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Half-Life: Alyx will be launching on 24 March 2020 (Malaysian time) and it's definitely a VR title that many have high hopes for. In a clear attempt to build up the hype in the weeks leading up to the launch, Valve has released a couple of new videos to showcase the gameplay.

We've all done it at one point or another, crawling through pages and pages of Steam store pages to search for a game that could pique our interest. Well, the Steam store now has an improved search system for you to quickly find the games you would be interested in.

It's been a long time coming, but the Crowbar Collective's remake of Half-Life is about to get an official release. Black Mesa has been in Steam's Early Access since 2015 and its developer is finally ready to officially launch version 1.0 on 5 March 2020.

If you're a huge Samurai Jack fan and a gamer, you'd be delighted to know that a new Samurai Jack game is coming soon in the Summer of 2020. Called as Samurai Jack - Battle Through Time, it will be made available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. 

[UPDATE]: All services seems to be fully operational as of 2:18AM.

Based on reports from the website steamstat.us as well as their Twitter account, it seems that several features from Steam such as the Steam Store and Steam Community are currently down. While there is not much known in regards to the cause of the outage, games that require these services such as Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and more will not be functioning properly.

Valve has recently made an announcement that all classic Half-Life games, will be available for free on Steam from now until around March of 2020. Based on what we know so far, the end the promo should be around the same day as the official launch of Half-Life: Alyx.

Based on a statement by Kan Liu, director of product management on Google, there is a high possibility that Chromebook users could install and play games from Steam in the future. This is due to the fact that Chrome OS is largely based on Linux, which is an operating system that’s supported by Steam since early 2013.

Based on a statement by Jason Schreier on Kotaku, it seems that there is a high possibility that a Sony Playstation 4 exclusive game called Horizon: Zero Dawn could be coming to PC somewhere in the near future. While the is no exact information on who exactly the sources are, Kotaku mentioned that these individuals seem to be quite well-versed in Sony’s plans.

The Left 4 Dead series was regarded as one of the best FPS games in a zombie apocalypse setting. Although the franchise is quite old, there are still some gamers playing the game and it was only recently that there is a new campaign story mode released known as Chernobyl Chapter One. Keep in mind that this is not officially from Valve but from a super loyal fan named Av3ris. 

The implementation of the digital tax towards the foreign-based online services has been announced to be implemented starting from 1 January 2020 since last year. Today, only two days left before it rolls out, there are only a few companies that revealed the impact of the tax on their services publicly.