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Valve Announces Subscription Service Dota Plus "An Evolution of the Majors Battle Pass"
Earlier today, Valve announced Dota Plus, a new monthly subscription service for Dota 2 that is "designed to help you get the most out of every match you play." They're also calling it an "evolution of the Battle Pass" that Valve tends to put out for events like The International or the Majors. The difference now is that the Pro Circuit meant that the Majors Battle Passes are being replaced with this Dota Plus service. It won't rely on a specific start and end date and it's something t...
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Update for February 28, 2018
A new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released tonight (February 28, 2018 technically). This update makes tracers more reliable in first-person view. In addition, viewmodels now react to weapon recoil and aimpunch.
The full list of changes from today's update can be found below. The download size is 50.9MB.
MISC • Weapon tracers for the local first-person player now appear to come from the weapon muzzle more reliably. Since bullets are actually fired... -
CS:GO Betting Scammer PhantomL0rd Suing Twitch Because He's Probably Running Out of Money or Something
In 2016, PhantomL0rd was found to be involved in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive bet rigging and being an undisclosed partial owner of CSGOShuffle, a skin betting website.
Sorry, I meant to say that he was allegedly a total douche canoe that scammed numerous people out of money by lying to them. To make a long story short, PhantomL0rd was banned from Twitch after news broke about his "allegedly" douchey actions.
Fast-forward now to 2018 and PhantomL0rd is now suing... -
PSA: Steam Lunar New Year Sale Begins; Valve Makes Improvements to Steam Wishlist
First off, Valve kicked off the Steam Lunar New Year Sale today with "discounts on thousands of titles." I mean, it's a sale on Steam. You kind of already know what the deal is with that by now. Go forth and save money, or don't. It's entirely up to you.
Secondly, Valve pushed out an update to Wishlists on Steam.
This update adds more filtering and sorting options, and shows more relevant information such as Early Access state, review score, and ‘add to cart’ buttons... -
Counter-Strike Co-Creator Deemed "A Risk to the Community" and Hit with $150K Bail
On Friday, Counter-Strike co-creator Jess Cliffe was hit with a $150,000 bail after being booked into King County jail on Thursday. The representative for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's office, Nyoka Maraire, requested that the bail be set for $250,000. This would be for both the "community's safety and the victim's safety." The $250,000 bail was requested after it was found that Cliffe had used an adult website to contact a minor and paid for sex multiple times. During one ...
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Counter-Strike Co-Creator Jess Cliffe Arrested for Sexual Exploitation of a Child (Update: Valve Suspends Cliffe)
Jess Cliffe was arrested this morning (February 1, 2018) at 1:17AM (PT) for "sexual exploitation of a child." For those few of you who do not know, Jess Cliffe is a co-creator of Counter-Strike. He and Minh Le (Gooseman) created the wildly popular game back in 2000. It started as a modification for Half-Life and since became a number of very popular stand-alone products. While the police did not provide any additional details, we do know that Cliffe does not have a criminal history. He was book...
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Cloud9 Defeats FaZe at ELEAGUE Boston 2018 to Become First American Roster to Win CS:GO Major
Cloud9 has become the first American Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster to win a Major Championship. Cloud9 defeated FaZe Clan 14-16, 16-10, and 22-19 (2OT) in the Grand Final event that took place earlier tonight. Perhaps just as impressive are the numbers that ELEAGUE pulled in for tonight's event. More than 1,130,000 streams were broadcast at the same time. That has now set a new record on Twitch for most concurrent streams at one time for a single channel. The previous record was ...
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CS:GO Update for January 10: Panorama UI for CS:GO is... Still Not Here
The moment you're all waiting for is finally here. The moment where you are again disappointed at the lack of the Panorama UI for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Oh well, you should be used to this kind of disappointment by now. At least now you know how your parents feel.
However, today's update instead ends the Holiday Cheer event, and provides a couple of minor changes.
Changelog for CS:GO for January 10, 2018
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CES 2018: HTC and Valve Announce SteamVR Tracking 2.0 and Vive Pro Headset
Today, Valve and HTC announced a minor technology bump to the HTC Vive. This bump comes in the form of SteamVR Tracking 2.0, which allows for users to link up to four Base Stations in a single space. In addition to making the jump from two to four stations, the improved technology allows for game space areas to jump to sizes as large as 10 by 10 meters. Valve tells us that the new technology is expected to ship with commercial devises later this year. The new 2.0 Base Stations will be "sm...
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Steam Hits New Record - Surpasses 18.5 Million Users Online at Once
Yet again, Steam has hit another new milestone. The online distribution platform had over 18.5 million people logged in at one time yesterday. This is not only a new record for the platform, but it's a new record by a long shot. The previous record was a decent amount under 18 million people.
The record was hit on Saturday, January 6 around 10AM (ET). Just a few months ago the top concurrent users logged in count was 15 million. It's seen a relatively steady increase of about... -
Valve Rescinds "Major" Designation from 2018 Dota 2 Galaxy Battles Major
Valve issued an important update today regarding the upcoming Galaxy Battles Major for Dota 2. First up, the event is no longer a Major and will thus be known as the Galaxy Battles 2018 tournament.
This is due to "new government regulations for Esports players entering the Philippines."
Based on information we’ve recently confirmed regarding new government regulations for esports players entering the Philippines, we have decided to rescind the tournament’s Major... -
The Best Games on Steam in 2017
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The Best Games on Steam in 2017
There were a lot of video games released in 2017. Most of those seem to have been released on Steam, even a metric ton that you probably have no idea even exist. I'm looking at you, oh let's just say... Evil Come. What with your two user reviews. Yeah, you.
Even still there were a lot of games that did get noticed in 2017. Games like Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt seemed to do a-ok in 2017, earning spots in the "Platinum" tier of the best sellers... -
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Jim French, Voice Actor Known for Left 4 Dead, Dota 2, and Half-Life 2 Has Passed Away
Jim French, the voice actor behind Bill in the Left 4 Dead games, passed away on December 21 at the age of 89.
French brought a force and a life to Bill that immediately made him my go-to choice any time my friends and I played a game of Left 4 Dead. He continued to breathe life into Bill for a special mission in Payday.
French also provided the voice for Father Grigori in Half-Life 2. He was the lone Fisherman in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. Dota 2 players will know him... -
Smissmas Returns to Team Fortress 2 Today
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Smissmas Returns to Team Fortress 2 Today
Valve rolled out the Smissmas 2017 update today for Team Fortress 2. The update includes new community-created taunts, new Winter 2017 Cosmetic Case, a Stuffed Stocking gift for all players that log in, a War Paint Case, and just general changes to the game itself.
Happy Smissmas 2017! • All players who play TF2 during the event will receive a Stuffed Stocking as a gift! Stockings contain goodies for good little Mercenaries. - Event runs through January 10th, 2018 •... -
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Steam Community Reportedly Blocked in China
China sure does love its censorship. By that I mean actual censorship, not that fake "censorship" bullshit that people like to throw around like it's going out of style when they have no other avenue to turn to in an argument. No, we're talking about real, bonafide censorship from the Chinese government here. The latest victim appears to be the Steam Community.
This information comes to us courtesy of ValveTime on Twitter. They pull their information from GreatFire, a website...
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