Tag: valve
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You Can Ignore Curators on Steam Now
One thing I find particularly frustrating in Steam is being inundated with curator recommendations from Gamer Gate supporters like Total Biscuit, well the good news is that you can ignore them now. Of course, Valve has made this incredibly frustratingly only accessible from one page, and only when some algorithm decides to recommend that you…
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Valve’s Disease
Patrick Klepek has a post up on Waypoint, discussing a homophobic game that unsurprisingly managed to get onto Steam. He sums up Valve’s issues with content moderation very well. I’ve trimmed the quote just to remove the name of the game. …is a symptom of a larger disease. Steam’s “new releases” tab is full of trash,…
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Valve Games Were Vulnerable to Software Exploits When Your Character Died
The One Up Security firm, who must be very new because this is their only published research article and their domain name appears to have been registered about 8 months ago, has released information on a vulnerability that Valve patched in their Source engine back in June. It’s an amusing vulnerability because the exploitation of…
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Steam Greenlight Shutdown; Direct Starts June 13th
Valve’s Steam Greenlight program has finally been shut down in favor of Steam Direct (which launches June 13th) after months without clarity about when this changeover would occur and what the cost would be to developers submitting their games into the new Steam Direct program. There’s this interesting note in the announcement from Valve’s Alden Kroll:…
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Steam Direct Update from Valve
Back in February Valve announced that they were going to replace Steam Greenlight with Steam Direct. There was some confusion because Valve had not yet decided on a price per game for submissions, or a timeframe for this change to occur. The original announcement only gave a vague date of “Spring 2017.” Well, Summer starts on…