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Valve is expanding its Steam Deck Verified programme by introducing a new game compatibility rating system for all SteamOS devices other than Steam Deck. This initiative will help gamers quickly determine whether a particular game is supported on their SteamOS device, including the new Lenovo Legion Go S.

Eight years of work, an official Greenlight from Valve, and thousands of fans waiting for it - none of this saved Classic Offensive, a fan remake of the original Counter-Strike on the CS:GO engine. The project was finally cancelled after Valve decided that the mod violated its intellectual property.

The game is in the advanced testing phase

In 1983, the 20-year-old came to visit his brother at the office of the company that had just released MS-DOS. The usual family trip ended in an unusual way: he received a job offer personally from Steve Ballmer, the same man who later shouted "Developers! Developers!" on stage. At the same time, he dropped out of Harvard before he graduated. And after 13 years of working at Microsoft, he became a millionaire. But everything changes when he finds out that the shooter Doom is installed on more computers than Windows 95 itself, which he has been working on all these years.

At first, he helped port Doom to Windows, which quickly raised its profile in the gaming world. But in the end, he made a more radical choice - at the age of 34, on his wedding day, our hero founded Valve, the studio that would go on to create DOTA, Steam, Counter-Strike, and a meme called Half-Life 3. You guessed it, the "guy's" name is Gabe Newell, and today he is called the richest man in the gaming industry with a fortune estimated at $9.5 billion as of 2024.

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The cult game from Valve is not losing its popularity

Valve has published its annual report for 2024, which highlights the company's significant achievements, including the success of Steam Deck. Players spent more than 330 million hours playing games on this portable console, which is 64% more than the previous year. This figure is a testament to the growing popularity of portable gaming and the impact Steam Deck has had on the market.

The development team of the Classic Offensive mod, which aimed to recreate the Counter-Strike 1.6 experience on the CS:GO engine, faced a refusal from Valve to place their project on Steam. After eight years of development, in January 2025, their mod was rejected without explanation.

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