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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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Apple blocks Steam Link, snubs appeals

Apple have once again proven their Appleness after they've blocked Valve's Steam Link, a game and video streaming application for iOS devices. Apparently, the company found the app to constitute a business conflict with app guidelines.

MAY 25

Steam Spring Cleaning event details and sales

Steam's Spring sale, or as they like to call it Spring Cleaning event, is underway and we're looking at tasks for badge rewards as well as nine games that are free to play over the weekend, and all that with a rather juicy discount to boot.

MAY 25

Steam to re-review games with sexual content

Valve seem to have backpedaled on their decision to ban games with pornographic content, informing at least four game developers to ignore their earlier notice, where they warned them to either censor sexual content or suffer consequences.

MAY 22

Steam dumps another dev for review fixing

You may or may not view them as bad guys here but one thing you can't take away from Gabe and Co is consistency. It's not the first time a developer was caught trying to cheat Steam's ratings and the company once again retaliated fiercely.

MAY 10

Steam streaming coming to Android, iOS

When it comes to digital game downloading, Steam is most certainly a household name but Valve are looking to go even further with two streaming apps dubbed the Steam Link and Steam Video, both of which come with Android and iOS support.

MAY 9

Siltbreaker - DOTA 2 getting a multiplayer co-op campaign

This year's International Battle Pass for Dota 2 will be adding a multiplayer cooperative campaign to the game. The first Valve release containing some actual story in a good long while will see the scorching light of day later this month.

MAY 9

SteamSpy will not be shutting down, dev says

Valve's tweaking of Steam's privacy policy to supposedly comply with the General Data Protection Regulation has once come into question after SteamSpy founder Sergey Galyonkin accused them of having different motives than data protection.

APRIL 27

Firewatch developer Campo Santo joins Valve

Valve's Bellevue office is about to get 12 seats bigger as Campo Santo joins the massive company. Valve will act as publisher to the team for their next title In the Valley of Gods. Firewatch will continue to receive support from the team.

APRIL 23

Valve fined $3 million in refund lawsuit

Valve's court case dating back to 2014 has come back to haunt them, when Australian judiciary found Steam's refund policy to be misleading. The High Court of Australia has dismissed Valve's appeal, which means they owe Aussies $3 million.

APRIL 20

Steam without SteamSpy is a blind draft

Despite the prominence of Sergey Galyonkin's service, SteamSpy's death didn't really make giant waves. However, they're there and we'll all soon be feeling them, as Galyonkin claims he's always known Valve will come gunning for his service.

APRIL 12

Valve's new Steam policy may shut down SteamSpy

It seems like Steam's updated privacy settings may be great for users, but not so great for companies that use it for other purposes, such as SteamSpy. Isn't it ironic that it's Steam killing off some of its best third-party services?

APRIL 11

RDR, GoW2 and others get Xbox One X treatment

With yesterday's news of Microsoft benevolently bestowing Xbox One compatibility on some of its older Xbox offerings, comes news of Xbox One X enhancements for five games as well as addition of backwards compatibility for Sonic Generations.

APRIL 11

$20 games are Steam's bread and butter

Expanding on the presentation he gave on the Game Developers Conference 2018, SteamSpy's Sergey Galyonkin revealed that it's actually the games priced around $20 that make up for most of Steam's revenue, rather than those priced at $9.99.

APRIL 5

Valve pulls their Steam Machines off shelves

Two and a half years after their release in 2015, Valve is pulling the units from manufacture and sales, as the console did not do well, selling less than 500,000 units in it's lifetime. Valve's plans to knock Windows 8 off did not succeed.

APRIL 2

Trade rules for CS:GO met with resistance

Valve have recently changed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's trading system, prompting an outrage within their community. The new system requires players to wait for seven days before trading their items, and they clearly don't want to.

APRIL 2

Artifact's first gameplay showcase is here

Valve announced the card game last year and audiences were barely intrigued. Today they have released a preview of the game's gameplay system, as well as introduced some of the features that will be added to the game. Still looks meh.

MARCH 29

Top 20 Steam's best earners for 2017

SteamSpy has revealed the top 20 best earners on Steam for 2017. According to the service, they almost earned as much money as the rest of 21000 games on Steam. While not 100 per cent correct, these numbers are the best estimate up to date.

MARCH 24

2017 was Valve's most profitable year so far

Steam saw its most profitable year yet in 2017, according to Sergey Galyonkin, the creator of SteamSpy. He claims that this is in large due to PUBG's massive burst in popularity which contributed to 21 per cent increase in new users.

MARCH 23

GabeN: PUBG is Steam's third top earner

PUBG's immense popularity has recently been underlined by Valve's overlord Gabe Newell, whose latest card throw included a game nobody cares about and placing PUBG on third spot of Steam's all-time earners.

MARCH 9

Steam drops game studio for reviewing own titles, turns out CEO made them do it

Malta based game studio Insel Games has seen its product line completely removed from Steam's digital platform following confirmation the studio has resorted to ratings-fixing. It gets worse - their CEO threatened workers with unemployment.

FEBRUARY 24

Steam overhauled with new wishlists, filters

Valve claim the update will give users more control over their Steam Wishlists, with plenty of filtering and sorting options. Early Access status and review scores are also there and the long clamoured for 'Add to Cart' button has been added as well.

FEBRUARY 17

US Senator says loot boxes cause addiction

United States senator Maggie Hassan has sent a letter and met with the Entertainment Systems Ratings Board and the Federal Trade Commission, respectively, in an attempt to address the issue that, in her words, leads to children being addicted and more susceptible to addiction.

FEBRUARY 15

CS:GO rank up guide | Move up from the rank you're stuck on

Let's start this guide by being honest. You're probably reading this because you're stuck in Gold Nova, most likely juggling between Nova I and Nova II, with no obvious way to rank up, and playing a lot just doesn't seem to do it.

JANUARY 19

Steam reveals its Top Sellers list for 2017

Steam released its lists revealing the platform's best selling games for both VR and standard gaming, top new releases and top graduates from early access. As per usual, the exact revenues are not revealed and best sellers are grouped in tiers

JANUARY 2

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