For the past couple weeks, players of a PC platformer called Abstractism have suspected that something is amiss. The…
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Valve has overhauled Steam’s “upcoming” tab. It was an unfiltered list of games (and asset flips), but now it’s decided upon by wishlists and other data. Valve said that “less than half” of 1% of users clicked the old upcoming tab, while only 4% click “top sellers.” Steam users don’t really use Steam, I guess?
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When Juan “Atuun” Ochoa was accused of cheating at Dota 2, he was playing one of its most complicated heroes, a…
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The North American open qualifiers for the 2018 Dota 2 International were off to the races yesterday, with dozens of…
For the longest time, Steam’s built-in chat functionality has not been what I would call good. Today, though, Valve…
Valve just announced Steam China. The goal is to introduce more games to China, though how that will work isn’t clear yet. In recent times, Steam has added some popular Chinese games. However, Chinese players have become Steam users’ go-to object of borderline-xenophobic rage thanks to cheating issues.
Yesterday, Valve announced a sweeping new policy for Steam: From now on, the platform will allow “everything” except…
In recent times, Valve has struggled to draw a line in terms of what’s allowed on Steam. Controversy has raged over…
Last year’s Dota 2 Battle Pass had a reward for anyone reaching level 2000: a physical statue of Baby Roshan. Those…
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