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Valve developer shows off Gamescope for Linux at XDC 2020
As we highlighted in our initial XDC 2020 article, one of the presentations this year was from a Valve developer who is working on Gamescope.
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Left 4 Dead 2 - The Last Stand releases September 24
Left 4 Dead 2, the nearly 11 year old shooter from Valve now has a set release date of September 24 for the huge update made along with a community of modders.
Valve cancels Counter-Strike: Global Offensive November Major, dealing with coach cheats
As the COVID19 pandemic and quarantines around the world continue, another event has been cancelled. Plus, there's been some quite wide-spread cheating from professional CS:GO team coaches.
The upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 free update 'The Last Stand' has a new teaser
With the surprise announcement in August that Left 4 Dead 2 would be getting a brand new update many years after release, we now know a little more.
Valve gives update on the Dota 2 competitive scene, TI 10 for August 2021
As the Dota 2 Battle Pass for The International 10 tournament continues shattering records, Valve have given an update on when they expect the competitive scene to get going again.
Valve's card game Artifact 2.0 takes another step closer to launch
Valve's failed deck-building card game Artifact continues undergoing major changes in the closed beta for Artifact 2.0, with another big step taken towards releasing for everyone.
The Steam client had a new stable release, some great Linux improvements
Valve continue progress on ensuring the Steam client is both stable and overflowing with features, with a stable update rolling out now.
Dota Underlords gets a big reset, new heroes and a mode without Underlords
Valve's free to play auto-battle strategy game Dota Underlords has received its first major post-release update.
The International 10 for Dota 2 breaks the esports prize pool record again
Surprised? I doubt anyone will be. Valve have managed to gather what's now the single biggest prize pool for an event - ever. It's now absolutely massive.
Valve announce new Chat Filtering and a big change to Steam Wallet Codes
Valve continue to roll out new experiments with their Steam Labs, one of which is now live which you can try out with special Chat Filtering.
Left 4 Dead 2 is confirmed to be getting an update in collab with the community
The radio silence is over it appears. After Valve came back swinging with Half-Life: Alyx, it appears they're looking to spruce up an older title with Left 4 Dead 2.
Linux Format has a Collabora dev talk about Steam's Linux container 'Pressure Vessel'
Linux Format issue 267 went out today (not affiliated) and in it there's a rather wonderful interview with Simon McVittie, a software engineer at Collabora who also works on things for Valve to do with Steam on Linux.
Team Fortress 2 has a new update out with a Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case
Valve have realised again that Team Fortress 2 is actually still online and have done a fresh update, although only minor it does add in a new Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case.
The Steam Play Proton compatibility layer turns two years old
Two years ago to the date, Valve Software made an announcement that would change Linux gaming on Steam: that announcement was the new version of Steam Play with the Proton compatibility layer.
Dota 2 - The International 10 close to a record for the Battle Pass, new Collector’s Cache
The International 10, Dota 2's upcoming major tournament is getting close to breaking another record for the prize pool. Plus there's a new Collector's Cache up.
Dota Underlords is getting a hero rotation soon and a rank reset
Valve have remembered that Dota Underlords exists and needs some attention, with an announcement that it's going to see a hero rotation soon.
Prepare your hard drive as another Steam Game Festival is coming in October
After a massive success with the most recent Steam Game Festival back in June, it's going to return for another round later this year in October.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets fancy new skins, networking improvements
Valve continue to tweak their classic free to play shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The latest update improves various parts of the game and there's some fancy new weapon skins.
CS:GO on Linux is actually not launching Trusted Mode by default - quick fix
Looks like Valve did a bit of a woopsie. With the recent updates to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive they implemented a new anti-cheat tool with Trusted Mode but it appears at some point they forgot to enable it.
Changing your country on Steam has been made harder to battle VPNs
Something that has been happening for years now, is that people have been switching around their country on Steam and using VPNs to get cheaper prices - Valve looks to have put a stop to it.
- Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is getting delisted starting November 15
- The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton
- Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way
- Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 4 is out now with lots of bug fixes and a major controller input change
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