Category: Valve

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Valve's latest game, Dota Underlords, has today left Early Access and with it comes a huge patch full of new content and features.

Valve are pushing out more customization options to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with the ability to add Patches sewn into Agent's outfits.

Next week, Valve will push Dota Underlords out the door as it leaves Early Access and with that the first full gameplay Season will begin.

Recently we put up an article highlighting a possible issue with how Valve were counting Steam Play Proton sales, here's a full correction and more information.

Unfortunately, in any online game (especially a free one) you're going to get many forms of abusive behaviour. One such problem in Dota 2 is 'smurf' accounts and Valve are attempting to deal with it.

Back in August 2018, Valve announced their new Steam Play feature with the Proton software in the Linux Steam client to play Windows-only Steam games on Linux. A little note about what platform is counted for sales.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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