After all these years, the next chapter in Valve's unshakable sci-fi saga is nearly upon us. Half-Life: Alyx will release on March 23, 2020, with support for the Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift headsets. "Pre-order bonuses for anyone...

If there's one thing you'll quickly (and continuously) learn as a new VR owner, it's that sales are crucial. After breaking through that initial financial barrier to entry, it's important to build out your early library with restraint. When...

It seems this past weekend was an incredibly popular one for PC gaming. Software platform Steam succeeded in breaking its previous concurrent user record, as 18,801,944 players all jumped online at exactly the same time, Sunday afternoon ar...

Valve is making it official: Dota Underlords, their first-party Auto Chess game, is coming to Steam on February 25. This announcement coincides with a major patch drop, introducing a new character into the mix named Enno, the Scavenger King...

It's tough to know what to expect from Half-Life: Alyx. It's Valve's first Half-Life game in well over a decade, it's only available in a virtual reality format, and it's the first time Gordon Freeman isn't the protagonist. You couldn'...

Intrigued by Half-Life: Alyx but you're without a single Half-Life game under your belt? Or, seasoned Freeman looking to brush up before Alyx launches in two months? Valve has your back either way. For the next couple of...

Like a Witch, Valve fans have wailed and moaned out of their own sort of tortured agony. They want more Left 4 Dead, their cries directed at no one in particular, just into the abyss and for anyone who's nearby. Like a Hunter, Valve has pou...

The conclusion to Gordon Freeman's story can finally be told. No, not that one against the Combine. The one where he fights the Nihilanth. Yes, you already played that 20 years ago. Just listen for a moment, okay? Black Mesa, the fan-made a...

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...