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CS2’s Dead Hand Collection landed with 17 community skins and new gloves
Valve released the Dead Hand Collection, adding 17 community-designed skins to Counter-Strike 2 and introducing the first new glove models…
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Valve: Steam delivered 100 exabytes in 2025 and averaged 274 petabytes of installs and updates per day
Valve published its Steam Year in Review for 2025, reporting that the platform delivered about 100 exabytes of data to…
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Valve reasserts a 2026 launch for its Steam Machine and says the whole lineup will ship this year
Valve confirmed the Steam Machine remains scheduled for 2026 and adjusted a Steamworks announcement on March 6, 2026 to say…
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Valve quietly restores classic CS:GO as a separate Steam download
Valve has restored the original Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a distinct Steam application after the game reappeared on the store…
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Valve warns Steam Deck stock may be intermittent as memory and storage shortfalls bite
Valve is warning shoppers on the Steam Deck web store that the handheld may be intermittently out of stock in…
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Counter-Strike 2 Premier Season Four begins with Anubis and new community maps
Valve began Premier Season Four for Counter-Strike 2 today, bringing community-created maps, new in-game items, a handful of gameplay tweaks,…
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StarLadder and Stake launch Stake Ranked circuit for CS2, six European events set for 2026
On Jan. 12, 2026, StarLadder announced a partnership with sportsbook Stake to create Stake Ranked, a Tier 2 Counter-Strike 2…
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Deadlock dev jokes that removed hero Slork was turned into “delicious stock”
Deadlock players got a grisly bit of developer humor this week when Duncan “Hopoo” Drummond answered a Discord question about…
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Anubis returns to Counter-Strike 2 as Train is dropped from Premier Season Four map pool
Valve has announced the Premier Season Four map pool for Counter-Strike 2, confirming on X that Season Three will end…
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Gabe Newell’s 2009 piracy comments are trending again
A low-resolution clip of Valve co‑founder Gabe Newell speaking about piracy in a 2009 ABC Good Game interview resurfaced on…
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