The Latest Breaking News from Valve

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.

PC Gamer · Aug 30, 2024

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

GamesRadar · Aug 30, 2024

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 · Aug 29, 2024

Deadlock players are learning they can pause the match for the entire lobby, and some are using it for evil

Stretch, get some water, play the slots; or just do it for the tilt factor.

PC Gamer · Aug 28, 2024

City-builder dev says indies need "half a million" in profit to make more money than Valve, decries the 30% Steam store tax as a "relic" that "needs to go down"

Indie developers have long been speaking about Valve's storefront fee

GamesRadar · Aug 28, 2024

Deadlock wins the award for best placeholder UI text I've ever read with this one-line character bio calling one of its heroes an a**hole

Sorry, Lash.

PC Gamer · Aug 27, 2024

'Black Myth: Wukong' Helped Break A New Steam Record

'Black Myth: Wukong' has helped Steam reach a new record of concurrent users, and helped Sony sell more PlayStation 5's in China than ever before.

Inverse · Aug 27, 2024

Deadlock's occult New York setting already has such excellent vibes that I might become a MOBA guy just to see where Valve takes it

I don't know what kind of -punk it is, but I know I want more of it.

PC Gamer · Aug 27, 2024

One of Deadlock's scariest characters is getting a redesign, changing her from an 'alien weeb' into a deadly yokai

Just a small facelift.

PC Gamer · Aug 27, 2024

Deadlock is "going to easily take over," says streamer Shroud, adding that it's the "best third-person shooter I've ever played"

Now that's big praise

GamesRadar · Aug 27, 2024