VALVE has rolled out another themed Workshop contest, and this time the prompt is about as rich as they come: fairy tales. These are the events we enjoy most. When hundreds of submissions share a common thread, it's immediately clear who just slapped a "magical" palette on their gun and who actually sat down and built a story.One thing you'll notice right away: the theme says Fairy Tales, but nobody's

Let's start with the basics so the rest makes sense. Every Steam account is protected by Steam Guard two-factor authentication, and in practice that comes down to two things: login codes (those five characters that refresh every 30 seconds) and confirmations — a separate "yes, this is really me" on every trade or market deal. It's the confirmations that stop anyone from walking off with your items, even if your

Plenty of people were waiting on this one to get a first read on the top teams' form after a long break. Instead, it seems the biggest names in CS were in no rush to cut their holidays short — and promptly bombed the online stage, missing the LAN finals in Malta. Vitality, Falcons, FURIA and Aurora stayed at their bootcamps, easing back into shape at their own pace, while

Just four days ago we published "The Major No Longer Bankrolls the Scene" where — off the back of HLTV's investigation — we laid out an uncomfortable truth: once Valve buried the capsules and moved sticker sales to direct token purchases, team revenue fell off a cliff. And one of our core takes there was dead simple: Valve physically can't afford to ignore a collapse like that. It doesn't just