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Valve's new hero shooter Deadlock exceeds 150,000 concurrents despite still being invite-only as a new Portal 2 reference appears in-game

That sure is a familiar teleporter logo

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This week's Deadlock patch offered a brief peek at 3 unreleased heroes before a hotfix shoved them back behind the curtain

Valve inadvertently gave us an early look at a western gunslinger, a scrap-wizard, and a desert djinn. Through a console command, they're partially playable.

PC Gamer

How finished is Deadlock?

Eight months? That's a realistic timeline.

PC Gamer

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Deadlock's lanes are utterly fascinating when it comes to MOBA design, and it's because of its shooter elements—not in spite of them

Cover challenges.

PC Gamer

Deadlock players were abusing its pause function, so Valve is limiting their powers in the MOBA/shooter hybrid's first major patch

Alongside over 100 other changes

GamesRadar

Deadlock has guns, but that doesn't make it a shooter

Valve's new MOBA is neat, but it can't give me what a real shooter can.

PC Gamer

MOBAs are suddenly back in fashion, and one dev says it might be because of soulslikes: 'Now that more players understand that it feels great to master a difficult game, I think more are willing to take that journey'

Years after the MOBA bubble burst, August brought three major MOBAs at once.

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Your ROG Ally doesn't suck, Windows 11 does

It appears that SteamOS yields huge performance and battery life improvements when compared to Windows 11.

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Deadlock's steampunk-meets-fantasy style is already inspiring fan art

Valve's new shooter isn't even out yet and is winning over gamers.

Creative Bloq

Hollow Knight: Silksong fans tragically trolled by a random Steam update listed as "for beta testing"

It actually was too good to be true

GamesRadar

Deadlock players are learning they can pause the match for the entire lobby, and some are using it for evil

Stretch, get some water, play the slots; or just do it for the tilt factor.

PC Gamer

City-builder dev says indies need "half a million" in profit to make more money than Valve, decries the 30% Steam store tax as a "relic" that "needs to go down"

Indie developers have long been speaking about Valve's storefront fee

GamesRadar

Deadlock wins the award for best placeholder UI text I've ever read with this one-line character bio calling one of its heroes an a**hole

Sorry, Lash.

PC Gamer

'Black Myth: Wukong' Helped Break A New Steam Record

'Black Myth: Wukong' has helped Steam reach a new record of concurrent users, and helped Sony sell more PlayStation 5's in China than ever before.

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Deadlock's occult New York setting already has such excellent vibes that I might become a MOBA guy just to see where Valve takes it

I don't know what kind of -punk it is, but I know I want more of it.

PC Gamer

One of Deadlock's scariest characters is getting a redesign, changing her from an 'alien weeb' into a deadly yokai

Just a small facelift.

GamesRadar

Deadlock is "going to easily take over," says streamer Shroud, adding that it's the "best third-person shooter I've ever played"

Now that's big praise

GamesRadar

Catastrophe: Deadlock's Steam store page breaks Valve's own rules, so Valve is going to have to police Valve

That'll be five screenshots please, Valve

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Valve's Deadlock Surges in Popularity on Steam Following Official Announcement

Valve's official announcement of its latest shooter, Deadlock, has caused the game to surge in popularity on Steam with more than 90,000 concurrent players.

PC Gamer

'A violation is upon you': Valve called out for breaking its own rules with Deadlock's Steam store page

"This is not a joke," says developer who I'm pretty sure is joking—and the best part is, he's technically correct, too.

PC Gamer

'This game is going to easily—and I mean easily—take over': Major streamers, early fans, and esports players share their Deadlock hype after Valve opens the floodgates

Valve's lifted the restrictions on discussing its not-so-secret shooter MOBA.

PC Gamer

Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong

Black Myth: Wukong helped drive Steam to a new concurrent user record this weekend.

Windows Central

Think the Legion Go gaming handheld could be even more versatile? Lenovo's latest official accessories agree

The Lenovo Legion Go gaming handheld just got even more versatile thanks to a new line of official accessories like a carrying case and controller connector.

PC Gamer

Valve developer shares video of an even earlier version of Deadlock, in which the player battles Half-Life 2 enemies with Left 4 Dead weapons

Dead early.

Tom’s Guide

I turned the Asus ROG Ally X into a Steam Deck — it proves Windows 11 kills power and battery life

SteamOS is officially coming to the Asus ROG Ally X, but I got impatient and installed it early. Here are the results, and why it proves Windows 11 should not be used on any gaming handheld.

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