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Valve has removed Dust2 from the active map pool in CS:GO, meaning it will no longer be played at a pro level. The latest patch to CS:GO has re added Inferno to the active map pool, after almost a year out of rotation that involved a significant rework. It’s addition …
Read More »European Commission opens investigation into Valve over suspected anti-competitive geo-blocking practices
The European Commission has announced it will be launching an investigation into the bilateral agreements concluded between Valve and five PC game publishers over a suspected breach in EU antitrust rules. The Commission says it wants to investigate whether these companies are preventing consumers from purchasing digital content due to …
Read More »Valve starts blocking TF2 gambling accounts
After cracking down on Counter Strike: Global Offensive gambling accounts last year, Valve has now started targeting more gambling websites based around its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. In a statement released on the Team Fortress website, the company wrote: "In July of last year we outlined our position on …
Read More »Tomas “oskar” Stastny returns to mousesports CS:GO roster after disappointing Major
Tomas "oskar" Stastny will replace Chris "chrisJ" de Jong on the mousesports CS:GO roster effective immediately. The change comes after mousesports had a disappointing major, finishing in 12th-14th place and failing to make it into the legends status stage. Some had predicted the team to do well, but they looked …
Read More »Make it to the Dota 2 Major Qualifiers by playing in the weekly Battle Cup
Valve has announced that each region’s qualifying tournament for upcoming Dota 2 Majors will reserve one spot for a team that wins the tier-8 Champions Cup. Now what is the tier 8 Champions Cup? Well the Champions Cup is the new end of season tournament that will see the best …
Read More »New Dota 2 in game event give players a chance to earn a new courier
The first special Dota 2 event in quite some time has gone live and give players a chance to win a new Baby Roshan courier. The Dark Moon event adds a new game mode that sees a team of five players try to fend off waves of increasingly hard enemies, …
Read More »The quarter final match ups for the ELEAGUE Major have been revealed
Overnight the group stage of the ELEAGE Major concluded, meaning we now know the eight teams that will be fighting it out in the knockout stage of the competition this weekend. NaVi, Virtus Pro, Fnatic, SK Gaming, Gambit eSports, FaZe Clan, Astralis and North all made it to the top …
Read More »More SteamVR headsets are on the way, Valve says
Following the release of Valve’s first VR headset in 2016, the company has said that more virtual reality headsets using its Lighthouse tracking tech are in the works. In reply to a question on a Reddit AMA, Valve’s Joe Ludwig outlined progress being made in licensing the firm’s SteamVR Tracking …
Read More »Former Fnatic CS:GO roster set to reunite after ELEAGUE Major says report
Both Robin “flusha” Rönnquist and Jesper “JW” Wecksell are set to reunite with their former Fnatic teammates to recreate the roster that dominated CS:GO for months. A report from Slingshot eSports states that flusha and JW will join forces with Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer, Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson and Dennis “Dennis” Edman …
Read More »Gabe Newell hints at new Valve game and movies in Reddit AMA
Gabe Newell took some time to conduct an AMA yesterday, confirming there’s a new game set in the shared Half Life/Portal universe currently in development and that Valve is also working on a fully-fledged” single player game – we don’t know if these are two different projects or the same …
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