Valentine's Day events, squishing Dota smurfs, and more of the week's game updates

Round 'em up

Feature by Alice O'Connor Former Associate Editor

Published on Feb. 15, 2020

This week, Valentine's Day events spread love, Dota 2 punished thousands of smurfs, Black Mesa entered final-final-near-final public testing, and Hunt: Showdown added matchmaking for random teams of threes. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming patches in The Weekly Updates Update.

Destiny 2 had a stumbling start to Crimson Days

The return of the PvP event around Valentine's Day was overshadowed by the return of a bug which emptied some characters' wallets of spacecash and crafting materials, causing Bungie to take the game offline for hours and roll characters back for the second time in a fortnight.

Hunt: Showdown added random teams of three

Rather than have to play a threesie with your Steam pals, you can throw yourself into the system to find a team of randos. The update also improved the training for new players, and added some new melee weapons. It's hard to believe this western monsterhunter was without a pitchfork for so long.