In honor of the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, Valve launched a free giveaway of the shooter. In addition, the game received a large update weighing 4 GB with various improvements and additional content.

The famous dataminer Gabe Follower shared new information about Half-Life 3. According to him, Valve hired many veterans of the gaming industry, and the game itself will have new features like shooting off body parts and spreading fire.

Counter-Strike 2 has received another major update, with the highlight being the iconic map Train, which Valve has completely overhauled, adding new rain effects. Train is now available in both casual and competitive game modes.

Valve has introduced a limited edition of the Steam Deck OLED in white. The official price is set at $679. Sales will commence on November 18 (at 3PM PT), 2024 .

Press F: the Valve team reported that the updated Steam client will not run on Windows 7 and 8. Let us remind you that official support for the service on older versions of the OS ended earlier this year.

A new account protection system has appeared in the Steam mobile application, designed to discourage scammers from hacking accounts. Now, when attempting to log in from a different IP address, the platform may ask you to answer several questions.

The developers from the newly-created Summer Eternal studio, one of the three where the former Disco Elysium team moved, criticized Valve's monopoly. In their opinion, it's time for the gaming industry to think about an alternative and prepare for change.

For 17 years, Team Fortress 2 has had a visual bug causing the Scout from the blue team to wear pants in the wrong color. Recently, Valve released a patch to correct the issue.

A major update has been released for the online shooter Deadlock. Valve has added an experimental mode called Hero Labs and six new characters: Holliday, Calico, Wrecker, Fathom, Viper, and Magician.

Recently, Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang answered a question in an interview about whether Valve plans to release a new model of the console in the near future. For reference, the original version was released in February 2022, and the OLED version in November 2023.

Valve has released an updated Steam chart, listing the top-selling games from October 8 to October 15. Excluding free-to-play titles, the list is led by the anime fighting game Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, which currently holds a 93% positive rating.

The hero shooter Deadlock is still in the alpha testing stage, but the game has already been overrun by cheaters. Valve has come up with an unusual punishment for dishonest gamers.

Recently, models and animations from the beta version of the original Half-Life have leaked onto the Internet, but a real treasure was discovered the other day. Former developer and tester Chad Jessup found a disk with an early build of the legendary shooter, which is now available to everyone.

The developers of Project Borealis, the so-called «fan Half-Life 3», have finally released a teaser with the release date. The prologue will be available to play this fall on PC.

Right now, the final stage of The International 2024 Dota 2 tournament is taking place in Denmark. Valve announced a new hero, who was shown during the competition broadcast, just in time.

A fresh update for Steam has added family groups, which have been tested since March 2024. They will replace the existing Steam Family Sharing and Family View features.

An unexpected addition occurred at Valve this morning — the studio Hopoo Games has joined the company. The team is primarily known for the roguelike series Risk of Rain.

The information noise around Half-Life 3 has not died down recently: insiders and dataminers are vying to tell new details about the game's development. This time, the existence of the game was confirmed by Gabe Follower, who talked about technologies that may appear in the third part.

After numerous leaks, Valve has stopped ignoring the elephant in the room and created an official page for its MOBA shooter Deadlock on Steam. However, you won't be able to play the project directly yet.

Yesterday we wrote about a Valve project codenamed HLX, which may be related to the Half-Life universe. The day before, users found information in the resume of the voice actress hinting at work on the sequel to Half-Life 2.