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Valve has just dropped a massive Dota 2 announcement. Update 7.07, also known as Dueling Fates, not only adds two new heroes but also introduces Ranked Seasons and a new game mode (Turbo). A slew of changes to existing gameplay are also in the patch. Update 7.07 is set to go live on November 1, giving players two days to [...]
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Valve is clamping down on Steam Key requests by developers, according to a recent comment posting made by Sean Jenkin, a Valve engineer on the Steamworks developer platform. “If we are denying keys for normal size batches it’s likely because your Steam sales don’t reflect a need for as many keys as you’re distributing. You’re probably asking for more keys [...]
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Valve, the studio behind Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, and the Steam platform, just revealed their latest game during the Dota 2 International World Championships. We're incredibly short on details, but we do know the game is called Artifact and that it is a card game based on the Dota franchise. All we have to work with so far is a brief [...]
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Valve brought the ban hammer down on a record-breaking number of Steam users as their annual Summer Sale came to a close last week. Dot eSports reports The Valve Anti-Cheat system usually averages around 3,000-4,000 bans per day but on July 6th, the Steam database recorded a whopping 40,411 bans, around 30,000 of which were banned before 12pm ET. The [...]
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Earlier this year, Valve decided to axe Steam Greenlight, and made the move to its new publishing service Steam Direct. With the new system in place, Valve now required developers to pay a fee to publish their games on the Steam platform, in addition to verifying their company status. At the time, Valve had not yet decided on what to [...]
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Valve has launched a massive limited time event update for their flagship shooter Counter Strike Global Offensive. Titled Operation Hydra, the update adds new game modes and content that are available to all players until September. (18 weeks total) A $5.99 All Access Pass grants additional bonuses including an Operation Hydra Coin that can be displayed as an avatar, an [...]
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Finally following the example set by Counter Strike Global Offensive, Valve will soon require Dota 2 players to register a phone number before they can play ranked matches. The Matchmaking Update, released today, focuses on improving the matchmkaing experience. The first and most important change requires players to register a unique phone number to their account in order to queue [...]
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Valve is working with machine learning to detect cheaters in Counter-Strike, as a means of replacing player reports and anticheat software. You could call it an "AI Watchdog." So, watch out aimbotters, spinbotters, flying dutchmen, and wallhackers, HAL may be monitoring everything you do. Of course implementing such a system is no easy task. "The process of parsing, training, and [...]
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At a recent press conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell revealed that Valve is working on 3 virtual reality titles. They are not going to be mini experiments like The Lab, but full fledged titles. I'm curious. What could Valve be working on? It's unlikely that any of the titles waill be tied to Half Life, but maybe we'll see the return [...]
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If you've followed the saga of Steam Greenlight at all, you probably know that basically everyone was excited for it when it first launched. Finally, the games we wanted could get on Steam. Finally, developers had a reasonable chance of getting their games on Steam. And for a while, it was great. Only games that people really wanted on Steam [...]
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