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Valve's new anti-cheat system for Deadlock lets players turn cheaters into frogs

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:50:01 +0000

Valve has made it so that Deadlock cheaters can be turned into frogs before they are banned. This is done via a public vote during matches. Read more...

Don't use this feature if you play Counter-Strike 2 on an AMD Radeon GPU

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:04:01 +0000

Valve has announced that AMD has put in support for its Anti-Lag+ GPU feature in the recent Counter-Strike 2 game, but that players should not turn that feature on or they will receive a VAC ban. Read more...

Valve announces new anti-cheat policy, will ban players on Steam based on their linked phone number

Shreyas Gandhe — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 23:22:01 +0000

Valve has updated its anti-cheating policy and introduced a ban based on phone number of the player found cheating, which means any account linked with that number will also be banned from the game. Read more...

Valve: Our anti-cheat software doesn't record DNS data; we don't 'care what porn sites you visit'

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:28:02 +0000

Valve CEO Gabe Newell has responded to a claim that its anti-cheat software records a user's DNS data, saying that is not the case and added, "Do we care what porn sites you visit? Oh, dear god, no." Read more...