At the weekend, Valve announced that they had made a mass sweep of player accounts within their mega-popular multiplayer title Dota 2. In all, over 17,000 player accounts were reset for trespasses such as cheating, or being re-sold or alt-a...

The month-old feud between Epic and Valve just got a lot more interesting. Epic introduced the Epic Games Store in early December, positioning it as a direct competitor to Valve's Steam. The major incentive for publishers is that Epic would...

Valve slowly ramped up support for more controllers on Steam, a good move intended to sway console folks over to PC. One of 2018's biggest highlights was the addition of Switch Pro Controller support in May, most notably due to the massive ...

As we inch toward the new year, Valve has shared a list of the 100 best-selling games on Steam in 2018. Along with the general list, there are also a few more specific groupings including the top 150 new releases, VR best-sellers, Early Acc...

It's the middle of December which means the video game industry has shifted from looking forward to reflecting. That's the pattern we fall into each and every year as everything slows down for a few weeks before zooming straight into high g...

We kicked things off with a surprisingly packed Nintendo Switch eShop sale, but that's just the beginning. In celebration of The Game Awards, Sony, Microsoft, and Valve are also hosting sales. You'll find deals on mostly big-name, big-budge...

A heck of a lot of people are about to load up Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Not only has the enduring competitive shooter gone fully free-to-play on Steam, but Valve has added its own take on battle royale. The new mode, Danger Zone, i...

Okay, let’s get some things out of the way real quick regarding monetization: Is Artifact free? No, it costs $20 and there is no free alternative. What do I get for buying it? Two complete decks, ten booster packs, a...

I had some disposable income, and I haven't been excited to open card packs in quite a while, so I figured now is the time. I've mentioned this in my Artifact review, but I'm just a big fan of collecting cards and watching the market ...

A lot of people think it's strange that MOBAs (pretty much all of them now) have ongoing narratives, but it's an easy way to keep people invested and a few of them are quite good. Valve is doubling down on that strategy with Artifact, a car...

Happy Thanksgiving! Before you stuff your food holes alongside various family members, let's first stuff those news holes with some Pregame Discharge that includes the following: Kingdom Hearts III is being censored in China! Sony complet...

Valve has announced that it will be discontinuing the Steam Link hardware box. This small device allowed streaming of PC games to any display in your house via your home network. Since it was introduced in 2015, new features such as couch c...

Valve is never making another Half-Life game. Okay? We've all come to terms with that, right? So, here's the next best thing. In honor of Half-Life's 20th anniversary, Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective has released the...

Security researcher Artem Moskowsky discovered a bug within Steam's infrastructure that could've been incredibly damaging for Valve. If exploited it would've given the user access to generate any number of keys for any game. That's obviousl...

Game developers have begun kicking off their Halloween events early to allow for ample playtime, and that even goes for Valve this year. Team Fortress 2 is on its tenth Scream Fortress event, a fact I didn't particularly care to know but no...

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how incredible The Orange Box was? The bundle brought Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal to a lot of households that might not have otherwise played all three games. I never did send the garden ...

Let's talk about Artifact. The card-based battler was shown off to the public for the first time last weekend at PAX West, and I got to go hands-on with it during the show and speak with a couple of the game's developers. It's significant m...

With one of the biggest communities in gaming, odds are any inkling of momentum for a DOTA 2 announcer pack will be on the grid: and with nostalgia in its corner, the potential NBA Jam pack has instant cachet. The original announcer himself...

Every year, despite barely playing Dota 2 at all anymore, I look forward to The International (TI). It's the game's premier event and the biggest in all of eSports. Millions of dollars are on the line each year, while the production va...

Just Survive, the game originally known as H1Z1, will be shutting down its servers on October 24, 2018. In a statement made on the official website, developer Daybreak Games says, "After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult...

In a surprise announcement, two new Heroes were just announced at The International for Dota 2. The first Hero teased was Mars, which just had a quick still shot and a winter release date. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, they announced ...

For years now, Valve has been making strides with Steam to get away from the closed-off environments of the Windows and App Stores that Microsoft and Apple provide. Valve is all about user freedom and allowing people to play games the way t...

It was basically only a matter of time, but this year's Dota 2 main tournament, The International, has surpassed last year's total of $24,787,916 and has officially become the biggest prize pool ever for an eSports event. For those una...

If you're looking for a new tactical FPS to play, why not give Insurgency a shot? In a campaign to promote the upcoming sequel, Insurgency: Sandstorm, developer New World Interactive is giving away the first game on Steam for the next 48 ho...

Before joining up with the gang at Campo Santo to help make Firewatch, artist Olly Moss made a name for himself with astounding movie posters, adorable video game character doodles, and the cover art for Resistance 3. (Also, Garfields.) We'...