Typical #Valve experience, I love their creativity

GOG decided to reply to Valve, reminding that games on GOG are DRM free and can't be taken away from the user.

Before that Valve under pressure of several local regulations started to show a small warning during the purchase: they are now clearly saying that you are not buying games on Steam and will only have a digital license for it.

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Valve just silently dropped such a banger: the Half-Life 2 documentary to celebrate the 20th anniversary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

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It appeared that any model in CS2 can be replaced with any other model, which made the game unplayable on public servers.

Not playing it (and never liked CSGO/CS2), so can't say much. According to ones who do, the issue has been patched out in a matter of days.

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Someone managed to release a malware containing game on Steam. It took Valve 2 days to find it out, take down the game, and announce the issue to anyone who played it.

This already happened before, but keep in mind that even Apple Store checkup can be passed by blatant malware these days.

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Valve somehow announced TF2 SDK for better mods + a lot of sources (for non-commercial use)!

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Enthusiasts discovered that the recent Valve updates are mentioning Godot Engine. Valve developers ported several features from Godot to Source Engine.

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Amazon Prime Gaming ex-VP confessed that Steam is unbeatable...

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Are we going to see Steam Deck 2 VR or what?

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The market of CSGO skins is now worth over $5B...

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Steam OS has been updated and now supports more devices. It's probably going to be able to run on many Ryzen-based handhelds. The installation is done via USB recovery image:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3
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Oh, and Valve got tired of all these Summer Events, so they made a page for ALL OF THEM:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/summer_showcase_2025
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While crazy fans are waiting for Half-Life 3, Gaben is actually funding several other areas — human research and ocean study programs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsbYXGVSPmo

Send this to a friend, explain nothing

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Gabe Newell confessed that he lives on his yacht and goes diving daily.

This makes sense, side he also funding oceans research.

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A bit more context on what Visa was doing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfL2BAnhTxo

And here you can contact them:
https://usa.visa.com/contact-us.html

Fresh news wrap up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo1XNfvBTiQ

Holy crap: thanks to Collective Shout, Steam lost PayPal support in many regions!

If you forgot the story: 8 Aussie and radical Catholic mums attacked Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal so they will stop selling any adult games or games they generally don't like. Under false accusations they tried to make it look like those games are illegal (but they don't). They even tried to delist Detroit Become Human only because one of them didn't like the game.

And they partially succeeded with tens of thousands of games got delisted from Steam, Itchio and GOG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZVJGtvY1js
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