A month ago, Seattle played host to PAX Prime 2015, one of the world's largest gaming and pop culture events. With Valve HQ situated so close to Seattle, it makes perfect sense for their team to wheel out the bandwagon to discuss their on-going hardware endeavors in great detail, with the HTC...
With the Frankfurt Major qualifiers coming up in just over a week, Valve are getting Dota 2 ready with the release of the 6.85 balance patch, which was released this evening alongside numerous other modifications to the game client. Like all balance patches, 6.85 looks to tweak the game's wide...
With just over a week to go until the start of the qualifiers for the first of Dota 2's "Major" tournaments, Valve have spilled the beans regarding what is now known as "The Frankfurt Major". Here's the basic rundown: The Major will be held at Festhalle Messe in Frankfurt, Germany, it will be...
With the launch of the first "Steam Machines" coming up in the last few months of this year, Valve are working hard to try and get the Steam platform ready for what are essentially simplified PC's. A big part (no pun intended) of the Steam Machines project has always been Big Picture Mode, which...
Our content release schedule has been a little...unusual lately. But not nearly as unusual as the aliens poised to invade Team Fortress 2! Other, less-weird things in the news these past few weeks include more big updates for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, and Valve getting more...
Thanks to a recent tweet by Valve engineer Joe Ludwig, we were recently made aware of some of the company's latest virtual reality experiments. The experiments largely revolve around "photogrammetry", a technique traditionally used to create 3D measurements using multiple 2D photographs from the...
CS:GO will be ported to Source 2 if and when there is a need -- which numerous people from Valve have said will be a while. CS:GO works fine on Source 1, and the effort necessary to port it to Source 2 is way too much for no benefit. Dota 2 needed it because the tools and functionality Valve...
This evening's CS:GO patch has dropped something of a bombshell, with Valve announcing they have totally revamped the game's player animation system. As shown by the image below, the game's previously-rectangular hitboxes have been replaced with more realistic and suitable rounded versions...
Likely not connected, it's made by Escalation Studios.
It wasn't made by Valve, pay attention to the end - it's a community created video. The Invasion update for TF2 (for the longest time) was a community-created project made for fun. As the models used in the game show, this project has now...
A seemingly innocent and minor patch for TF2 released this evening has sent the community into a bit of a frenzy after a number of suspicious posters and UFO's were found throughout 2fort, Dustbowl, Badwater Basin, Lakeside, Hydro, and many more. The posters parody real-world conspiracy...
Okay...we know - this week's Round-Up is over half a month late! Fret not, as we'll still be recapping all the recent talking points...no matter how old they may be by this point! These include recent shake-ups surrounding the launch of the HTC Vive, new updates and features for TF2 and the Gun...