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Readers of the automotive website Jalopnik got a pretty awesome deal last month. For a certain number of dollars they were able to support the 24-hour Nürburgring endurance car race that takes place in Germany. Pitching in naturally came with some benefits including the option of having your name written on the wing or roof of a car. One genius contributor, aptly ...

Valve has released an update to the Steam client. The update fixes a number of issues with the client while also adding support for virtual reality on both Linux and Mac. Other changes include: Fixed in game overlay sometimes not activating on first hot key press after game launch Fix a rare crash during login inside of Big Picture if ...

Valve just released a new post entitled “It’s Happening” on Dota 2’s official blog. But what’s happening? The International 4 of course. The most important Dota 2 event of the year is just around the corner and it all begins next Tuesday, July 8th when the Playoffs kick in. To get us all just a little bit more excited for the ...

It’s that wonderful time of year again–when Valve intends to raid your wallet with its super mega awesome summer sale! Valve is back with its digital bargain bin, which contains steep discounts on some great (and not so great) PC games. Each day, Steam will see new daily deals added on top of their already extensive list of deeply discounted goodies. Best ...

Valve has released the latest major update for their popular multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2. Entitled Love and War, the new update comes with lots of changes and additions to the game. The 5 new weapons will certainly be of interest to players, but the 15 brand new taunts and 43 cosmetic items are not to be overlooked either. Some of ...

The Heroes Rise games are the first ever text adventure games to be released on Steam according to developer Choice of Games. Although the platform has previously allowed visual novels and other text-based games to be sold on its store, the Heroes Rise series are the first text-only titles listed. The Heroes Rise games that are now available on Steam ...

SteamBoy is an upcoming handheld gaming console that lets you play most of the games available on Steam. The project was revealed at E3 2014 by the Steamboy Machine Team, a third party company not affiliated with Valve. The console itself looks like a hybrid between the PS Vita and the latest Steam Controller. The company describes their product like this: ...

A few days ago Valve released the latest Dota 2 patch, which comes with the usual assortment of bugfixes and hero tweaks. The patch goes by the name of 6.81b and also adds some new Compendium rewards. A quick look at the official patch notes reveals that Daily Hero Challenge, Alternate Voice Vote, and Model Update Vote are now available to ...

Valve announced today that several new stretch goals have been added to the Dota 2 Compendium. We reported a few days ago that the prize pool for TI4 was already over $5 million, well guess what? Now it’s over $6 million! The company issued the following statement as soon as the massive sum was reached: “It’s been only twelve days since ...

The biggest Dota 2 event of the year has just reached a new milestone. As of this writing, the prize pool for The International 4 championship is already at over $5 million. Believe it or not the total prize money was $3 million just a few days ago. This incredible surge can be attributed to the Dota 2 Compendium which ...