After a thirteen-year hiatus, Half-Life is finally returning in 2020. As promised today, Valve officially revealed Half-Life: Alyx, the studio’s new VR title. As previous rumors indicated, Alyx is set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2 and places you in the shoes of Alyx Vance. The story follows Alyx and her father Eli as they fight back against the Combine in
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It seems as if Valve’s wacky shooter that I poured hours of enjoyment into during my teens has been reportedly put on hold. The news comes from YouTube channel Valve News Network in which Tyler McVicker shares an interview with Valve developers which goes into detail about the current state of Team Fortress 2. Greg Coomer,
Local, couch co-op games are some of the best times around that you can have while playing games, whether it’s joining up with a friend in Cuphead or spending those grueling hours getting through the ever-challenging levels of Spelunky. However, while you can’t always join up with a friend easily in couch co-op-style games, Steam
We’ve been hearing murmurings about a Half-Life VR game for years at this point. Valve has talked openly for a long time about how it has been developing games for VR, and soon enough, it seems like we could finally see one of those projects getting revealed. In a new series of rumors, it is said
Shawn Shaputis broke into Valve last month and stole over $40,000 worth of games and equipment. Maybe he was looking for some kind of Half-Life 3 prototype. Or perhaps he caught wind of a Half-Life 2 update that allows NPC’s to blink and had to see it for himself (while stealing a lot of stuff).
It might not be a large update, but for the NPC’s in Half-Life 2 who have wandered around the game unable to blink, this is a huge win for them. You might not have noticed it while actually playing, but for the past 15 years, those NPC’s in Valve’s Half-Life 2 have been incapable of blinking. Yesterday,
Dota Auto Chess has been blowing up since its release earlier this year. As of last month, the Dota 2 mod had over eight million unique players. The team at Drodo Studio recently soft-launched their standalone mobile version and Valve is hard at work creating their own standalone PC version that plays off of Drodo’s
GEarbox CEO Randy Pitchford is well-known for being extremely vocal and active on Twitter, answering many fans’ questions on various titles, including the upcoming Borderlands 3. A recent answer to an inquiry from a fellow Twitter user revealed some interesting information about the long-awaited third installment to the well-loved franchise: We are focused on the
This afternoon, a random new teaser trailer for what is seemingly supposed to be Left 4 Dead 3 appeared online via a YouTube channel that contains no other uploaded videos. The trailer doesn’t have a proper title– it does include the date of June 11, 2019–but due to the trailer’s ending shot, it’s apparent what is being
This weekend, the OpenAI Five took down OG in a Dota 2 best of three series, winning two games straight against the defending The International (TI) 8 champions. The matchup was hard-hitting and fast-paced, as the OpenAI pushed quickly and found plenty of opportunities to steamroll OG players. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research company
On Saturday, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford responded to user LilMcFlurry on Twitter regarding why Borderlands 3 for PC is coming exclusively to the Epic Games Store for six months before Steam. In a very long series of tweets, Pitchford explains numerous reasons regarding their decision. Pitchford’s comments addressed store features, Epic’s business model compared to Valve’s, pro-consumerism,
Super Neptunia RPG, which has already been announced for a Western release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch this spring, is now coming to PC in summer of this year. The Artisan Studios developed title will make its way to Steam with support for English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and French subtitles. Along with the announcement, a
Recently Valve, developer of the popular PC gaming platform Steam, has landed itself in hot water with the European Commission over accusations of geo-blocking games throughout the European Union, which violates their antitrust laws. The Commission has given Statements of Objections to Valve as well as five other PC video game publishers: Bandai Namco, Capcom,
Well, here’s a story I’m sure you weren’t expecting to read today. It seems that over in China, Valve president Gabe Newell is known for a bit more than just helping to release games like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Portal. In a new post from Reddit’s r/PCMasterRace, user ChggnNggts shared a photo of a package of underwear from
There’s no question about it: Borderlands 3 hype is in full swing. Following the PAX East reveal from developer Gearbox Studios, most gamers aren’t waiting until the April 3 announcements for more information. Instead, they are diving right into other Borderlands games on Steam driving chart numbers across the board. Analytics come directly from site SteamCharts, which reviews both
With the rise in Epic Games Store timed-exclusives combined with the fact that so many publishers now have their own digital storefronts, it has somehow become a bit surprising in 2019 when a publisher announces it’ll be bringing all of its upcoming releases to that of Valve’s Steam platform. Today though, that’s exactly what publisher
With the debut of the Epic Games Store back in December of last year, Epic Games made a direct line for grabbing major exclusives to debut on their digital store front, such as the anticipated Metro Exodus most recently. According to some new stats shared by Epic Games, clearly the move to making the latest entry in
During their GDC 2019 presentation, Epic Games announced that developers can now sell Epic Games Store game keys through the Humble Bundle storefront. According to an official statement concerning the partnership: “The Epic team is excited to give players more choices for buying games, and bring developers new avenues for reaching players. Over time we
Tons of games release for Valve’s popular PC gaming storefront Steam every day; consequently, this means that it can sometimes be hard to get noticed. One thing many smaller developers rely on is the “Popular Upcoming” tab, which is supposed to highlight cool new titles that will be releasing on Steam soon so people can
Square Enix held the third Left Alive live show stream today, showcasing more gameplay, including Wanzer battles, and revealing some pretty neat things about the game. Most notably, Square Enix revealed Left Alive is having a collaboration with Valve’s Half-Life. The steam version of the game exclusively will allow you to find and use doctor
It’s been a busy time for Metro Exodus this year, and it’s certainly not over as more review bombings have taken place…although a more positive review bombing. If you’re unaware, or just fancy a recap, earlier this year Metro Exodus pushed the game heavily as it approached its release month. We saw posters, trailers, and a week of
Earlier this week we reported how the Doki Doki Literature Club — or DDLC — community was under fire by Reddit administration. In a wave of good news, it seems like the dedicated fan-community has won the war and declared victory, with Reddit backtracking on old policies and clarifying the rules on what they would deem “bannable.” Thanks to
Valve’s latest game Artifact hasn’t even been out for three months but already, the game’s community is nearly nonexistent. When we last reported on player counts for Artifact back in January, the game was still reaching concurrent player totals of about 3,000 each day. Since that time though, the community has continued to shrink further and further.
Metro Exodus developer 4A games can’t seem to get a break. Following a decision made by Koch Media and Deep Silver to move Metro Exodus to Epic Games Store as a one-year timed exclusive, their work is taking the brunt of the blow. In a recent comment, developer 4A games has reaffirmed that the decision to move to Epic
While the PC gaming scene will be evolving and becoming more crowded in 2019 thanks to rise of popularity and exclusive games within both the Discord Store and Epic Games Store, 2018 was still dominated by Steam. Today, Valve revealed specific statistics about how Steam performed in 2018, showing just how monolithic it is with
If you haven’t yet heard of Dota Auto Chess, there’s a good chance you aren’t frequenting the Dota 2 community. However, the game may not be limited to those niche communities for long. With many chiming in that Dota Auto Chess is “one of the fastest growing games in 2019,” a couple questions remain: what is it, why is
In any esports community there is going to be a group of cheaters, smurfs, and account resellers that cheapen the experience. In a major loss to those people who play Dota 2, Valve has reset about 17,000 accounts who were abusing matchmaking to get into ranked. Announced in a Tweet earlier today by the official Dota 2 Twitter
Product keys and save data modification are the topics of a recent revision to Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act last month. The following comes from Gamesindustry.biz as the official information is only in Japanese: Distributing tools and programs for altering save data Selling serial numbers or product keys that are unauthorised by the maker of
On September 20, Star Control: Origins was released by Galactic Civilizations III developer Stardock. That being said, the developer had to deal with a lot of legal issues prior to the game’s release due to claims of copyright infringement by the creators of Star Control II. This issue has finally come to a head months
Before chicken dinners were the must-have meal for gamers, deliciously moist cake was the dish that players would strive for instead. And who wants to wait in line for cake? Not speedrunner CantEven; that’s for sure. Instead, they’ve taken it upon themselves to rush through classic puzzle game Portal at an eyeball-spearing pace. The vomit