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The Latest Breaking News from Valve

Steam's new 'Helpfulness' system for user reviews is here to fix Steam's 'Helpful' system for user reviews

Valve just can't stop fiddling.

PC Gamer

Valve stops laughing, starts ranking your Steam reviews with a new "helpfulness" filter that makes memes, jokes, and beautiful ascii art less visible

Top-ranked reviews will apparently be more informative now

GamesRadar

Steam's latest beta removed the 'open screenshot location' button and it's sending me into an existential crisis

WHERE ARE MY SCREENSHOTS, VALVE??

PC Gamer

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Valve issues new rules outlawing links in Steam page descriptions, hopefully bringing an end to the plague of demos pretending they're 'prologue games'

Our long national nightmare is almost over.

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Valve "didn't like" Steam pages linking to other pages, and it's "enforcing new rules" on what devs can write on its store

Links to other websites will be automatically removed next month

GamesRadar

Asus ROG Ally could run Steam Deck OS in the future

Could there be SteamOS on your ROG Ally soon?

3 features I'd miss if I switched my ROG Ally to SteamOS

However, when SteamOS arrives on other platforms like the Asus ROG Ally or any Windows 11 device, there will undoubtedly be benefits of running SteamOS, but what will the negatives be?

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New 'Trending Free' Steam chart stops free-to-play games and demos from spamming other lists on the storefront

You won't find demos flooding Steam's New & Trending chart again

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Valve is 'continuing to work on adding support' for other handhelds, but 'SteamOS isn't ready to run out of the box' just yet

Is SteamOS becoming the Half-Life 3 of gaming operating systems?

PC Gamer

Half-Life fans mistake vaccine company founded by FPS stan as an official Half-Life 3 teaser from Valve: "We do not work in this sector at all"

This is all happening because of you scientists!

GamesRadar

Valve isn't even trying to hide its worst-kept secret anymore, as unannounced hero shooter Deadlock is reportedly open to anyone and totally unrestricted by NDA

The unannounced shooter's player count keeps growing

GamesRadar

We can all see that Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock just hit over 18,000 concurrent players, Gabe

This thing's gotta come out soon, right?

PC Gamer

Asus ROG Ally mentioned in latest SteamOS 3 beta release notes — Valve's platform expansion ambitions take shape

SteamOS 3.6.9 patch notes name the ROG Ally and point toward an imminent wider release of SteamOS 3.

Tom’s Hardware

Despite pulling in 12,000 players this weekend, Valve still hasn't acknowledged the Overwatch-style shooter everyone knows it's making

Deadlock's playtests are seemingly growing in size

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New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added

"Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.

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Steam users spot leaked new 'helpfulness system' that filters out useless PC game reviews — is Valve finally addressing the problem?

A "new helpfulness system" accidentally pushed live by Valve suggests the company is planning to crack down on unhelpful and low-effort PC game reviews on Steam.

Evening Standard

YouTuber claims to have uncovered Half-Life 3

Is Half-Life 3 real? The latest reports suggest it is, and that it may be out reasonably soon

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20 Years Later, the Greatest Sci-Fi Game of All Time May Finally Get a Sequel

There's evidence that Valve is working on a new single player game. But is it 'Half-Life 3'? Not likely.

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Rust dev is bored of paying Unity '$500k a year' to fix its engine and promises that his Garry's Mod successor won't hoodwink devs with fees

But Valve will need to approve it first.

Tom’s Guide

Is Half-Life 3 actually going to happen?! New rumors suggest it finally could

A leaked actor’s profile page detailed a Valve title named ‘Project White Sands’ and some believe it could be the mythical Half-Life 3.

GamesRadar

Half-Life 3 once again claimed to be in the works, this time from a voice actor's resume, and features "off-world" gameplay with vehicles

Here we go again

PC Gamer

A codenamed Valve project found in a voice actor's résumé has Half-Life fans putting on the clown makeup yet again

What is "Project White Sands"?

Player One

Half-Life 3 Rumors Spread as Valve is Reportedly Working on a New Game

Valve is rumored to be developing Half-Life 3 after online users found a reference of the franchise in a voice actor's resume.

PC Gamer

Valve's former economist says Steam could produce 'better macroeconomic forecasts' than Goldman Sachs with the power of crowdsourcing and brownie points

A haunting vision of a Valve that might've been.

PC Gamer

Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence

Yanis Varoufakis says we're in the age of "technofeudalism," and TF2 hats brought us there.

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