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Apex Legends Upheaval update released

The Upheaval update for Apex Legends was released on 7th May 2024. The Upheaval update's page is at https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/upheaval with patch notes available at https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/upheaval-patch-notes and a more detailed list of changes at https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/upheaval-game-updates.
The Upheaval update also introduces the new hero Alter: https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/about/characters/alter.

Military Conflict: Vietnam update released

An update to Military Conflict: Vietnam was released on 2nd May, 2024. Patch notes are available at https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1012110/view/4216008828229365312.

Experimental 64-bit support for Linux Team Fortress 2 released

Valve Software has released a beta update to the Linux version of Team Fortress 2 with experimental 64-bit support as well as Vulkan support, replacing the existing ToGL renderer. The beta update is available using the x64_linux_test branch and it currently only supports local games. It has reportedly been updated to use Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 too (Dawe, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/team-fortress-2-has-a-64bit-and-vulkan-update-for-linux-in-testing/).
Joshua Ashton of Valve Software has said that 64-bit support for Windows is also planned for the future.

AMYGDALA: Prelude demo patch 1.2 released

The AMYGDALA: Prelude demo has been updated. The patch notes for 1.2 can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXEJFPnkiUydrDdvY1m-bvIPtw5XC8xYLtk6J5Ek0vU/edit#heading=h.n2bp0b2mckab.

AMYGDALA: Prelude demo patch 1.1a released

AMYGDALA: Prelude's recently released demo has been updated. The patch notes for 1.1a can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXEJFPnkiUydrDdvY1m-bvIPtw5XC8xYLtk6J5Ek0vU/edit#heading=h.n2bp0b2mckab. Check it out at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2411790/AMYGDALA_Prelude/.

Conduit announced for Apex Legends

Respawn Entertainment have released a new "Stories from the Outlands" video introducing new Apex Legends hero Conduit.

Counter-Strike 2 has been released, replacing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been replaced by Counter-Strike 2. After months of limited beta testing, the game has been moved off the Source engine to the Source 2 engine and has been renamed to Counter-Strike 2.

Counter-Strike: Source 2, Dota Underlords, Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life Episode 3, Half-Life Alyx & Dog and Stars of Blood concept are released by David McGreavy

David McGreavy (marketing producer at 2K Games and gamer) has released some concept art for a number of Valve's games following their feature in a recent DidYouKnowGaming documentary. Some or all of the concept art was reportedly to be thrown out during a move of Valve's office in 2016 but were saved by an employee and sold to McGreavy.

Apex Legends Season 17 Arsenal: announced

Respawn Entertainment has announced Season 17: Arsenal for Apex Legends. See https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/arsenal for more information. Two trailers have been released as well. Check them out:

Team Fortress 2 cast plays Team Fortress 2

A Team Fortress 2 fan has got some of the Team Fortress 2 voice actors together to play Team Fortress 2. Dennis Bateman (voice of the Pyro and Spy), Robin Atkin Downes (voice of the Medic), John Patrick Lowrie (voice of the Sniper), Ellen McLain (voice of the Administrator) and Gary Schwartz (voice of the Heavy and Demoman) got together with ShorK and played some Team Fortress 2 on public servers. Check it out:

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This site documents the history and development of some of the games and mods developed on Valve Software's GoldSource and Source engines. A lot of this information and media were publicly available and easily accesible in years past but the slow death of classic game news sites like Planet Half-Life, FileFront, Adrenaline Gamer, Blue's News, CS Nation etc have made them increasingly hard to find.