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A Reminder That Most Steam Games Tank
4Valve put out a big announcement today broadcasting the fact that “there’s been a continuous increase in the number of games achieving success on Steam”. Of course Valve would celebrate their own platform, but in sharing the success stories, it’s easy to lose sight of the increasing number of games that are failing.
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Players Won’t Be Able To Buy And Sell Cards In Artifact 2.0
One of the most interesting things about Artifact is that you could buy and sell cards on the Steam marketplace. It was one of the more controversial aspects of the game though, and Valve says it’s getting rid of it.
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Playing Nothing But Half-Life: Alyx In VR Made Me Hallucinate
Late Saturday night, I removed my Valve Index VR headset. I’d done it. I had finished Half-Life: Alyx. As I blinked, a faint outline clouded my vision; I quickly realised it was the headset’s blue wireframe barrier, which flashes when you move too close to a wall. “That’s weird,” I said.
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Why Valve Gave Up On ‘Multiple’ Half-Life 3s
Half-Life: Alyx comes out today. It’s the first Half-Life game since 2007’s Half-Life 2: Episode Two—a conspicuous fact given that Episode Two was supposed to be followed by Episode Three in fairly short order, and it is now, according to my cyberpunk futurephone, 2020. This is not to say, however, that Valve didn’t try. It…