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Valve details more changes for Artifact 2.0, with expanded single-player content coming

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Valve continue to revamp Artifact behind the scenes for the upcoming re-release with Artifact 2.0 and they've discussed more changes that will come for their Dota themed card game.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has now beaten the all-time player record of Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

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Four years ago, Valve's free to play MOBA Dota 2 hit 1,295,114 concurrent players and today it's finally been beaten by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2020

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After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.

Valve detail more changes planned for Artifact 2.0

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2020

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Artifact is coming back, and this time Valve are being more chatty about their plans for it after it died a quick death originally. So far, their plan sounds quite good.

Valve add a Prestige option to the Dota Underlords 'City Crawl' mode to increase the challenge

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2020

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Dota Underlords, the curious blend of Dota lore and characters in an auto-battling strategy game has a brand new update out as it continues to see a healthy amount of players since release.

A newly public patent (filed in 2018) from Valve shows a Steam Controller with attachments

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2020

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We have no idea if Valve will ever do a proper second revision of the Steam Controller, we've seen hints before and now we have more info on what it could have been.

Steam and CS:GO just keep knocking down records as Steam hits over 24 million concurrent users

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2020

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There seems to be no stopping Steam right now, Valve are on a roll with repeatedly breaking their own user records.

Valve's revamp of Artifact with a 2.0 Beta will start going out to players sometime soon

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2020

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Valve recently announced to expect news for their card game Artifact sometime soon, and now they're saying an Artifact 2.0 Beta will start trickling out to players.

Valve makes auto-update adjustments to help with managing Steam's bandwidth use

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2020

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After multiple streaming services announced they were dropping their quality for a while, to help internet providers cope with so many more at home, Valve have started speaking about their own ways to manage bandwidth too.

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Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once again smash user records

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2020

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What seems to be a regular occurrence now during the COVID-19 outbreak, both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have yet again broken their own concurrent user records.

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Seems Valve do intend to go back to SteamOS at some point

By Liam Dawe, 25 Mar 2020

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SteamOS, the Valve-made Linux distribution that was originally for the failed Steam Machine initiative has gradually vanished into the sidelines but it seems it won't be forever.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2020

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Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.

Valve's card game Artifact is still being worked on for a big revamp

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2020

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Artifact, the failed card game from Valve, released in November 2018 and within the space of only two months had lost almost the entire player-base. Valve don't appear to have given up, quite the opposite.

New Steam Client Beta up with Linux updates, Valve prepping Proton 5.0-5

By Liam Dawe, 20 Mar 2020

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Valve have released a new Steam Client Beta which pulls in a couple of Linux improvements and they appear to be preparing a new Proton version with a tweak for Half-Life: Alyx.

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release

By Liam Dawe, 18 Mar 2020

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Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hits over 1 million online, Steam breaks user records again

By Liam Dawe, 14 Mar 2020

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve's free to play competitive shooter which also features the newer Danger Zone mode which is like a Battle Royale has today hit over a million players online. Additionally, Steam itself broke another record.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-4 is up fixing Origin, GTA V, Denuvo and more

By Liam Dawe, 11 Mar 2020

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Another new release of Steam Play's Proton software is up and while small in number of changes, it's quite a mighty update overall.

Valve make some needed improvements to the Steam Search

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2020

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After testing out a bunch of changes to the way Steam Search works in a Steam Labs experiment, Valve has now rolled it out for everyone with new features.