49 articles tagged with “Valve”
After years of adding warnings, limiting redemption, and pulling cards from shelves during suspicious activity spikes, Valve says scammers have adapted to every countermeasure. Physical Steam gift cards are done.
A small update lands for CS2 today, focusing on the Cologne 2026 Major Shop and inventory quality-of-life improvements.
The Urn is getting a full mechanical overhaul in Deadlock's June 4 minor update, swapping melee flips for a king of the hill capture system.
A small but tidy CS2 update lands today, tidying up the Cologne 2026 Shop, spectator flashbang rendering, and a couple of map fixes.
A small but tidy CS2 update lands overnight, cleaning up Ancient's boost locations and adding quality-of-life improvements for the Cologne 2026 Shop.
Valve has reworked almost every variable around the Urn in Deadlock's latest gameplay update, from where it drops to how fast the runner can move.
Kane Parsons says he literally dreams about Aperture Science, and that Portal's vast, decaying interiors shaped the look and feel of A24's Backrooms.
Valve just hiked Steam Deck OLED prices by hundreds of dollars with zero advance warning. The 1TB model now costs $949, more than a PS5 Pro.
Valve's latest Steam Beta update squashes a Steam Controller bug in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, alongside overlay and Remote Play fixes.
Valve has hiked Steam Deck OLED prices by nearly 50%, with the 1TB model now sitting at $949. That's more than a PS5 Pro.
Spy mains rejoice: a sweeping batch of community fixes lands in TF2 today, alongside serious map geometry work on cp_process_final and cp_metalworks.
Deadlock's latest update rewrites the Soul Urn from the ground up and trims base HP across every hero. Here's what changed.
A small but focused CS2 update lands today, tidying up Cache and Ancient with collision tweaks and a footstep audio fix.
Japanese indie horror visual novel This Game Is Not Real has been pulled from Steam after Valve ruled it didn't meet platform criteria, despite 24,000 wishlists and months of community anticipation.
AMD has confirmed that its AI-powered FSR 4.1 upscaling technology will arrive on RDNA 2 hardware, including the Steam Deck, in early 2027. RDNA 3 desktop cards get it first in July.
s&box's latest update tackles AI slop in the Workshop, adds three upscalers for lower-end hardware, and fixes explosive barrels that refused to explode.
Valve's new Steam Controller plays the iconic Wilhelm scream when you drop it, and the internet has been gleefully testing it ever since.
Valve generated over 27 million unique images just to backfill existing Counter-Strike listings as part of a sweeping Community Market redesign now in beta.
A modding team called Breadworks is turning Team Fortress 2 into a full-blown zombie horde survival game, complete with barricades, perks, and endless waves. It looks like the mode Valve should have shipped years ago.
Valve patches up Cache, fixes a viewmodel FOV networking issue, and drops the NIGHTMODE II Music Kits in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update.
Valve's May 7th CS2 update tidies up Cache and fixes a viewmodel FOV bug that's been quietly misrepresenting your setup to other players.
Valve's new $99 Steam Controller sold out in roughly 30 minutes on May 4. Starting May 8, a reservation queue with anti-scalper restrictions replaces the free-for-all.
Valve's Steam Controller sold out in roughly 30 minutes on May 4, and eBay scalpers wasted no time listing units for up to four times the retail price.
Valve's new Steam Controller went on sale today and was listed as out of stock within about 30 minutes. Server errors, payment failures, and frantic refreshing followed.
Japanese solo developer Daikichi has been blocked from releasing a demo on Steam because Valve flagged a board game asset as third-party IP. The board game is also made by Daikichi.
Valve's latest Deadlock update takes a scalpel to lifesteal, reworks several items, and buffs Haze's Bullet Dance in ways that should shake up the current meta.
Cache is back in the competitive pool, Dust II gets a newly uncovered jump spot, and a handful of animation and sound fixes round out the latest CS2 update.
Cache returns to Competitive, Casual, Deathmatch, and Retakes, and Dust II's mid box finally gives up a hidden jump spot.
Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirms the company is 'hard at work' on Steam Deck 2, but won't settle for anything less than a generational performance leap over the original.
Valve's new Steam Controller arrives May 4, beating the Steam Machine to market for the simplest reason imaginable: there's no RAM inside it.
A YouTube channel broke embargo on Valve's new Steam Controller, revealing a $99 price tag before the video was pulled. The internet, predictably, saved the receipts.
Valve is giving developers real framerate charts and player disagreement surveys so they can see exactly when a patch tanks their Steam Deck performance.
Valve has pushed a CS2 update focused on Animgraph 2 animation fixes and a handful of miscellaneous bug patches, including a crash that was hitting players on startup.
Valve has pushed a CS2 update focused on recoil camera feel and aim punch consistency, with the changes explicitly targeting CS:GO parity.
Valve has pushed a small but meaningful CS2 update, bringing recoil camera behaviour closer to CS:GO while fixing several Animgraph 2 animation issues.
Valve has pushed another Animgraph 2 beta update for Counter-Strike 2, tightening up movement animations and fixing a HE grenade throwback.
Valve's latest CS2 beta patch is all about Animgraph 2, tidying up animation issues that have been bugging players in the opt-in build.
Valve's latest CS2 patch is all about the Animgraph 2 beta, cleaning up a string of animation bugs that have been making third-person movement look rough.
Valve pushes another round of Animgraph 2 beta fixes, tidying up animation glitches that have been bothering players in third-person and during weapon switches.
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 says a lot 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.