Category: valve

Valve’s Steam Controller is dead

[ad_1] While most reviewers originally wrote the Steam Controller off as too weird, Valve sold over 500,000 in the first six months. It became one of the most configurable gaming devices — you could play Street Fighter V strictly with motion controls or Serious Rocket League with the grips programmed for acceleration/brake and drift/boost. What […]

Valve has made me believe in Half-Life again

[ad_1] It wouldn’t be Valve if there wasn’t some sort of catch, though. As many predicted, Alyx doesn’t pick up where Episode Two left off. Instead, it’s a Half-Life 2 prequel, which means there’s still no end in sight to the story that Valve was telling between 2004 and 2007. Like anyone who’s been following […]

Valve will unveil its ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ VR game on Thursday

[ad_1] A purportedly leaked Game Awards interview transcript indicated that Alyx would be VR-only and focus on immersion, with the possibility of seeing the player’s “whole body” and the tension of fumbling with reloads as you face off against headcrab zombies. If accurate (this is still far from certain), the title would be ready to […]

‘Dota 2’ will match players sooner if they’re open to different roles

[ad_1] It works on a credit system that provides more Fast Queue games the more you’re willing to play any role. You get four games (on top of the one you’re playing) each time you play solo. Two-player parties earn two games each, while three-player teams earn a game each. Five-player stacks will always enter […]

Steam’s redesigned Library is available to everyone

[ad_1] This is also a big update if you miss the days of multiplayer games on the couch. The new version expands the Remote Play Together beta to everyone, not just people using the beta client. Again, this lets you play local multiplayer games across the internet. Only the host needs a copy of the […]

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

[ad_1] Valve’s lawyers attempted to argue Steam was a subscription service, according to French publication Numerama. The court, however, rejected Valve’s defense, saying Steam doesn’t sell games as part of a subscription package. The court went on to say Valve’s policy on game reselling is against European Union laws that govern the free-flow of digital […]

Steam recommendation engine no longer favors popular titles

[ad_1] Now, Valve has issued an update to the Steam Store that includes more than a few substantive changes.The update ” features several algorithmic changes and bug fixes in an effort to be more precise and more diverse in how Steam presents tags in the Recommendation Feed, as well as the ‘More Like This’ and […]

‘Dota 2’ champions won more money than top Wimbledon players

[ad_1] Esports consultant Rod Breslau pointed out that an equal split of the $15.6 million prize would give each OG player about $3.1 million. Tiger Woods, for context, ‘only’ pulled in $2.07 million at the 2019 Masters. Even the Wimbledon singles champs Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep took home $2.9 million each. While golf and […]

Valve’s VR headphones started life as two speakers taped to a skate helmet

[ad_1] The “Value Index Ear Speakers” aimed to achieve more immersive audio by creating player-relative stereo sound and focusing on the mid-high frequency range which is important for identifying the source of a noise. The Ear Speakers are different from headphones, Valve says, because headphones are optimized for low power usage and sound isolation. These […]