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A scene from Abstractism, which allegedly hid a cryptocurrency miner behind an innocuous-looking Steam game. Valve has removed simple 2D platformer Abstractism from its Steam platform after allegations that the app hid a secret cryptocurrency miner and used misleading item-trading tactics...

Enlarge A recently discovered hole in Valve's API allowed observers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for thousands of Steam games. While Valve has now closed this inadvertent data leak, Ars can still provide the data it revealed as a...

(credit: Sam Machkovech) In April, Valve rolled out a privacy policy change that effectively hobbled Steam Spy in its Ars Technica-inspired method for estimating game sales data based on public user profile information. Now, Valve Head of Business Development Jan-Peter Ewert says the company...

Valve's march toward launching new virtual reality video games—perhaps up to three of them—got more interesting on Thursday with the announcement of an update to the company's next official piece of VR hardware. After a quiet 2016 unveil, the "Knuckles" controller is back with a major revision...

US TV network and game maker to announce something "next week". Valve and US TV network Adult Swim have announced a collaboration on something they're not ready to announce. Click here to read the full articleRelated Stories GTA V gameplay rumour round-up - video Mass Effect 3's 'Director's...