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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Australian courts have found Valve Corporation, owners of game distribution platform Steam, guilty of "misleading or deceptive conduct" under ACL (Australian Consumer Law) in a lawsuit filed by the…
March 29, 2016 | 08:00 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
In an unforeseen and welcomed piece of news on the Official Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Blog, Valve has announced that all future CS:GO Majors will have a prize pool of $1,000,000 for teams to…
February 23, 2016 | 08:49 EST
In an unforeseen and welcomed piece of news on the Official Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Blog, Valve has announced that all future CS:GO Majors will have a prize pool of $1,000,000 for teams to…
February 23, 2016 | 08:49 EST
Earlier this evening, members of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community were made aware of a pending update that had a large amount of information and changes, with speculation that it could…
February 18, 2016 | 12:56 EST
Earlier this evening, members of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community were made aware of a pending update that had a large amount of information and changes, with speculation that it could…
February 18, 2016 | 12:56 EST
Following a tradition of emulating real-life locales and current events in a more bullet-centric format, Counter Strike: Global Offensive mapper Nipper has recreated the Malheur Wildlife Refuge,…
January 30, 2016 | 06:25 EST
Via a Valve employee on the Team Fortress 2 subreddit, it looks like Valve is ready to take the competitive Team Fortress 2 scene seriously, as they said they would in the past. A post made by Valve…
January 27, 2016 | 11:45 EST
Steam sales were huge in 2015, according to numbers from Steam-Spy. According to the numbers, as posted on Steam-Spy's blog on Medium, statistics showcase how the Steam sales have pushed the client…
January 4, 2016 | 05:38 EST
Valve and Steam have both been a pretty big topic in the news over the past few weeks, and the news hasn't been all that great. If you were online last Christmas day you may have noticed the Steam…
December 30, 2015 | 08:04 EST
Update: 9:20 PM EST: Valve has released a statement to Gamespot, saying that it was not a hack but instead a cache issue as was guessed by some earlier, and that there is no additional action…
December 25, 2015 | 05:32 EST
Online retailer Steam will begin it's annual winter sale event on December 22nd, according to a promotional image from PayPal. Though Valve did not officially make the announcement, previous reveals…
December 18, 2015 | 09:38 EST
Last week, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive saw a huge update that made a number of big changes to the game's mechanics, as well as the addition of a new gun. While many of these changes were good…
December 16, 2015 | 02:04 EST
Last week, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive saw a huge update that made a number of big changes to the game's mechanics, as well as the addition of a new gun. While many of these changes were good…
December 16, 2015 | 02:04 EST
It's well known that Batman: Arkham Knight had a few issues with its PC launch, and that caused Warner Brothers to actually remove the game from Steam at the time due to the consumer backlash.…
November 17, 2015 | 09:02 EST
Steam user reviews have ended up making a bigger difference in the ability for a game to do well on Steam. Users usually stay away from games with Mixed or even negative reviews, but those games with…
September 30, 2015 | 12:24 EDT