Half-Life 2 is probably my favorite game of all time, with my other option being Half-Life 1. I wanted to start with…
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Half-Life: Alyx, you might be dismayed to learn, is definitely not Half-Life 3. But it is a new “full-length” Half-Li…
It is 2019. Valve just announced a new Half-Life game. All bets are off now. Quit your job. Buy a lottery ticket.…
There are plenty of reasons to distrust any given individual Steam review. It might be obsessively hyper-focused on…
Today, Valve’s ever-evolving auto-battler received its long-awaited “Big Update,” aka the one that finally adds…
Sometimes, you’d rather stretch out on the living room couch in your underwear than be the deli meat in a couch…
Half-Life is one of the best games of all time, but it’s not without flaws. First released on CD-ROM in 1998, in the…
Last month, Bellevue Police charged 32 year-old Shawn Shaputis with a succession of burglaries in 2018, including…
In the wake of complaints from developers earlier this week, Valve is conducting an experiment with game pages’ “More Like This” sections. Developers of unreleased games, especially, complained that recommendation sections were no longer surfacing their creations, leading to significant drop-offs in page traffic and…
Back in 2015, Valve got sued by a French consumer organization called UFC-Que Choisir (not to be confused with…
Valve released a matchmaking update for DOTA 2 yesterday, and as part of it, some players breaking the rules have…
Yesterday, Steam’s first big library overhaul in eons entered open beta. The fresh coat of paint and (virtual) new…
Last week, Valve released an update as part of a recent push to make it easier for users to find new,…
Last October, Steam’s algorithm briefly went haywire, filling users’ “More Like This” recommendation sections with…
When Metro Exodus was made an Epic Store exclusive just two weeks before its launch, Valve added fuel to the fire by…
In the time since Valve first started alluding to (and accidentally leaking mock-ups of) a mysterious Steam library…
The sound effects from the original Half-Life are burned into my brain after playing the game nearly every year…
Painful counterfactuals stalk even the best athletes. On Monday, Manchester United star Paul Pogba missed an easy…
At this point, I have spent nearly 50 hours with Dota Underlords. I still do not know what an Underlord is. This is…
Valve has quietly changed the way the Steam Workshop handles new content and updates to existing content. Maps,…