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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

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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.

Tom’s Guide

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.

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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

GamesRadar

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.

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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

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

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.

PC Gamer

Your ROG Ally doesn't suck, Windows 11 does

It appears that SteamOS yields huge performance and battery life improvements when compared to Windows 11.

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Deadlock's steampunk-meets-fantasy style is already inspiring fan art

Valve's new shooter isn't even out yet and is winning over gamers.

Creative Bloq

Hollow Knight: Silksong fans tragically trolled by a random Steam update listed as "for beta testing"

It actually was too good to be true

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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.

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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

PC Gamer

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.

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'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.

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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

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

Just a small facelift.

GamesRadar

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

Catastrophe: Deadlock's Steam store page breaks Valve's own rules, so Valve is going to have to police Valve

That'll be five screenshots please, Valve

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Valve's Deadlock Surges in Popularity on Steam Following Official Announcement

Valve's official announcement of its latest shooter, Deadlock, has caused the game to surge in popularity on Steam with more than 90,000 concurrent players.

PC Gamer

'A violation is upon you': Valve called out for breaking its own rules with Deadlock's Steam store page

"This is not a joke," says developer who I'm pretty sure is joking—and the best part is, he's technically correct, too.

PC Gamer

'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates

Valve's lifted the restrictions on discussing its not-so-secret shooter MOBA.

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