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  2. Valve Anti-Cheat - Wikipedia

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    Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [ 1 ] It may kick players from the game if it detects ...

  3. Valve Anti-Cheat’s permanent bans no longer apply to Valve events

    www.engadget.com/valve-anti-cheat-esports-change...

    The studio says it’s changing this aspect of how the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system works because it hasn’t revisited its event policy since CS:GO came out back in 2012. “These guidelines had ...

  4. Valve warns that AMD’s anti-lag feature can lead to Counter ...

    www.engadget.com/valve-warns-that-amds-anti-lag...

    Valve has warned Counter-Strike 2 players that AMD’s latest graphics driver could get them banned. The problem lies in AMD’s Anti-Lag+ feature, which triggers the Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) system ...

  5. Valve's Deadlock lets you turn cheaters into frogs - Engadget

    www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/valves-deadlock-lets...

    Behind door number two is the option to transform the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game. Valve will ban them afterwards. Valve will roll out this approach to bans over the next day or ...

  6. Valve responds to claims it has banned AI-generated games ...

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    Valve has issued a rare statement after claims it was rejecting games with AI-generated assets from its Steam games store. The notoriously close-lipped developer of the Half-Life series and de ...

  7. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat ...

  8. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    Electronic Arts. Fox News Channel called out the title as the "Worst Video Game in the World" due to the extreme amount of violence; claims made in the original article were dispelled by video game journalists, including Rock Paper Shotgun, but Fox News continues to assert that the game is too violent. [ 177 ] 2011.

  9. Valve is allowing racist bots to invade ‘Team Fortress 2’

    www.engadget.com/tf2-racist-bots-valve-problem...

    If TF2 is supposed to be an escape from the everyday grind, the bots are a harsh reality check -- but maybe that’s exactly what Valve needs. For the past two months, Team Fortress 2 has been ...