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Epic GDC 2019 View more stories SAN FRANCISCO—The Epic Games Store's much-ballyhooed 88-percent revenue share has been great news for developers who are no longer forced to accept Steam's de facto 70-percent standard. But this new behind-the-scenes monetary split hasn't resulted in savings for gamers, who thus far have seen the same price tags for…

Aurich / Various Games Yesterday's news that Deep Silver's Metro Exodus is moving from Steam to Epic's Games Store was notable for what it says about Valve's position running PC gaming's dominant online storefront. But for consumers, it was perhaps more notable for the impact it had on the game's pricing. If you pre-ordered Metro…

Enlarge / Valve released this promotional illustration for Half-Life: Alyx on Tuesday, thus revealing a bit more about the game's "Multi-tool" system we've mentioned in previous reports on the VR-exclusive game.Valve With approximately two months left to go until their next game's launch, the developers at Valve opened up to the throngs at Reddit for…

In an attempt to quell a controversy that has raised the ire of white-hat hackers, the maker of the Steam online game platform said on Thursday it made a mistake when it turned away a researcher who recently reported two separate vulnerabilities. In its statement, Valve Corporation references HackerOne, the reporting service that helps thousands…

Recent reviews for Borderlands 2 now show a large asterisk indicating the presence of an off-topic review bomb. As of this morning, it wasn't hard to identify when the review bomb started for Borderlands 2. It's... not hard to find a pattern in the recent negative Steam reviews for Borderlands 2 The original Borderlands shows…

Enlarge / Completely free... for now.Valve / Sam Machkovech As Valve gears up for the launch of its first official Half-Life game in 13 years, the developer has given fans a big freebie to tide them over while they wait for March 2020: every previous official Half-Life game for free. On Tuesday, Valve announced that…

Enlarge / The blue car represents Psyonix leaping over Steam's... orange car? Look, it's a loose metaphor. Work with me here, people. In a surprise move today, Epic Games announced it has "signed a definitive agreement" to acquire San Diego-based Psyonix and its 132 employees, who make the hit car-based soccer game Rocket League. As…

The flip-up headphone design will be familiar to anyone who has used the Oculus Rift. The full page is obviously still a work in progress, but it includes some interesting tidbits. The existence of a page for SteamVR Base Stations suggests the Index won't use inside-out tracking. You're gonna need controllers, but you won't learn…

Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform. A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against game servers were making the news and becoming a frustratingly frequent occurrence in online gaming and e-sports. To protect its own games, Valve has for a number of years been…

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