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Turns out the Acer Nitro Blaze 7 already exists, but I’m not mad about it

The upcoming Acer Nitro Blaze 7 seemingly features the same design as the $1,000 Terrans Force Handle 5, but that could be great news in terms of price.

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New Valve shooter Deadlock is still in invite-only alpha, but it's already got "very blatant" cheaters

Look away, Team Fortress 2 fans

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Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock's official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, immediately accuses mods of lying, and plunges chat into anarchy

False alarm.

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'What a sad existence': The first cheaters in Deadlock have been spotted, giving players some pretty bad flashbacks to TF2 and CS

What is the actual point?

PC Gamer

Deadlock players find new in-progress hero Slork, some sort of shark man who chomps people and resembles a Dota 2 hero, and I already know he's my main

Slark, meet Slork

GamesRadar

Valve cuts off Deadlock stat tracking and the community understands why: "This game is in beta and they clearly aren’t ready for stats sites yet"

Tracklock's gotta step back for now

GamesRadar

'They clearly aren't ready for stats sites yet': Valve prevents a Deadlock tracker from getting any more information on matches

Even before this, the trackers weren't gospel.

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Deadlock's pause update changed one of its most annoying features to try and stop players from turning the MOBA into a slideshow

Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right.

PC Gamer

Counter-Strike 2 pro falls foul of the SnapTap ban and fesses up: 'embarrassing and amateur'

Not so HEROIC.

PC Gamer

If Deadlock is your first MOBA, here are 6 tips to suck less at it

A little game sense goes a long way.

PC Gamer

I’ve been playing this ‘unsupported’ game on my Steam Deck OLED — don’t believe the skeptics

Valve lists Horizon: Forbidden West as 'unsupported' on Steam Deck, but I wholeheartedly disagree — after playing it for hours.

Tom’s Guide

Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next

Can the attempted revivals of past live service games give us a preview of what Concord does next?

PC Gamer

‘Half-Life’ Developer Valve Gobbles Up An Indie Studio For An Unknown Project

'Risk of Rain' creator Hopoo Games is closing its doors as its staff joins Valve on an unknown project.

Inverse

Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game

Going the way of the Campo.

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After Gearbox's disastrous Risk of Rain 2 DLC launch, the roguelike's original devs announce their move to Valve: "We love making games – and will continue to do so, for years to come"

Many of Hopoo Games' devs - including its co-founders- are now at Valve

Tom’s Guide

How to record Steam games and make your videos look their best

Recording your favorite Steam games is a straightforward process and once enabled, it’s a great way to relive your favorite gaming memories.

TechRadar

Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10 – at least in the world of PC gaming

Game over, Windows 10: Microsoft turns a corner as Windows 11 finally becomes its most popular OS.

PC Gamer

Deadlock dev discusses Valve's progress on perfecting MMR, 'It'll be more effective once we finish a full rewrite of the matchmaking system'

Playing in the Wild West.

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Valve's new hero shooter Deadlock exceeds 150,000 concurrents despite still being invite-only as a new Portal 2 reference appears in-game

That sure is a familiar teleporter logo

PC Gamer

This week's Deadlock patch offered a brief peek at 3 unreleased heroes before a hotfix shoved them back behind the curtain

Valve inadvertently gave us an early look at a western gunslinger, a scrap-wizard, and a desert djinn. Through a console command, they're partially playable.

PC Gamer

How finished is Deadlock?

Eight months? That's a realistic timeline.

PC Gamer

Deadlock's lanes are utterly fascinating when it comes to MOBA design, and it's because of its shooter elements—not in spite of them

Cover challenges.

GamesRadar

Deadlock players were abusing its pause function, so Valve is limiting their powers in the MOBA/shooter hybrid's first major patch

Alongside over 100 other changes

PC Gamer

Deadlock has guns, but that doesn't make it a shooter

Valve's new MOBA is neat, but it can't give me what a real shooter can.

PC Gamer

MOBAs are suddenly back in fashion, and one dev says it might be because of soulslikes: 'Now that more players understand that it feels great to master a difficult game, I think more are willing to take that journey'

Years after the MOBA bubble burst, August brought three major MOBAs at once.

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