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Steam hit another all-time high for concurrent users - as did Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2020

Does this seem familiar? You would be right. In the last week, both Steam and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit new records for users online and they've been broken yet again.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hit a new all-time high player-count

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2020

Even though it's been around since 2012, the popularity of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive continues as it today hit a new all-time high for players online.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2020

CodeWeavers and Valve today released the big one many have been waiting for! Proton 5.0 for Steam Play is now live.

Valve making steps to address toxic behaviour on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2020

One of my all-time favourite first-person shooters, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, is about to tell naughty players to sort their attitude out.

Steam hitting nearly 95 million 'monthly active' users and other Steam news

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2020

Valve are talking a lot more lately, actually telling us what's been going on and what some of their plans are. In their latest blog post, they had plenty to share.

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Valve announce Dota Underlords releasing on February 25 - new Underlord up today

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jan 2020

Today, Valve announced that Dota Underlords will be leaving Early Access and officially releasing on February 25.

Catch the True Sight: The International 2019 Grand Finals - the Dota 2 documentary tonight

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2020

Tonight, Valve will be releasing a documentary of the recent The International 2019 tournament, focused on the Grand Finals.

The original Half-Life games are now free to play until Half-Life: Alyx launches

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

Valve have made their original Half-Life titles all the way up to Half-Life 2: Episode Two free to play for a few months.

Steam reportedly coming to Chrome OS - Linux gaming across even more devices

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Android Police have an article up mentioning that Google is reportedly working on getting Steam working officially and supported on Chrome OS.

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.

Valve continue working behind the scenes for Linux gaming with 'Gamescope'

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Valve are definitely up to something. For a little while, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has been tweaking steamcompmgr, the SteamOS session compositing window manager.

Dota Underlords looks like it will leave Early Access in February, big update coming

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Valve have announced that Dota Underlords, their auto-battle strategy game will get the first proper Season by the end of February, which means it will leave Early Access.

Steam getting expanded support for Soundtracks with a Sale Event on January 20

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

Valve have announced that they're going to be giving Soundtracks their own special section on Steam instead of them being a generic DLC listing.

Portal could have had a prequel called F-STOP/Aperture Camera, as a new documentary shows

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

LunchHouse Software have announced a sort-of documentary focusing on a cancelled Valve game, apparently it was going to be called F-STOP/Aperture Camera and it was a prequel to Portal.

Mike Shapiro drops a cryptic message from G-Man for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Half-Life: Alyx is set to release in March this year, and while we don't yet know what exactly is happening with Linux support it's still an exciting time.

The Steam Winter Sale is now live with a special Holiday Market

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2019

Another year is almost up, it's getting chilly and Valve's annual Steam Winter Sale has now gone live so go warm yourself up with a toasty new game.

Dota Underlords just went through another small evolution and the Underlord Jull enters

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2019

Valve have tweaked how you play Dota Underlords once again with some significant changes to the flow of the game.

In The Valley of Gods from the Firewatch devs 'on hold', working at Valve on other projects

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2019

We're in for a long wait to play In The Valley of Gods, as it seems ValveTime has caught up with the Campo Santo (Firewatch) team that joined Valve back in 2018.

Dota Underlords also got a huge update with a new Knockout game mode and multiple heroes

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2019

It's not just Dota 2 seeing a massive upgrade, as Valve also pushed out The Outlanders Update for Dota Underlords as well with a new fast game mode and a better on-boarding experience for new players.