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In under 6 weeks, co-op hit Lethal Company passes Baldur's Gate 3 and Resident Evil 4 to become the highest-rated Steam release of 2023

The viral co-op horror game has well and truly exploded

GamesRadar · Nov 27, 2023

This Nintendo Switch-sized handheld runs PC games, and it's down to its lowest ever price

Amazon has knocked 33% off the Ayaneo Air Pro with an exclusive Prime Member Black Friday deal, and it's worth considering over other handhelds.

GamesRadar · Nov 24, 2023

Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.

PC Gamer · Nov 24, 2023

25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended

"We wanted to fix this for the 25th Anniversary update but other stuff took priority".

PC Gamer · Nov 24, 2023

Valve went back to Half-Life to fix one decades-old bug with a new update

The new patch follows after the huge anniversary update last week

GamesRadar · Nov 23, 2023

Left 4 Dead had such a rocky start that Gabe Newell wanted to play Counter-Strike instead

Left 4 Dead co-lead recalls when Gabe Newell asked him, "why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead."

TechRadar · Nov 23, 2023

Left 4 Dead writer says he ended up leading the project by accident: "No one ever told me I'm running it!"

Chet Faliszek never signed up to head up production on the original Left 4 Dead

GamesRadar · Nov 22, 2023

The reason we got Left 4 Dead 2 as a standalone game was because the first one 'was such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it'

The first Left 4 Dead was more delicate than it first appeared.

PC Gamer · Nov 22, 2023

Left 4 Dead was so busted at launch that it forced a sequel barely 12 months later: "such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it"

Valve built up such a technological debt that it had to start over

GamesRadar · Nov 22, 2023

Left 4 Dead's first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: 'Why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead?' then 'made me watch him play it'

The game was originally built around four vs. four PvP, but it was "a mess."

PC Gamer · Nov 22, 2023