Tag Archives: Valve

Valve announced that they are bringing a big update to their famous multiplayer battle arena game, Dota 2. The update contains features based on the feedback received from players and on design tests over the course of this year. The update is brought to players in the form of Patch 6.82. It will contain a lot of changes, rebalancing and ...

Small victories are being obtained against the Australian Classification Board, that many Australians have come to dread, one of them being the classification of the complete uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2. Even though it came five years after the initial release of the game, Left 4 Dead 2 has finally made it, obtaining an R18+ rating. The Date ...

Valve showcased the notorious Techies during The International 2014, but didn’t really say much about the highly anticipated hero since then. Now, the company finally announced that we will be able to play as the explosive squad in Dota 2 starting next week when the new update kicks in. Following this addition, the game will literally never be the same again ...

To say Valve is one of the most well-known and respected companies in the industry would be an understatement, but to say that game developers would rather work for them than any other company isn’t something that everybody will agree on. However, a survey conducted by the Independent Game Developers Association reveals that this is indeed the case. The survey asked ...

According to SteamDB, there might be a multitude of changes to the Steam store page. This has been discovered after searching through updates to the Steam Translation Server. The main changes consist in the addition of new content curation options and overhauling the front-page behavior. Also, additional upcoming changes have been revealed, as seen below: Content Curation: this feature allows one ...

The glorious PC gaming master race is famous for its modding skills, but somehow there was never a serious attempt at pitting against each other the two biggest MOBAs out there. Well, now at long last a brave soul is confident that he can achieve this feat. There are plenty of rivalries out there: PS4 vs Xbox One, Android vs iOS, Pepsi ...

As most of you probably know already the original Defense of the Ancients started off as just a mod for Warcraft 3. Blizzard’s excellent real-time strategy game had a plethora of community-created mods, but Dota is definitely the most famous by far. It did spawn a brand new genre of games after all. Its successor, Dota 2 managed to become even ...

With a prize pool of almost $11 million, The International 4 is not only the biggest Dota 2 tournament to date, but also the biggest e-sports event of all time. Yesterday Valve gave the millions of fans watching the All Star Match one more reason to be excited about. The company revealed what is perhaps the most anticipated hero from the ...

Remember the awesome bouncy gel from Portal 2? Well, now there’s an entire mod revolving around it and it was just made available on Steam. Entitled Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative, this mod adds a brand new campaign to Portal 2, a new fully voiced character, 27 new maps, new soundtrack, in-game editor, and more. But the most interesting ...

With a total prize pool of over $10 million Dota 2’s The International 4 tournament is the most important event in E-Sports history. Given this huge success, Valve is taking into consideration the possibility of creating something similar for another one of their games, Counter-Strike. Although the FPS is not as popular as it once was, CS did make a comeback with ...