As everyone prepares to get together for the holiday celebration, Gabe Newell has decided to pull you back to the computer tomorrow with the annual Steam Winter sale. In what has become a tradition…
December 21, 2016 | 10:43 EST
The Khronos Group has announced it will be working to form standard API's for VR. They expressed their desire to “define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern virtual…
December 7, 2016 | 02:28 EST
Earlier this year, we reported that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK had begun an investigation into Hello Games and Valve regarding No Man's Sky after multiple people had filed…
November 30, 2016 | 10:51 EST
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve's well known Tactical Shooter, has added cosmetic Glove Cases to the game according to the game's latest release notes. Details of the cases are further…
November 29, 2016 | 08:45 EST
After being found guilty earlier this year, Kotaku Australia is reporting that Valve is facing up to $3 million in fines from the Australian Courts over their lack of a refund policy between 2011 and…
November 21, 2016 | 11:28 EST
It would appear that Valve has stealthily updated the Steam storefront. The Discovery 2.0 update, as it's called, brings a sleek new UI and a host of new features to help you figure out what game you…
November 7, 2016 | 06:55 EST
Turtle Rock Studios, the original development team behind the popular survival horror / first person shooter Left 4 Dead, has released files for a previously unseen campaign map. Titled "Dam It", the…
November 5, 2016 | 06:34 EDT
When browsing through your Steam queue, you will probably at least glance at the developer-provided screenshots on a game's front page. Many times, though, you won't find screenshots, but rather …
November 1, 2016 | 07:17 EDT
Update: Valve has sent us a copy of the letter they are sending to the Washington Gambling Commission. You can read it below. The original story follows below Valve has missed the deadline…
October 17, 2016 | 08:09 EDT
Steam DevDays is currently ongoing, featuring a series of talks hosted by Valve detailing their plans for Steam in the upcoming months and years. There are plenty of interesting tidbits coming out of…
October 12, 2016 | 07:19 EDT
Machines are almost always a major enemy in games. Alien to human beings, these automatons can be as ruthless and sadistic as any madman in existence but twice as horrific because of this aura of…
October 7, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one of Valve's biggest money makers, despite its relatively low price. In fact, it's arguable that the price for the game serves more as a way to stop the game…
October 7, 2016 | 12:48 EDT
UPDATE - We have received word from Doug Lombardi at Valve: Back in July we posted about third-party gambling sites (http://store.steampowered.com/news/22883/). Our position has not changed and…
October 5, 2016 | 04:28 EDT
Valve has started a Steam Hardware sale on their download service that will last the weekend. On the Steam Store, Valve put individual items on sale, as well as bundles of multiple items. There are…
September 30, 2016 | 04:51 EDT
Update: James Romine got back to us with some details on the situation and a few thoughts in general. There are a couple elements here, and the rest can be found below: It is important thing to…
September 29, 2016 | 03:24 EDT
The controversial launch of Hello Games' No Man's Sky has left many wondering what happened during the development of the Sony-backed indie game. The game was in many ways completely different from…
September 28, 2016 | 12:36 EDT
An update just went live on the Steamworks community page, shared on Reddit by user /u/Xinasha and personally confirmed by our own sources that new updates are coming to the Steam Store. See the…
September 24, 2016 | 07:06 EDT
For many critics of Valve, today is a rare day to celebrate. Last Monday, Valve updated their user review policy out of the blue, making it so that only reviewers who had purchased games on Steam…
September 20, 2016 | 11:04 EDT
Following their removal from Steam, development team Digital Homicide announced on their website that they will be pursuing legal action against Valve. Digital Homicide became the center of…
September 18, 2016 | 08:47 EDT
Update: Valve has responded to our question, confirming that it did delist the games. This was what Doug Lombardi of Valve had to say: Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for…
September 16, 2016 | 10:21 EDT
Update: It appears that in response to this lawsuit, Valve removed Digital Homicide's games from their storefront. Original Story below: Digital Homicide developer James Romine has been granted a…
September 16, 2016 | 02:31 EDT
Earlier this week, Valve announced and implemented changes to their reviews system that were designed to combat developers propping up their games' ratings with free key giveaways. This is the…
September 14, 2016 | 09:30 EDT
Steam has been working behind the scenes on improving their review system for a while now, and there are now wheeling out the newest big change that could impact the scores of several games. Under…
September 12, 2016 | 09:32 EDT
On July 20, 2016, Valve sent cease and desist letters to a number of Counter Strike: Global Offensive skin lottery websites. These websites, which include but are not limited to CSGO Lounge, CSGO…
August 2, 2016 | 10:25 EDT
It has recently been revealed that James "PhantomL0rd" Varga may have been in a business relationship with the Counter Strike: Global Offensive gambling site CSGOShuffle beyond what he disclosed…
July 30, 2016 | 07:03 EDT
Update Awfully Nice Studios has gotten in touch with us with the following statement: We have been in the age rating process for our upcoming console release in Australia. Seem like this…
July 20, 2016 | 09:24 EDT
Last week, Valve posted a response to the recent scandals involving Counter Strike: Global Offensive gambling websites, stating that they were aware of the situation and would be taking action. You…
July 20, 2016 | 08:20 EDT
TechRaptor staff writers and editors have covered recent scandals involving third-party Counter Strike: Global Offensive skin gambling websites and YouTube stars. The third-party websites were a way…
July 13, 2016 | 06:09 EDT
With Overwatch being the new hot team based FPS on the market, one might forget that the free to play shooter by Valve, Team Fortress 2, is still in active development. And after what seems like a…
July 7, 2016 | 07:47 EDT
A cryptic countdown timer went up on the Evolve website on July 6, shortly before the game was pulled for sale from the Steam Marketplace. Evolve, developed by Turtle Rock Studios and published by 2K…
July 7, 2016 | 01:15 EDT
[Important Notice: The writer of this article posted some information that was incorrect and implied that PsiSyndicate received his boxes from CSGOLotto, the site that Martin and Cassell are alleged…
July 4, 2016 | 08:17 EDT
The gaming industry has a tendency to accidentally leak info about upcoming games. Some of these leaks turn out to be either intentionally leaked to create hype, with only some of them actually being…
July 1, 2016 | 10:33 EDT
The 2016 Steam Summer Sale has begun! So before anything else, here's a short funny video about it that I just really wanted an excuse to post. https://youtu.be/QJW_ML5aE9E Okay, with…
June 24, 2016 | 08:21 EDT
Valve's HTC Vive introduction game, The Lab, is a group of minigames available for free that give a good example of how HTC Vive works. It appears Valve thinks they can give a better example though,…
June 7, 2016 | 08:30 EDT
Did you know that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 was announced for development ten years ago on May 22nd? No, not Half-Life 3, I mean Half-Life 2: Episode 3. The second episode was left on an immense…
May 27, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Update: we got an official response back from Oculus. See below:Last week we issued an update design to improve several features, and it happened to break the Revive hack. The update was not released…
May 21, 2016 | 03:01 EDT
Despite my love of FPS games, I have a few huge weak spots in my library. I've never beaten Unreal. I've never spent more than an hour in any given S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And perhaps the worst sin of all, …
May 11, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Valve has a bit of an issue when it comes to new features in its ever-present Steam client. Whenever something new like user reviews shows up, everyone is excited to try it out and speculates about…
May 4, 2016 | 12:41 EDT
Valve has been striking back against cheaters in their landmark multiplayer game, Team Fortress 2. The cheaters in question were using a very popular hack to the game, named LMAOBOX. The hack itself…
April 30, 2016 | 04:24 EDT
There has been a growing rumor lately that paid mods for Steam are possibly making a comeback.According to several sources across the net, the recent Steam update has flagged modded content off the…
April 23, 2016 | 06:15 EDT
With the new age of VR gaming pretty much upon us, the sheer amount of VR tech at EGX Rezzed was to be expected. However, it seemed like every other demo had an oculus setup, the PSVR showroom was…
April 19, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
itch.io is a D.I.Y. game distribution service that was launched in 2013 where just about anyone can create and upload a game, sell it, or make it available for free. Its focus has been on finding and…
April 14, 2016 | 10:05 EDT
Go home Steam, you're drunk.Or perhaps someone behind the scenes is. This appears to be the common consensus as several users logged into Steam today to find out that a majority of their library were…
April 13, 2016 | 11:53 EDT
A YouTube prank for April Fool's cost a lot of Counter-Strike players some money. The prank in question comes from a YouTube video posted by McSkillet. The prank involved a new giveaway for Counter-…
April 2, 2016 | 04:47 EDT
The most expensive VR kit announced thus far has to be the HTC Vive, the headset that was the result of a collaboration between smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC and Half Life developer and…
March 29, 2016 | 08:20 EDT
We all remember what happened last year when Bethesda and Valve teamed up to bring paid mods to The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. We also remember that the implementation to the game resulted in a lot of…
March 15, 2016 | 04:27 EDT
The realm of eSports has long harbored abrasive and unfiltered personalities, for better or worse. Among the most well-known in that category is James “2GD” Harding, an eSports commentator with a…
February 29, 2016 | 07:23 EST
The first real competitor for the Oculus Rift is preparing itself for the commercial release of their VR Headset. The HTC Vive, made in collaboration with Valve, will be available for preorder…
February 28, 2016 | 09:00 EST