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Valve asks Steam Deck owners to 'please refrain' from huffing its exhaust fumes, PC gamers immediately respond: 'No'
By Wes Fenlon published
News The nose knows what it wants.
Nvidia's Ampere GPUs continue to dominate Valve's monthly hardware survey, though Ada is slowly building in number
By Nick Evanson published
news AMD and Intel might want to look away, though, as it's not a great read for them.
Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
By Andy Chalk published
news Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.
Valve 'accidentally' leaks the earliest Left4Dead prototype, and it was a Counter-Strike mod all along
By Rick Lane published
News Zomb has been planted.
Left 4 Dead could've had player classes—but the game's co-lead put his foot down: 'no, that is the wrong way to go'
By Harvey Randall published
News "I don’t know how many times where I was told to make [Left 4 Dead] more like Alien Swarm."
25 years later, this Half-Life scientist finally bites it as Gabe intended
By Rick Lane published
News "We wanted to fix this for the 25th Anniversary update but other stuff took priority".
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'
By Joshua Wolens published
News The first Left 4 Dead was more delicate than it first appeared.
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'
By Harvey Randall published
News The game was originally built around four vs. four PvP, but it was "a mess."
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