Category: Valve

Valve have now officially released their overhaul of the Steam Chat feature to everyone as of last night.

This is a little exciting! It seems Valve are pushing ahead with some major updates to SteamOS with SteamOS 3.0.

Valve are continuing to push ahead with improvements to their Steam Input system, with it now supporting PS3 Controllers and many more.

Valve are continuing their Steam store updated, with the latest section to get a makeover being the Upcoming games section.

After waiting for a bit of extra time, Linux gamers can now enjoy the brand new Panorama UI update in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

The latest Steam Beta Client is out with Valve's revamped chat interface, along with some minor UI work as well.

Valve are continuing to roll out more features to help gamers find the titles they want to play, with the latest being Developer And Publisher Homepages which is expected to roll out on June 18th.

In an interesting blog post written up today, Valve's Erik Johnson has said how Valve will be relaxing their rules for what will be acceptable on Steam.

News doing the rounds at the moment, is that Valve seem to be tightening their rules concerning games with sexual content.

Valve seem to be pretty serious about increasing the security of their services, as it turns out they've been paying hackers for finding flaws. They also updated their company website recently, which mentions some secret games.

In preparation for the upcoming Steam Link app release, the Steam Beta Client has been updated with support for the Steam Controller using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mode.

Fancy playing your Linux gaming library from Steam on your phone? You're going to be able to later this month. On top of that, they're also going to let you stream your video purchases too.

Well this sure is interesting, Valve have announced some flaws in their Steam Hardware Survey that caused cyber cafes to over-count users.

It seems Valve are quite serious about getting back into making games, as Campo Santo the developer of Firewatch has joined them.

While I was asleep Valve announced some new profile privacy settings which are good for users, but it seems Steam Spy is likely going to shut down as a result.

It seems my recent article about Valve removing the link to the Steam Machines page caused quite a stir, so Valve have now confirmed their continued support for Linux gaming.

In a move that's not exactly surprising, Valve has quietly removed the Steam Machine section from Steam.

In a rather helpful move for developers, Valve is about to open source 'GameNetworkingSockets' and it won't require Steam.

For those of you addicted to Dota 2, you might want to take a look at the new Dota Plus monthly subscription Valve just unveiled to replace the Battle Pass system.

Valve had a closed-doors presentation on their new card game Artifact that will release this year, here's a few details.