In an announcement that I must admit comes as a massive surprise, Valve has now revealed that they will be providing free forum moderation for all games on Steam. Yes, you read that right. Valve, the company that is so hands-off that they barely even produce the items they sell in Dota 2, has

[Update]: Steam has now released the list of best selling and most popular games of 2019, and I'm very happy to say that things are looking even better than in 2018!

The massive

Despite being the biggest PC storefront, Steam has a bit of a strange relationship with adult, ultra-violent and potentially controversial games. Some are allowed in without any changes, others are censored but have easily-accessible patches that remove said censoring, and a whole bunch more

In a move that I don't think many people could've predicted, Valve has now acquired Campo Santo, the studio behind Firewatch and the upcoming In the Valley of the Gods. While no specifics have been given just yet, I can only assume Valve is going to use them to create story-focused games that

In a bit of a surprising update, Valve has now greatly increased the amount of control you have over the privacy of your Steam account. So while you could always go with the nuclear option and set yourself as fully private, you can now also individually limit and customize what other people can

[Update #2]: Team Fortress 2's June 2022 update seems to have solved the bot and cheater epidemic!

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Instead of releasing another Battle Pass as was expected, Valve has now unveiled a brand new subscription service - Dota Plus. For $4 the Dota Plus service offers the ability to collect cosmetics by either leveling your heroes, completing challenges, or purchasing them with Shards you earn

After months and months of absolute silence, Valve has now finally spoken about their much-anticipated card game Artifact. According to the brief announcement Artifact has been designed from the ground up by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic the Gathering, and as such is expected to be

If you ever needed evidence that Valve is stuck in some sort of alternate dimension where time behaves differently than our own, look no further than Dota 2's latest update. Despite currently freezing in the tail end of winter Valve has decided to do a little bit of spring cleaning in Dota 2 by

While Dota 2's old ranked matchmaking system did its job quite admirably, there was always the problem of what to do with returning players. If someone was gone for well over year their skill level and game knowledge were bound to deteriorate, especially when you consider how massive Dota 2's

After only being revealed two days ago, Dota 2's Dueling Fates update has now made its way to the live servers. It brings with it two brand new heroes to play around with, a ridiculous amount of balance changes spread across all aspects of the game, a couple of new items as well as the removal

After an extremely lengthy period of no content or sizable balance changes, Valve has now finally revealed Dota 2's upcoming Dueling Fates update. It brings with it two brand new heroes to mess around with, an absolute ton of balance changes to items, heroes and talents, a variety of new items

In an announcement that I must admit comes as a massive surprise, Valve has now finally introduced digital gift cards to Steam. You would expect that the biggest and most successful digital marketplace

[Update #2]: Team Fortress 2's June 2022 update seems to have solved the bot and cheater epidemic!

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After what feels like an eternity of waiting Valve has finally announced that the Pyro Update will be coming to Team Fortress 2 in the near future! There will be a lot of new maps to explore, cosmetics to collect, Contracts to solve, and naturally, Pyro changes to constantly argue

Back in February Valve removed Dust2 from active duty and placed it into the reserves group. In other words, they pulled it from tournament play in order to rework and rebalance the whole map. And now, nearly a year later, the remastered version of Dust2 has finally made its way to the test

Back in February Valve removed Dust2 from active duty and placed it into the reserved group. While this little change didn't affect public play as Dust2 still remains the most popular map around, it did mean that official tournaments and leagues could not use it. As you might expect, this was

One of the biggest problems Steam's User Review system had from the very beginning was its vulnerability to review bombing. Since its entirely automated there is simply no way for the system to tell if the vast amounts of negative reviews are due to a genuine flaw with the game, or because one

Earlier this week Valve announced a Dota 2 themed card game hybrid - Artifact. As you might imagine by the number of dislikes on the teaser trailer, the announcement didn't exactly go over well with the Dota 2

After securing themselves a place among the extremely popular FPS and MOBA genres, it was only a matter of time before Valve set their sights onto the next big thing - card games! As such, it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise to hear that during this year's The International Valve