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As cheating in Deadlock rears its head, Valve goes, yeah, maybe anti-cheat for its new hero shooter is a good idea

Valve is already working on Deadlock's cheating problem

GamesRadar

Steam Families lets you control how your children play video games

It’s now easier than ever to access Steam’s game-sharing and parental control features following a big update to the digital store for PC games.

Evening Standard

Steam says you officially only get one family per year as its new game sharing feature leaves beta

If you leave a Steam Family, you can't join another one for another year

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Steam Families is out of beta testing, letting a household share PC games with ease

Valve's Steam Families feature is now out of beta testing, letting everyone try the new method for sharing games.

Windows Central

Deadlock gives me the same feeling Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 did before they consumed my life

Valve’s new MOBA blends the futuristic with the tried and true, brilliantly sailing the genre into uncharted waters.

PC Gamer

Every Deadlock hero and all abilities

All 21 Deadlock hero names, abilities, and 13 more unreleased heroes found in console commands.

PC Gamer

Should you buy a Steam Deck instead of a PS5 Pro? How about instead of a new car you buy a boat?—these things are not the same

Even as a Steam Deck fan, I'm surprised to see Valve's handheld suggested as some sort of like-for-like replacement for Sony's newest home console.

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Valve's Latest Shooter 'Deadlock' Already has a Cheater Problem

Valve's latest 6v6 hero shooter, Deadlock, already has a cheater problem that has fans thinking of the studio's other titles that have similar issues.

Player One

Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month

The Netflix-owned studio has already delisted the game from the site.

PC Gamer

A book with names from a 340,000-player TF2 petition has been hardbound and sent to Valve, as part of the #SaveTF2 campaign

Mann versus Machine.

PC Gamer

Turns out the Acer Nitro Blaze 7 already exists, but I’m not mad about it

The upcoming Acer Nitro Blaze 7 seemingly features the same design as the $1,000 Terrans Force Handle 5, but that could be great news in terms of price.

GamesRadar

New Valve shooter Deadlock is still in invite-only alpha, but it's already got "very blatant" cheaters

Look away, Team Fortress 2 fans

GamesRadar

Chaotic scamp hijacks Deadlock's official Discord bot, announces a fake shutdown, immediately accuses mods of lying, and plunges chat into anarchy

False alarm.

PC Gamer

'What a sad existence': The first cheaters in Deadlock have been spotted, giving players some pretty bad flashbacks to TF2 and CS

What is the actual point?

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Deadlock players find new in-progress hero Slork, some sort of shark man who chomps people and resembles a Dota 2 hero, and I already know he's my main

Slark, meet Slork

GamesRadar

Valve cuts off Deadlock stat tracking and the community understands why: "This game is in beta and they clearly aren’t ready for stats sites yet"

Tracklock's gotta step back for now

PC Gamer

'They clearly aren't ready for stats sites yet': Valve prevents a Deadlock tracker from getting any more information on matches

Even before this, the trackers weren't gospel.

PC Gamer

Deadlock's pause update changed one of its most annoying features to try and stop players from turning the MOBA into a slideshow

Hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right.

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Counter-Strike 2 pro falls foul of the SnapTap ban and fesses up: 'embarrassing and amateur'

Not so HEROIC.

PC Gamer

If Deadlock is your first MOBA, here are 6 tips to suck less at it

A little game sense goes a long way.

Tom’s Guide

I’ve been playing this ‘unsupported’ game on my Steam Deck OLED — don’t believe the skeptics

Valve lists Horizon: Forbidden West as 'unsupported' on Steam Deck, but I wholeheartedly disagree — after playing it for hours.

PC Gamer

Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next

Can the attempted revivals of past live service games give us a preview of what Concord does next?

Inverse

‘Half-Life’ Developer Valve Gobbles Up An Indie Studio For An Unknown Project

'Risk of Rain' creator Hopoo Games is closing its doors as its staff joins Valve on an unknown project.

PC Gamer

Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game

Going the way of the Campo.

GamesRadar

After Gearbox's disastrous Risk of Rain 2 DLC launch, the roguelike's original devs announce their move to Valve: "We love making games – and will continue to do so, for years to come"

Many of Hopoo Games' devs - including its co-founders- are now at Valve

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