Team Fortress 2 community loses it, decides to ‘meme a character into existence through the power of mass gaslighting’ while Valve focuses on Counter-Strike

We need to do some kind of wellness check on the Team Fortress 2 community. Sure, the game might have gotten a big summer update and smashed its all-time concurrent player record in the last year, but it’s hardly the apple of Valve’s eye in 2023. Players of the venerable shooter were left to gaze…

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The wealthiest player in Old School Runescape, with more than 1 trillion (yes, trillion) gold, has been banned

Old School Runescape player and streamer BTCs, known as the wealthiest player in the game with more than one trillion gold to his name, has been permanently banned from Runescape over allegations of real-world trading—that is, trading items in the game for anything outside of it, typically real money. It’s a stunningly expensive ban: Even…

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Valve adds new security check after attackers compromise Steam accounts of multiple game devs and update their games with malware

The Steam accounts of multiple game developers were recently compromised and used to update their games with malware. Fewer than 100 Steam users had the games in question installed when the malware was added, and they’ve been directly notified of the risk by email, according to Valve. The company confirmed details of the story, reported…

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Ark: Survival Evolved studio settles legal dispute over alleged code theft, and in a surprise twist they’re now helping to ‘re-release’ the game they said ripped them off

A dispute between Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard and the makers of Chinese strategy game Myth of Empires has come to a happy ending, as all parties involved say they’re now going to work together to “re-release” Myth of Empires on Steam and other platforms in early 2024. The trouble began in December 2021,…

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