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The Steam Summer Sale Grand Prix has finished; if you haven't been paying attention, Team Corgi has been winning by a landslide from start to finish. Even with the confusing ruleset, people are still able to exploit it somewhat by just coasting along under one team. Valve knows this and vows to do better next time. Here's what they said in thei...
This news page will be updated on a daily basis. As such, this story is bumped up from its 25th June publish date. Check back here often for the best deals and recommended picks! So yeah, the Steam Summer Sale has started and will last from 25th June to 9th July. You know what to do: splurge on games and make them languish in your Steam lib...
Dota Underlords, Valve's response to the hugely popular Dota Auto Chess, is getting a "Proto-Battle Pass" in the next patch scheduled to release on 4Â July 2019. No specific details were given in the post but players are speculating that it will function more or less similar to the Dota 2 battle pass. On the official Underlords website, it's s...
Remember when we talked about Steam's 70/30 revenue split (alongside other digital platforms)? Valve isn't going to change that anytime soon for the developers, indie or otherwise, and that's irking a lot of people up to now. People like former Paradox Interactive CEO and current executive chairman Fredrik Wester, for instance. He said during a Ga...
Half-Life 3 is one of those persistent gaming urban legends. It's been 15 years since Half-Life 2 originally released and gamers are still somehow convinced that a sequel is on its way. It's certainly not helping that Valve co-founder Gabe 'Gaben' Newell recently re-ignited hopes for Half-Life 3. During Valve's recent Index VR launch party, Gaben ...
This guide is still in development... Want to jump on-board the Auto Chess train but with actual Dota 2 characters and with the Valve seal of approval? Now's the best time as any! Here's a guide to get you through the basics and intermediate parts of the game. The Basics Each game of Dota Underlords will pit you against seven other players. You ...
Dota started off its life as a mod called Defense Of The Ancients for the RTS game, Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. It was so successful that it spawned one of the earliest forms of esports. Then Valve came in and capitalised on the name and thus, Dota 2 was born. Sometimes the modders are offered to work on the official version, while other times th...
One of the most popular mods for Dota 2 is going to be a standalone game on the Epic Games Store. Hooray for those people, I guess. Dota Auto Chess, a joy-filled deck-based Dota 2 game that made Artifact obsolete and Malaysian/Singaporean streamers go nuts over for some unknown reason, was so popular it's going to be a Valve-made game on Steam. Ho...
It’s that time of the year again when gamers have to hold onto their wallets and bank accounts. While Valve has yet to confirm the official dates of the Steam Summer Sale 2019, a reliable leak has revealed the date for the upcoming sale. According to Twitter account @SteamDB, the Steam Summer Sale 2019 will begin on 25 June 2019 and will la...
Battle Arena Malaysia will be organizing the Battle Arena: Super Series (BA: SS), a homegrown Dota 2 league for the purpose of giving local casual and semi-professional players the opportunity to experience a professional setting, along with the VIP treatment that comes with it. It is set to be the first-ever esports tournament to be produced into...
Geek Fam is beefing up its Dota 2 esports team with new additions to the roster, which now includes the likes of The International veterans and pros. Here's the full team roster as of now: Marc Polo Luis "Raven" Fausto Chai “Mushi†Yee Fung Rolen Andrei Gabriel "Skemberlu" Ong Kenny "Xepher" Deo Prieme Ejay "PlayHard" Banquil The...
Just a few hours ago, Valve announced the International Battle Pass for this year to coincide with this year's The International Dota 2 tournament. And as per custom, 25% of the Battle Pass sales will go to The International prize pool. With that in mind, the total sales of the pass are astronomical, considering that the current International priz...
Recently, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney made a tweet regarding a surefire method to end its controversial exclusivity agreements with games like Metro Exodus, Phoenix Point, and Borderlands 3. Hint: it involves money. Epic Games will end its exclusivity clauses if Steam raises its revenue cut for developers. His tweet stated the following: "If Steam...
In the recent issue of Epic snagging games from Steam, we're often quick to shift our view to one side of the fence, but never the other. Today, that fence has been lowered. A former Steam employee has let some secrets on how bad Valve's game market monopoly has affected developers. Richard Geldrich just recently dropped his job at Valve. His deci...
The denizens of the internet recently discovered an unfinished Steam page for the Valve Index, Valve's own VR kit. However, the page has now been removed. We caught a screengrab for you guys and gals before it disappeared from the face of the Earth. [caption id="attachment_22328" align="alignnone" width="760"] Image Credit: Madjoki[/caption] The...
It looks like Valve's digital card game, Artifact, is in a rougher patch than we thought. It's been confirmed that legendary Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield was one of the contractors laid off in last week's round of layoffs at the gaming giant. In an email to Artifact fan site Artibuff, Garfield not only confirmed his departure from...
So much for Valve's "anything goes" policy. A day ago, a game called Rape Day popped up on Steam. It's been removed from the store recently. According to Valve's Erik Johnson, the company explained its decision-making about Rape Day's removal. "Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary—we simply have to wait...
Ubisoft has recently announced its partnership with Epic Games to bring its upcoming multiplayer loot-hoarding shooter The Division 2 onto the Epic Games store. The game is slated for launch on 15 March. And yes, it'll still be on Ubisoft's online store. This basically means that Ubisoft is ditching Valve's Steam platform in favour of Epic's new b...
It's that time of the year again when gamers have to hold onto their wallets and bank accounts. You know what I'm talking about; Valve has confirmed that the Steam Winter Sale 2018 will begin tomorrow on December 20, 2018, and end on January 3, 2019. Besides that, the 2018 Steam Awards nominees have also been announced, with voting commencing durin...
Brace yourself, Dota 2 and esports fans in Malaysia. The KL Major 2018 is afoot this weekend from 16 to 18 November. Here's a lowdown: -The main fights will be happening from 12pm onwards on Friday and Saturday (16 and 17 November). The grand finals will start at 4pm Sunday on 18 November. -There's a sweet lucky draw happening this weekend if...
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