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Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet

Gamescom 2025 | 17 years later, could a new zombie shooter claim the crown?

GamesRadar

Dota 2 TI14 update: Fantasy, predictions, free rewards, and more

This year's compendium is entirely free!

Dot Esports

Former TI winner criticizes Gaimin Gladiators over controversial withdrawal from TI14: ‘I’ve never seen something on this level’

The future of GG's Dota 2 roster remains shrouded in mystery.

Dot Esports

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Deadlock's latest character basically gets a portal gun, and his ult teleports enemies to a void hotel where they have to do a platforming challenge

The Doorman is just one of six new characters joining Valve's upcoming hero shooter.

PC Gamer

Pre-Fortress 2, a mod that bridges the gap between Team Fortress Classic and TF2, is coming to Steam with a whole lotta grenades

The mod adds class-specific throwables and reinstates numerous weapons for OG TF.

PC Gamer

Valve's new Deadlock character places doors on walls to teleport across the map, and yes, it's also reminding me a bunch of Portal

The Doorman uses doors, not portals, but still

GamesRadar

Valve might be working on a new Steam console that connects to your TV — and its specs just got leaked

Valve could be developing a new console for your living room and some specs have released.

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Palworld suddenly has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam after Valve introduces language-based scoring: "As always, we're so incredibly grateful"

Goode werk, Palworld

GamesRadar

Microsoft Re-joins Handheld Gaming Fight Against Nintendo's Switch

The record launch in June for the Nintendo Switch 2, a game console that can be played at home or on the go, heralds a new portable race that Microsoft aims to win with a handheld version of its Xbox.

International Business Times

The ROG Xbox Ally borrows a heck of a lot from the Steam Deck, proving that the old gated console concept is a thing of the past

It's not just the Xbox UI on a handheld.

PC Gamer

Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED — device powered by six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU

Valve's Fremont device, featuring an AMD processor based on the Hawk Point 2 silicon, has appeared in the Geekbench database.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve's rumoured 'Fremont' SteamOS console spotted on Geekbench... running Windows 11

The device is claimed to be an upcoming living room PC with a custom AMD CPU and Radeon RX 7600 graphics.

PC Gamer

Xbox has revealed a new Handheld Compatibility Program along with the Xbox Ally X release date — it could fix what Steam Deck still gets wrong

During Gamescom 2025, Xbox revealed a new Handheld Compatibility Program for its Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X. It's potentially a more robust system than Steam Deck verification.

Windows Central

The Lossless Scaling plugin is the best thing that could happen for SteamOS handhelds, and performance results prove it

There's more proof that Valve's SteamOS is the go-to for handheld gamers, with performance results from the new Decky Loader plugin on the Lenovo Legion Go S.

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Deadlock is drip-feeding 6 new heroes over the next couple of weeks, and is letting players decide which ones drop first

Alongside some major visual overhauls.

GamesRadar

New Deadlock update adds six heroes and more to Valve's MOBA shooter, a mere month after the Steam dev said a patch "won't be coming for some time" to the limited-access game

Meet Mina, a "glass canon" vampire

Tom’s Guide

Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats

Amid an army of rivals, is the Steam Deck OLED still worth picking up? I'd argue yes, with caveats.

GamesRadar

Valve founder Gabe Newell is doing billionaire things again with the $300 million purchase of a ship the size of an NFL football field designed to explore the deepest parts of the ocean

Gabe Newell's Inkfish has added the RV6000 to its fleet

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Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

The new system, enabled by default, generates review scores based on your specific language, rather than all of them.

GamesRadar

Valve makes major change to Steam user reviews with new "language-specific" scores enabled by default – which could explain or minimize review bombs

"Maintaining trust in the system is crucial to us"

Tom’s Hardware

Steam's new Performance Overlay is more accurate than Task Manager, says Valve — GPU utilization monitoring comes directly to Steam in latest client beta

Valve’s Steam Beta is testing an overlay that tracks GPU usage more accurately than Windows Task Manager, including multi-process games. Early rollout is inconsistent, but once stable, it could give gamers real-time, reliable performance stats without extra apps, rivaling tools like MSI Afterburner.

PC Gamer

Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe

Mmm, sweet accuracy.

PC Gamer

Steam store pages just got thicker than Emma Frost's thighs

I don't know if the new Steam layout will save lives, but I think it looks better.

Windows Central

Gaming handhelds are the new netbooks — will they suffer the same tragic fate?

It's easy to draw similarities between the rise of netbooks in the late '00s and gaming handhelds today. Will they meet the same end, or will gaming handhelds hold on?

Destructoid

I can’t believe this abandoned Valve game still has players and is fun 4 years later

I'd rather say the game is "stable."

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