Category: valve

Watch footage of Arkane’s unreleased Half-Life spin-off

[ad_1] For all of its many faults, 2020 has at least one thing going for it: We’ve seen more of Valve’s Half-Life franchise in the last two months than in the 13 years before combined. It started in late March when the studio released Half-Life: Alyx, the first new entry in the series since 2007, and continues this […]

Steam uses AI to find interesting games you already own

[ad_1] Valve launched Steam Labs late last year as a way to test out new features for its PC games store. While it already brought the machine learning-based Interactive Recommender from Labs to the regular Library, the latest client update adds a wrinkle with Play Next. Instead of suggesting new games for you to buy, […]

‘Half-Life: Alyx’ added nearly 1 million VR users to Steam

[ad_1] Half-Life: Alyx appears to have given VR gaming a serious boost. Road to VR has used historical data and direct Valve data to calculate that Steam users added nearly 950,000 VR headsets in April — a huge spike over March. While the Steam info doesn’t say how many of those were new (it’s possible […]

Valve’s Dota 2 The International tournament likely delayed until 2021

[ad_1] The 10th International prize pool will be funded by 25% of sales of the next Battle Pass, which we are planning to release soon instead of closer to the event itself. However, with our team working from home and things taking longer to complete, the release date of the Battle Pass will be at […]

Valve will no longer support SteamVR on macOS

[ad_1] In an unsurprising turn of events, Valve has announced that it is ending SteamVR support for macOS. Spotted by Apple Insider, the company made a terse announcement on its website, stating that “SteamVR has ended [macOS] support so our team can focus on Windows and Linux.” Legacy builds will remain available, though, so tinkerers […]

Valve: no reason for alarm over ‘CS:GO’ source code leak

[ad_1] Earlier today, source code for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 started to circulate, alarming gamers and modders who worried that they could expose security flaws. At least one project shut down as a precaution. However, code for the game has been previously available, this leak just spread it much wider. We have […]

Valve is testing a more human approach to Steam tag searches

[ad_1] We’ve all been there at one point: you’ll try to find a specific app or game on a digital marketplace, and for whatever reason, the search feature doesn’t seem to bring up what you want to download. Whether it’s the App Store or Steam, all digital distribution platforms can sometimes make it challenging to […]

Engadget Podcast: How games (and Animal Crossing!) are keeping us sane

[ad_1] This week on the show, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into the deserted island life of Animal Crossing and how games can help us all survive being stuck at home. Also, Senior Editor Jessica Conditt describes how Doom Eternal — a literal romp through hell on Earth — serves a similarly relaxing roll for her. […]

The first ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ update makes it easier to turn

[ad_1] A 1.1 patch that came out tonight that addresses those complaints with a new setting called “continuous turn” that lines up with other virtual reality games like Boneworks. There are various turning speed options to keep players comfortable with the new movement, and the old Quick Turn setting has been renamed to Snap Turn. […]