At the top of most every VR-owner's wishlist is Half-Life: Alyx, the new VR-only chapter in the Half-Life universe. In March 2020, it's coming to SteamVR. After that? It's tough to say. Half-Life: Alyx designer Ron Coomer was rec...

In early 2018, Valve bought indie studio Campo Santo -- a small and spry team that made a splash with its debut hit Firewatch. It came with the usual assurances that these things always come with: Valve doesn't want to change Campo Santo, i...

Remember when the Steam Controller was recently on a closeout sale for five bucks? Well I thought it was kind of uncharacteristic that the sale kept running for a long time, and it turns out Valve "mistakenly" took more orders than they cou...

There's good news and there's bad news. The next game in the Half-Life canon won't require the $1,000 Valve Index hardware to play. That's a bullet dodged. However, it will require some sort of PC-based VR setup, and that's going to be...

While Lyle continues to calmly scream into the void for answers, here's what's been happening in video games this past week:     Half-Life: Alyx was announced and it sure looks neat!     Rumor has it that Anth...

Earlier this week Valve revealed that there's a new Half-Life game in the works called Half-Life: Alyx. Whoa calm down there champ! It's a VR project. This is something every Index user sort of predicted, as the company launched t...

Have you been keeping tabs on some of the new Steam updates? I know, some of you just keep Steam running in the background and don't notice it, it can be a lot. In addition to the new polarizing UI, Valve has been working on a new initiativ...

[Update: Valve has confirmed Half-Life: Alyx is real. It'll be revealed on Thursday morning.]

Stress Level Zero just announced a December 10, 2019 release date for Boneworks on Steam, and it's the kind of game that can sell itself with a single gif. (Okay, actually, let's make that two.) It's the kind of game that comes with a "Hey,...

An emergent trend in gaming is the rise of cloud-powered game streaming. PlayStation Now has tackled this concept for half a decade, allowing players to stream games to their PS4 and PC. Xbox upped the ante recently with Project xCloud whic...

[Update: Via a post on its official blog, Electronic Arts has announced that it has partnered with Valve to bring its EA Access service to the Steam platform. The partnership begins next month with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, while other ...

[Update: The Left 4 Dead 2 tie-in for Dying Light is a weapon pack, as expected. A four-day in-game event starting October 24 includes "an increased number of Virals, waves of attacking hordes, an intensifying fight for survival, along with...

I'm ecstatic about Remote Play Together, a new Steam feature that lets people play games together online even if they weren't originally designed that way. It's available this week in beta form, so if you have any old favorite split-screen ...

Valve is set to add a useful new feature to Steam. Called "Remote Play Together," this functionality will give online support to local-only multiplayer games via a system similar to Parsec (a kind of VPN service). The news came from the Ste...

A man has been charged with multiple counts of burglary after a spree in which he repeatedly broke into the offices of video game developer Valve, reportedly stealing over $40,000 worth of video games and equipment.According to KIRO 7 News,...

Acclaimed game composer Bobby Prince (known for his work on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D) has filed a lawsuit against Gearbox Software, Valve, and Randy Pitchford for unlawful usage of his work in Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary ...

For some odd reason, Valve issued an update for Half-Life 2, Episode One, and Episode Two yesterday. Fixing really minor bugs (apparently, the NPCs would sometimes not blink), I'm more just shocked that Half-Life 2 even needed an update. Th...

Valve has made it that much easier for me to see exactly how many games I've left untouched and unloved in my aging Steam library. With today's beta, Steam users can now opt-in to play around with the platform's new and arguably improved li...

Steam Workshop has, for a long time, been a great way for the community to add fun content to some of their favourite games, be it stages, accessories, skins, characters or whatever the twisted human mind can conjure up. A new ruling has be...

A few days ago, information about the upcoming DLC fighters for Street Fighter V was leaked out to the public. Originally meant for a reveal at this weekend's EVO tournament, Valve mistakenly put the trailer up early which then prompted Cap...

If you haven't read up on the Auto Chess phenomenon yet, I'll wait. Ready? Okay! So you're now aware that DOTA Underlords is Valve's official take on Auto Chess, which is based off of a mod in DOTA 2, which itself is a sequel to a game...

Retro enthusiasts that love emulating the classics will often tell you that RetroArch is an essential tool. Acting as a core for which you can plug-in various different emulators, RetroArch has made splashes for being a very convenient way ...

Steam is full of games. Full of 'em! On any given week more games can launch on Steam than any other platform, and Valve stepped in with a method to curate them better through an experimental feature. So experimental in fact, that it's call...

The Dota Auto Chess mod kicked off at the beginning of 2019, and started a trend in the process. After reaching an apex of eight million players over a scant few months, the "auto-battler" genre was born, and man did publishers ru...

The Valve Index, the newest VR headset on the block, is shipping this week. It's basically an upgrade on the existing HTC Vive/Vive Pro concept, meant to work in tandem with SteamVR with new "knuckle" controllers. Naturally those looking to...