Valve Brings Battle Royale to Newly Free-to-Play CS:GO By Nathaniel Mott Valve updated its esports wunderkind with a new battle royale mode, Danger Zone, and simultaneously made the game free-to-play.
Valve Breaks the Hardware Chain by Discontinuing Steam Link By Nathaniel Mott Valve announced that sold it's all its Steam Link stock in Europe, is close to selling out in the U.S. and doesn't plan to manufacture any more units.
SteamVR Tries Bringing VR to Weaker GPUs With Motion Smoothing Feature By Nathaniel Mott Valve announced beta testing of a new feature in SteamVR called Motion Smoothing that "enables more players on more PCs to play high-fidelity VR games and experiences."
What Is Trolling? Steam Cracks Down on Troll Games By Nathaniel Mott Valve updated Steam to make it easier to find or block specific content. It also defined what a troll game is and why it tries to keep them off Steam.
Twitch Gets a New Rival in Valve's Steam.TV By Nathaniel Mott The annual "Dota 2" tournament brought with it significant updates to Steam Broadcasting in the form of the new Steam.TV platform.
Valve Bans Nearly 100,000 Cheaters Over Two Days By Nathaniel Mott Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) bans were handed out to nearly 100,000 cheaters on July 18 and 19.
Valve Updates Steam Chat With New Friends List, Group Tools By Nathaniel Mott Valve released an open beta version of its new Steam Chat service that boasts a more feature-rich friends list, improved group messaging tools, and other updates.
Apple Rejects Steam Link App For iOS Devices By Nathaniel Mott Valve said that its Steam Link app, which allows PC gamers to stream content to their mobile products, won't come to iOS devices
Valve Responds To Apparent Discontinuation Of Steam Machines By Leon Chan Valve stated that Steam Machines have not been officially discontinued and that it is still committed to developing SteamOS and Linux as a gaming platform.
Valve Licensing Its VR IP To Other Hardware Makers By Seth Colaner In a huge move, Valve announced that it’s licensing more of its VR technology to other hardware makers who can in turn build third-party VR devices.
Valve Responds To Steam 'Review Bombs' With New Histograms By Nathaniel Mott This should make it easier to tell when people warmed up to or went cold on a game—or when they're bombarding it with negative reviews to punish their developers.
Valve's New 'Dota 2' Card Game, 'Artifact,' Will Debut In 2018 By Rexly Peñaflorida Valve is looking to compete against other popular card game titles such as "Hearthstone," "Gwent," and "The Elder Scrolls: Legends."
Steam Now Has 67 Million Monthly Users By Nathaniel Mott In materials sent to Tom's Hardware, the company also said that its game platform has 33 million daily active users and peaks at 14 million concurrent users each day.
Die In 'TF2,' Get Hacked IRL? Valve Patches Source SDK Vulnerability By Nathaniel Mott A vulnerability in Valve's Source SDK, however, could have allowed someone to compromise your system by killing you in a game like "Team Fortress 2" or "Counter Strike: Global Offensive."
SteamVR Tracking 2 Coming To Developers This Fall, Brings Larger Tracking Volumes, Vive Not Supported By Kevin Carbotte
Valve Announces $100 Steam Direct Publishing Fee, Changes For Curators By Nathaniel Mott That's on the low end of the range Valve threw out with its original announcement of Greenlight's replacement.
Valve’s Destinations To Become SteamVR Home, Beta Available Now By Kevin Carbotte Valve revealed big changes that are coming to SteamVR Home. Starting with the latest SteamVR beta release, Valve turned its Destinations app into the default SteamVR environment.