All Stories Tagged: Valve, Page 52

When was the last time you got excited about an operating system? SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based experiment, will be available to download this Friday.

"Welcome to Dota, you suck" is classic Dota 2 advice, but how much do you suck? That'll be revealed when Ranked Matchmaking comes to the free-to-play Dote 'em up, as Valve announced on Friday. The developer's also shared heaps of details on how exactly Dota 2's matchmaking works, which is fascinating reading for anyone who's ever find themself in an unlikely match.

Valve has joined The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux."

One of the first hardware partners to announce an official Steam Machine is iBuyPower.

Valve has released a new Team Fortress 2 animated short! Oh, and a big update for the free-to-play FPS too, I guess. That's what the video is about, really. The patch focuses on TF2's co-op Mann vs. Machine mode, bringing two new urban maps and shiny new weapon upgrades, but also adds a new community-made Control Point map.

Valve has "figured out what affordable Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will be capable of within a couple of years." And they will show what their vision of the future is at an upcoming developer-only event.

Dota 2 will soon receive another downloadable announcer, the droll British narrator from The Stanley Parable.

Valve said it had a "huge" Dota 2 update and gosh golly, it certainly does. Today will bring something for Doters of all skill levels, from coaching tools for newbies to two extra heroes for veterans in search of something new. And as everyone likes hats, crafting is in too.

Halloween last year saw Dota 2 heroes out collecting (and stealing) candy, but this year they were stuck with plain old boring murder for macabre entertainment. The Diretide event, it seemed, was not returning. An uncharacteristically candid Valve has explained that it had hoped to launch a "huge update" for Halloween instead but fell short, and is now working to deliver Diretide a little late.

Valve had been experimenting with biometric controllers. However, its Steam Controller is missing any biometric functionality. What happened?