Valve has decided to strengthen the monetization of MOBA Dota 2 with the help of a Slithbreaker story campaign with a 4-player cooperative.

The author of the scripts of Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead, Chet Falisek, left Valve, where he worked for 12 years.

Valve has introduced several changes to the game rating system on Steam. Now it does not take into account the ratings of gamers who have access to the game for free.

The head of Valve, Gabe Newell, said that the company is preparing to present Source 2 to third-party developers, but first of all, development is carried out for its own needs.

On February 14, White Nights will host a session with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist on the Steam platform. We invite him to ask interesting questions so that he can answer them publicly at the conference.

The founder of Steam entered the Top 400 richest Americans according to Forbes. His fortune was estimated at $4.1 billion.

A major Steam update is coming soon. Valve recommends that developers prepare for it and work on screenshots for games so that they can then be shown on the store’s homepage.

As part of the almost two-week summer Steam sale, users spent almost $ 80 million more on games than during the winter sale, despite the fact that discounts have become less.

In early access to Steam, Destinations Workshop Tools from Valve appeared. The package allows you to create VR scenes.

The developers of Epic Quest of the 4 Crystals distributed free keys to games on Steam in exchange for reviews from users. Valve considered this a violation of the Steam rules and removed all reviews of the game.

The state of affairs in the game industry allows almost anyone to open their own studio. This is exactly what many artists, designers and programmers do – but some will still prefer to work for Valve if they are given the opportunity to choose.

Gabe Newell said that in the near future tablets will become powerful enough to implement the mobile version of the MOBA project from the authors of Half-Life.