Desolation is a Portal 2 mod (though that descriptor really sells it short) that’s closer to a full-blown, fan-made sequel to Valve’s series.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
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Let’s Rank The Half-Life Games, From Worst To Best
The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. While the vast majority of the series is very good, they can’t all be equally great. Let’s rank ‘em!Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Dota 2 Gets New Hero And Massive Mistwoods Update
Dota 2's Mistwoods update dropped yesterday, making a ton of changes to the game and adding its 120th hero: a crossbow toting woodland creature named Hoodwink. Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Counter-Strike Player Says He’s Been Offered Thousands For Match Fixing
Esports match fixing has been on the rise lately, so much so that we’ve seen charges, arrests and direct accusations of links to organised crime. And in perhaps the clearest signal of how rife things are getting locally, one player has spoken up about how much they’ve been offered to fix CSGO games.Read more… Continue […]
Counter-Strike Player Says He’s Been Offered Thousands For Match Fixing
Esports match fixing has been on the rise lately, so much so that we’ve seen charges, arrests and direct accusations of links to organised crime. And in perhaps the clearest signal of how rife things are getting locally, one player has spoken up about how much they’ve been offered to fix CSGO games.Read more… Continue […]
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Just Got a New Achievement, Because Gabe Newell Is Shooting A Gnome Into Space
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How to Beta Test PC Games on Steam for Free
Valve is changing how beta access works for Steam games for the better. Instead of forcing you to input a special key from a game’s developer to join a beta, the new Steam Playtest feature makes it a lot easier to find and sign up to test games on your own.Read more… Continue Reading at […]
How to Beta Test PC Games on Steam for Free
Valve is changing how beta access works for Steam games for the better. Instead of forcing you to input a special key from a game’s developer to join a beta, the new Steam Playtest feature makes it a lot easier to find and sign up to test games on your own.Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Half-Life’s Music Was Just As Brilliant As The Rest Of It
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we grab a crowbar and go hunting headcrabs in the PC shooter classic, Half-Life.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
It Would Cost $538,000 To Buy Everything On Steam
I can’t believe I’ve never seen or wondered about this before, but it turns out you can scrape data from Steam and find out how much the entire service’s catalogue would cost to purchase. And it’s…a lot less than you’d probably think?Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Modded Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Designed To Hunt Cheaters
Team Fortress 2 has a problem with bots, but not all of its bots are there for cheating. Some have been programmed to hunt down the cheaters.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Counter-Strike Coaches Banned For Up To Two Years For Abusing Spectator Bug
Players get banned for cheating every day, but you know who usually doesn’t get smited from the competitive heavens? Coaches.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Steam Glitch Temporarily Removed Some Games, Purchases From Accounts
Last night a temporary glitch hit some Steam users in the worst way possible, removing games and additional purchases like DLC from some player’s libraries.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Valve Failed To Make A Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx
Back in March, after 13 years of waiting, Valve finally released a new Half-Life game. Half-Life: Alyx, a VR-only prequel to Half-Life 2, was a big success for Valve, garnering lots of positive reviews and pushing many folks to buy a VR headset. But before Alyx, Valve tried and failed to create more Half-Life, with…Read […]
Valve Failed To Make A Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx
Back in March, after 13 years of waiting, Valve finally released a new Half-Life game. Half-Life: Alyx, a VR-only prequel to Half-Life 2, was a big success for Valve, garnering lots of positive reviews and pushing many folks to buy a VR headset. But before Alyx, Valve tried and failed to create more Half-Life, with…Read […]
I Turned My Steam Profile Into A GeoCities Disaster
A new Steam rewards program that just launched lets players obtain Steam profile items and backgrounds using points earned by purchasing games. Some of these can turn your profile into an ugly mess. I decided to see just how ugly.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Counter-Strike Is Now Old Enough To Drink
On June 19, 1999, Minh Le and Jess Cliffe released a humble little mod for the original Half-Life called “Counter-Strike”. In 2020, 21 years later, it is still one of the most popular video games on the planet.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Racist Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Devising New Tactics To Evade Valve’s Crackdown
For months now, Team Fortress 2 has been wilting under a concerted assault from spam bots, many of which overwhelm chat with racist and homophobic messages. Now Valve, which has otherwise largely abandoned the game, has stepped in. But that doesn’t mean the problem has been entirely solved.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Racist Team Fortress 2 Bots Are Devising New Tactics To Evade Valve’s Crackdown
For months now, Team Fortress 2 has been wilting under a concerted assault from spam bots, many of which overwhelm chat with racist and homophobic messages. Now Valve, which has otherwise largely abandoned the game, has stepped in. But that doesn’t mean the problem has been entirely solved.Read more… Continue Reading at https://kotaku.com
Steam Game Festival Lets You Try Out Upcoming Games
It is mid-June. We are now deep into what would have been E3 season, if E3 existed on another planet that wasn’t plunging deeper and deeper into turmoil with every passing second. But hey, digital events are fun. On that note, the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition, which Valve rescheduled from last week while…Read more… […]