Valve officially announces Deadlock, a game ‘in early development’

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Valve has finally, officially announced Deadlock, successful the astir minimal mode imaginable. The crippled now has a Steam page that lists Valve arsenic its developer and publisher, and a elemental notice:

Deadlock is successful aboriginal improvement with tons of impermanent creation and experimental gameplay. Access is presently constricted to person invitation via our playtesters.

Valve provides nary different details, conscionable an animated teaser image. (You tin spot a inactive screenshot of it above.) The strategy requirements lone notation that the crippled requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.

Some details astir Deadlock trickled retired successful May from closed playtests, and by August, tens of thousands of radical were playing the game arsenic much players invited their friends to cheque it out.

The Verge published a hands-on preview with the game connected August 12th.

Today, many streamers are playing the crippled live, including Shroud, aft admin Yoshi said successful the game’s Discord that Valve was lifting its rules against nationalist conversation.

Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge

While Deadlock seems similar different promising summation to Valve’s lineup of large multiplayer games, it’s unclear if it volition person sustained popularity similar Counter-Strike oregon Dota 2 oregon volition yet fizzle retired like Artifact.

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