While VR devices are an impressive piece of technology, they currently lack games you can really sink your

While Dota Underlords has continued to receive patches over the past few months, they weren't exactly massive in size, or all that exciting to mess around with. The reason for this, as Valve has announced recently, is because all of their efforts have been going towards the release version and

[Update]: Dota 2 has now added Snapfire and Void Spirit, alongside a staggering amount of balance changes and tweaks.

Dota 2's absolutely gigantic The

[Update]: Valve has now released a preview for Dota Underlords's "Big Update" which will accompany the full release.

Unlike most other Valve games, Dota Underlords has enjoyed an

Unlike the incredibly slow development speed on Artifact, work on Dota Underlords has been proceeding at a genuinely impressive pace so far. Every few weeks Valve has come out with a major

[Update]: Valve has unleashed yet another update, this time around with even more significant balance changes!

If you've been playing Dota Underlords for a while

In order to keep the experience fresh, as well as further polish up the UI, Valve has now released a rather massive Dota Underlords update. You can expect to see a whole assortment of balance changes, nerfs to loss streaks in order to curb boring playstyles, a variety of UI improvements, a

[Update]: The balance patch has now arrived, and as expected, it's a pretty exciting one!

While Dota Underlords is really fun to mess around with, there are still quite

Unlike most things Valve works on, the development on Dota Underlords has been surprisingly quick. We went from a small leak to a full announcement in about a week, after which it only took a month for the full game to ...

[Update]: Dota Underlords has entered Open Beta and can now be played on both PC and mobile for free.

In a stark departure from their usually glacial speed,

[Update #2]: A closed beta version of Dota Underlords has now been released for Dota 2 - The International 2019 Battle Pass owners.

[Update]: It would appear

While there are plenty of games that use the Battle Pass system, there are very few that have managed to make them quite as impressive as Dota 2's The International Battle Pass. As such, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that the latest Battle Pass has once again managed to cram

It is no secret that Valve has been investing a lot of time and resources into VR over the past few years, but even though the rumors surrounding their projects are far too numerous to recount, we received very little in terms of official information. With that in mind, I am quite glad to say

As of right now, Valve's card game Artifact only has about 200 concurrent players, while the daily peak is hovering around a rather measly 800. To say that Artifact failed to meet Valve's, or even the community's expectations, would be quite an understatement. However, while the statistics may

The Steam Awards are essentially a community-driven effort to celebrate the best games and developers out there. With absolutely no rewards and the entire thing being primarily a popularity contest, the Steam Awards aren't exactly a serious ceremony, but so far I didn't really have much of a

Valve's card game Artifact is in a bit of an unfortunate spot right now. Despite launching with some pretty respectable numbers, it has rather quickly deteriorated to the point where it averages less than two thousand players at any one moment. Whether this is due to the in-game economy,

While Artifact is still in dire need of major updates, you might be glad to hear that Valve has now finally increased the speed of matches. The tournament timer now grants only 30 seconds per round (down from 1 minute) and starts at 2:30 (down from 3:00), while the standard timer now only

Back in July Valve shared the list of bestselling games from 2018, and much to my surprise, a good chunk of them were either indie games or games from relatively small studios. Since that