
CS2 Animgraph 2 Beta Patch Notes (1st April 2026)
Valve has pushed a beta build for CS2 that migrates the game's animation system to Animgraph 2, promising reduced CPU and networking costs alongside fully re-authored third-person animations.
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Valve has pushed a beta build for CS2 that migrates the game's animation system to Animgraph 2, promising reduced CPU and networking costs alongside fully re-authored third-person animations.

Valve has pushed out 7.41a, a follow-up balance patch to 7.41 that also cleans up several crash issues and quietly removes the Hero Facet Names display option.

CS2's latest update drops the Dead Hand Collection, brings 22 new gloves as rare special items, and finally patches a pixel gap on Dust II.

Valve's GDC numbers quietly dismantle the indie saturation panic: nearly 6,000 games cleared $100K on Steam last year, double the count from five years ago.

A class-action lawsuit filed in Washington state doesn't just argue that Steam loot boxes are gambling, it argues Valve engineered them to work like slot machines, down to the spinning animations and near-miss effects.

Deadlock's March 6 update reshuffles movement and Shrine balance in ways that will ripple through every match. Here's what changed.

Team Fortress 2 received a patch on March 6, 2026, fixing a chat impersonation exploit alongside a wave of community-contributed bug fixes.

Valve published a Year in Review blog post with uncertain language about the Steam Machine's 2026 launch, then quietly rewrote it the same day. The edit tells you everything about where things actually stand.

CS:GO has quietly reappeared on Steam as a standalone listing, three years after Valve folded it into Counter-Strike 2. The servers are still offline, the page is hidden from search, and Valve hasn't explained any of it.

New York's attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Valve, alleging its loot boxes are illegal gambling that endangers young gamers.