The EU has fined Valve and five publishers $9.5 million for geo-blocking PC games on Steam within Europe. According to Kotaku: Geo-blocking breaches EU antitrust rules, and so the five publishers cited—Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax (Bethesda)—were fined around €6.2 million. As the owners and operators of Steam, Valve—who “chose not … Read more
Black Mesa has morphed from a fan project to a full-fledged standalone PC game. Eight years after its release as a Half-Life 2 mod, the remake of the original Half-Life is now officially out. If you’ve been following this project since the beginning – like me – then you probably already know that it started … Read more
Valve released three new gameplay videos for Half-Life: Alyx just weeks before its planned March 23 launch. The videos focus more on the gameplay than on the story. And for the first time, Valve is revealing how players will move around the environment. More accurately, players will have four different control options: Blink, Shift, Continuous … Read more
Valve is letting gamers play all of the games in the Half-Life series for free in the leadup to Half-Life: Alyx. These games are all fairly old now, but they’re still fun to play. The original Half-Life was released back in 1998 while Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. Two years later, Half-Life Episode 1 … Read more
Valve has released the first trailer for the upcoming Half-Life: Alyx. The new game in the Half-Life universe was just announced on Monday. While we knew very little about the game, Valve started calling Alyx their “flagship VR game.” And at least from the trailer, it looks like they mean it. Valve has said that they are … Read more
Twelve years after the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Valve today announced that there’s a new Half-Life game in development. It’s called Half-Life: Alyx. Details are scant at this point, but one thing we do know is that Half-Life: Alyx will be a virtual reality game. In fact, Valve is calling Alyx their “flagship VR … Read more
A French court has ruled that Steam must allow users to re-sell their digital games. French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir brought the lawsuit back in 2015. According to French video game website Numerama, the court found that Valve’s blocking of the reselling of games runs contrary to European Union law. As Polygon explains: The court rejected … Read more
