Valve Latest news (7)

Paul Musiolik, 28 December 2020, 19:54

A great year for Steam was crowned with another record. This year's holidays were the best in history when we look at the number of active users.

Paul Musiolik, 20 December 2020, 14:51

Valve boasted that Steam's autumn sale was the biggest sale in store's history. Both on the side of players, as well as developers and publishers.

Paul Musiolik, 20 December 2020, 14:47

Valve has announced the first nominations in six categories of Steam Awards 2020. Soon we will be able to vote for our favourites, and get some collector's cards for it.

Paul Wozniak, 18 December 2020, 18:03

In 2020, more than 200 professional CS:GO players ended their careers. Journalist Richard Lewis explains what could be the reason for this.

Paul Musiolik, 13 December 2020, 17:32

Steam has broken its March record. There were almost 25 million players in the app today, more than 7 million of whom played something. Cyberpunk 2077 certainly added its two cents to this result.

Adrian Werner, 07 December 2020, 12:23

CP2077 continues to dominate Steam's best-seller list for yet another week. However, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is pressing for the leader's position thanks to the launch of Operation Broken Fang.

Adrian Werner, 04 December 2020, 20:01

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has launched Operation Broken Fang, bringing a new mode, additional maps and rewards, as well as better matchmaking.

Paul Wozniak, 02 December 2020, 20:30

Twitter user NorS2021 reported that seven maps in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have seen changes that were not made available yet. According to the players, this heralds the arrival of a long-awaited new operation, for example.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 25 November 2020, 20:32

One of the achievements in Half-Life 2: Episode Two has become reality. A gome called „Chompski” was sent into space aboard the Electron rocket, while collecting money for charity.

Adrian Werner, 24 November 2020, 10:28

Tomorrow, Valve will start accepting nominations for the Steam Awards 2020. At the same time, the great autumn sale is to start.

Adrian Werner, 22 November 2020, 19:10

On the occasion of adding support for PS5's controller to Steam, Valve revealed that the daily number of people using controllers in the service has doubled over the last two years.

Paul Wozniak, 16 November 2020, 19:40

The popularity of Among Us on Steam has significantly decreased over the last 30 days. Meanwhile, Valve's free shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has reached, once again this year, one million simultaneous players.

Paul Wozniak, 10 November 2020, 17:21

Known to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players, Twitter user NorS2021 reported a few days ago that a new operation is coming to Valve's shooter.

Paul Musiolik, 05 November 2020, 16:22

Valve is introducing another facility for developers on Steam. The Steam Playtest option enables them to easily manage access to game tests prepared for players.

Bart Swiatek, 03 November 2020, 13:21

Valve's CEO Gabe Newell plans to send a replica of Gnome Chompsky from Half-Life 2: Episode Two into space. The launch of the rocket will be a charity event aimed at raising money for one of the hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand.

Jacob Blazewicz, 02 November 2020, 21:34

Once again, the gamers vent their displeasure with DRM security. All because of a Reddit user, who suggested that Steam should mark DRM-free games.

Bart Swiatek, 20 October 2020, 15:55

Valve Software intends to fight more actively against toxicity and account boosting in Dota 2. 14 thousand people have recently been banned for manipulating the MMR ranking. The game will also receive a system for reporting inappropriate behavior, modelled on CS:GO's Overwatch.

Paul Wozniak, 16 October 2020, 21:29

Esports referee Michal „Michau” Slowinski spoke about the scandal on the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene, which concerns the use of a glitch to the team's advantage. The Pole was responsible for bringing the case to light and said it was like „opening Pandora's box”.

Karol Laska, 06 October 2020, 22:50

Users complain that they cannot create new Steam accounts or change their passwords. The blame for this lies with CAPTCHA, which cannot be answered correctly.

Agnes Adamus, 02 October 2020, 21:26

Team Fortress 2 is still doing well. During the last 24 hours, the game has set a new activity record. This situation is most probably related to the big update that came out yesterday.

Paul Wozniak, 28 September 2020, 18:36

Today, the ESIC committee informed of several other professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive trainers, who over the past few years have used the bug to observe the map. The full list of accused trainers is expected to appear at the end of October, as so far, only 20% of available match recordings have been checked.

Bart Swiatek, 25 September 2020, 12:39

Eleven years after the release, Left 4 Dead 2 received a new expansion - The Last Stand. Developed by the community and supported by Valve, the expansion introduces a new campaign, locations and weapons. The patch also includes a number of fixes. Additionally, the game can be checked out for free over the weekend and bought on Steam with a very big discount.

Adrian Werner, 17 September 2020, 11:21

The trailer of The Last Stand campaign for Left 4 Dead 2 was released. Valve has also revealed the release date of this update.

Adrian Werner, 16 September 2020, 11:20

We have learned more details about the The Last Stand update for Left 4 Dead 2. It turns out that it will not be a simple map conversion from the first L4D. Instead we will get a full-fledged campaign.

Milosz Szubert, 14 September 2020, 14:10

There is a site that enables us to check how much we would need to spend to buy all the games available on Steam. Currently, the amount is just over $537,000 (nearly $522,000 if discounts are included).

Paul Wozniak, 11 September 2020, 16:05

The recent scandal caused by the use of an exploit by professional coaches of CS teams is not yet over. Yesterday there were reports that more people may be involved in the whole matter.

Paul Wozniak, 04 September 2020, 21:31

For some time now, Team Fortress 2 players have been battling cheaters with specially programmed bots.

Milosz Szubert, 04 September 2020, 20:14

Michal Slowinski and Steve Dudenhoeffer were appreciated for their work on detecting unfair practices of three professional CS:GO team coaches. They received $1,500 reward from the organizers of the Flashpoint tournament series. In addition, GoFundMe is currently collecting money for them.

Karol Laska, 01 September 2020, 19:21

Three CS:GO coaches have committed fraud by using a bug in the game to view the position of opponents on the map. ESL punished the coaches with a long-term ban.

Bart Swiatek, 27 August 2020, 18:26

The creators of Left 4 Dead 2 informed that almost 11 years after its release, the game will receive an update, named The Last Stand. Most probably it is a port of a map from the first game.

Jacob Blazewicz, 20 August 2020, 20:03

Valve's John McDonald announced a solution to the problem of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hackers using bots to abuse the Overwatch system. The victory was short-lived, but apparently the company took the complains of the players to heart.

Adrian Werner, 20 August 2020, 11:16

Steam users have a big problem with Microsoft Flight Simulator. The website counts downloading files as gameplay, and it takes so much time that the two-hour limit for refunds is exceeded.

Paul Wozniak, 18 August 2020, 17:20

For some time now, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has had a large exploit that enabled players to see through walls and smoke grenades, among other things. Valve tried to get rid of it earlier this month, but this just made the bug easier to use.

Damian Gacek, 17 August 2020, 22:14

Buying reviews on Steam is a serious accusation, both for a gamer and a developer. However, there is no denying the existence of such a practice, even if it is negligible in scope. Therefore, we will take a look at the reports from a certain user.

Paul Wozniak, 17 August 2020, 17:35

A few days ago, popular youtuber known as Sparkles released a video, in which a hacker told about how the cheater community in CS:GO protects itself through a so-called Overwatch system. It also enables them to report and ban other players.

Karol Laska, 11 August 2020, 22:32

One of the trusted gaming journalists shared information about Valve's fall project. The company is supposedly planning another Steam Game Festival.

Arkadiusz Strzala, 30 July 2020, 14:38

Steam has changed the payment system. From now on, purchases must be finalized by the local payment method. The move may be part of the fight against buying cheaper games from other regions through VPN.

Karol Laska, 28 July 2020, 22:20

Steam's CEO, Gabe Newell, shared his opinion on next-gen consoles. He says the Xbox Series X is simply better than PlayStation 5.

Jacob Blazewicz, 27 July 2020, 22:20

Valve has quietly added the ability to register for game testing on Steam. The feature is apparently not yet widely available.

Bart Swiatek, 27 July 2020, 11:59

According to some players, the update, which introduced the so-called Trusted Mode - a new solution for battling cheaters - was, in practice, counterproductive.

Paul Wozniak, 16 July 2020, 18:53

Yesterday, a video was released on the web, prepared by the creators of the Style-Productions channel on YouTube, which featured a 15-minute montage of the best plays of 2019 from the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offenisve scene. The video quickly won the heart of many players.

Paul Wozniak, 14 July 2020, 21:04

The BT service revealed the earnings of top Danish Counter-Strike players: Global Offensive. The information provided includes players' contracts, and with additional data available online, we can find out how much the best players earn in total annually.

Bart Swiatek, 10 July 2020, 12:47

Valve Software has worked on several games that have never been completed. These include Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and an RPG that hasn't even got a title.

Bart Swiatek, 09 July 2020, 16:00

The shooter CS:GO received another update, adding the Trusted Mode anti-cheat system tested in June. The system is designed to block third party app that affect the game. Unfortunately, according to some reports, the solution has already been cracked by cheat makers. The system also prevents app used by streamers from working.

Bart Swiatek, 07 July 2020, 11:07

According to user ohnePixel, a Chinese collector paid 100 thousand dollars for StatTrak M4A4 (Howl) skin for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This is the most expensive item of its kind in history.

Conrad Hazi, 05 July 2020, 21:33

The long-awaited Team Fortress 2 Classic mod has went live. It restores the popular title to the state back from 2008-2009, so we can see again many elements that have been changed or removed from the game since then. The mod is available for download for free on the developers' website.

Conrad Hazi, 05 July 2020, 19:52

According to reports early in the year, Valve planned to release an update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in May, switching the game engine to Source 2. As leaks suggest, compatibility issues with player-created content were the main reason for abandoning the idea. At least for a while...

Paul Wozniak, 29 June 2020, 16:48

A few days ago, a new anti-cheat appeared in CS:GO as part of beta tests. It soon came to light that the software was cracked in an hour, and the new feature also causes a lot of performance problems.

Paul Wozniak, 20 June 2020, 17:50

Yesterday, the Counter-Strike series celebrated its 21st birthday. On this occasion, one Reddit user presented several paintings, showing the most popular places known from CS:GO maps.

Mateusz Popielak, 17 June 2020, 18:52

Statements from developers began to appear on the web, as some of them decided to remove their games from Steam. Will Valve suffer from its silence?