Valve's new game racks up 22K concurrent players, without officially existing

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Valve's new game racks up 22K concurrent players, without officially existing
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Lawrence is a contributing reporter at Engadget, specializing in our AI overlords, musical doodads and, of course, garden variety gaming and tech. To that end, Lawrence once lost badly in multiplayer Mario to Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto, who laughed gleefully as he threw him down a pit.

Valve ’s next game, which has yet to be officially announced, had over 16,000 concurrent players over the weekend. As of this writing, that number sits atfor a while, but now it seems as though we are in the midst of a soft launch of some kind.

Again, this game hasn’t been officially announced by the company, though something’s certainly going on. It’s likely that Valve hasis already in an advanced state of development, given the robust concurrent player count. McVicker describes it as looking “likeSince testers started sharing Deadlock screenshots all over the place, here's ones I can verify, featuring one of the heroes called Grey Talon.

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