Enlarge Valve announced this week that its prestigious Dota 2 tournament The International will require all attendees to be fully masked and vaccinated for entry. As noted on the Dota 2 site, anyone attending the October competition at the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania, must be at least 10 days out from their final vaccination, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty / Aurich Lawson) Valve has issued a scathing response to Wolfire’s April lawsuit alleging anticompetitive monopoly practices on the Steam storefront . In that response, Valve argues that the suit should be dismissed because it “fails to allege the most basic elements of an antitrust case. ” There’s no right to free […]
The Steam Deck, from Valve. [credit: Valve ] Valve expects that its recently announced Steam Deck portable gaming console will be able to run “really the entire Steam library” on its 1280×800 LCD screen at frame rates of 30 fps or higher. That’s according to a recent IGN video interview in which Valve Hardware Engineer […]
Carrying case, which comes as part of the Steam Deck’s pricier SKUs. [credit: Valve ] Though Valve is fiercely protective of its stratospheric PC game sales data, a rare HTML hole in its Steam service revealed apparently firm numbers about the Steam Deck, the company’s recently confirmed Switch-like portable gaming PC. For the first 90 […]
The Steam Deck, from Valve. [credit: Valve ] On Thursday, Valve took the wraps off of its new Switch-like portable PC, now dubbed the Steam Deck , confirming that is indeed the hardware Ars Technica reported on earlier this year . It will begin shipping later this year at a starting price of $399. The […]
Enlarge / Some Nintendo Switch clip art, plus a Steam logo, equals the Valve “SteamPal”? The math equation isn’t as simple as this listing image might lead you to believe. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC, designed to run a large number of games […]
Monopoly control is a hot topic in the games industry these days. Lawsuits against Apple, Valve, and Sony all take slightly different tacks in arguing that these companies exercise unfair monopoly control over their platforms’ market for downloadable games. Each suit also argues that this monopoly control leads to higher game prices for consumers. Platform […]
Newell poses with faculty at Sancta Maria College before speaking to students at the Auckland school. [credit: Sancta Maria College ] Valve co-founder and Managing Director Gabe Newell hinted that his company may be planning an expansion into the console space soon. While speaking on Monday to students at Auckland, New Zealand’s Sancta Maria College (the […]
In 2019, EGS saw a series of daily user spikes surrounding the release of new free games. [credit: Epic v. Apple court filing ] Last month, a filing in the Epic versus Apple court case showed the public just how much money Epic has been throwing at free games and exclusive “guarantees” to establish a […]
Enlarge / Bill looks over the boycott’s corpse to determine if it’s still a threat… The following piece, originally published in late 2009, looks back at that year’s somewhat quixotic attempted boycott of Left 4 Dead 2—and how that effort eventually fell apart. Flawed as it was, that movement would serve as a precursor to […]