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Valve Corporation is an American game development and distribution company well known for their popular titles Half Life, Counter Strike, and DOTA, and, of course, for their PC game client Steam.

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World War Z dev wanted to remake Half-Life 2

Saber Interactive, the company you know from their zombilicious shooter World War Z, have already revealed they offered to develop Days Gone's multiplayer, but their CEO Matthew Karch says they also pitched a Half-Life 2 remake to Valve.

MAY 21

Steam Link has finally arrived on App Store

Well, it's 'only' taken Apple a year to finally approve Valve's Steam Link mobile app, which has been approved, then pulled from the App Store. At the time, Apple legal services cited 'business conflicts' as the reason for the snub.

MAY 16

Steam glitch handed out free indie games

SidAlpha, game critic and ruffler of industry feathers as he calls himself, has reported on a serious glitch that plagues Steam, allowing for free downloading of several indie games and consequently tanking their Trading Card values.

MAY 13

Dota 2 Battle Pass officially announced

Valve's money-making machine MOBA, Dota 2, is about to restart its engines with the new Battle Pass that will contribute to The International 2019 prize pool. It features 2,000 tiers with rewards in just about every aspect of the game.

MAY 8

Valve officially reveal Index VR Headset

Valve officially revealed their VR Index kit which consists of a headset, two controllers and base station for a price of $1000. Valve's VR kit runs at 120Hz with an experimental 144Hz mode with dual 1440 x 1600 LCD displays for each eye.

Semir OmerovicAPRIL 30

Steam officially has one billion accounts

Valve's popular game distribution service Steam has hit a unique milestone as its one billionth user registered an account on 28 April 2019, and even though this doesn't mean all the accounts are active, it's still more than noteworthy.

APRIL 30

Epic CEO: If Valve go 12%, we stop exclusives

Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney has been under a lot of fire for the Epic Games Store's policy of chasing exclusives, but now he said that if Steam adopted the 12-88 revenue share model, they would stop and even consider putting their games there.

APRIL 25

Screenshots of Left 4 Dead 3 surface

Valve haven't exactly been at the forefront of game development in these past years, which makes every bit of info precious and Valve News Network now published a batch of 29 screenshots of what they claim is a Left 4 Dead 3 level.

APRIL 19

Gearbox: Epic will outpace Valve and Steam

Responding to players' concerns over Borderlands 3 being a timed Epic Games Store exclusive, Gearbox's CEO Randy Pitchford wrote a lengthy essay, insisting that Epic's efforts may make Steam look like a dying store in 5 to 10 years.

APRIL 19

OpenAI beats the Dota 2 world champions

OpenAI's completely AI-controlled team has beaten the reigning world champions OG in Dota 2. There were some restrictions for playing the AI-controlled team but Skynet inevitably found weaknesses and crushed the puny human enemies.

APRIL 15

Epic Store to not have forums & trading cards

Tim Sweeney has confirmed that Epic Games will not develop in-store forums for third-party titles and there will be no trading card metagame. On the other hand, most of the other services Steam provides are on Epic Games Store's roadmap.

APRIL 12

Former Steam worker sides with Epic Store

Former Valve developer Richard Geldreich has expressed support to what Epic Games are doing with their Steam-competing distribution platform, claiming that Epic and their CEO Tim Sweeney are saving the gaming industry from Valve and Steam.

APRIL 8

Gearbox not happy over Steam review bombing

You probably heard that Gearbox's announcement of Borderlands 3 as a timed Epic Games Store exclusive was followed by Steam review bombing, and Gearbox claim this is exactly why 2K's decision makes sense and will reconsider themselves.

APRIL 8

Valve want to launch Index VR headset in June

Even though GabeN and Co were planning to keep us in the dark a bit longer regarding the Index, their plan went awry. A premature Steam listing has been caught by a few eagle-eyed users and although Valve took down the pages, it's too late.

APRIL 2

Valve teasing VR headset launch for May 2019

It seems it's finally time for Valve to deliver the long rumoured VR headset, although the company aren't exactly spoiling us with details. As usual, if we may add. We do know that it's called Valve Index and that it's coming in May 2019.

MARCH 30

Valve admit they messed up Artifact

Valve have finally admitted they messed up with Artifact and now they are working to fix the game but it will apparently take some time as the issues are deep-rooted, according to an official blog post on the Steam Community page.

MARCH 30

GabeN confirms Valve are still working on VR

In case you've been concerned over the recent layoffs in Valve, which mostly affected the company's VR department, you can stop now as Gabe Newell himself confirmed that none of these games, or Knuckles for that matter, are affected.

MARCH 25

Valve reveal Steam Library overhaul

Valve have showcased the new looks of the Steam Library which will now seemingly be more interactive in an attempt to help users keep up with their games. Most importantly, it will keep the familiar column of owned games on the left.

MARCH 22

New features for Dota Plus have arrived

Valve's subscription service Dota Plus recently got a new feature that will help esports enthusiasts with following the latest events in Dota Pro Circuit. It will contain rewards and allow users to follow Dota 2 esports in real time.

MARCH 16

Valve laid off 13 workers, mostly from VR

By now there's no doubt that the first quarter of 2019 will be most remembered by Respawn's success story with Apex Legends and whole lotta layoffs. This time, it's Valve who parted ways with 13 full-time workers and some contractors.

MARCH 8

Developers unhappy over Steam's date trick

Several developers have voiced discontent over a method that relies on changing a game's launch date, which then conveniently allows games to stay in Steam's Popular Upcoming category. Valve have been made aware and are discussing it.

MARCH 6

Steam's about page hints at redesign

With all the dust kicked up around the Epic Games Store, all eyes seem to be on Steam in anticipation of what GabeN and Co have had in mind. One bit, in particular, has caught the users' eyes as it suggests that Steam is getting a redesign.

FEBRUARY 26

Steam retiring non-gaming video service

Although Valve have given Steam's video service a fair shot, expanding it in the past few years, but it doesn't seem to be working out as Valve revealed that it will be retiring the video content that's not directly related to gaming.

FEBRUARY 20

PUBG wins Steam's Game of the Year 2018 award

Valve have revealed the winners of Steam awards for 2018 which have been voted by the Steam users. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took the Game of the Year award while CD Projekt Red and their RPG The Witcher 3 picked up two trophies.

Semir OmerovicFEBRUARY 9

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