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Valve's worst-kept shooter secret has once again surfaced online, and it doesn't look like the developer is trying to hide it anymore as it's alleged that players don't even have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to stop them from talking about it.
Valve seems to be gearing up to release its first new game in four years, and we already know way too much about it: We've seen dozens of Deadlock's characters and their full movesets on YouTube, we can poke around in its file directories, it has a pretty popular subreddit, and, as reported by VG247, it hit 17,000 concurrent players this weekend, rising to over 18,000 today. Not bad for a game that hasn't even been announced yet.
Deadlock is a hero shooter that both does and does not exist, which is to say that we've all seen it and talked about it, and plenty of people have played it and are likely playing it at this moment, but Valve has steadfastly refused to acknowledge that anyone is even paying attention to it, much less that it's something currently in development, thus leaving it in a suspended state not unlike, say, a metaphorical cat in a box. But now Deadlock does not exist slightly less than it did not exist yesterday, because Valve has applied for a trademark on the name.
First spotted by Valve-focused Twitter account wickedplayer494, it looks like a playtester for the unannounced Valve shooter Deadlock has made the game visible on SteamDB via the site's token dumper feature, allowing anyone to see Deadlock's player count, update history, and other details.
Over the last week stills and clips of a game called Deadlock, which is claimed to be the next big game from Valve, have been leaking online. The 6v6 hero shooter is either legit or an extremely good fake, and the latter's looking increasingly unlikely with the volume of material that's been released: today, there's more. PC Gamer has contacted Valve for comment but, so far, there's no response.
Valve hasn't responded to our emails about Deadlock, an alleged unannounced Valve hero shooter which is leaking all over the internet. That's pretty typical for Valve, which tends to say nothing about leaks or rumors before one day dropping a casual blog post announcement. We'll see if that's how they play it this time.
Last week details emerged that a new hero shooter from Valve, entitled Deadlock, had secretly entered alpha testing. Needless to say, a new shooter from Valve is a pretty big deal, and there’s no way those alpha testers aren’t going to keep on leaking things. Case in point, a short clip of the game in action is now in the wild – Valve is trying to pull the footage down, but for now, it’s available here.
According to several credible reports, Valve is developing a new game called Deadlock. Leaked screenshots from the ongoing Closed Alpha playtest have even been shared on Twitter/X by content creator Gabe Follower.