Saturdays are for lying in bed and resting your sore typing fingers, muttering curses at Geoff Keighley under your breath. They're not particularly mean curses, I quite enjoy covering events like SGF. It's nice having a few hours where game announcements pour forth like bubbling water. Yes, those bubbles can be the ineffable gassing up of marketing hype, but I won't dismiss everything we see as…
Welcome back to Waifu Wednesday, Niche Gamer’s column where we talk about characters, their appeal, and a little on their history. It’s Waifu Wednesday! This week’s waifu is Miss Pauling from Team Fortress 2. Team Fortress 2 used to be a pretty lore-sparse game, but throughout the 2010s that changed quickly as Valve began releasing comics […]
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Chet Faliszek, guionista de Half-Life 2, Portal y Left 4 Dead, critica el recorte de más de 1000 empleos en Epic y cuestiona qué incentivo tienen ahora sus trabajadores para implicarse.
Chet Faliszek , veterano de Valve y guionista en juegos como Half-Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive o Team Fortress 2, ha cargado duramente contra Tim Sweeney tras la última oleada…
Vuelve a PC, y por primera vez a Switch y PS4, uno de los juegos de Telltale Games retirados de Steam tras el cierre de la compañía de The Walking Dead.
Hace más de 15 años, Steam era un lugar muy diferente al que es hoy. No se estrenaban miles de videojuegos cada año. Por aquel entonces, ni siquiera existía Steam Greenlight , la iniciativa con la que Valve abrió las puertas de su plataforma…
In an unusual show of candour, Valve have spoken out publicly against a lawsuit filed in New York, USA that accuses them of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2.
With the caveat that I am no Atticus Finch-esque legal expert or even a Louis Tully-grade bumbler, I find Valve's rebuttal to be a mixture of whataboutery…
We think we found the reason these loot box lawsuits are back.
Tis the season for taking Steam to court, apparently. A new class action lawsuit has been filed in Washington, USA accusing Valve of running an unlawful gambling operation through lootbox mechanics in Counter-Strike 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2.
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Letitia James demanda a Valve por incitar a los juegos de azar en los menores con Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike 2 y DOTA 2.
Las cajas de botín fueron muy debatidas hace unos años, y la polémica vuelve: el estado de Nueva York demanda a Valve por su sistema de _loot boxes_ en Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike 2 y DOTA 2 que **en su opinión animan a los menores a dar el salto a los juegos de…
As it turns out, this was not a dead issue after all.