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By Alleef Ashaari|December 28, 2020|0 Comment
We're only a few days away from the end of 2020 and the start of a new year. Steam has unveiled its Best Of 2020 lists, including the top-selling and most-played games of the year. The Top Sellers category features Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers. However, Steam doesn't exactly reveal how much revenue that a game has to earn to qualify...
What better way to wrap up 2020 not with a giant roundhouse kick to its face, but to buy a ton of games on the Steam platform? Here are the best deals from the Steam Winter Sale 2020, which will last from 23rd December until 6th January GMT+8. We'll be adding in more and more games periodically as time goes by. Octopath Traveler (RM95/S$34.9...
It's that time of year again where PC games go on sale on Valve's digital distribution store and your gaming library increasing tenfold. This year's Steam Summer sale is happening next month; specifically from 25th June to 9th July. This leak is brought to you by Steam Database operator Pavel Djundik. https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1258825537...
By Melvyn Tan|April 14, 2020|0 Comment
Just a month ago, The Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition gave us over 40 game demos to sample. While that event is now over, we'll soon get the chance to try out dozens of other game demos again when The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition arrives this June. The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition will run from 9 June to 14 June 2020; the former ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 1, 2020|0 Comment
Valve is currently working on Beta 2.0 for their card game Artifact, which isn't too warmly received on Steam at the moment. To show how serious they are about improving the game, they've announced a pretty big change. With the Artifact Beta 2.0, card-selling will be a thing of the past. "We aren’t selling cards, so you won’t face an...
By Melvyn Tan|March 31, 2020|0 Comment
To reduce the strain on internet bandwidth during this time of social isolation, Valve is making tweaks to Steam's auto-update function. Steam will now prioritize games that were played during the last three days for immediate updates. Games that haven't been played recently will instead have their updates scheduled for "the next off-peak local ti...
By Melvyn Tan|March 30, 2020|0 Comment
We all probably know Gabe Newell best as the head honcho of Valve. But once upon a time, he was also a World of Warcraft gold farmer. Speaking to Edge magazine (via PC Gamer) Newell spoke of how Valve began to consider games as "productivity platforms", and how he decided to farm gold in the MMO as "a sort of proof-of-concept". "I was making U...
Half-Life: Alyx is out now, and if you can afford a Vive VR headset or an Index, you should check it out at the very least. It's free on Index, FYI. In case you don't, well, this post is for you. There's probably one question plaguing your mind: will the bottom Twitter account be irrelevant? https://twitter.com/IsHL3OutYet/status/1242160877144395...
By Melvyn Tan|March 19, 2020|0 Comment
Gabe Newell doesn't do a lot of press interviews, so his recent interview with IGN was somewhat of a special occasion. Throughout the 30-minute video, the Valve head honcho, alongside game designer Robin Walker, talked about various topics like AI-merging, next-gen consoles ("I think that's less important now. I think they're just delivery sockets ...
9 years or so after its release, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has cracked a million numbers for the first time in the concurrent player space. It's the PC shooter that just wouldn't die. https://twitter.com/CSGO/status/1238847976136536064 In fact, the past few years has been great for the multiplayer esports shooter. Earlier this year, CS:G...
By Melvyn Tan|March 5, 2020|0 Comment
In case you haven't heard, Valve is looking for cities to volunteer themselves and bid to be the host city of The International 2021. In the words of Valve themselves, The International is "a multi-week esports tournament for its game Dota 2" that's held every August. After learning of this Olympic-style procedure, some of us felt that Kuala Lumpur...
By Melvyn Tan|March 5, 2020|0 Comment
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve's long-awaited return to the series that gave us the G-Man, the Gravity Gun, and Half-Life 3 memes. While it's not Half-Life 3, Valve say that Alyx is very much a proper series entry and tease that there's more to come. "Half-Life: Alyx is a full-fledged entry in the Half-Life series, both in terms of the sheer amount o...
By Melvyn Tan|March 3, 2020|0 Comment
Valve has dropped three gameplay videos for its upcoming VR game Half-Life: Alyx, and it's looking pretty darn good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTLotwKpLgk&feature=emb_title The first video focuses on ambience as Alyx navigates a zombie-infested train station, while the second video takes place in a ruined building. The third video sees ...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 14, 2020|0 Comment
One of the most ambitious VR game of all time has finally received a release date, and it's pretty soon. Valve has announced that Half-Life Alyx is slated to release on 24 March 2020. Originally revealed in November 2019, Half-Life Alyx will be the first new Half-Life title in over 13 years. It has since received a pretty lukewarm reception for be...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 3, 2020|0 Comment
Steam broke its own peak concurrent user count earlier today, reaching a whopping 18,801,944 at one point according to tracker site SteamDB. The previous record was 18.5 million two years ago on 6 January 2018. However, that doesn't mean that the number of users who actually played games were nearly as high. In actuality, the number of players in-...
By Burhanudin Zamri|January 22, 2020|0 Comment
When Half-Life: Alyx was announced, everyone expected a bigger reaction. Instead, people just went "What?" because of the game's VR-exclusive nature. To make sure people are less hesitant to give Half-Life: Alyx a go, Valve is letting everyone get acquainted with the Half-Life universe. Starting from today until the release of Half-Life: Alyx, a...
Update (19/1/20): Turns out the slides are just speculation on Alvin Wang Graylin's side. Also, Valve provided an official statement that they're "absolutely not working on anything L4D related now, and haven't for years". You know what they say: if it sounds too good to be true... Original story below. Virtual reality seems to be the in-thing fo...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 6, 2020|0 Comment
Dota 2 fans boast of having one of the largest esports communities and players bases in the world. Little do these people know that the MOBA game is currently experiencing its lowest player count since 2014. Why is that? According to Dot Esports, the average player count for Dota 2 has fallen below 385,000, while the peak player count has continue...
By Alleef Ashaari|December 23, 2019|0 Comment
The first-ever One Esports Dota 2 Singapore World Pro Invitational concluded on Sunday, 22 December 2019, with the grand finals taking place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Vici Gaming emerged victorious as champions after beating Evil Geniuses 3-0 in a best-of-five series to take home a whopping US$200,000 from the total US$500,000 prize pool. O...
By Burhanudin Zamri|December 4, 2019|0 Comment
In 2016, the Campo Santo game studio released its first game Firewatch. It went on to becoming a very successful title, bagging many awards along the way. The studio announced their next project about two years ago but it looks like it won't be out anytime soon. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOXIGzdMv8&w=560&h=315] Speaking to...
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