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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Steam sets new concurrent users record with over 27 million online
Steam has set a new concurrent users record with over 27 million online.According to SteamDB, Valve's platform hit a new all-time peak this afternoon of 27,182,165 concurrent users. That beats Steam's previous best of 26.9 million users online at the same time in April. Read more
Splitgate
Splitgate adds custom matches
Custom matches have been added to popular online shooter Splitgate.The Portal-inspired game is still in open beta, with an official launch in 2022. However, players have until 30th November to finish the battle pass for Season 0 as a new season begins in December.A new patch notes video details the custom matches additions.Read more
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Valve quietly readying Half-Life 2 for Steam Deck with big new beta branch update
Yesterday, Valve unveiled a new compatibility ratings system for Steam Deck, intended to give users a clear indication of how well specific Steam games will run on the upcoming portable gaming PC. And now, a new beta update for Half-Life 2 has been discovered, seemingly released to ensure the sem...
Quake III Arena
Episode 1 of The New Eurogamer Podcast now available to all
Episode 1 of The New Eurogamer Podcast, featuring Quake legend Sujoy Roy, is now available to all. This took a little longer than expected due to faffing with RSS feeds, but you should now be able to find it in all the places you podcast. If you can't, please let me know below. Also, yes, the Eurogamer Podcast is back! But it's slightly different to what we've done before, with a new host - me...
Splitgate
Splitgate dev 1047 Games just got $100m in funding
The developer of hit free-to-download first-person shooter Splitgate just got $100m in funding. 1047 Games announced it had closed a third round of funding that brought in $100m for an eye-watering $1.5bn valuation. The developer has now seen more than $120m of investment in the three months since Splitgate's rise to the mainstream Splitgate, a sci-fi competitive first-person shooter that's l...
Halo 3
Halo 3's new "alternate universe" armour skins spark realism debate - and the memes have begun
This week, Halo developer 343 began testing Halo: The Master Chief Collection Season 8 content for Halo 3 and Reach, giving players their first taste of new "alternate universe" armour skins - and it's fair to say they've sparked quite the debate within the community.Season 8 of MCC is called Myt...
Halo 3
Halo 3 is getting a remake of Halo 2 map Turf
343 has outlined a number of new features coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection.Chief among them is a new map for Halo 3 called Icebox, which is a remake of the classic Halo 2 map, Turf.Icebox was originally a multiplayer map from the cancelled Halo Online (343 has added Halo Online maps to Halo 3 before). Unlike the original, which is set in Mombasa, Icebox is set in the Russian city of ...
Splitgate
Splitgate Season 0 adds a new map, new mode and starts now
Splitgate Season 0 stars now, developer 1047 Games has announced.Season 0 for the free-to-play Halo meets Portal shooter includes a new battle pass with 100 levels, new seasonal challenges and rewards, a new map, and new modes. Trailer is below:The new mode is called Contamination. Here, the contaminated player equips only a melee weapon and contaminates as many other players as possible by kil...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is being recreated in Source 2 by the modding community
Team Fortress 2, it's fair to say, is getting on a bit. The 14-year-old game remains incredibly popular on Steam, but over the past year it's hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, with bot problems that show no sign of disappearing. (Although we got to witness players conga-ing their way past ...
Quake III Arena
Bethesda confirms all-digital QuakeCon 2021
QuakeCon 2021 will be held from 19th to 21st August, Bethesda has announced, and be an all-digital event once again this year.Last year's event shifted online from its usual big in-person meetup in Dallas, Texas for obvious reasons. Tune in on Thursday 19th August at 7pm UK time for the start of Quakecon's multi-day livestream, and expect "special influencer streams, Bethesda's own community te...
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 players beat team of bots using a conga line
It's no secret that Team Fortress 2 has a bit of a bot problem, but the game also has a community that really enjoys mid-match shenanigans - and the two combined today in one of the funniest posts about TF2 bots I've seen so far. Reddit user 2Noel posted footage of an Attack/Defend match in which Blu team was pitted against a bunch of bots - normally not great news for those wanting to keep t...
Team Fortress 2
Valve's 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2 just broke its all-time Steam concurrent players count
Valve's 2007 shooter Team Fortress 2 just broke its all-time concurrent players count. According to Steam's official stats, the multiplayer FPS hit a peak of 151,253 concurrent players on Steam on Friday night. The previous high was 147,360 concurrent players in December. At the time of this ar...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now charges £10.89 for access to ranked
New Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players now need to pay for ranked play, Valve has announced. Previously, new players of the free-to-play competitive first-person shooter had access to drops, ranks, skill groups, and a free path to Prime (paid) matchmaking. Valve said that over time, these...
Halo: Combat Evolved
343 updating Halo 1 in The Master Chief Collection to match the original Xbox version's visuals
343 is finally updating Halo: Combat Evolved in The Master Chief Collection to match the original Xbox version's visuals.The latest Insider Flight update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection came out last week, and with it an email to those in the programme detailing the under-the-radar improvem...
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What we've been playing
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Halo, an adventure that can only be enjoyed once, and an adventure that can thankfully be enjoyed twice.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What we've been playing, here's our archive.Look, you don't need me to tell you that Halo: Combat Evolved is still a banger. But here I am anyway, because I went back to it f...
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My favourite planet: The quiet awe of Installation 04, AKA the original Halo
This week, while a lot of you will be (re)exploring the galaxy of the original Mass Effect trilogy, we thought it would be fun to revisit some of our own favourite video game planets. First up, Oli remembers the glory of Halo. Halo's a planet right? It isn't? Oh well, nobody said this stuff was s...