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Valve Launches Steam.TV, Which Could Be A Twitch Competitor [Update]
Today, Valve quietly debuted what appears to be a new video game streaming platform, which could be a direct competitor to Twitch, called Steam TV.
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The Moment I Got Hooked On Dota 2’s Biggest Tournament
Just before midnight on 10 August 2016, I jumped up from my seat screaming at the top of my lungs about Dota 2. I wasn’t even playing the game myself, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to understand it on the level of the players I watched that night. In a Dota 2…
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Steam’s Highest-Level User Finally Dethroned After Two Years
Two years ago, a Steam user going by the handle St4ck came out of nowhere and snatched the title of “highest-level Steam user” away from PalmDesert, a user who’d practically become a legend by that point. Now it’s St4ck who has been dethroned.
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Steam Game Vanishes After Players Accuse It Of Mining Bitcoins On Their Computers [Updated]
For the past couple of weeks, players of a PC platformer called Abstractism have suspected that something is amiss. The game has been accused of “cryptojacking” people’s machines, or clandestinely using their resources to mine for cryptocurrency. Today, after sustained outcry over the weekend, Abstractism was removed from Steam.