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Tonight, during Valve’s “The International” Dota 2 esports tournament the company announced it’s making a spinoff card game associated with its popular MOBA. Other than its name, Artifact, a brief teaser trailer and a release window of 2018, we didn’t get any details, but Dota fans have been dreaming up Hearthstone-like card game iterations for […]
– From the August 2017 issue – When it comes to the many variables of combustion inside an engine, engineers measure the timing of key events in degrees of crankshaft rotation, a relative frame of reference that remains constant without needing to compensate for the engine’s changing rpm. Absent a familiar, conventional time scale, it’s […]
More than 40,000 disingenuous gamers lost access to their games, items — and in some cases, their entire accounts — last weekend after the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system flagged them for violations. No, that’s not a typo, 40,411 players have been nicked by the company’s robotic rule enforcer. That’s nearly triple the previous banning record […]
Next month, Valve will host The International 7 at Seattle’s KeyArena. The annual Dota 2 tournament is all but set to break the record for prize pools in eSports for the fourth year running, with over $ 20 million in the kitty to date. But GabeN & Co is already looking past the headline championships […]
Valve / SteamVR We first heard about Valve’s plans for a new SteamVR controller back in October when a few pictures and basic impressions started leaking out of the press-free Steam Dev Days conference. Now we’re getting more details about the upcoming VR hardware—code-named Knuckles—thanks to documents posted on SteamVR’s Knuckles Dev Kit group page. […]
A jury in Skagit County, Washington, has found climate activist Ken Ward guilty of burglary for his actions during a coordinated protest in October, where activists shut off pipelines carrying Canadian tar sand oil. On Wednesday, Ward, 60, was found guilty of second degree burglary for closing a safety valve on the Kinder Morgan Trans […]
When Valve unveiled its plans to simplify game publishing through Steam Direct, it struggled to settle on a fee. Did it want to go low and make publishing more accessible, or go high to prevent abusers from putting out a never-ending stream of garbage? After a long deliberation, it’s going with the former price. Valve […]
A year ago it was reported that Koenigsegg’s FreeValve sister company had put its camless engine technology in use in the Chinese carmaker Qoros’s Qamless concept car. Direct valve control is a more agile way of managing valve lift and duration, compared to the time-honored way of having a camshaft or two. Koenigsegg compared a […]
A few of the Trading Card-enabled games that likely won’t be affected by Steam’s new update. (credit: Valve) Following its recently announced updates to Steam store curation and game discovery, Valve announced today that it would be taking steps against “bad actors exploiting the store algorithm for financial gain.” Specifically, Valve says it will start […]
While it’s not quite as immersive as a full virtual reality experience, 360-degree videos and photos are becoming more common (especially on Facebook and YouTube), and now Valve has released a Steam 360 Video Player. It uses adaptive streaming from a company called Pixvana, which should enable playback with just one click on your Rift […]
