The Custom Game Pass is an in-game purchasable item that grants you additional content and features in select Dota 2 custom games. If you want the long version head over here, but in short its a

After the paid Skyrim mods fiasco I didn't expect Valve would be back so soon with a new implementation, nor that it would be a genuinely good one.

Valve's latest answer to the age old problem of how to support custom game developers is the Custom Game Pass, an in-game purchasable item

If you're like me and you live in a bundle-less world because you always seem to have exactly 50% of the games thus rendering any discount you might get completely pointless, then I have some good news for you.

In a recent message sent to developers Valve has announced that the option

Valve might not be the best at communication but when it comes to fostering a community around their games they are absolutely unmatched.

And with the recent announcement that CS:GO Major Championships, starting with MLG Columbus 2016, will have a prize pool of $1,000,000 Valve has

If the recent announcement of the $799 HTC Vita price tag got you thinking about what sort of monstrosity you would need to even run VR games Valve has you covered with their fancy new VR compatibility test.

The

Even though Bitcoin might be outside of the public eye its popularity and applications have been steadily growing for many years now. So to see Valve potentially getting behind it is not a surprising occurrence.

This rumor comes from a ...

In a move that made a lot of people very angry Valve has decided to ban CS:GO community servers that were found to be providing custom skins (such as guns and knives) or emblems/rank tags.

This decision wasn't aimed at servers running various texture replacement mods (such as the

In yet another case of Steamdb being amazing they've managed to catch an erroneously posted Valve message that was supposed to be a

If you have no idea what issue I'm talking about head over here for the detailed version but long story short for about an hour on Christmas people that logged on to Steam would essentially log in to

Its been a while since I've lasted played Team Fortress 2. When I left it off it was becoming a game completely focused around cosmetics and increasingly ridiculous weapons that served no practical purpose. But, looking through the patch notes now it seems that Valve have been busy and the game

Thank goodness. I feel like I've talked about this topic to death but ever since the CS:GO Winter Update the game's balance took a

If you've been browsing any Dota 2 related forum for the past few weeks you would see a community driven in to an utter frenzy, like a pack of piranhas, but instead of flesh they were hungry for the much anticipated 6.86 patch.

And now that ...

Christmas truly is a time of miracles because Valve have actually come out and spoken in-depth about an important topic that's been circulating the Steam forums recently, that of account security and trading. To say Valve has little community interaction would be one hell of an understatement

After being announced what feels like forever ago the Steam hardware has finally arrived, although in limited fashion. So far it is only available in the US, Canada and Europe with the rest following shortly.

If you are simply looking for specifics head over to the ...

In a recent interview for Kotaku Eric Johnson, one of valve's business development authorities, talked about the bad state of steam's customer support service and why some tickets have