CS:GO - Weapon Skin Sold for Record Price of $100,000
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.
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Bart Swiatek
July 7, 2020
Free Team Fortress 2 Classic Mod Available for Download
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.
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Conrad Hazi
July 5, 2020
CS:GO Unlikely to Switch to Source 2
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...
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Conrad Hazi
July 5, 2020
CS:GO - Valve Tests New Anti-cheat Protection; Ends up Cracked in One Hour
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.
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Paul Wozniak
June 29, 2020
21 Years of Counter Strike, Artist Drew Maps From CS:GO
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.
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Paul Wozniak
June 20, 2020
Valve Remains Silent on Black Lives Matter; Devs Withdraw Games From Steam
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?
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Mateusz Popielak
June 17, 2020
Half-Life Alyx Boosted Popularity of VR on Steam for Good
Turns out the rise in popularity of VR caused by Half-Life: Alyx wasn't short-lived. May was a record month in terms of the share of VR owners among Steam users.
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Adrian Werner
June 3, 2020
New Mod Improves Half-Life: Alyx Gameplay Without VR Goggles
Half-Life: Alyx is becoming more playable without VR goggles. All thanks to the latest mod, called Pancake FPS Starter Kit.
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Darius Matusiak
May 31, 2020
We Got to Know Why Half-Life 2 Episode 4 Got Canceled
Arkane revealed the reasons for the cancelation of Half-Life 2: Episode 4, also known as Ravenholm. The list includes the credit crisis and Left 4 Dead.
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Adrian Werner
May 29, 2020
Steam Cloud Play - Valve's Streaming Service Becomes a Fact
Valve has provided the developers with the beta version of its streaming service. The goal of Steam Cloud Play, as it is called, is to integrate Steam with GeForce Now and, in the future, to connect it with other platforms of this type.
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Christian Pieniazek
May 28, 2020
New Patch for CS:GO Boosts Performance on Older PCs
Yesterday, CS:GO received a patch introducing an experimental graphic feature that should improve performance on some older PCs and hardware with integrated GPU. Stickers associated with the Warhammer 40,000 universe have also been added to the game.
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Bart Swiatek
May 28, 2020
Valve is Testing a Censored Chinese Version of Steam
Valve Software is working on a Chinese version of Steam - the program was announced in 2018 and recently received an alpha version. The application differs in several respects from the variant known from other regions of the world.
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Bart Swiatek
May 25, 2020
Half-Life 2: Episode 4 - New Glimpse on Arkane's Canceled Game
Noclip channel has published teasers for its next project. Among the animations advertising the documentary about the history of Arkane Studios, there was an unpublished fragment of the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 4.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 22, 2020
Artifact 2.0 Beta Registration Will Start Next Week
Valve is working on big changes in its 2018 card game, Artifact, which was not particularly successful, if not outright a failure. Registration for the beta version of the refreshed title - Artifact 2.0 - will start next week.
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Daria Bochenska
May 19, 2020
Rumors About Steam's Loyalty Program
Pavel Djundik from Steam Database reported of plans to introduce a loyalty program on Steam. This would translate into the possibility to exchange points to obtain virtual items, but also discounts in Valve's store.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 11, 2020
CS:GO Update - Better Info on Most Annoying Kills
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has received a new update. It will provide players with additional information about deadly shots - for example, whether they were fired through smoke or whether the shooter was blinded by a flashbang.
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Paul Wozniak
May 5, 2020
Half-Life: Alyx Responsible for Record Increase of VR Users
In April, 950,000 more Steam users used VR goggles than a month before. VR is breaking popularity records on Valve's platform, which is probably related to the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx.
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Bart Swiatek
May 4, 2020
Valve: CS:GO Source Code Leak Poses No Threat to Gamers
Valve commented on yesterday's leak of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 source code. We were assured that the situation does not pose any threat to users playing on official servers.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 23, 2020
Source Code of CSGO and Team Fortress 2 Leaked
Source codes of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 have been uploaded to the Internet. The perpetrator is connected to ValveNewsNetwork's leading channel, Tyler McVicker, and the leak could potentially threaten the safety of those playing Valve games.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 22, 2020
Artifact Will Receive Single Player Campaign
While working on Artifact 2.0, an extensive update to its 2018 card game, Valve doesn't forget about the lovers of solo experience. The studio is preparing a full-fledged story campaign, which is to appeal to the tastes of both newcomers and people who know the game world like the back of their hand.
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Christian Pieniazek
April 21, 2020